the entire nfl ecosystem is one giant machine to blow smoke up people's asses to give a really fake and gay kayfabe the illusion of importance. football is an incredibly simple game with very little in the way of tactics or actual skill involved because the victory conditions are secured through metagaming. I'm not even being facetious here becasuse im a nerd, the strategy involved in NFL Gridiron football is "make sure they can't catch the ball so you can run the timer down" it's not like soccer or hockey or baseball or basically any other sports game where there is a Situation and you have a limited amount of resources (players) to deal with the Situation - with gridiron football the winning strat is legitimately to just stop the game from being played