Post by One on Mar 8, 2019 7:05:10 GMT -5
The Eagles have made enough good bets that they won the Super Bowl last year and won a playoff game this year. Now they’re heading into an off season of significant change, with not much cap space. They’ll be counting on that sports science staff to help them make more good bets.
“We use this now for everything we do,” Roseman said of sports science, via ESPN. “Before we sign a free agent, we’ll have our sports scientists look at how the gait is of this player to see if there’s anything that may give us a heads-up on a decline. We’ll have them go to the Combine and separately look at guys. For us, we want to have as many parallel paths as possible where we’re all reaching the head and being able to make a decision. So we’re not getting the same redundant information; we’re getting information from different sources, putting it in a pot and coming out with a good outcome.”
after all those years of frustrating incompetence. Surprisingly, it may have been the guy who was supposed to be the magnificent innovator who turned out to be one of their biggest disasters ever, Charles Edward Kelly, who precipitated the transformation. He not only brought us sports science, but he instigated emotional intelligence and Howie Joe.Linc ...
