The Cleveland Browns' hiring of Paul DePodesta continues to prompt chatter around the NFL and Major League Baseball.
DePodesta is a Harvard-educated man of interesting approaches who spent the past 19 years in baseball, most recently with the New York Mets. He's also an analytics guru, which leads to the immediate conclusion that the team's new coach will also have to, at a minimum, buy into analytics.
Which may well mean a young unknown open to new ideas and ways to win.
That could point to a guy like the New England Patriots' Matt Patricia, who rose through the Bill Belichick ranks like so many other of the head coach's assistants.