Lions keep Caldwell.
[QUOTE=Lions general manager Bob Quinn]
After spending a significant amount of time together, it is clear that our football philosophies are very similar.
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Yup, they’re both satisfied with mediocrity.
It doesn’t make any sense at all. Most people don’t care about history. Superbowl 50. My team, the minnesota vikings have made the playoffs 28 times in 50 years. Four lost superbowls. Five straight nfc championship games lost. The bears have been around since the very beginning. Way before the Vikings. The Chicago Bears only have one superbowl ring but they have the greatest history of any team other than maybe the green bay packers.
If you watched the games maybe you’d get it, but I suppose you could just spout off and assume you know things that no one else does, not those who do this for a living or those who at least watched the games.
While the overall ranks are similar, the point differentials, yardage differentials and takeaways are much better. Their strength of schedule was much tougher this year than last. Most importantly, and the reason he’s been praised this year, is because he did that in spite of one of the worst injury situations in the league in his first year on the job after implementing a brand new system.
In 2014 Cutler got nearly complete seasons out of Marshall, Jeffery, Bennett and Forte. This year he had Jeffery for parts of just 9 games, in several of which he was badly hobbled, and Bennett for 11, and Eddie Royal for 9. All three played together for just 3 games, and they didn’t finish a single one together. Of course they lost Marshall and got zero games out of Kevin White. That this offense continued to be somewhat consistent and productive and that they always had a solid game plan in spite of the lack of continuity is a accomplishment.
I hear proctologists are good for having some kind of bug up your ass. You should get that checked out.
Browns hired the Colts pro player personel guy as their VP of player personel, their top player evaluation position. He’s another Harvard guy who finished up a bachelor’s of economics and master of computer science in 4 years, apparently. Grabbing a guy from the Colt’s player evaluation system does not bode well, but then who’s to say this guy isn’t a lone good one who’s overruled a lot?
They’re really going in on the smart/ivy league angle. It’s… different. I’m optimistic.
You pinning your hopes on this guy’s analytic chops depends on the Browns having a shit-hot Sabermetrics™-like statistical system. And I’ve never heard any such thing. As far as I know, the NFL is decades behind MLB in statistics-driven player management (for good or ill).