Flashback to the winter of 2016, as Mike Pettine and Ray Farmer have both been fired from their posts with the Cleveland Browns. Owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam put out a letter stating how things are going to be different, and their first step in that process was to hire Sashi Brown as general manager, add in the brain behind Moneyball Paul DePodesta, and Andrew Berry to lead up the rebuild.
This signaled a new era: the Browns were finally willing to listen to data and analytics as a mode of building a winning roster. Over the past two seasons, we have seen the two teams who use analytics the most in the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots win Super Bowls; this was supposed to be the beginning of greatness.