General Manager Ray Farmer may be gone, but it appears that the Browns still believe they’re smarter than everyone else.
Tuesday’s addition of Paul DePodesta as Chief Strategy Officer completed an analytics triumvirate at the top of the organization. The New York Mets vice president of player development and scouting who got his start in baseball 20 years ago with the Indians, DePodesta joins newly promoted executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown and president Alec Scheiner as advocates of advanced statistical analysis.
The three certainly will blow fans away with their diplomas. DePodesta, Brown and Scheiner attended Harvard, Harvard Law School and Georgetown Law School, respectively.