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The Kevin Stefanski: Two-Time Coach of the Year Thread

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Grade the signing

  • A+ -Awesome Analytics Alignment!

    Votes: 55 30.9%
  • A - Good choice moving forward

    Votes: 53 29.8%
  • B - Better than the other options

    Votes: 20 11.2%
  • C - Could work out I guess

    Votes: 30 16.9%
  • D - Browns done put their foot in it again, but at least he looks good on TV

    Votes: 9 5.1%
  • F - A failure on every level

    Votes: 11 6.2%

  • Total voters
    178
He brought in the Vikings developmental fullback already, but I hope that the draft brings another tight end/move blocker. We don't know what will happen with Njoku, but even if he returns to form they need somebody else for the run game/play action game.
I know close to nothing about this draft, but TE would be the only offensive non-line position I’d be good with in the first two rounds.
 
I think tight end(s) is right behind OT in our needs department.

[jking beat me to it]
 
Speaking of TEs, I'd love to get a guy like Austin Hooper from FA. He'd be perfect for this team.
 
Speaking of TEs, I'd love to get a guy like Austin Hooper from FA. He'd be perfect for this team.
Gross.

The dude's just a guy and is going to get overpaid because Matt Ryan threw a shit ton of balls to him in the fourth quarter of blowouts while he was open underneath.

He's a more athletic Gary Barnidge, but at least Gary Barnidge could block.
 
Gross.

The dude's just a guy and is going to get overpaid because Matt Ryan threw a shit ton of balls to him in the fourth quarter of blowouts while he was open underneath.

He's a more athletic Gary Barnidge, but at least Gary Barnidge could block.

I thought he's a really really good blocker? Maybe I'm confusing him with Kyle Rudolph for some reason... I always seem to get those two mixed up.
 
I thought he's a really really good blocker? Maybe I'm confusing him with Kyle Rudolph for some reason... I always seem to get those two mixed up.
I'm fairly certain he's average at best when it comes to blocking--but I'd be open to hearing another person's opinion.

A quick google search brought up this quote from a Cowboys blog, which seems to align with what I thought of him:

The former third round pick of the Falcons only stands 6-foot-4, 254lbs. making him somewhat undersized for the position and more of a receiving threat than a blocking asset. But this may be fine in McCarthy’s system that calls for considerably more passes than runs and uses the tight end position for more of a chipper and downfield threat than a point-of-contact run blocker.

Also, here was a quote from Bleacher Report after he was drafted:

In the blocking game, Hooper is all about effort because his mechanics need work. He's too light in his lower body to get real push, which causes him to lunge and grasp for defenders. He would be better suited to a zone scheme that helps him get an angle on the defender.
 
With some of the blowback Shanahan got from the SB, I thought this related to Stefanski and the analytics of football. The 3rd tweet is what is important. You need to keep making the right decision even if the results and situation might deter you. Over time, there is success. It's the picking and choosing of when to use the numbers is what gets you.


 
With some of the blowback Shanahan got from the SB, I thought this related to Stefanski and the analytics of football. The 3rd tweet is what is important. You need to keep making the right decision even if the results and situation might deter you. Over time, there is success. It's the picking and choosing of when to use the numbers is what gets you.


Because the sample size here is only 90, it wouldn't be of much use if this were a simple random sample with all scenarios being the same.

And, as we all know, none of these scenarios are identical.

This is an instance where the coach's decision trumps a thin-to-nonexistant edge in analytics.

I'm hesitant to even use the word "analytics" to describe this, because I don't believe a competent analytics team would present this information to the coach as skewing one way or the other.
 
With some of the blowback Shanahan got from the SB, I thought this related to Stefanski and the analytics of football. The 3rd tweet is what is important. You need to keep making the right decision even if the results and situation might deter you. Over time, there is success. It's the picking and choosing of when to use the numbers is what gets you.


This is an unbelievably simplistic view and not at all what I would think our analytics, or any professional analytics team, is producing.

This is worthy of a pat on the head and an ‘at least you tried’ cake at best
 
With some of the blowback Shanahan got from the SB, I thought this related to Stefanski and the analytics of football. The 3rd tweet is what is important. You need to keep making the right decision even if the results and situation might deter you. Over time, there is success. It's the picking and choosing of when to use the numbers is what gets you.



Unless I'm misreading this, and I might be, this seems intuitively obvious.
 
He's a more athletic Gary Barnidge, but at least Gary Barnidge could block.

Let me ask you this: Can this high falutin' Stanford tight end assemble, install, repair, and maintain a passenger elevator in his spare time?

Didn't think so. Save the Barnidge comparisons for somebody worthy of higher praise.
 
Let me ask you this: Can this high falutin' Stanford tight end assemble, install, repair, and maintain a passenger elevator in his spare time?

Didn't think so. Save the Barnidge comparisons for somebody worthy of higher praise.

Pish, Dear Keys.

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