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Gut Check No.347: Week 2 Sanity Check
Attention department store employees, sanity check in the re-draft department…sanity check in the re-draft. Welcome to my in-season column. If you’re seeking strategic tips, match-up advice, game observations, IDP info, and dynasty advice with a little bit of current “football” events opinion (if anything involving the madness of the NFL commissioner’s office actually qualifies) added…
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RSP Film Room No.42: QB Coach Will Hewlett on Marcus Mariota
Why should a team adopt an Aaron Rodgers-like timeline to bring along Mariota? Here’s what a QB coach has to say. It’s not every day that I have a quarterback coach tell me that he likes my analysis of passers. This happened 10 months ago when Will Hewlett introduced himself to me. I didn’t know who Hewlett was–and…
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Marcus Mariota: The Task-Oriented QB
Matt’s Note: This is the second part of an analysis Eric performed on Mariota. The first part is how to develop a grading scale for quarterbacks. This post covers notable parts of Mariota’s game from Eric’s tape study. I’m restating this post with the end of the previous one. If it seems familiar, you know why .…
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Futures: The Inner Game & the 2015 Class
I host a weekly show on YouTube called The RSP Film Room. I suppose this is an indirect promo, but that’s not the intent. There’s a larger point to broaching it here. Typically 60 to 80 minutes long, the show is a Google Hangout where two football analysts watch a prospect’s cutups. We comment on…
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Futures: Oregon QB Marcus Mariota
Futures: Oregon QB Marcus Mariota By Matt Waldman The NFL’s private detectives will dig up intel on prospects that sometimes stretches as far back as grade school. Nearly half the teams in the league will hire a consultant touting its military “interviewing” background to assess a player’s ability to lead or be led. And ESPN…