It WOULD be a very Bengals thing to take the Ohio State kid over a QB. They love their Buckeyes. And Alabama prospects.
Would be the smartest choice for sure. Do the Bills strategy; take a year with whoever (they did Taylor/Peterman), get the cornerstone D pieces you need (Tre'davious White + Tremaine Edmunds is what became of their 2017 1st over taking Mahomes), and take the QB the following year. Bengals D-line would be nasty with Young; and if the Bengals had smartly traded AJ Green, they'd have other draft picks to rebuild the line
I love that announcers calling a team "analytics heavy" just means they occasionally go for 2 or try to convert 4th down
A lot of the narratives around analytics is bullshit. Garrett got ripped from here to the moon and back for saying we don’t use analytics in-game to make decisions like that. But neither does Belichick, so it’s whatever.
Everyone uses analytics really. It's just using data to help make decisions and it's so far beyond just like measuring win probability based on converted downs haha so it drives me crazy when its talked about like that's all it is (plus data is only good if you really know how to use it) It's like music theory though, you can write a cool song based on how it sounds without knowing/analyzing the music theory, but in the end what you did was still based on rules like that. That's how I see Belichick's approach to calling a game
They're unique in the way they can get everyone from all sides to hate them, you gotta at least give them that
Yeah, most broadcasts don't have a clue what they're talking about when it comes to this. It just boils down to them saying "well the annoying nerds say you should do this but I don't like/agree with it."
Collinsworth would go into a 10-minute diatribe about analytics and then have a link to PFF tattooed on his forehead