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Pressure, stress make coaching hazardous to your health

But people saying NFL teams should impose limits on work hours are fooling themselves. You can change a policy, and you can even change the locks, but you

Michael Rosenberg

Pressure, stress make coaching hazardous to your health
Pressure, stress make coaching hazardous to your health /
Titans coach Gary Kubiak collapsed after suffering a mini-stroke at halftime of a game on Nov. 3.
Titans coach Gary Kubiak collapsed after suffering a mini-stroke at halftime of a game on Nov. 3 / AP

But people saying NFL teams should impose limits on work hours are fooling themselves. You can change a policy, and you can even change the locks, but you can't change coaches unless they want to change themselves. Kubiak will be back on the sideline on Sunday, and Fox hopes to be back by the end of the season. Good for them. They love what they do. I hope they have long careers, and long lives, and that they don't confuse the two.

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Michael Rosenberg
MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.

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