Browns top selves once again... Vol 2.0 The cross-sport idiocy

[The Legend]

So immediately after firing Ray Farmer and Mike Pettine, Jimmy Haslam decided to pull his next move from the deep recesses of the insanity department of the Factory of Sadness that had been previously inconceivable for anyone. Apparently, just hiring coaches and GM's that no one else in the NFL thinks deserves consideration is too easy.

Haslam has named Sashi Brown the VP in charge of Player Acquisition. Who is Sashi Brown you ask? He previously was the Browns top Attorney. Before that he held the same position with the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2006-12. That's right a Lawyer is now in charge of drafting players, signing free agents and picking the final 53-man roster.

Like seriously, where the fuck do they come up with this stuff? They just continue to re-define the rock bottom of stupidity and it never ends. I don't know where hope is supposed to come for Browns fans at this point.

With each passing day and each decision Jimmy Haslam lends more credibility to the conspiracy theory that he's just a spy brought from the Pittsburgh Steelers to finish off the Browns for good.

[War Daddy]

As an outsider, I feel for Cleveland. I literally just what the fucked.

[The Legend]

Not to mention it became official today that Brian Hoyer and Teddy Bridgewater (the two QB's deemed not as good as Josh McCown and Johnny Manzielby the Browns) led their teams to the playoffs while the Browns won 3 games.

Oh and this little dandy... The Browns have had four coaches in the same amount of time the Ohio State Buckeyes have lost four games!!!

[The Legend]

So apparently Jimmy Haslam though the right next move after hiring a lawyer to be his top football man was to hire Paul DePodesta to be his right-hand man. Who is Paul DePodesta you ask? He's a bit of a celebrity... His real life story was portrayed by Jonah Hill in the movie Moneyball.

That's right. The Cleveland Browns, a football team, are now being directed by a lawyer and a baseball man. The Mistake by the Lake has become the Island of Misfit Toys.

[DBSoT]

It is not so much the baseball to football transition that is the problem. There is a lot of cross over in major sports from a structure standpoint. The problem is that DePodesta is the guy that made saber metrics famous. High level statistical analysis works in baseball because the sample size is huge and you can replicate similar scenarios over and over again. Football has a low sample size due to lack of games and the responsibility of each player being very different. The worst is the attempt to translate those stats from college to the pros. Numbers get inflated quite a bit in college and with a low sample size can also lead to misleading results. This is why the Combine tends to be lead to talent being over drafted. There isn't a statistician in the world who was going to tell you that Tom Brady was the best QB of his generation, or that Antonio Brown would become the best WR in football, or that Russel Wilson would play in multiple Superbowls before he was 28.

[The Legend]

It's a combination of the two. I mean I think there's something to be gained from analytics, not a huge piece, but it can be a huge piece of the puzzle. But you need to combine that analytics with real football knowledge and neither of the guys the Browns have hired so far have real football knowledge.