I read today that the National Football League (NFL) has acquired its first full-time female coach. Kathryn Smith will be the Buffalo Bills' special teams quality control coach. (As if they manufactured something!).
She will assist the special teams coordinator Danny Crossman and his assistant Eric Smith. That's THREE people to do just the special teams! With that many bosses, there shouldn't be any mistakes...ever!
Jen Welter served as an apprentice last summer (2015) for the Arizona Cardinals. She coached the inside linebackers for six weeks. I assume there's a coach for the other linebacker positions. I know there's one for the quarterbacks, etc.
My point is it sure takes a lot of coaches to oversee an NFL team! That takes a fair amount of money too (which the fans pay for). I mean, what's next, a coach for right (or left) handed quarterbacks? A coach for shorter (or taller) players? A coach for running backs who go left (or right) more than the other direction? The teams sure are top-heavy with field executives. It borders on micromanagement; the teams are taking no chances. Yet teams do turn in poor performances. How is beyond me...not with all that "coverage."
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