Browns chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta is gone. His legacy in Cleveland won’t be forgotten, and not for good reasons.

The effort to bring baseball-style analytics to the overall operation of a football team did not work, save for a pair of playoff appearances in nearly a decade with the organization.

In an interview with Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post following DePodesta’s arrival as president of football operations with the Colorado Rockies, DePodesta was asked a very specific question. What was his role in the decision to trade for quarterback Deshaun Watson?

“Here’s what I would say, and I truly believe this,” DePodesta said. “I believe that most of the decisions, especially the big ones like that, are organizational decisions, right? I’m not a believer in the ‘King Scou

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