Who do you guys have a high opinion on in terms of track record and talent evaluations. What websites or places do you guys read from, and I don’t mean the known analysts like at the athletic, NFL.com or ESPN…
@Thats2 someone like you lol that goes in depth and has good work. I’ll appreciate it fellas
Thanks!
I like Dane Brugler quite a bit, though I know some on here don’t thing too highly of him (cough, @Weaselpuppy cough).
Lance Zierlein can be a pompous ass but he’s generally been a pretty decent evaluator. Charlie Campbell over at walterfootball is an even bigger douche but he’s actually pretty accurate.
Daniel Jeremiah’s has really solid connections to the league so he’s great for ‘what the league thinks’ type of info. But I don’t think he’s the greatest talent evaluator.
I really like Ben Solak of the Ringer. He’s just a baby but man is he smart. Diante Lee at the Athletic is good and I’m really enjoying listening to Chris’s brother Rick Spielman over at CBS too.
Well, my go to traditionally has been me.
Now, I think Brad, Dan, and the team they’ve used the last couple years are pretty sharp, so, I trust them.
The media are basically group speaking a couple of opinions they heard from their favorite scouts.
Good topic. Anyone want to post links to podcasts or videos where evaluators dig into the prospects coming out, that would be great.
I like Greg Cosell quite a bit. I liked Chris Simms’ WR breakdown last year which had Jamo at the top.
My man I appreciate you… no in depth websites you follow? I’m going to check out Rick Spielman
Yeah Greg Cosell is solid! I like him a lot.
I’ve been reading a lot of Rob Staton. He’s a Seahawks guy but his evaluations are solid. Check out his website.
Yeah, Cosell’s great. He generally doesn’t start diving into the prospects until around right now, but he’s just started to talk about the the guys he liked on the Journey to the Draft podcast. I just listened to it this morning.
Give us some of those links haha why whenever I search Cosell podcast it shows me a lot Eagles connections
Mostly I do podcasts and twitter, but there are some great team-centered sites who do in depth evaluations. Steelers Depot is a good one. Bolts from the Blue is a Chargers one that does some great work. Arrowhead Pride for the Chiefs, the Seahawks draft blog you mentioned…
Now I’ll go dig up some links…
It’s an Eagles crew but the focus here is nationally, and the rotating cast of guests who join Fran Duffy are great.
This one is a fantasy football podcast during the season then pivots to the draft after the season ends. You can tell which episodes are draft-centric by the cover art next to it. Funny dudes:
You’re clutch! I appreciate you.
I hope we can post here any interesting analysis of players or more links we find as we get closer to the combine and draft.
I will check all those out rn thanks a lot
For me it’s Zierlein and DJ.
I’ll sometimes search out Jon Ledyard’s commentary. He used to run NDT Scouting, but that went away a few years ago. Kyle Crabbs and Joe Marino from NDT went on to found TheDraftNetwork.
Of course, there’s always tapping into the site that keeps score on the mockers:
You have to appreciate a site that recognizes the teams actual needs and isn’t trying to shoehorn a QB or TE in:
By the way, Cosell and Duffy are top-notch but I usually don’t tune in until we’re in the season and they’re dissecting mutual opponents.
Rick Gosselin was the man at mocks… i think vegas made him stop lol
Yeah he was by far the best mock drafter, but he didn’t do any evaluation. He just had so many good connections in the league who would tell him the truth about prospects, which is why he only put out one mock draft a few days before the actual draft. I remember he was the first to mock Nick Fairley so low and it turned out to be true.
I really enjoy Matt Waldman’s film studies. They’re definitely dry and almost bookish. A couple things I like about him. I think bc he’s not cued into the league as much his takes are more so purely based on his tape study and hence end up being differentiated.
He’s got this geometric heavy approach to the sport. Very much angle, leverage based. I wonder if he’s an engineer by trade or something along those lines.
Yeah I watch him periodically (he’s definitely dry) for his clear knowledge of body positioning, but I think predictively his evaluations don’t tend to pan out. I don’t know, I guess maybe there’s something overly analytical about his approach that causes him to miss other aspects that make a player successful? Grasping at straws here but I don’t think his success rate is all that great. On the flip side he sometimes identifies guys who others miss. If I remember correctly he was very high on Kamara.
I think there is a little bit of smartest guy in the room syndrome. Like he really, really likes Chris Brooks. It’s not like I’ve studied tape on Brooks but between Cal and BYU I’ve probably seen him play a half dozen times. He’s fine I guess. But IMO he’s a JAG through and through.
Such a jag that I’ve never even heard of him…
Everything I know about football is due to Huge and Steven A Smith, along with Bears fans.
Gosselin was money squared though, yeah.