I spent eleven years in press boxes watching "gut feelings" dictate...

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I spent eleven years in press boxes watching "gut feelings" dictate play-calling. That’s gone. Analytics didn’t kill the soul of the game; it just revealed how it actually works. We went from zero defensive shifts in 2000 to nearly 100% usage today