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Reads Listens Views 2/28/2014
This Week’s RLV: Why the RSP shows its work, Chase Stuart’s Combine MVP, and one funky spider. Listens What is Reads Listens Views? If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. Every Friday, I post links to content I’m saving for later reading when I have time. You may not like everything…
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The QB to Defend The Planet (You Pick)
I posed this fantastical question to Ryan Riddle and Sigmund Bloom the other day. If an alien race came to earth and challenged us to a game of football to keep the planet, who would be your starting quarterback? I have my answer, but I want to hear yours. I don’t care how you imagine…
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Reads Listens Views 2/21/2014
This Week’s RLV: 2-hr couch session on rookie QBs, Lil’ Darlin’, David Fales Developmental Gem?, 2 Muggs and my ugly mug. Listens – Speaking of Infernos . . . Michael Brecker may look more like a Philadelphia-area accountant than a musician, but if you ever heard the Saturday Night Live Band from the 70s or…
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Embracing The Craft of Player Evaluation
Player evaluation is an imperfect endeavor. Understanding one’s limitations is a huge step towards getting better at it. The most compelling thing about the NFL Draft is that no matter how hard it tries, it cannot escape its humanity. It’s this human element that makes player evaluation – and evaluating what good evaluation is –…
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RSP Rorschach No.3: Cornell QB Jeff Mathews
Thrown too early or thrown too late? See below. Some plays are like Rorschach inkblots because there’s no definitive answer to why they unfold the way they do. This new series examines plays that have more than one viable explanation and may be too difficult to draw a single conclusion. The fun part is that…
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Funny Thing Happened at the Senior Bowl . . .
Only I didn’t get the full extent of the punchline until this evening. Media Night at the Senior Bowl is a loosely organized event. Imagine four long life rafts filled with sailors in a sea filled with twice as many sharks. In case you’re not too swift on the uptake this evening, the sharks aren’t…
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Futures: Senior Bowl Preview
Another year, another Senior Bowl. What I am looking for, and what does the format of the Senior Bowl help me see? Futures: Senior Bowl Preview by Matt Waldman There will be hundreds of Senior Bowl Previews available within the next seven days. Most of them will explain why the game is important to the…
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“One Good Year” And Other Asinine Thoughts on QB Evaluation
One good year. It’s a cautionary refrain from the chorus of skeptics not sold on Central Florida junior Blake Bortles as a top-flight quarterback prospect (see my evaluation of Bortles vs. South Carolina). In the wee hours of the morning in a video-lit room evaluating quarterbacks, this three-word phrase will strike the fear in the…
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Reads Listens Views 1/10/2014
This Week’s RLV: A jive turkey worth eating, appreciating Klook, a spec at sea, Cyrille Aimee, and tree houses. Listens Views – Unbelievable Tree Houses For more, including an invisible tree house, check out Higher Learning Welcome If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. Every Friday, I post links to things I’m…
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Boiler Room: Penn State WR Allen Robinson
Most believe Allen Robinson is a good prospect, so why show a positive play in the Boiler Room? The Boiler Room Series is my attempt to capture the state of an NFL prospect’s development into a single play. This is an impossible task, but what if you have a limited number of plays to state…