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Clip Quiz: Cal WR Kenny Lawler
Watch the play involving Cal WR Kenny Lawler and then choose the best explanation for the play. Why is this an incomplete pass? I’ll share my answer on Friday’s Reads Listens Views. Here are the possibilities: The LB jumped the route: The defender read the break of the receiver and acted fast enough to get down hill…
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RSP Boiler Room: The Corner Store
Today’s film room profiles the unnecessary trip to the corner store. Most of us have a favorite corner store in our neighborhood. We go there for gas, cigarettes, junk food, energy drinks, beer, lottery tickets, you name it. Nothing there is really good for us, but we can’t resist the temptation. In football the “corner…
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The Chicken or the Gravy: A Player Evaluation Parable
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RSP Roundtable: On the Nature of Talent w/Dan Hatman, Kyle Crabbs & Sigmund Bloom
What is talent? How does it develop? Is there such thing as ‘natural talent’? How does it apply to football? Scouting Academy Founder Dan Hatman, Footballguys co-owner Sigmund Bloom, and NDTScouting’s Kyle Crabbs join me for an excellent discussion on the topic that’s the root issue of player evaluation. You have no idea how happy…
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Ross Tucker Sirius Show/Podcast: Picks I Didn’t Like
Yep, another fun appearance on the Ross Tucker show. Glad to know you and Ross enjoyed the first two. Ross Tucker had me on his Sirius Morning Kickoff a week after the draft to discuss landing spots I didn’t like: Thoughts on Dante Fowler (a player I wasn’t happy with the original landing spot). Thoughts…
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RSP Roundtable Podcast: Alan Dandar and Dan Hatman
Get a whole new perspective on scouting and NFL decision-making and listen to this show before the draft tonight. The NFL Draft begins today and rather than talking about prospects, I spoke with two experienced NFL football operations and personnel people about scouting, management, and strategy of building a team. This is easily one of…
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DLF Podcast Appearance
I talk shop with Karl Safchick and Jarrett Behar on the latest DLF Podcast: Winston-Mariota Dorial Green-Beckham Ameer Abdullah Late round RB prospects Enjoy! For analysis of skill players in this year’s draft class, get the 2015 Rookie Scouting Portfolio – available now. Better yet, if you’re a fantasy owner the Post-Draft Add-on comes with the 2012…
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Sports Underground Podcast Appearance
Kent Kletscher and I talk Vikings draft and RSP in this episode of the Sports Underground: Kevin White and Dorial Green-Beckham Todd Gurley or Melvin Gordon for Minnesota? Mid-round options at RB. The origins of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio. Jameis Winston or Marcus Mariota? The quarterback development paradigm of the NFL and why it fails.…
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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,…
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RSP Film Room No.23: Leonard Williams (Best Player We’ve seen this year (so far…))
I just cut two RSP Film Room sessions with Ryan Riddle and they couldn’t be more different. The first features Shawn Oakman, a 6-7 defensive end with a freakish body, whose game is physically, technically, and conceptually raw. Let’s skip that film room session, I’ll profile it later. The second prospect from this twin bill…