NFL Head Coach

Introduction

You are an upstart NFL head coach who aspires to be the greatest head coach of all-time. The game should really be called NFL Head Coach/General Manager, because you do everything from signing players, hiring coaches, creating playbooks, and drafting. Well, not everything. The only aspect of your respective NFL team that you don't have any control over is the players themselves. You start by choosing whether you were a former offensive or defensive coordinator. You then go through an interview, your choices influence whether you're a X's and O's strategist or a motivating leader and well as your knowledge of the different positions.

Gameplay

Much of Head Coach's gameplay is centered around office work, not an actual game. While you can simulate over all this monotony, it is to your benefit to go through and manually perform every task. This is the "ultimate football strategy game" after all, so you should expect that you will be doing things in preparation for games as opposed to the actual Sunday football game. The pre-season is very long and consists of everything from dealing with holdouts to scouting and drafting potential players for your team. The game divides all these tasks into a realistic calendar of events giving you only a set amount of "time" for some tasks. I say "time" because for some tasks you can only perform two or three operations for that task period.

For example, in the "office hours" task, you can do only two operations. Which means I can only make two changes to the depth chart or playbook in that task. Don't worry about the time restriction though, as you receive many of the same task over the course of the year. This advent of time and a calendar year makes things more boring and monotonous than they should be. I would have traded the "realism" with one giant task that I could make all the changes and sign all the players that I wanted at the same time, without having to go on to something else and forget what I was going to do.