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Futures: Dorial Green-Beckham
Futures: Oklahoma WR Dorial Green-Beckham By Matt Waldman In the end, we’re going to overcomplicate the simple, and they’re likely to oversimplify what’s complicated. “We” are the media and fans, “they” are the NFL, and wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham embodies both “simple” and “complicated.” The ridiculously talented football player with a hyphenated last name (which…
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Reads Listens Views 11/14/2014
Only Nails, The $9 Billion Woman, Joe Farrel, Brophy Football, and Denzel Perryman. What is Reads Listens Views? If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. I post links on Fridays to content I’m saving for later consumption or pieces that I found compelling. You may not like everything listed here, but you’re bound…
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RSP Film Room: Miami LB Denzel Perryman
Starring Perryman and Bleacher Report’s Ryan Riddle; co-starring LB Thurston Armbrister (No.34), and featuring RB Ameer Abdullah as “the scene stealer.” In his return appearance to the RSP Film Room, Ryan Riddle joins me to watch the University of Miami middle linebacker, whose game engendered more questions than answers. Perryman, a short, stout defender at…
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RSP Sample: WR Randall Cobb
There was talk that Cobb should be turned into a scat back, but I saw a potential 10-year starter at receiver. Here’s pre-draft evaluation. Randall Cobb was my No.3 receiver in the 2011 draft class of options that included the likes of A.J. Green, Julio Jones, Torrey Smith, Leonard Hankerson, Titus Young, and Jonathan Baldwin.…
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Reads Listens Views 11/7/2014
Prince and Tom Petty, Eric Galko and Kevin White, Bill James and Emory Hunt, and 100 greatest guitarists. What is Reads Listens Views? If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. I post links on Fridays to content I’m saving for later consumption or pieces that I found compelling. You may not like everything listed here,…
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RSP Film Room No.11: WR Kevin White
Optimum Scouting’s Eric Galko drops by to grind tape of Kevin White, a high-rising senior receiver in more ways than one. Eric Galko joins me in the RSP Film Room to watch West Virginia wide receiver Kevin White. Galko and I spend an hour sharing a variety of important points about wide receiver play as…
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Futures at Football Outsiders: FSU TE Nick O’Leary
Need a player who will do the dirty work to keep your quarterback looking and playing clean like Heath Miller does for Roethlisberger? Nick O’Leary is your man. A pervasive theme of this year’s Futures is the profiling of football players who transcend the typical boundaries of their position. Hines Ward comes to mind as…
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RSP Film Room No.10: South Carolina OT Corey Robinson
Walter Football’s Charlie Campbell drops by the RSP Film Room to break down Corey Robinson’s Missouri tape. Robinson is a 6’8″, 348-pound mammoth of a lineman. Does he have the athleticism to hang in the NFL at tackle or guard? Campbell and I explore that topic and more. Does Robinson have the athleticism to hang…
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