Russ Lande, former NFL scout and the current head of national scouting for the Montreal Alouettes, joins Matt Waldman for another season of RSP Scout Talk. This week, they discuss processing speed, coach-scout dynamics, and camp hopefuls from the 2022 rookie class.
Russ and I are excited to embark on another year of the RSP Scout Talk podcast series. Here are this week’s conversation topics:
- Testing the processing of information on the field:
- Why it’s gaining value.
- The positions where it is vital and why.
- Examples of prospects with fast and slow processing abilities and the contributing factors that help/hurt processing speed.
- How coaches can make the most of slower processors.
- Where testing for processing may look like in the future.
- Coach-Scout-Team Dynamics:
- Why Dante Scarnecchia’s appearance on the Athletic podcast with Robert Mays unintentionally revealed more about organizational management opportunities for personnel evaluation.
- The range of organizational models that teams have for coach-scout interaction for scouting.
- What Russ valued from his NFL experience with coaching staffs.
- How Bill Walsh’s plan to videotape teaching sessions of veteran position coaches was the seed of his historic coaching tree.
- Why many teams try to be a highfalutin fusion restaurant with a star chef that leaves its fans dissatisfied, hungry, and stopping by joints like Five Guys on the way home — and why the Steelers are that Five Guys franchise. Or, more aptly, Primanti’s.
- Why Chris Olave is the best receiver of this rookie class.
- Why Russ is excited to see offensive packages for Malik Willis.
- 2022 Camp Hopefuls: Late-round/UDFA types that Russ and I are looking forward to hearing about this summer.
Enjoy…we did!
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