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This is shocking to me. My brother is a retired college football head coach. Two of his sons are acclaimed college football players. I've spent time with the head coaches of two teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the NCAA. I've been around the sport for decades and know how coaches' lives can be monopolized by the job. To see an NFL head coach doing something requiring this level of time commitment blows my mind. I guess it's a reminder that to reach the very top level of a sought after profession, you have to be a remarkable individual.

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I have a totally different read on this. I also play a bit of minecraft many days, and for maybe 15-30 minutes at a time. Mike Tomlin here was playing on creative -- no risk, no survival, just infinite blocks to curate his zen garden. This is the perfect way to wind down for 15-20 minutes after a tough day in a hotel room. Or where ever. What percentage of NFL coaches or players do the exact same thing except with a phone instead of a controller, do some doomscrolling for 15-30 minutes and move on? This feels like just a different flavor of the same type of retreat that many people do.

The only additional note I'd have to add is Tomlin was one of the NFL's rare "CEO" coaches - he doesn't call plays for either side of the ball, so he probably is ever so slightly less busy than a head coach who happens to do so.

FWIW, college coaching is generally seen as a more time consuming job because of the recruiting aspect. Every hour they aren't in the office or on the field is spent on the phone with a recruit or visiting one.

Well now they can replace that part of the job with wheelbarrows full of cash!

I remember a clip of him from a few years ago where he talked about watching some 7v7 football league on YouTube in his free time.

Dude is 100% a football junkie regardless of his time in Minecraft; I bet he's one of those people who only needs like 5 hours of sleep a night and just is obsessive about anything he touches

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