Paul DePodesta Quotes

Paul DePodesta

Paul DePodesta

American Businessman

Born: Dec 16, 1972

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Admittedly, there will be an awful lot for me to learn, but I want nothing more than to help bring consistent, championship caliber football back to Cleveland. Paul DePodesta

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Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys. Paul DePodesta

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As the West Coast offense has spread out among the NFL, as all of Bill Walsh's assistants and all of Mike Holmgren's assistants have gone on to be head coaches, it's all the West Coast offense, but it's all a little different, tailored to the personnel or the coordinators or the resources each team has. Paul DePodesta

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message. Paul DePodesta

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Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time. Paul DePodesta

I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach. Paul DePodesta

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Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to make more consistently better decisions? That's very similar. Paul DePodesta

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I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too. Paul DePodesta

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I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist. Paul DePodesta

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It's up to a manager to understand his players. Paul DePodesta

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Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer. Paul DePodesta

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There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account. Paul DePodesta

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The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL. Paul DePodesta

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