Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

[Buckeneye]

C'mon... we all know by now they just get Kiper's espn subscription and draft 'BPA' (unless it's a Buckeye).

Perhaps worse at times.. PFF.

Go down the list of our 2016 picks. All the top of PFF's rankings for that round at their respective positions.

Which blows my mind because for as much "traditional" scouting they do while watching film to compile their grades, they still ranked Corey Coleman and Ogbah as the highest at the positions.

Their grading model is their God and not to be questioned. Either that or they discount drop rates, alignment, opponent grade, coverage, etc etc so heavily that it's almost not factored at all.

With how rushed this office is feeling, I hope and pray we don't have a 2016 draft repeat.

 

[BuckBackHome]

The clock has started on how long before the Clowns have a new GM, Head Coach, or whatever DePodesta's title is.

Day 1

 

[Trevi]

The clock has started on how long before the Clowns have a new GM, Head Coach, or whatever DePodesta's title is.

Day 1

Over/under 702 days?

 

[exhawg]

I'm hopping for over. They need to give this group at least 3 years regardless of results. If it isn't working by then move the team to Knoxville and become Steelers fans.

1. Alignment
2. ?
3. Super Bowl!!!

 

[cjmik_75]

 

[Bucklion]

Championships

 

[Buckeneye]

Seeing as how they've attempted to plug and play a TE in places that this offense could actually have used a true lead back...

I won't sneeze at this signing. Isn't sexy, but it makes a difference.

 

[desert_buckeye]

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/20...2Oq6A_2apTfUGWc5m46KFfm0wnYfF-mPbPpSKW_JcI0ZE

At least Stefanski willing to give up play calling if necessary .... unlike Kitchens

 

[Zippercat]

I'm hopping for over. They need to give this group at least 3 years regardless of results. If it isn't working by then move the team to Knoxville and become Steelers fans.

1. Alignment
2. ?
3. Super Bowl!!!

 

[NFBuck]

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/20...2Oq6A_2apTfUGWc5m46KFfm0wnYfF-mPbPpSKW_JcI0ZE

At least Stefanski willing to give up play calling if necessary .... unlike Kitchens

Yeah, but to Alex Van Pelt?

 

[wadc45]

I don't know if this counts for anything but Aaron Rodgers was very unhappy when Van Pelt was not retained by Green Bay:

https://madison.com/wsj/sports/foot...cle_34872a24-ce28-5fcc-91cd-bd30b7641bcc.html

I'm guessing this signals Stefanski will be calling the plays.

 

[cjmik_75]

Data, data, data everywhere...

 

[exhawg]

Data, data, data everywhere...

This guy?

Actually he did a great job of outscheming the Romulans that one time he was in command during the Klingon civil war blockade.

 

[kujirakira]

Data, data, data everywhere...

I'd say it still falls on the analyst / programmer ...
ML is extremely powerful, if you can efficiently find the tells.
The stuff going on in Football, whether it's espin' rankings or browns' idiocy, is low grade shit though.
Kind of shocking when you consider the money involved.

Depodesta is probably 20 years behind the curve. In CompSci that may as well be 1000 years.

If Haslam is too stupid to hire competent front office the traditional CEO way, how would he ever make a good hire in Machine Learning?
The kind of person that gains his trust is far more likely to be a conman or hasbeen than somebody that knows what they're doing.

 

[AKAK]

Depodesta is probably 20 years behind the curve. In CompSci that may as well be 1000 years.

Is there a reason you're saying this? I'm not saying your not right, I just was wondering what the background is here.

(And if you say, "I walked by his office and he was playing solitaire on windows 3.1 - I will accept that)