For a coach with a pen, a pad and a plan, this is never part of the winning formula: Open the season with three straight losses.
For Tokyo Apache coach Joe Bryant, that's how it worked out, though.
It wasn't time to push the panic button, but it was time for each of his players to do a little soul searching -- or rub a magic genie lamp for good luck.
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