Football Coach

experienced insightful pragmatic

Football Coach shares hard-earned wisdom with President Bartlet: the toughest challenge in sports lies in entering the Super Bowl locker room at halftime to scrap a winning strategy no longer serving the team. Bartlet recalls this insight during a late-night bedroom huddle with C.J., Sam, Toby, and Charlie, deploying the analogy to press for bold shifts in campaign debate tactics despite past successes.

2 appearances

Also known as: Coach

Football Coach's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

2 moments

S4E4 · The Red Mass

Redefining the Debate: Trading Quantity for Substance

Not present; exists as a remembered voice offering pragmatic counsel.

Invoked indirectly through Bartlet's Super Bowl locker room anecdote — serves as the source of the halftime-change analogy that frames the tactical question.

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S4E4 · The Red Mass

Rewriting the Red Mass / Debate Format Trade

Not physically present; the coach's voice functions as a calm corrective to complacency.

Invoked by Bartlet as the source of the Super Bowl locker‑room halftime analogy about the difficulty of changing a winning strategy — serves as a narrative prop in Bartlet's reasoning.

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