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The use of advanced metrics by the NFL teams has been discussed in recent years.
The three -time Super Bowl winner and Fox Sports NFL analyst, Mark Schlereth, intervened in the debate. Schlereth, who played at the NFL long before the analysis was introduced, expressed his disgust for the use of metrics.
“There is one thing for me. They are the people of analysis … (() become a gospel,” said Schlereth during a recent appearance in “Don’t @ me w/ dan dakich” of outkick.
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The NFL shield at the Sofi stadium in Inglewood, California, on November 25, 2024. (Kirby Lee/Mag images)
“Because you take those numbers, and you can make them say what you want … and the average fanatic thinks that it becomes the Gospel. They do not understand how the game works, so this is a way in which you can basically go, ‘ok, let me put my trace of the thumb in this’ the air yards by target or any bulls, they are feeding you as a numerator of nerd analysis.”
The former NFL player and the current SportsCaster Mark Schlereth is in the field for a game between the Arizona cardinals and the Detroit Lions at State Farm Stadium on September 8, 2019, in Glendale, Ariz. (Christian Petersen/Getty images)
The 32 NFL teams had an analysis employee designated in their staff last season.
ESPN anonymously surveyed each of those employees in 2024 for more information about how the equipment used analysis. Some teams are more inclined to the analysis than others, while the background of some general managers could make them more likely to adopt an analytical approach first.
The survey received 22 answers. The findings appointed the Cleveland Browns as the NFL number 1 franchise to incorporate the analysis more frequently when it comes to making decisions about matters related to football. The general manager of the Browns, Andrew Berry, has a Harvard master’s degree in computer science. Berry works with Paul Depodesta, Browns Strategy Director.
The NFL logo at the entrance door to the football stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on February 2, 2008. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
Before joining the Browns, Depodesta worked in the main MLB team and appeared in the movie “Moneyball”.
Schlereth also recalled a time when he had a heated debate about the use of analysis.
“I had a discussion with a guy who was extolling the virtues of going through two points every time … then, I asked the guy: ‘Let me ask you a question, how many two -point plays do you think we enter a (game)?'”
Schlerenth then said that two plays were the standard when he played. He proceeded to explain how his teams would practice plays and coach’s approach to implement any of the plays in a game.
“You have no idea how the game works. You have no idea what we are talking about. You have no idea how we practice. You have no idea of the number of plays we have or how we execute those plays or what we are trying to explode.”
Schlereth described the analysis as “fluff.”
“The analysis does not mean anything in football. It is just a lot of stuffed animals to make us feel important, like us, as” analysis analysts “, we really know what we are talking about.”
