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The Audible Thursday Night Live Show 4/16/2014
Todd “Curly” and other Bramel favorites from the Audible Live Podcast. Topics include: The Jene Bramel injury and IDP hour. Jaelen Strong injury update. Victor Cruz update Denzel Perryman update. Combine injury progress reports this week. Adrian Peterson’s conditioning. Edge and LB prospects. Mid- and late-round RB prospects. T.J. Yeldon David Cobb Josh Robinson Malcolm…
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ESPN Football Today Podcast Appearance
I spoke with Matt Williamson and Robert Flores yesterday on a podcast segment: A few thoughts on Bryce Petty. Why Marcus Mariota’s offense makes him a difficult evaluation? Where does Todd Gurley rank among the best backs I’ve studied? My thoughts on Kenny Bell and Tre McBride. How the RSP gives back. Short and sweet.…
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RSP Film Room No.41: WR Devin Smith
Matt Harmon of “Reception Perception” fame returns to the film room. The Footballguys.com and Backyard Banter writer joins me to study a player we both like a lot: Ohio State’s Devin Smith. Session notes: Fluid, integrated processing that Smith, Maxx Williams, and other projected starters display. Why underneath routes are so important to the vertical…
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RSP Film Room No.40: TE Maxx Williams
The RSP Film Room has studied 39 prospects and not a tight end among them. Kyle Crabbs of NDTScouting.com visits the film room to put that streak to an end. We break down Maxx Williams with looks at the Iowa and Missouri games on Draftbreakdown.com. Notes from the Film Room: A player’s “frame” and what we’re…
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Futures: Washington DT Danny Shelton
Shelton comps to Dontari Poe and Haloti Ngata? Waldman explores some of the data and poetry involved and doesn’t see it. By Matt Waldman Scouts have a love-hate relationship with player comparisons. Get them right and your audience gains a true understanding of a particular player. Get them wrong and it’s like playing the wrong…
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The Gold Blooded (49ers) Podcast Appearance
I had the good fortune to join Steven Orosz as a guest on the Gold Blooded podcast a few days ago and discuss a number things: How the RSP rankings and publications work together. My “football” and career back story. The top receivers in this class: Amari Cooper, Kevin White, DeVante Parker, and Dorial Green-Beckham.…
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Boiler Room: ECU QB Shane Carden
One play can say a lot about a player: What he can do, what he can’t, and what might be possible 2-3 seasons from now. Today’s single-play analysis comes from ECU QB Shane Carden’s tape. The mission of the Boiler Room is to illustrate the pivotal areas of a prospect’s game and distill these areas…
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RSP Film Room No.39: QB Chris Bonner, CSU-Pueblo
Jordan Plocher of GM Jr. joins the hangout and we discuss why the top of this QB class should be a quartet rather than a trio. Chris Bonner is Jordan Plocher’s (rhymes with “blocker’) top-rated QB in this class. I get it. I don’t think there’s much separation among my top four–and it should be…
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Footballguys Thursday Live Audible 4.9.15
This week’s Audible Live show was an excellent podcast/hangout. Details inside. or listen to the podcast format. Mariota falling in the draft? Mike Mayock’s ranking change of Mariota three weeks before the draft. Expected and Unexpected Destinations for Todd Gurley. Randy Gregory, Marijuana, and Marijuana Testing. Discussion of Todd Gurley’s prospects. Discussion of Melvin Gordon’s…
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RLV 4/10/2015 + RSP Film Room No.38 w/Sigmund Bloom
Tre McBride RSP Film Room w/Sigmund Bloom, Sweet Home Chicago, Trey Flowers, and Wycheck vs. Lewis RSP Film Room No.38 – Tre McBride w/Sigmund Bloom Apologies to George Kritikos who asked me about McBride in the DLF Q&A, but I politely nixed the question so I could wait to discuss him the first time here.…