From NFL Aspirations to Analytics Leader: Tom Dimitroff's Journey

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00:00And I was actually rooting for you to get back into the NFL.

00:04I know that with Sumer, you're in the NFL, you're helping all these teams with analytics

00:08and college teams and everything else.

00:10Compare where you are a year ago in Vegas to where you are today in terms of the company,

00:15the growth, your happiness, and you obviously still went back in because you're interviewing

00:19for GM jobs.

00:20Yeah.

00:21You know, look, I think we're really evolving on the tech side on Sumer Sports, right?

00:25In that role, we're at 75 strong.

00:28When we first started talking about this, there were three of us, so we're really evolving.

00:33There's a lot there.

00:34The backing of Paul Tudor Jones, you know, big, big, big deal.

00:38That keeps growing.

00:39We have five former general managers, about 20 other scouts, NFL scouts.

00:43That creates all of our subjective side.

00:45Pair it with all the objectivity.

00:47We think we're a really hot third party, and that's why we're here.

00:51To your point, I miss the hell out of what I've been doing all of my life, right?

00:56The evaluating side, building a team, evaluating.

00:59Drafting.

01:00Yeah, and I'm very fortunate to be with Sumer, as you can imagine.

01:03I love working for him, and I also would love to have an opportunity again, and that's why

01:08I interviewed.

01:09In the Jets situation, I thought that they were going to be looking for an experienced

01:13guy.

01:14That's what, you know, at the outset, that's why I interviewed there, right?

01:16I wasn't going there just to be a, hey, here's an experienced guy we're going to learn something

01:20from, right?

01:22I thought there was a parallel for me, Scotty, where I was like, Atlanta was so downtrodden

01:29when Mike Smith and I went in there, as you remember.

01:31And I thought there was some parallels there, would have an opportunity to go in there and

01:34resurrect this team.

01:36Did you, were you disappointed, because I said on the air that these teams, it would

01:44appear to me, follow a real similar fashion with one another.

01:51They go after these assistants that have been working for a GM in a market, like they did

01:55with the Denver guy, and they all do the same thing.

01:58They hire these assistants that have been in the role of GM in training, if you will,

02:05for that job, instead of someone that's taking teams to a Super Bowl, and I think it's a

02:08bad idea.

02:09They all do the same thing.

02:11I said about this guy, no offense to him, I don't know him from Adam, and I'm a huge

02:14fan of yours, I love you.

02:16But I said it was a mistake.

02:17Oh, you're talking about the Darin Mousie hire, right?

02:20I said, no one's ever heard of him, I've never, I don't know him, I don't care, like if I've

02:24never heard of you, I've been in this 41 years, I know everyone, if I've never heard of you,

02:28you can't be better than Thomas Dimitrov.

02:31That was the same, I said it live on television.

02:32I see.

02:33I don't have any feelings, I could care less what the guy thinks of me.

02:35I understand.

02:36I don't give a rat's ass.

02:37I was rooting for you, and I thought they made a bad choice, and I think that, I think

02:41their head coach doesn't like it either, because that's not his choice, he's working with some

02:47dude he's never met.

02:48Yeah.

02:49You don't even know him.

02:50Well.

02:51Good luck with that.

02:52That's like marrying a chick you met on 90 Day Fiance.

02:55You know that city, is that city harsh?

02:57They're going to eat him alive.

02:59Too inexperienced, like the inexperienced.

03:00I think he'll do fine, because he played there, people know him.

03:04I think this new GM of theirs, he came on and said, you know, we're going to win, we're

03:10going to win a title, we're going to do all this.

03:11Be careful what you wish for in New York, because when you say that, he has opened up

03:15a can of worms, they are going to eat him alive.

03:17They eat everyone alive in New York.

03:19Eventually they eat everyone alive.

03:20Every single coach in GM gets eaten alive.

03:23Brian Dable was coach of the year, now the guy, he lost 200 pounds because he couldn't

03:27eat.

03:28He was so stressed out.

03:29Yeah, he was stressed out.

03:30And Shane, he went from being a genius in Buffalo to the biggest idiot clown in New

03:34York, and they treat him like he's stupid, because every move he made, they had him on

03:38hard knocks looking like an idiot.

03:40He got exposed.

03:42I've never seen you, ever, in a light of being an idiot.

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