People always give the cerebral credit to baseball players, but so much of the cerebral work is done by the coach. It's incredibly intellectually difficult to decide which pitch to throw to each batter, where exactly on the field each player should stand based on how you're pitching the batter, etc...
But the coach does all that. The players just go stand where they're told or pitch what they're told to pitch. In football, the coach calls a play that requires individual decisions by each player on the field. WR have to read the coverage and determine which route based on the coverage AND the play call. OL have to read alignments and determine who to block based on the play call AND the alignment. Rb has to figure out where the hole will be, then adjust DURING THE PLAY to what actually happened. Qb has to do all of those. Etc....And you have to try to disguise all that too.
Football players have to make infinitely more complicated decisions and understand more about what the opponent is doing than baseball.
Baseball coaches are freaking geniuses though. They do all that for their players. But since baseball is slow and methodical, those decisions don't have to be made instantly while plays are happening and opposing players/coaches aren't actively trying to disguise what they're doing either. It's not like they put on a shift mid pitch.
