Josh Harris values analytics. Is that likely to be a point of friction with Ron Rivera?

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesThe first press conferences for Washington’s new ownership team were great, and full of hopeful goals for the future in terms of winning back fan confidence, re-establishing a championship identity, and affirming the good faith of the new owners in striving to do so. But, necessarily, they tended to be fairly thin on detailed prescriptions, by design.

Josh Harris, Mitch Rales, and Magic Johnson want to give themselves some flexibility in terms of concrete actions they’re going to take, which is totally understandable. That said, in both his introductory speech and a follow-up interview, Harris did get pretty specific in terms of steps he’s going to take…