Pete Carroll is always looking for an edge. Now with the Las Vegas Raiders, the former USC coach wants to seek new ways of evaluating football to unearth an advantage. Raiders Wire has more on the man Carroll is enlisting to try to gain fresh leverage in the NFL:
“Tuesday, Josh Kendall at The Athletic put out a piece on the NFL’s use of AI to help teams prepare. Heavily featured in the piece was Carroll along with newly hired Ryan Paganetti who carries the title of “Head Coach research specialist”. Which, these days, pretty much means he’s their AI specialist.
“‘I don’t think when I was hired the idea was, “This is our AI guy,” but there is no doubt whatsoever that I am going to be using AI every single day,’ Paganetti told The Athletic. ‘And probably in increasingly larger amounts every month that goes by.’
“Paganetti began his NFL career as an analyst with the Eagles in 2015 and two years later became the team’s assistant linebackers coach, a position he held in various forms for four years. In 2022, the Dartmouth alum joined the Jaguars staff, this time focusing on analytics. After three years there, he joined Carroll’s staff in Las Vegas. And he thinks not only will AI begin replacing some coaching positions, but become a tool that could give a team an bigger edge than that of on-field talent.
“’I feel pretty confident saying some team is going to win a Super Bowl in the next few years utilizing AI at a very high rate, significantly higher than it has ever been used before,’ he said.”
This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: The man tasked with helping Pete Carroll in the modern age of NFL football
Reporting by Matt Zemek / Trojans Wire
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