You're always talking about the boooring running game. Since Any Given Sunday begins with a quote from Vince Lombardi, it might be easy to assume that you mean for audiences to identify the Pacino character with Lombardi, or Shula, or Paul Brown, or any of the great coaches of the past. Pacino's not supposed to represent these other coaches. He's supposed to represent you. I mean, it's obvious if you think about it.
Football head coaches and movie directors are two peas in a pod.
You both work too hard and have to deal with burnout. Most of your real work is behind the scenes on the necessary drudgery of your professions. And you have to deal with fans and reporters who don't really understand what you do, either, but are the first to criticize you about it. Just as NFL owners fire the coach instead of firing the team, it's the director, rather than the actors, who is at fault if the movie fails. This explains why there's so much glitz and so little substance to the Pacino character, too.