NFL analyst Daniel Jeremiah, who previously worked as a personnel assistant and/or scout for the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, and Philadelphia Eagles, talked about Jeffrey Lurie's involvement in personnel decisions compered to the other NFL owners he's had experience with, calling Lurie's involvement "healthy."
"I worked for three teams and I would say he paid more attention or was more involved in the process than [majority Baltimore Ravens owner] Steve Bisciotti or [majority Cleveland Browns owner] Randy Lerner was when the time I was with the Browns, but it wasn't—I thought it was healthy," Jeremiah told the Jon Marks & Ike Reese Show on Wednesday afternoon.
"It wasn't like he was saying, 'Oh we need to take this guy or I don't like that guy.' He would read all of the reports. So when you put your report in the system, you knew that not only was your general manager going to read it, but your owner was going to read it. So, he read all of the reports. And it wasn't often, but every now and then, they might call you into the draft room on draft day or the meetings leading up to it and he might have a question. 'Hey, I'm reading through your reports and you said this about him and his background. Tell me more about that.' He wanted to know more of the information, but he didn't try to drive the direction of where we were going with the picks. So I thought it was actually pretty healthy."
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"If I really had to say, I’d say slightly less involved. Because I really believe in who we have in the building. I’m very trusting of the different departments that we have. I think our areas of expertise in terms of injury prevention and the steps we’ve taken to do that, which is a huge correlative with winning, whether it’s statistics and analytics, whether it’s psychological analysis, scouting, you name it, we’ve got great people in place,” Lurie said. “I would say if anything the last few years I’ve taken a little more of a backseat. I sometimes ask myself that question because I don’t want to be. I want to provide the resources, provide the support, and yet ask a lot of questions in the meantime because that’s what a good CEO does. You don’t just say ‘here it is, go with it.’ No. You want to be an active questioner of strategy and information and all that, and that’s what I do."
Lurie, 70, bought the Eagles for $195 million in 1994 and the Eagles are now worth $3.8 billion, according to Forbes.com's latest valuations as of August 2021.