A different take on the Roseman promotion

I think if someone’s good at something, they are just good at it. For example, I could tell from preseason game 4 that Trent Cole was going to make it in the NFL, and that Brent Celek could help us down the stretch. So far, I’m right about Cole, and I stand by my Celek prediction. If I could tell those two things, no doubt Roseman could do it too.

The moral of the story is that if you’re good at something, you’re just good at it, regardless of background.

Secondly, football is just as much about numbers as baseball… It’s just that the numbers are far more esoteric and not nearly as individual as baseball numbers. Football is a lot more of a team game than baseball, which is more about sum-of-the-parts. Still, sometimes some numbers do stand out—the more games a QB starts during college, for example, the higher probability based on NFL history that the player will succeed at an NFL level. Who did the Eagles take last year? The most experienced college QB in the class. McNabb was no different. Could be that the Kolb selection was Roseman talking.

ever hear of a guy named ernie adams?

Stats may or may not be a useful metric when making football decisions as compared with baseball decisions. But, for me the more important issue is Roseman’s background – but not in terms of whether he has any time on the “field” to justify his promotion. He is a lawyer. As soon as he graduated law school, he entered the Eagles’s GC office. And, though I don’t know his background at Florida when he was in college, he is pretty far removed from that time even if he did major in a field that is based around numbers. So, really, what does it mean that Roseman was a “capologist?” Was his role based more around his knowledge of the collective bargaining agreement and working within that construct to achieve a desired result (i.e., staying below or at the cap without jeopardizing future flexibility)? It just seems odd to me that a lawyer would have a role within a football organization crunching numbers if his “skills” as a lawyer weren’t being utilized. And, even if he is a wiz at manipulating cap numbers, it doesn’t mean he has the requisite knowledge or background to create and to run the sophisticated statistical analyses that baseball’s sabremetrics do.