2015 RSP, A Magpie & His Adopted Family, RSP Film Room No.36: Jene Bramel/Bud Dupree, Joan Jett & Nirvana, and other fun oddites .

Listens: Joan Jett & Nirvana

The Return of Reads Listens Views?

If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome.  Until last December, I used Fridays to post links to pieces that I’ve found personally compelling or to content I haven’t read yet. I moved last spring and I had a lot adjustments to make, including finding an adequate way to build and maintain a growing library of college game games. I had to drop something from my schedule and it mean Reads Listens Views was the first to go.

Now that the 2015 Rookie Scouting Portfolio is available for download and Eric Stoner is contributing content to the blog, I’ll take RLV out of mothballs. It may not be a weekly post like it was, but it will be back in some capacity.

You may not like everything listed here, but you’re bound to like something.

Listens – Recommended Podcasts From Vox.com

26 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To

Download the 2015 Rookie Scouting Portfolio + Post-Draft Update!

Friday’s are also my chance to thank you for reading my work, encourage you to follow the RSP blog, and download the Rookie Scouting Portfolio publication.

 If you’re in a dynasty league, the combination of the 2015 RSP and the RSP Post-Draft will have you prepared for this year and beyond.

Here’s just a sample of what my readers–new and old–are saying about the 2015 RSP.  (Get ready for “Squee!” “Dammnits” and Jaws Dropping)

Take a video tour of the 2015 pre-draft to see what I mean:

Seriously, this analysis is worth the price of the 2015 RSP package alone, but you also get the post-draft addendum with your purchase of the RSP. Remember 10 percent of each sale is donated to Darkness to Light to prevent sexual abuse in communities across the United States. While that alone should get you to download the RSP package, do it because you will be blown away with the detail and insight of the analysis and content. It’s why the RSP has grown so much in the past 10 years.

Download the 2015 RSP and RSP Post-Draft here

RSP Film Room No.36 – Alvin “Bud” Dupree w/Jene Bramel

For a complete list of RSP Film Room episodes, check out this page. Future guests include Football Gameplan’s Emory Hunt, Sigmund Bloom, Kyle Crabbs, and Jordan Plocher.

In Case You Missed It/Coming Soon

• Eric Stoner: Marcus Mariota Evaluation (Coming Monday) – This is a good one, folks.
• Futures: Winston, Hundley, Mariota, and Footwork.
• Fantasy Feast Podcast: I joined Ross Tucker & Evan Silva for a 30-minute segment on polarizing prospects.
• RSP Film Room No.37: Emory Hunt (Player TBA tomorrow)
• Thursday Night Footballguys Live Show of The Audible with Cecil Lammey, Sigmund Bloom, Jene Bramel, and me.

Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens

Reads/Views (Football)

• Reception Perception: Devin Smith and the Value of a Trump Card
• Are Teams Overvaluing Pure Straight-Line Speed?
• Reception Perception: Dwayne Bowe and What He Brings to Cleveland
• Sherman’s Filibuster on Student-Athletes Sparks Controversial Discussion on “Free Education
• Darnell Dockett: The NFL’s Dirty Laundry
• Have You Been to Draft Breakdown Lately? Videos, Articles, Mocks, Podcasts. Check Them Out! 

Views – Derby the Dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics

 

Reads (Life In General)

• 10 Quotes From A Sioux Indian Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About “Modern” Culture
• Age Of Happiness: These 60-And-Older Seniors Will Destroy Your Age Stereotypes
• Cats Can See Things Invisible To Us
• Hugh Howey: My Advice to Aspiring Authors
• American Denial: Why so many Americans still deny racism exists when the evidence is everywhere
• Dean Smith: Goodbye to One of the Good Guys
• Precious Memories of Dean Smith
• Kurt Vonnegut And the Shapes of Stories
• From Touchdowns To Takeoff: Engineer-Athlete Soared To Space
• A Videogame That Teaches You to Write Poetry, Even If It Intimidates You
• Forget Porn, Here’s Where Men Should Should Actually Be Getting Their Sex Tips

Listens – Now for Something Completely Different . . .

If you didn’t like Joan Jett from above, you’ll surely scratch your head about this treatment below, but if you imagine you never heard the original when listening to this version below, you might see how good lyrics and melody can transcend the arrangement.

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