Browns gonna Browns

[bababooey]

The Cleveland Browns just hired a new Executive VP, Paul DePodesta.

 

Have you heard of him? He was the GM for the LA Dodgers during the MoneyBall era and most recently was the VP of player development for the NL Champion NY Mets. He did play football at Harvard in 1995.

He answers to only the owner. So Browns.

 

 

[jvan1973]

Hey,  at least they are trying something different.   Lol

[Valpo2004]

So they are getting a baseball guy to head a football team?

 

Wow. . . This is either going to work extremely well or bust terribly.

 

I say it busts terribly . 

[Narcosys]

But they are looking to get Matt Patricia for HC

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4789473/browns-granted-permission-to-speak-with-patriots-matt-patricia

 

[Narcosys]

29 minutes ago, bababooey said:

The Cleveland Browns just hired a new Executive VP, Paul DePodesta.

 

Have you heard of him? He was the GM for the LA Dodgers during the MoneyBall era and most recently was the VP of player development for the NL Champion NY Mets. He did play football at Harvard in 1995.

He answers to only the owner. So Browns.

 

 

 

You got this wrong

 

He is hired as the Chief Strategy Officer.   Sashi Brown is the new VP of football operations.

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14508016/cleveland-browns-hire-new-york-mets-paul-depodesta-chief-strategy-officer

[bababooey]

1 minute ago, Narcosys said:

 

You got this wrong

 

He is hired as the Chief Strategy Officer.   Sashi Brown is the new VP of football operations.

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14508016/cleveland-browns-hire-new-york-mets-paul-depodesta-chief-strategy-officer

Sorry I heard this on WFAN (Mets affiliate) as Executive VP. Thanks for clarifying.

[LJpalmbeacher2]

Well maybe they heard that they are going to be thrown out of the nfl for being so historicly bad and plan on joing MLB. lol

[Gabriel Alexander Morillo]

Something stinks in Cleveland, and it ain't the sewers...

[SkyBane]

On 1/5/2016 at 0:06 PM, Valpo2004 said:

So they are getting a baseball guy to head a football team?

 

Wow. . . This is either going to work extremely well or bust terribly.

 

I say it busts terribly . 

To be fair, DePodesta isn't really known as a true baseball guy either. He's a metrics guy who was always more interested in football than baseball, but baseball let him work his numbers magic. Ultimately, though, the NFL is entirely different structurally than the MLB, so it's likely not a true "moneyball" scenario, as it is trying to apply the principals of sabermetrics to the draft/FA period in an attempt to stop the maddening spiral of cleveland busts.