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Stats Guru Eayrs Tries To Give Packers An Edge

From WFTV
By Chris Jenkins
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"... Eayrs compiles a statistical team profile on each upcoming opponent, listing specific things they do well and identifying areas where the Packers might have an advantage.

Then he turns a few of those nuggets into bullet points for coaches to present to players. ..."

"... "The referees have tendencies, just like the teams have," Eayrs said. "And so what we try to do is talk to the players about what a higher tendency of call they're going to (make)." ..."

"... On a key third-down play, an opposing defender stepped right into the space where his team wanted to throw the ball. Eayrs wondered how the opponent knew. So after the game, he asked a friend on the opposing coaching staff about the play. ... "

"... "There are a couple crews that almost every game they work, there's some type of a player conduct foul - personal foul, unnecessary roughness - and it'll almost always occur in the first 10 minutes of the game," Eayrs said.

"It's like they're kind of trying to send a message to players that this is, we want it tight within the rules, and there are others that will let them play, and then all of a sudden, they'll kind of take control of the game in the fourth quarter.

Those are the kind of things we're trying to know." ..."

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