The Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP)

Month: August 2012

  • RSP Writers Project Team: Jene Bramel, Footballguys.com

    Jene Bramel’s football writing career is filled with three-letter abbreviations: NFL, IDP, PUP, ACL, MCL, and FBG. The Footballguys writer is one of the most well-regarded fantasy analysts for injuries and individual defensive players. The author of the injury blog Second Opinion also contributes to the RSP once in a while. He was also a…

  • RSP Writers Project Team: Joe Goodberry, CincyJungle.com

    Joe Goodberry writes for Cincyjungle.com. A regular of the football Twitterverse, Goodberry is one of the diehard draftniks frequenting social networks during the offseason. His RSP Writers Project Team is quarterback-driven on offense and features a 4-3 defense with two well-known 3-4 outside linebackers as bookends in his front. Stay tuned for Goodberry’s Q&A and…

  • Reads Listens Views 8/17/2012

    It’s fitting that this video tribute to Carl Pickens was set to the song made famous by the movie “Deliverance.” Because when Pickens went to Tennessee his demise made the Titans fans want to SQUEEEEEEE… It’s okay, Carl. You were a terrific receiver. Scavenger Hunt – Win a Free 2012 RSP Somewhere in this blog…

  • Quarterback Development: When Practice Reports Are Useless

      “A lot of times you learn from your mistakes. You know, you gotta make the mistakes to learn from them,” he said. “And you never know how tight a window is until you throw it, and it was too tight. You try to force a ball into certain areas and then you learn from…

  • Boxscore Bottom Dwellers to Watch

    The most prevalent question with the most divergent opinions during preseason football is, of course, How much should pay attention to the games? If you play fantasy football in a dynasty league the answer is quite a bit. The production that these end of the roster players earn shouldn’t be weighted heavily, but watching how…

  • RSP Writers Project Q&A: Zach Bahner, NFL Draft Hub

    Zach Bahner is an analyst at NFL Draft Hub. Bahner is a Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish fan, which is an odd combination when one considers that most Miami Dolphins fans are Miami Hurricanes fans. Bahner’s team has some personnel fresh to this project and I’m intrigued with what he intends…

  • Separating The Dark From The Dark: QB Tyler Wilson, Victim or Perpetrator?

    Prologue: M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School by Phillip Levine I love the phrase “separating the dark from the dark.” It signifies that we never have certainty about anything despite the fact that we often want to manufacture a world filled with absolutes. Life is rarely black and white. Pulitzer Prize…

  • RSP Writers Project: Zach Bahner, NFL Draft Hub

    Zach Bahner is an analyst at NFL Draft Hub. Bahner is a Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish fan, which is an odd combination when one considers that most Miami Dolphins fans are Miami Hurricanes fans. Bahner’s team has some personnel fresh to this project and I’m intrigued with what he intends…

  • Reads Listens Views 8/10/2012

    Views: My First Pair of Dawgs The only tandem of corners on the same team  to attend three consecutive Pro Bowls in NFL history. There’s Still Time to Get The Jump on Impact Rookies And Sleepers Training camp and preseason yields surprises every summer. Who would have thought

  • RSP Writers Project Q&A: Dave Richard, CBS

    Dave Richard works for CBS. His RSP Writers Team can be found here. His Q&A is below. He writes in short sentences. You’ll notice this tendency. Richard is economical. Get used to it. Okay, not really. Richard is a busy guy and we appreciate the effort he made to contribute a team and add to…