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Matt Waldman’s RSP 2019 Combine Reactions: The TriFocal Football Podcast
Rookie Scouting Portfolio creator Matt Waldman joins John Schepps on the Trifocal Football Podcast to discuss John’s NFL Combine winners and losers and “Matt’s guys” from the 2019 and 2018 classes. On tonight’s episode, Matt Waldman joins John Schepps to dive into some NFL Draft prospects. We start by giving our immediate reaction to the…
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RSP’s Mark Schofield on QB Hand Sizes: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Measurement
Brace yourselves, draftniks, quarterback hand sizes are revealed at the NFL Combine but Mark Schofield is here to help you maintain a healthy perspective. It happens every draft season. There is a day when your timeline on Twitter ventures down a dark and dreary path. It usually takes place late in February, and most of…
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Matt Waldman’s Reads Listens Views (March 1, 2019)
Matt Waldman’s Reads Listens Views is back and devoted to a short list of recommended reads, listens, and views for the week. Welcome If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. Every Friday, I post links to pieces that I’ve found personally compelling or to content I hope will eventually scratch that itch…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Ep.55: The NFL Combine, Character Assessment, and Intelligence Testing
Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast goes in-depth with his unique perspective on the value of the NFL Combine, character assessment, and intelligence testing in an episode that delivers the goods. Before we even get into the topic, I want you to know that this is the best solo podcast I’ve done to date. I’m often asked…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room: QB Nick Fitzgerald (Miss St.), and Winning from the Pocket
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room examines a play from Mississippi State Nick Fitzgerald’s film to explain why winning from the pocket is a vital part of NFL quarterbacking. If you’re a 6’5, 230-pound monster of an athlete who stiff-arms defensive ends to the turf and outruns safeties in the open field, you can be a…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP on the Fantasy Pros Podcast
Matt Waldman joins Mike Tagliere of the Fantasy Pros Podcast for a conversation about the 2019 NFL Combine. Mike and I discussed the Combine drills I value the most as well as players whose performances we’re interested in seeing in Indianapolis. We also talk about what I’d like to see from certain drills and which…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room No.147: QB Tyree Jackson (Buffalo)
Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room delivers an in-depth examination of Buffalo’s Tyree Jackson, the most intriguing quarterback prospects in this 2019 NFL Draft class. Let the qualifying statements fly: The NFL is notoriously impatient, imprudent, and ineffectual with quarterback development… The 2019 quarterback class has talent but the reputation of this crew hasn’t matched recent…
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Mark Schofield’s RSP Mailbag: Quarterback Q&A
Mark Schofield takes your questions about quarterback prospects in this Rookie Scouting Portfolio mailbag. One of the interesting things about my current workload is that I’m flying without an assignment editor. Oh, the work itself gets edited (thankfully) but the assignments are all of my own choosing. Which is great, in a sense, because I…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room No.146: QB Brett Rypien (Boise State)
Matt Waldman’s RSP Film Room examines multiple games of Boise State quarterback Brett Rypien, a 2019 NFL Draft prospect whose game is painfully close to meriting a spot at the top of this position group. Mike Leach is known for his tangents during interviews that can span the validity of specific stats to wedding advice. During…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Ep.53: The Secret Sauce of the RSP
In this week’s RSP Cast, Matt Waldman discusses the secret sauce of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio and uses Kyle Van Noy’s recent anecdote about the Lions’ coaching staff as an example to why it’s often missing in the NFL. Imagine shortly after a company hires you that your boss tells you that you don’t fit the…
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