Q. What is the general procedure for a regular season halftime in the NFL? How much time do you have? How much of that is spent on player equipment issues, with medical staff, in the restroom? Is video watched or presented? Diagrams on the board? What realistically can get accomplished in that time frame?

A. You're looking at about a 10-minute halftime when you subtract travel time in general, and that 10 minutes is probably broken up into about three parts. The first component of it is the personal things that you mentioned, equipment, training room and things of that nature. While that's going on the coaching staff is gathering and reviewing ongoing conversations from the first half. Then there's a middle period where the coaches are interacting with the players and talking about whatev

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