The Rookie Scouting Portfolio (RSP)

Tag: Sigmund Bloom

  • The Sideline View Google Hangout: Zierlein, Bloom, & Waldman

    Lance Zierlein was kind enough to invite Sigmund Bloom and I to a hangout to talk overrated and underrated fantasy prospects. Here’s the 24-minute conversation that starts at the 0:27 mark. Brandon Lloyd…Choo-Choo!!!

  • Reads Listens Views 8/3/2012

    Falcons receiver Julio Jones is a world-class physical talent as a football player. However, until he can make the plays you see in the video above, he’s still playing a “B-game.” Jones is a good player with flashes of excellence and this is the component of his craft to monitor in order to see if…

  • Skill Players to Monitor in August: Reads Listens Views 7/27/2012

    The Template for Modern Quarterbacking Four Skill Players to Monitor In August One of the things we discuss regularly on the Thursday night Audible podcast is the importance of following the reports that the media files on players. These stories provide a brick-by-brick foundation about these players. Although these reports aren’t infallible, learning to filter…

  • Reads Listens Views 7/6/2012

    Happy Birthday Sigmund Bloom If you are a Footballguys subscriber, an Audible listener, Bleacher Report reader, or a frequenter of Twitter, then odds are you know the peripatetic football intellectual that is Sigmund Bloom. Happy birthday to my colleague, football muse, and friend and thank you for what you contribute to this community – substantial…

  • Reads Listens Views 4/13/2012

    For Maximum Effect: Mute the sound on this Cliff Branch highlight and open a second window on your browser and check out my link to the Gap Band’s “You Dropped a Bomb On Me,” later in this post. Thank you The response to the publication of the 2012 Rookie Scouting Portfolio has been great. I…

  • Arkansas WR Greg Childs: Career Resurrection?

    The Career Near-Death Experience. This is one of my favorite Bloomisms of football writing. A Bloomism is what I call the slang that Footballguys and Bleacher Report Draft Analyst Sigmund Bloom (who is also a medalist in some Writer-Olympiad) creates to encompass various football experiences, states of mind, or rights of passage in the sport.…

  • Reads Listens Views 3/9/2012

    John Wooden on true success Ahead at the RSP Blog The 2012 Rookie Scouting Portfolio will be available on April 1 via a link to my shopping cart site. Learn more about the RSP process and content here. Pre-order the 2012 RSP and buy past RSPs (2006-2011) here. Steelers RB Chad Spann and I had…

  • RSP Writers Project Update: Basic Salary Structure

    Author’s Note: We’re at Stage II of our RSP Writers Project, which is creating the basic salary structure to build our teams. Footballguys.com staff writer and Bleacher Report Draft Analyst Sigmund Bloom has created the setup we’ll be using. Then we had Chase Stuart of Footballguys, NY Times Fifth Down Blog, and Smart Football fame…

  • Reads Listens Views 2/10/2012

    Note: I had a late night with family in Atlanta and didn’t get home until 15 minutes ago. This means the additional RyanTannehill analysis won’t be posted today. I’ll have it up this weekend. But if you haven’t seen my analysis of David Wilson, Kendall Wright, and (apparently) one play of Terrance Williams, check them…

  • 2012 RSP Writers Project Update

    This project has generated a lot of positive feedback on the blog. Readers want to build teams with the guidelines we provide you and they have sent me questions to ask you (I have over 100 to choose from). Just to refresh your memory, here’s the basics of the project: The RSP Football Writers Project…