I started this column by picking four teams whose drafts I wanted to critique, just as in the last two posts, but as I began writing, I started to include off-season moves and recent drafts for context, and I began to notice that these organizations all seem to have some systemic problems. I try to […]
Category: Analysis
Manti Te’o: Post-Alabama
Earlier, I broke down a few plays that showed the weaknesses in Manti Te’o’s game before the Alabama game. Today, we look at how similar plays played out against Alabama in the National Championship Game. Here’s the Alabama tape:
Manti Te’o: Overrated Prospect Pre-Alabama
Manti Te’o has drawn much criticism for his imaginary girlfriend and how he handled the entire situation. Many have claimed that Manti dropped on draft boards because of the controversy. But, maybe there’s another explanation: he was never as good as advertised. I watched several videos of Manti Te’o before the Alabama game even occurred, […]
Draft Review: Four More Teams
Today’s draft review looks at Buffalo, Oakland, Tennessee, and Carolina. By sheer coincidence, these writeups are in decreasing order of volume.
Draft Review: Jacksonville Jaguars
OK, I’m going to break a rule of mine with this post, and I’m going to write about my home team, the Jacksonville Jaguars. (This probably won’t be the last time I break it.) With that said, this draft really excited me. I feel a number of teams found some incredible value last weekend, and […]
Draft Prospects on Tape: Alec Ogletree and Tyler Eifert
With the draft just a few hours away, I’ve got some more film review of prospects for our readers to look over. Today we have a couple of guys who have been slowly creeping up the board and are now likely first-round picks.
Mock Draft 2.0, Round 3
Round 1 Part 1 Round 1 Part 2 Round 2
Tape Review: Buffalo LT Cordy Glenn
For this entry in my series, I’ve decided, by request from a reader, to look at Cordy Glenn. He wanted to know if the Bills hit a home run with a left tackle chosen in the second round. Well… why don’t we check it out?
Offseason Review: Kansas City Chiefs
(ed. note: This is cross-posted at Ditka in a Box.) With 2012, the chapter was closed on a Kansas City Chiefs lesson the New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, and Denver Broncos already learned: Hiring someone from Bill Belichick’s crew to run your personnel department results in terrible talent evaluation and decision more often than not […]
Jaguars fans have reason for optimism
Earlier this month, Forbes published a profile of Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, who bought the team last January, and details his approach for making the team both profitable and good at football.
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