I have interviewed enough football coaches that, at this point, I can almost tell you which cliché quotations they are going to use and when they are going to use them.

The list is long, and it is time-tested.

Among those clichés is one that I often find myself thinking of when things get stressful.

Bend, don’t break. Maybe I have listened to one too many Matt Rhule press conferences, or maybe it was…