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sports like hockey, basketball, baseball, soccer all have varying degree of analytics and strong player development.

but the NFL is basically in the stone age. its astonishing how often first round picks are complete whiffs. late round picks VERY rarely work out because presumably teams are too busy focusing on the high round guys. there's also essentially zero rehab success stories as far as vets suddenly busting out. off the top of my head i can really only think of mike mitchell. but this happens all the time in baseball for example.

then front offices focus on the combine when whatever they are doing there that's so freakishly athletic is in underwear rather than in pads and a helmet. front offices also would rather take a benchwarmer on a big school over some guy who was super productive for a smaller one. on top of that some of the personnel decisions that are made are bizarre. like why is sean payton not trying to keep denver's awesome DC? and then why did they rehire former HC/DC vance joseph who was an embarrassment?

i dunno man. i don't really understand why front offices or ownership are so skittish about this stuff when its fully embraced in other sports. anyway. bad sport and am glad i quit watching it.