Paul DePodesta Says Officials from Other NFL Teams ‘Talking Trash’ on Browns

March 15, 2016   ·   Mike Chiari   ·   Jump to comments

The Cleveland Browns have been on the receiving end of plenty of criticism in recent years due to their on-field struggles, and new chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta has already heard some of it firsthand.
According to Ben Badler of Baseball America, the 43-year-old executive overheard fellow NFL front office people badmouthing him and the Browns at the NFL Scouting Combine: "I was standing right in front of them in line, and I could hear them in back of me, and they were talking trash about me and the Cleveland Browns. I said, 'All right, this is like 17 years ago in Oakland all over again.' That's part of the fun."

DePodesta spent nearly 20 years in Major League Baseball, and he famously served as the assistant to Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane from 1999 to 2004. He and Beane helped popularize the sabermetric team-building strategy known as Moneyball, which was later turned into a hit movie starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.
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