Sorry for the delay between posts, my sister just graduated from college and I’ve been busy with a few other things. In an attempt to rekindle interest, I’ll move onto the AFC South which has some of the more interesting off seasons to grade; three rebuilding teams with two of the top 3 draft picks, […]
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Lions Outside Rush: Kyle Van Noy and Larry Webster
The Lions have rebounded from a recent history of failure to field a watchable team over the last several seasons. Heck, they even made the playoffs in 2011. Calvin Johnson is perhaps the most exciting player in the game, and the cupboard of roster talent is certainly not empty. However, a 4-12 2013 meant a […]
Texans Trench Warfare: CJ Fiedorowicz and Louis Nix III
It was a rough season in Houston last year, going from two consecutive playoff appearances to two wins. Long-time coach Gary Kubiak was fired, and a new regime headed by Bill O’Brien was given the reins. In the draft this year they really added some power in the trenches. Plenty of ink has been spilled […]
Hindsight: NFC East Offseason Grades
Lettuce push onwards! Next up, the ultra competitive NFC East.
Hindsight: AFC East Offseason Grades
Now that the draft is behind us, I’d like to revisit each team’s plan of attack in free agency. It may be slightly unfair to praise or knock a team for certain signings, since it’s impossible to know who will be available at given draft slots, but these are the offseason challenges for each franchise; […]
Our Top Undrafted Prospects, and Why They Went Undrafted
When the 256th and final selection of the NFL Draft had been used, 90 of our top 100 prospects had been drafted. When life hands your blog such a set of nice, pleasing round number lemons, you make list lemonade. I’m going to talk about those ten prospects who went undrafted, discuss why we liked […]
Seahawks Building on Strength: Justin Britt and Garrett Scott
The Seahawks won a Super Bowl last season by fielding an elite defense and plowing through defenses with a devastating ground attack. The Seahawks drafted with this philosophy in mind, selecting six players with their nine picks who play at or around the line of scrimmage. I want to take a look at their two […]
Three picks I just didn’t get
I know teams have different needs and schemes, and I know our evaluations are certainly incomplete and based on less information than the teams drafting have, so I don’t want to criticize picks based on things I know nothing about, but a few picks from round three perplexed me. Here are picks where I think […]
Why I think our evaluations differed from the picks
In terms of analyzing the work we’re doing on this site, the third round was for me the most fascinating of the draft. We got picks of players we had graded in the first round; we got picks of players we had as seventh-round selections and later. I started to think about why our analysis […]
Day Two’s Burning Question: What will the Texans do?
I could write a recap or grade round one, but that seems lazy to me. You can see what I thought of round one by reading the live chat we had, and you can see who I thought had a good or poor draft by comparing the picks to the Big Board. Instead, I wanted […]
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