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ShareThisP-F-R teams up with Move the Sticks
Daniel Jeremiah is a former Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns scout who provides insight into the mind of scouting community for the casual fan. He started appearing on a weekly segment this past season on the Footballguys podcast The Audible. I've enjoyed listening to him there and started following him on twitter (@movethesticks; remember, you can also follow P-F-R @pfref).
Daniel started his own podcast a couple of weeks ago, breaking down the sorts of things scouts look for when analyzing draft prospects. We exchanged e-mails and P-F-R will be providing Move the Sticks with historical analysis and statistics related to the NFL draft over the next couple of months. Here's a link to today's draft study on defensive players; I'll have a similar one for offensive players coming up in the next couple of days. P-F-R will, of course, be providing some draft analysis on our blog as well, but we're not scouts or mock draft experts. I'd recommend checking out movethesticks.com and draftguys.com if you want some in-depth analysis on nearly all of the prospects for the 2010 draft.
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Sounds great! I'd be particularly interested in the QB position and how scouts evaluate such players in games and also at the combine in drills. There are so many variables to look at and distill into a meaningful projection at the pro level. And it is the most important position in football with the biggest risks for making an incorrect decision. I look forward to this as the combine approaches.
You can check out all of the MTS podcasts here, Patrick W. But here is the introductory one for QBs.
I'd particularly love to know what my team's scouts look for in players that leads them to draft guys like Ted Ginn and Pat White. Or basically any player from the past decade or so, 95% of whom turned out to be worthless
The link to their blog post is broked.
Incidentally, I really like the fact that you're not scouts or mock-draft experts. You provide something much harder to find. Rather than picking an arbitrary position based on gut feelings and then accumulating impressive sounding stats to support it, you work the problem the other way -- a detailed examination of stats leading to a more reasonable conclusion.
Thanks Mattie.... Daniel and I are going to talk over the weekend about how to better present the information now that I sent him the offensive data as well. He's currently at the combine and tweeting away if you are interested in those results.
Off topic- I woke up yesterday, and the first thing I thought of was the Trivia Blitz Podcasts you do. Do you guys do them anymore?
While the link is broken, I'm very excited about this as I've enjoyed Jeremiah's podcast work so far. Now if only we could get one of my favorite podcasts - the P-F-R one - back...
And I agree, the Trivia Blotzes were great. I recently listened to all of them again and I truly miss them.