Big Blue Huddle

It's great to see the Giants going from mocking analytics under Gettleman to embracing it.

Q. You mentioned 40-yard dash before, not worrying so much about stats. How much has having in-game GPS times contributed to this scouting and evaluation process?

BRANDON BROWN: When you look at GPS data, the NGS data, all the game day metrics, it's all a tool in our process. Like I mentioned NASA before, our analytics department. Joe does a phenomenal job of including them not only in the draft process, but in free agency.

We can extrapolate certain metrics of, hey, does it correlate with the scouting report? When our pro director, Chris Rossetti, or any of our pro scouts has a report on a guy in free agency, and you say, hey, he has third-level speed and can pull away, or he has sideline-to-sideline speed and he can close and cut off backside. Is the data contradictory or is it giving it evidence in support?

When you look at the data in itself, we're always finding ways to really poke holes and have checks and balances in our processes. It's a supplemental tool.

We're going to continue to do it. We're going to continue to implement AI, which we talked about earlier this week. They're all things where if you're not taking advantage of all those tools and there's another team who is, then you're being negligent.

Joe has been really great in terms of opening the lines of communication and being collaborative when we get to the chance to add different sources and tools to help us make decisions.

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Quote from: MightyGiants on June 06, 2025, 08:19:09 AMIt's great to see the Giants going from mocking analytics under Gettleman to embracing it.

Q. You mentioned 40-yard dash before, not worrying so much about stats. How much has having in-game GPS times contributed to this scouting and evaluation process?

BRANDON BROWN: When you look at GPS data, the NGS data, all the game day metrics, it's all a tool in our process. Like I mentioned NASA before, our analytics department. Joe does a phenomenal job of including them not only in the draft process, but in free agency.

We can extrapolate certain metrics of, hey, does it correlate with the scouting report? When our pro director, Chris Rossetti, or any of our pro scouts has a report on a guy in free agency, and you say, hey, he has third-level speed and can pull away, or he has sideline-to-sideline speed and he can close and cut off backside. Is the data contradictory or is it giving it evidence in support?

When you look at the data in itself, we're always finding ways to really poke holes and have checks and balances in our processes. It's a supplemental tool.

We're going to continue to do it. We're going to continue to implement AI, which we talked about earlier this week. They're all things where if you're not taking advantage of all those tools and there's another team who is, then you're being negligent.

Joe has been really great in terms of opening the lines of communication and being collaborative when we get to the chance to add different sources and tools to help us make decisions.

SO damn refreshing!

Love that we have a 3 win team and 37 year old Russel Wilson, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual reality, A treasure chest, Advanced analytics, and Nasa are there to get us out of this.

Some of the preseason hype reads like those satire The Onion articles.
Sorry thats just what i see 😅