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Matt Waldman’s Reads Listens Views (December 14, 2018)
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 Boiler Room No.184: WR Antoine Wesley (Texas Tech) One Play Sets Up Another
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room showcases a pair of plays where 2019 NFL Draft prospect Antoine Wesley, a receiver at Texas Tech, uses one play where he knows he’s not a target to set up a play where he’s the primary option. Keenan Allen is one of the best route runners in football. He’s not…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Episode No. 40: The Role of NFL GMs with Scouting Academy’s Dan Hatman
Scouting Academy Director Dan Hatman returns to Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast for a conversation about the role, hiring, and complexities of being a general manager in the NFL. It’s hiring/firing season in the NFL, which means that roughly 25 percent of the league will be conducting searches for its next general manager. Dan Hatman —…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP NFL Lens: RB Frank Gore’s (Miami) Fundamentals in Space
Matt Waldman’s RSP NFL Lens profiles two plays from the venerable Frank Gore in his December performance against the Patriots. Frank Gore is ending his career as a source of tremendous consternation to Kenyan Drake fans who are tired of seeing Drake breakaway from the field and then go to the bench for drives filled…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room: WR Tyre Brady (Marshall) and Gameness
Matt Waldman’s Rookie Scouting Portfolio showcases the competitive drive of Marshall wide receiver and NFL Draft prospect Tyre Brady. “He has great intangibles.” It’s a phrase that has become a joke among draftniks and generates eye-rolling among hardcore football fans whenever they hear someone like Jim Nantz or Brent Musberger describe a college quarterback or…
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Mark Schofield’s RSP NFL Lens: QB Deshaun Watson (Texans) and the Value of “What He Can Do”
RSP writer Mark Schofield revisits Texans QB Deshaun Watson’s tape to demonstrate why what a player can do is often far more important than what he can’t in this RSP NFL Lens feature. A mistake that is made far too often in the evaluation realm is a hyper-focus on the negative. This is a mistake…
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Pre-Order Matt Waldman’s 2019 RSP Today!
The pre-order period of Matt Waldman’s 2019 Rookie Scouting Portfolio — available for download April 1 — is now underway. “@MattWaldman’s Rookie Scouting Portfolio is unique and important. A must-read every year.” – Doug Farrar, USA Today and Author of The Genius od Desperation: The schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL You’ve Been Waiting For This Day?…
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Players Studied for Matt Waldman’s 2019 Rookie Scouting Portfolio Publication
Matt Waldman’s running list of 2019 NFL Draft prospects who will appear in the April 1 RSP publication. Each year, I like to list the players who will be in the Rookie Scouting Portfolio publication. If any of these players return to school, I will save them for the 2020 publication. The opportunity to pre-order…
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Matt Waldman’s Reads Listens Views (December 7, 2018)
Matt Waldman’s Reads Listens Views is back and devoted to a short list of recommended reads, listens, and views for the week. The image above is from a series of illustrations by Steeven Salvat (see below)… Welcome If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. Every Friday, I post links to pieces that I’ve…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room No.183 WR Hakeem Butler (Iowa St.)
Matt Waldman’s RSP Boiler Room examines the routes and ball tracking of Iowa State receiver Hakeem Butler, a 2019 NFL Draft prospect. My YouTube videos are intended to give you a peek into my process of evaluating draft prospects. These are not end-product takes of players. Watch enough of these Boiler Rooms and Film Rooms…
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