(12-23-2019, 01:41 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(12-23-2019, 01:19 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: I think you may be exaggerating Tony’s experience a bit. No doubt he has more experience in FO and the business-side of football, but I’d be surprised if he’s capable of schooling most diehard fans. Coaches spend decades learning about the X’s and O’s, and they spend much of their time doing it. While it isn’t absolutely necessary, Tony doesn’t even have experience playing football, and I’d be surprised if the coaches are spending time teaching him how to review players and plays as they do. Being good at this job requires a lot of time, and it’s hard to imagine Tony dedicated enough of it when he’s splitting it between football, soccer, and wrestling (and whatever else).

  Tony claims to have been a diehard (analytical) fan since childhood (he was predicting super bowl victors on his local radio station in eighth grade) and on through his college years at Illinois where he began dabbling in analytics. He has run an analytics firm since 2012. 

How exactly is he supposed to have analyzed situational football statistics if he doesn't know the x's and o's? 

I think you are underestimating the work he's put into this endeavour. 

The "never playing football" thing has been debunked a hundred times over by successful coaches and executives that never played. 
But to your point - Tony briefly coached a college intramural football team when he was a senior in high school. Their regular coach was his mentor and asked him to fill in while he was ill. I doubt that was haphazardly doled out to a kid who wasn't already student of the game.  

I find it unwise to make assumptions about a person's knowledge and understanding of a topic based on a personal perception formulated with limited scope.

That goes both ways.

It is more likely he doesn't know [BLEEP]. 

You people think so highly of all people in the NFL when some of them are hot garbage at their jobs (Bradley, Gene Smith, etc). They are not gods, they are not geniuses, they are regular people that have made a career out of football.

If I am Shad Khan and I know my son has the knowledge and is more than capable to do the GM job, at the very least I give him a chance for a couple of years, I don't care what the people/fans think because if he does a good job people will shut up about it. IMO there is a reason why Tony is not the GM, it only seems he has some lame made up job that has had no impact whatsoever.

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