Cleveland's recent public embrace of "analytics" seems like a big deal, but in truth, front offices around the NFL (including the one in Green Bay) have been implementing them for years.
When the Browns hired Paul DePodesta, known best as half of Jonah Hill's character in the movie version of Moneyball, it gave a lot of pundits an opportunity to write a bunch of fairly lazy think-pieces on whether "Moneyball" can ever work in the NFL. Writing about the Moneyballization of various things is a tricky business, as a number of baseball writers don't even properly understand what Moneyball is and is not.