![]() ![]() Reading between the lines, it sounds like Akayleb Evans passed the vibe check which weighed heavily into Kwesi’s decision to trade up in the draft to select him. When you factor in something like emotion, which cannot be quantified into your evaluation process, it can lead to uninformed decisions. Personally, I think evaluations should be based purely on objective information. I simply ask them, how do you feel if this guy was going to be on our team in this situation? Based on the plays you just watched, based on the evidence you have, how does it make you feel? Are you excited or are you not excited? People use the word gut, but it's instincts, it's experience, it's emotion, and it's captured into an evaluation. When we talk about draft meetings, we ask specific questions of our scouts. ![]() ![]() "I think complex systems is how I think through things and rationalize things, but at the end of the day it's a feeling thing. I'm paraphrasing here, but I think you get the idea. Gabe asked Kwesi: "How do you get to the point of balancing complex systems versus your gut feeling?"įor clarification, complex systems refers to the use of objective data/analytics, while an example of Kwesi going with his gut occurred last year when he revealed Akayleb Evans was essentially his draft crush that he just had to have after sitting in a dark room with him for hours. ![]() Recently, I watched an interview that Minnesota Vikings reporter Gabe Henderson did with Kwesi Adofo-Mensah at the NFL annual league meeting and there was something he said that made me question his judgment. ![]()
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