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The use by NFL teams of advanced measures has been strongly debated in recent years.
The triple winner of the Super Bowl and Fox Sports Analyst NFL, Mark Schlereth, weighed on the debate. Schlereth, who played in the NFL long before the introduction of analyzes, expressed disgust for the use of measures.
“There is one thing for me. They are the people of the analysis. … (they) become the Gospel,” said Schlereth during a recent appearance on “Do’t’t @ me W / Dan Dakich d’Outkick”.
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The NFL shield at Sofi stadium in Inglewood, California, November 25, 2024. (Images Kirby Lee / Magn)
“Because you take these figures, and you can make them say what you want. … And the medium fan thinks that it becomes the Gospel. They do not understand how the game works, so it’s a way you can go”, ok, let me put my thumb imprint on this “Nerd Air-Brunch or all that is bulls. “”
The former NFL player and current present in sports, Mark Schlereth, is held on the field during a match between the Arizona Cardinals and the Detroit Lions at the State Farm Stadium on September 8, 2019, in Glendale, Ariz. (Christian Petersen / Getty Images)
The 32 NFL teams had an analysis employee designated on their staff last season.
ESPN anonymously questioned each of these staff members in 2024 to learn more about how the teams used the analysis. Some teams look more at analysis than others, while certain history of directors general could make them more inclined to adopt an approach first in analysis.
The investigation received 22 responses. The results named Cleveland’s Browns such as NFL n ° 1 franchise to integrate analyzes most frequently when it comes to making decisions on football -related issues. The director general of the Browns, Andrew Berry, holds a master’s degree in Harvard in computer science. Berry works with Paul Depodesta, the director of the Browns strategy.
The NFL logo at the gateway to the Glendale football stadium, Arizona, February 2, 2008. (Reuters / Mike Blake)
Before joining the Browns, Depodesta worked in the front office of several MLB teams and appeared in the film “Moneyball”.
Schlereth also recalled an era when he had a heated debate on the use of the analysis.
“I argued with a guy who praised the virtues of making two points each time.
Schlereth then said that two pieces were the norm when he played. He continued to explain how his teams would practice the games and the coach’s approach to implement one of the games in a match.
“You have no idea how the game works. You have no idea what we are talking about. You have no idea how we train. You have no idea of the number of pieces in which we have or how we execute these pieces or what we try to exploit.”
Schlereth described analytics as a “down”.
“Analytics does not mean anything in football. It’s just a bunch of stuffed animals to make us feel important, like us, as analytical analysts, really know what we are talking about.”
