If I HAD to Go .500 as a Coach… Here’s the Sport I’d Choose

Peter Klein

Which pro sport is the easiest to coach your way to a .500 season? A viewer asked me live: If you had to coach any major sport and go .500—or face violent consequences—which would you pick?  I break down each sport from a coaching-impact standpoint:  🏒 NHL — Goalies make or break you 🏀 NBA — Superstars decide everything ⚾ MLB — Bullpen + lineup optimization gives you an edge 🏈 NFL — Coaching decisions matter most (4th downs, timeouts, 2-pt strategy) ⚽ Soccer — You can defensive shell your way to results… or go full chaos  I walk through why football gives you the biggest coaching advantage, how game theory changes in each league, and why some sports leave coaches helpless if the talent isn’t there.  Plus: viewer suggestions, including using Tommy Wheeldon Jr. as a CPL assistant and turning soccer into an all-out sprint-and-pray strategy.  If you enjoy these kinds of mailbag segments, drop more questions in the comments!  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00Connor D back in the YouTube chat if you had to be a coach for any professional

00:03sport and you had to go 500 on the season or suffer violent consequences

00:07what sport would you choose okay interesting um let's go through them I

00:14think hockey the coach like there are there are little things a coach can do

00:19that can shift things a bit but a lot of it comes down to like if I could coach

00:27my ass off that goalie over there if he just just awesome I lose and if my team

00:32isn't great then yeah I'm I'm in tough like I think that a coach can actually

00:39like do minimal unless you're an excellent one that there isn't as much a

00:45coach can do in that one kind of same thing in basketball right like it's um

00:48if you have the perfect scheme for your team you can coach your way into a few

00:52there but if I'm facing Luka Doncic and I don't have a Luka Doncic there is but

01:00so much coaching that I can do so I think NHL and basketball would be out

01:03baseball I think there's a little bit more there that you can do to just get

01:08your team to 500 with um managing bullpen lineup optimization stuff like that so

01:13there is something there but I'm gonna go football because a if we're using the

01:17NFL I only need to win eight games um in baseball I have to win 81 like that's

01:22that's a long time to get figured out right so um in football I think I can get

01:28there for eight and I think football coaching decisions actually can make

01:33probably the biggest difference um in terms of going for it on fourth downs in

01:39the right territory being a bit more aggressive going for two having the right

01:43plays for it but being a bit more aggressive in going for two proper timeout

01:47utilization all those things I think you can actually get a bit more of an edge

01:51in in football there so that that's what I would go with uh Conrad in the chat

01:55saying soccer CPL Tommy Wielden as my assistant yeah soccer there is certainly

02:00a way right like you can um if you just want to get to 500 or whatever the soccer

02:06equivalent would be with draws and everything um like even if you have a bad

02:10team you can just kind of defensive shell I guess you can in hockey too with a

02:14neutral zone trap and all of that and um basketball you just dribble the air out of

02:19the ball or those sorts of things right but with with soccer you can do a little bit

02:24more um passing it around kind of controlling and hey look at that nil nil draw look what

02:28we just did and just try to move on to the next one um so there is certainly that or I

02:33mean there are look there are strategic ways that coaches can help in all of them I've

02:35probably understated what a coach can do in hockey and basketball and baseball too

02:40but I just think in football you just see so many times where you can kind of steal an

02:44extra point here and there and an extra first down an extra possession here and there manage

02:49the clock appropriately and you can beat some bad teams in the National Football League so

02:54um that's kind of where I am at with that but uh interesting question from Connor D over

02:59there in the YouTube chat uh let's move now to the world of uh professional wrestling um as

03:06uh Conrad uh mentioning how um uh I just want five four soccer bangers like we saw at Spruce

03:12Meadows this weekend yeah I mean that's the other way too right like I just said defensive shell you

03:16can go the other way it's all right you know what everybody we're just going it is we are holding

03:22down uh the sprint button and we're going that way and if they come back and score they come back

03:26and score but we're gonna just all out blitz these guys a hundred times and one of them things

03:31is going to go in and maybe we'll win uh so certainly uh that that would be fun as well

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