New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton has been one of several play callers to really embrace analytics in 2018, and often to great results. Payton acknowledged the success that trusting the numbers has brought him on Pro Football Talk Live this week, but also made it clear that he feels there have been situations where he may have been better-served by sticking to his gut
“I kick myself for two or three different situations in that game [against the Dallas Cowboys], not handling them the right way. We have an opportunity to score, it’s fourth-and-1, I know our fourth down numbers are good, I felt like we had a good plan, and yet, in that game?