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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThe 30-year-old son of Jacksonville Jaguars awesomely-mustachioed, Pakistani-born owner Shad Khan is the team&amp;#39;s senior vice president of football technology and analytics. In other words, he&amp;#39;s the Jags&amp;#39; official stat geek. Until his dad bought the team, Tony worked for a biodiesel company. Now he&amp;#39;s trying to do for the NFL what Billy Beane did for baseball. Here he explains how advanced analytics helped the Jags decide to select Luke Joeckel, an offensive tackle from Texas A&amp;amp;M, with the number two overall pick in this spring&amp;#39;s NFL draft.\n\n&amp;quot;Before the draft, we examined every first round pick between 1990 and 2008. We found that offensive tackles chosen in the top ten had averaged 74.9 total games played and 70.5 total games started over their first five seasons. Both totals were by far the most for any position. However, offensive tackles chosen in the first round outside of the top ten averaged only 60.1 total games played and 51.7 games started in their firstfive seasons. This indicated that offensive tackles chosen in the top ten had been far superior to other offensive tackles. Additionally, in 2012, the Jaguars ranked 30th out of the 32 NFL teams in sacks allowed. The average NFL sack occurred approximately 3.8 seconds after the snap, whereas the Jaguars&amp;#39; offensive unit&amp;#39;s mean time was about 3.37, which also ranked 30th out of the 32 teams. While 0.43 seconds may not seem like much, it&amp;#39;s actually a huge differential. So, given the typically strong performance of offensive tackles chosen in the top ten\u2014particularly compared to other first round offensive tackles, and our recent pass-protection deficiencies\u2014all of these facts created a consensus that Luke was the ideal choice for us.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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