Mike Eayrs, the Packers numbers and information guy, retired on Sept 30, an odd date for someone in football to retire. But apparently that was the date they agreed upon during his last extension.

Ryan Feder has taken his place, started last spring I believe.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packe...331855511.html

The few times Eayrs work has been mentioned, it struck me to be of a sort with "when Tony Dorsett runs for 100 yards, the Cowboys are 39-1" *. But that just might be the version that is easiest for people to remember and tell reporters. But I have never gotten the sense that he is at the forefront of the football statistics revolution.

But Sherman and McCarthy and certainly Ted trusted the guy. McGinn said former Vikings scout Paul Wiggin called him the smartest man in football (Eayrs first worked for the Vikes).