Contracts, salary caps. Why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do? It's usually the money. It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome back to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand. I want to share with you on this podcast a speech I gave. This was in February 2018, the Sloan

Sports Analytics Conference, big-time conference sports leaders in analytics and business and law and

policy. Even Barack Obama spoke at this conference. I spoke on life behind the curtain inside the

front office. I take you through my path, my career path,

all the way up to the Packers and beyond. But the reason I'm releasing this podcast this week

with this speech is that a lot in this speech is about the drafting. Here we are in the NFL

draft. The drafting of Aaron Rogers 2005, blow by blay.

What happened in that draft room?

How we landed a player who turned out to be pretty good.

How the best player in football landed in our lap.

So I hope you enjoy it.

Without further ado, my competitive advantage speech at the Sloan Analytic Sports Conference

in February, life inside the front

office.

Thank you very much.

I want to get into all the things I've done, especially with the Green Bay Packers, because I know

people want to sort of go behind the curtain on what happens inside an NFL front office.

I think it's instructive to do a little

bit on my career getting up to that point, which is a circuitous path. I've been fortunate

to be around sports from a lot of different angles, to be an agent many years, to be a team

executive, both in the NFL and in the World League, the first iteration of NFL overseas,

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