Washington Redskins interim head coach Bill Callahan let something slip recently that seemed to go viral.
During a routine press conference, Callahan noted the team doesn’t have an analytics department. Given the growing importance of analytics around the league, that registered as a red flag.
Callahan merely made the comment in passing during the conference, per JP Finlay of NBC Sports Washington. But it took off, as things have a way of doing on social media — and as things have way of perhaps understand doing for a team that is strugglingly this badly right now.
One good example was here:
<scanning play-by-play, qtrs 1-3>
First down YPC: 3.7 YPC, 5th worst
First down run rate: #1 most in NFL<scanning complete… no analytics department found> https://t.co/XNQTtW2xYE
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) November 27, 2019
Finlay did follow up:
Skins analytics question was about in-game – clock management and 4th down decisions. There are 2 guys on front office staff with analytic functions
— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) November 27, 2019
We’ve seen examples of other teams having guys on the field with analytical backgrounds to feed information to head coaches in real-time.
Washington, it seems, is behind in this area and an interim coach is the one up there letting the world know.
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