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It's not exactly a Moneyball wave, but more NFL teams are openly talking about embracing analytics in football.

New Buffalo Bills president Russ Brandon spoke Tuesday about establishing an analytics department to support his Coaching search tracker traditional football operations. Brandon used to work in baseball, where sabermetrics are a more established part of Gregg Rosenthal provides the game after the last decade. a one-stop shop for all the latest head-coaching search "We've seen it in the NBA. We've seen it more in baseball. It's news. Who are teams starting to spruce its head a little bit in football, and I feel targeting? More ... we're missing the target if we don't invest in that area of our operation, and we will," Brandon said, via The Buffalo News.

The Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens announced similar directions before the 2012 season.

NFL teams have long crunched numbers behind the scenes. Whereas the media and analysts in many ways dragged baseball teams into the modern era, in the NFL, teams have quietly done work that exceeds what the public knows about.

Now teams like the Bills are going public more. Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery even gave advanced stats site Pro PHOTO GALLERY Football Focus a shoutout during his Monday news conference. OVER OR UNDER? More traditional GMs, like the Bills' Buddy Nix, don't know what The Chiefs have yet to surrender more than 17 points to make of it. in a game. Can the Bills crack that mark? See this and other mind-blowing stats. View "You know, obviously, I'm old-school in more ways than one," Nix said, laughing. "It'll be something I'll have to get used to because I go a lot on feel and what I see."

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