NFL Rebuilds Part 3 (What Trends Emerge?)

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesOne of the dangers of letting evidence and data guide a research project is that sometimes the results are anticlimactic. For some, it is fun to have a bias and to run out and find examples that confirm that bias. However, that’s not actually proving anything other than access to a search engine and a skill at picking cherries. The flipside, however, is that sometimes the only result of a research effort is a lack of results.

When I started looking at rebuilds, I did not know what I would find. To be honest, I didn’t even know how many teams had actually gone through GM changes after losing seasons in the last decade. I had a general notion that the number…