Yeah, it was an odd choice to take him from the start. I agree statistics is the way to go, but I understand dealing with agents is a like dealing with wolves - they'll go around you, go to ownership connections, and will lobby to have you fired. So managing those relationships in the old boys club was probably not going to work from the start. But even if we're looking at analytics, his drafting hasn't been that good, so what was this guy's advantage in the real world? It was definitely a cool thing to see Arizona take the leap of faith, and they did give him enough time IMO, but he should've produced a team better than this after all this time. If they're doing this before the draft and FA season, it could very well be that ownership wasn't happy with his draft strategy or who they're aiming to sign, and they wanted a change before either came to fruition.
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