DePodesta, the analytics whiz depicted by Jonah Hill in the movie “Moneyball,” spent 10 often tumultuous seasons as the Browns’ chief strategy officer. The Browns are 56-99-1 since bringing on DePodesta, who was hired in Jan. 2016 with the franchise arguably in worse shape than it is now.

He came from baseball, and now returns but did Paul DePodesta get ahead of the Browns or just first out the door?

According to Bacon’s cohost and the senior Browns analyst at the OBR, Fred Greetham, that’s likely the correct assessment to make. Nevertheless, he, along with the bulk of the fan base, believe that it’s time to “ blow up the analytics department .”