Deserves a repost in this thread--
Just more food for analytical b.s. thought: (But don't worry these guys really really really will try to field a team that might win 6 games in 2019, "just be patient")
Paul Brown took the NFL by storm when his All-America Football Conference powerhouse was admitted to the established league in 1950. In the Browns’ first six seasons of NFL play,
they ran up a record of 58-13-1.
The Browns lived off that incredible head start for decades, even after owner Art Modell fired Brown in 1963. Through thick and thin in a 34-year reign as
Cleveland Browns owner, Modell did not surrender the overall winning record.
When the old Browns stopped playing in Cleveland in 1995, the overall record was 376-268-10, a winning percentage of .582.
But before Scheiner was jettisoned, he convinced Haslam to go all-in with analytics to govern all his football operations.
“Why not?” went the flawed logic. Nothing else has worked.
Haslam shocked the NFL and the sporting world by making former legal counsel Sashi Brown VP of football operations, naming baseball Moneyball guru Paul DePodesta chief strategy officer and promoting Ken Kovash, another analytics “expert,” from director of research to vice president of player personnel. Kovash’s promotion was under the radar, but he has been a significant contributor to the disaster that has ensued.
Together, with Hue Jackson as coach, they produced one of the worst drafts in history.
Not only has none of the 14 picks – not a single one – contributed enough to produce a single victory, but the “collaborative” decisions to bypass phenomenal new talents such as Carson Wentz, Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott have further set back the franchise’s development.
http://www.espn.com/blog/cleveland/...-sinking-the-browns-lifetime-record-under-500