Brian Burke

The effect can be very slight, but the next guy up who costs a fraction of what Le'Veon wants to be paid, like I would much rather pay a million dollars for 95% of what Le'Veon Bell is than pay $15 million for 100%.

I would have advised him to just take what he can get.

It's outside of his control.

I understand what he's trying to accomplish, but he's just up against reality.

He's lucky to find the Jets.

If there's one...

Foolish team out of 32 that's going to overpay you, then it only takes one.

The concept is intransitivity.

There is no, like, one superior tactic here.

It's circular.

The other 31 teams are all chasing pass blockers and receivers and throwers and everything.

And there's a whole bunch of run blockers and running backs left on the table.

There's inefficiencies like I'm going to go grab them and I'm going to be the best running team they've ever seen.

And they're going to be unprepared for us.

And that's going to be pretty effective.

But only one or two teams can get away with that.

Once I built that model, it was very, very clear that passing was far superior to running.

Once I built that model, it was very, very clear that passing was far superior to running.

Once I built that model, it was very, very clear that passing was far superior to running.

The run-pass balance. It was this perennial question, do teams run too often or do they not run often enough? That is Brian Burke, a sports data scientist with ESPN. And so there was this question, and so people came along and they started to analyze the question, and they didn't really have the right tools.