I'd settle for him being incapacitated in such a way that he cannot perform his duties, but he's fully aware of everything around him, and he watches a team make the Super Bowl and win it sans his meddling.
They run screens... look at the success. Ran screens a lot last year --- probably the most since the Jones era, but none at all this year. Stubborn red-head fuck. The screens were a Linehan's mainstay.