Frustration

If you were a head coach in football, tell me if there might be anything you would find more frustrating than this:

Imagine you've got a multi-talented quarterback.  This guy's got the tools and the potential to be the next Tom Brady.  Yet, he's got a problem.  You see, this guy seems to have a knack for inevitably taking your offense all the way down to the 1-yard line of the opposing team - just a hair's breadth from scoring a touchdown.  Yet inevitably, once he has brought you there, it seems he never fails to then drop back and throw a pass right into the hands of one of the defensive players for an opposite field interception touchdown.

During the time I was in sales, my boss used to always say, "If you're going to lose, do it quickly".  My inclination (besides finding out what the heck is wrong with his psyche) is to tell that QB, listen -- if you were going to do that, why couldn't you have just done it back at our 20-yard line where we first started the drive?  Get it over with, get the bad pass out of your system, and let's move on.  Why in the world did you have to put us through all that anticipation and heartache?...