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Matt Waldman’s RSP NFL Lens: Red Zone Play with Brady, Winston, And Stafford
Matt Waldman’s Rookie Scouting Portfolio delves into effective red-zone quarterbacking with clips from Tom Brady, Jameis Winston, and Matthew Stafford. The Red Zone And the Pro Game The Red Zone is a daunting place. Coaches devote a ton of daily practice time to it and yet, consistent production in the red zone can elude an…
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Ruining Quarterbacks 2.0: Zheng He, Admiral James Stavridis, And the Precarious Handling of Young Quarterbacks
Mark Schofield draws upon recent football history as well as U.S. and Chinese military history to define the parameters that are designed to develop quarterbacks but has also led to their detriment. I consider myself a bit of a reader. With the demands of everyday life, however, my time spent reading is less and less…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast No.41: NFC Quarterback Review with Mark Schofield
Mark Schofield joins the show for the first of a two-part conversation about individual quarterback performances during the 2018 NFL season. I love having Mark Schofield on the show and as the NFL regular season comes to a close, it felt like the right time to have him join me for a conversation about individual quarterback…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast Ep.28: September NFL Quarterback Check-In with Mark Schofield
Matt Waldman’s RSP Podcast hosts Mark Schofield for a conversation about NFL quarterbacks a month into the 2018 season. Mark and I riff on several NFL quarterbacks in an hour-long conversation that flies by. Jared Goff’s development within the Rams offense: What’s new, what’s McVay, and what’s always been, Goff? Dak Prescott’s woes in Dallas and is he…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP NFL Lens: The Tyreek Hill Template for 2018 Tarik Cohen
Matt Waldman’s Rookie Scouting Portfolio examines how Bears head coach Matt Nagy could transition Tarik Cohen into a Tyreek Hill role. An excellent NFL weapon, Tyreek Hill was not remotely the caliber of running back that Tarik Cohen was when both were in college. Hill’s transition to the wide receiver position made sense. Cohen lacks Hill’s…
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Matt Waldman’s RSP Cast No. 22 Eric Stoner: Countering the QB Golden Age Narrative
In this RSP Cast, Eric Stoner and Matt Waldman discuss if there is an emerging golden age of NFL quarterbacking. Pro Football Focus appears ready to pronounce this era as an emerging golden age of quarterbacking for the NFL. Eric Stoner remembers 2012, the year Russell Wilson, Robert Griffin, Andrew Luck, and Ryan Tannehill entered…
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Mark Schofield’s RSP NFL Lens: QB Sam Darnold Winning the Cat-And-Mouse Game
RSP writer Mark Schofield takes his Tom and Jerry seriously and Sam Darnold’s display of cat-and-mouse with a defense is a promising sight for Darnold’s development. Growing up, I was not the biggest fan of cartoons or animated shows. But there were two shows that caught my attention, for vastly different reasons. One was “Starblazers,”…
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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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Stop Making Sense: A Post-Super Bowl Conversation with Eric Stoner (BeauxJaxson)
Matt Waldman shares a post-Super Bowl LIII conversation he had with RSP fam-contributor Eric Stoner that, as Stoner often does, brings the goods. The game itself was not entertaining. It was an ode to the fundamentals. While not stimulating, it proved to be refreshing. It was refreshing in the way sobriety is for a bing…
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RSP Boiler Room No.67: Mitch Trubisky (North Carilina), Big-Play Chances
One thing that shows up repeatedly in the UNC QB’s tape is a gap between recognizing a good thing and acting on it. Football is described as a game of inches. The hidden partner in this game of inches are the fractions of a second that span the gap between a recognition and execution. It’s…