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The GM Shuffle

AFC/NFC Conference Championship Preview, Analytics in the NFL, Jason Garrett & the Giants

The GM Shuffle

DraftKings

Fantasy Sports, Football, Sports

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

“The war between analytics and football people is pointless. The real challenge is finding someone who can properly understand the data, and then make the right decisions in how to deploy it. NFL teams are filling out their assistant coaching personnel and Jason Garrett may resurrect his career with the New York Giants. The conference championship games are locked in and we preview which teams will have the best chance of going to the Super Bowl. Plus, Seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker Luke Kuechly announced this week that he will be retiring from the NFL at age 28. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Great Tavey as always here on the GM shuffle at

0:05.5

AD and Mike Ray to Rock and Roll.

0:07.6

Before we got about the Rock and Roll and of course the Rock and

0:10.1

Hall of Fame with Cleveland, we're going to talk about these Browns

0:12.4

and the whole

0:12.6

topic of analytics because Mike when you think of analytics you often think

0:16.0

about Major League Baseball and you know Bill James the Cyber metric revolution Billy

0:20.4

Bean moneyball the book the movie all the rest of it and one of Billy Bean's moneyball the book the movie all the rest of it and one of

0:23.5

Billy Bean's main guys was Paul De Bedesta. Tibedesta

0:26.3

ended up leaving the A's he goes to the Mets. Eventually now he's with the

0:29.4

Cleveland Browns hired in 2016. Says famously I don't know too much but I've got all this

0:33.5

information all this analytics will make things work. Also infamously

0:36.9

said he didn't in Carson Wentz was the top 20 quarterback. Now as we look at

0:40.8

your column today in the athletic and as always you can subscribe to the

0:43.2

athletic read all Mike's work there.

0:45.1

The war between analytics and football people is pointless.

0:48.2

The real challenge is finding someone who can properly understand and process all the

0:51.8

data and then make the right decisions

0:54.1

and how to deploy it.

0:55.4

And I am not sure the Browns have solved that problem yet.

0:58.1

They hire Kevin Stipanski as their head coach.

1:00.1

Why are you skeptical that they've solved it?

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