Brian Burke
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To do some government stuff for a while that didn't last too long.
Your choice or their choice?
It was complicated.
I became a single dad and raised two kids.
So it was just incompatible.
But you ended up working around another three-letter institution, the NFL.
A lot of three letters.
Most of my time between the Navy and doing football for the day job, I was a defense contractor.
And I was a tactics and strategy expert and instructor.
And I would shirk all my daily responsibilities to crunch football numbers all day long.
So I'll tell you the origin story.
Kind of a water cooler conversation with my good friend, coworker, John Mosier.
The conversation came around to like defense wins championships, right?
The old standby, you know?
And I was like, well, does it?
I don't know.
Like they say that, but does it really?
What do people mean by that?
And I thought, my God, I have this software left over from grad school.
Yeah.