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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 Film Room: RBs Donnel Pumphrey & Darren Sproles w/Eric Stoner
Eric Stoner and I study Darren Sproles, but first, we study a player who Emory Hunt says is used like Sproles in terms of system. Donnel Pumphrey is the latest of a long string of players earning direct comparisons to Darren Sproles. The most sensible of these comparisons comes from Emory Hunt, who shared that…
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Big Cat Country’s Keep Choppin’ Wood Pod: Eric Stoner & Matt Waldman
I may not be a Jaguars fan but I am a fan of the Jaguars offense when it comes to fantasy football. Eric Stoner leads a great discussion about Jaguars skill players and we throw Andrew Luck, Derrick Henry, LeGarrette Blount, and several other non-Jaguars into the conversation. Other topics include quarterback evaluation, my developing…
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Every Play Tells a Story: RB Derrick Henry & Forcing the Counter
Eric Stoner’s latest episode of Every Play Tells a Story looks at an Influence Play involving Derrick Henry as football’s version Floyd Mayweather. You’re a boxer. You’re matched up against an extremely aggressive fighter. He’s not a reckless one, either. He has a plan. He’s been taught well. He’s calculated. Most of all, he loves punching. Hard. What are…
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RSP Film Room No.61: LB Myles Jack w/Eric Stoner
RSP Contributor and Twitter fave Eric Stoner returns to the Film Room with a look at UCLA RB Myles Jack Bully Football. It’s the term Eric Stoner uses for physical players who take the action to their opponents. When friend Ryan Riddle saw Myles Jack in the Rose Bowl last month, he commented that he…
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Every Play Tells a Story: The Danger of Logic
Every Play Tells a Story is a new video series by Eric Stoner, where he unpacks interesting and ambiguous plays. Stoner thinks of it as an offspring of the RSP Film Room and a sibling to the new and improved Boiler Room Video Series (Matt’s note: We didn’t know the other was working on short…
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Eric Stoner’s Defense to Defend the Planet
Stoner took a coast-to-coast approach with his defensive roster–with a pit stop near Arthur Bryant’s. Good call? Intro “They told us that they admire our species for our creativity, resilience, and skill to control and/or use emotion to our advantage either by direct or indirect intimidation,” writes Matt Waldman about the RSP Writers Project: The…
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Eric Stoner’s Offense to Defend the Planet
Stoner’s Team to Defend the Planet isn’t a collection of all-time individuals, but a choice of all-time units. Well played… Intro “They told us that they admire our species for our creativity, resilience, and skill to control and/or use emotion to our advantage either by direct or indirect intimidation,” writes Matt Waldman about the RSP…
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Twitch Gang
I. Edge rushers are the easiest position to project in the NFL Draft. The skills required to play the position are easily discernible on tape. Jene Bramel and Andrew Parsons have probably done a better job than anyone at showing what to look for biomechanically from edge rushers on film. Further, the physical ability required…
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Eric Stoner’s Cheesehead TV Podcast Appearance
Stoner joins Aaron Nagler for a “deep dive” on inside linebacker prospects. Download the podcast. Session Notes: The cluster of LBs in the the second and the roles they can fill. Erick Kendricks Stephone Anthony Bernardrick McKinney. Carl Bradford Killing Nagler’s Paul Dawson dreams. Why some freelancing LBs improve in the NFL. QBs Mariota, Winston, Hundley,…