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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Scout Talk with Russ Lande: Running Back Evaluation Mistakes
Matt Waldman’s RSP Scout Talk podcast with Russ Lande begins a series devoted to evaluation misses and lessons learned. This week’s episode on running backs offers a lot of players to choose from. This episode of Scout Talk with Russ Lande is a fantastic conversation about the running backs who we didn’t evaluate well and…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Scout Talk Podcast with Russ Lande: WR Evaluation Misses And Lessons
Matt Waldman’s RSP Scout Talk podcast with Russ Lande begins a series devoted to evaluation misses and lessons learned. This week’s episode on wide receivers offers a lot of players to choose from. This episode of Scout Talk with Russ Lande is a fantastic conversation about the wide receivers who we didn’t evaluate well and…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Scout Talk with Russ Lande: Interim Coaches, Media Scouting, Failure, and Organizational Management
This week’s edition of Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Scout Talk with Russ Lande discusses the value of coaches with varied experience, interim coaches, and advice to aspiring media-football scouts. Why is it important for football leadership to have a variety of experiences under different regimes? Why are desperation and failure vital components for organizational success…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast: Scout Talk with Russ Lande (Coaches, Coordinators, QBs, and WRs)
This week’s edition of Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Scout Talk with Russ Lande debates the merits of Daniel Jones and Carson Wentz, the value of head coaches and offensive coordinators, Lamar Jackson’s current performance, and thoughts on a pair of intriguing wide receiver prospects for the 2021 NFL Draft. If all financials were equal, would…
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Matt Waldman’s Scout Talk with Russ Lande: NFL QB and WR Development Check-Ins
Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast brings back former NFL and current CFL scout Russ Lande for a 2020 season of Scout Talk. This week, they discuss the development trajectories of several NFL quarterbacks and receivers. Russ Lande and I had a blast doing Scout Talk last year and have brought it back once again as a…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast with Russ Lande: Inclusivity and Scouting
Russ Lande and Matt Waldman discuss why the tenets of inclusive thinking are naturally the most effective ways of scouting players in this week’s RSP Scout Talk podcast. Generalizations are dangerous. When applied to the evaluation of football players, generalizations can unnecessarily exclude talented, hard-working, and well-adjusted young men from NFL opportunities that could have…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Scout Talk with Russ Lande: Rookies Who May Need a Second Team, On-Field Intangibles, and Camera Angles
In this episode of the RSP Scout Talk podcast, Matt Waldman and Russ Lande share eight rookies who may need a second team to achieve NFL success, on- and off-field characteristics of mentally and emotionally resilient players, and the value of studying players with the All-22 and the broadcast angle. What do Ben Barch, Denzel…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast–Scout Talk with Russ Lande: The Pandemic and Scouting Football
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Scout Talk with Russ Lande: Evaluation Intricacies
Matt Waldman and former NFL scout and current CFL Scout Russ Lande discuss a small but magnifiable flaw with Jimmy Garoppolo’s game, how they organize their film study sessions, and why a coach talking about a player’s potential to the media requires careful investigation as a scout. Every other week, Calgary Stampeders evaluator Russ Lande—a…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Scout Talk with Russ Lande: NFL-CFL Scouting, All-Star Practices, CeeDee Lamb, and Tua Tagovailoa
In episode seven of Scout Talk, Matt Waldman and Russ Lande discuss the difference between scouting in the CFL and the NFL, why college all-star games must be placed in a proper context that takes years to do, trade thoughts on Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, and Matt delves into the RSP mailbag to answer reader…