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Or F-Back or 'move tight end'... whatever you want to call it. With Develin retired and two young TEs who both seem capable in such a role, we seem to be moving back to it. Despite the death of the fullback, it surprises me that there hasn't been a renaissance of the H-Back in the NFL. Why is...

Share your unpopular opinions about draft prospects.... I'll start. Max Scharping is a Pro Bowl offensive lineman.

There's a recent rule suggestion that, to be honest, makes a lot of sense to me. They want to offer a 4th down conversation situation instead of an onside kick. One addition to this rule makes it valid (I hate it otherwise), and another addition makes it awesome. First, we completely replace...

I was just looking up the Redskins defense of the '00s because I wanted to see if Sean Taylor and Champ Bailey ever played together (they didn't... Bailey left in '03 and Taylor arrived for the next season). That defense was pretty sick though. Lavar Arrington, Jessie Armstead, Jeremiah Trotter...

Obviously not a big need, but the team is laden with draft picks, and Michel has been an amazing addition but leaves plenty of injury concerns. I was just looking at a few guys for fun. The one that really jumped out at me is Alexander Mattison from Boise St. Super explosive and runs hard. He...

I just want to give props to Bill and the team for picking Michel in the first. I didn't think it was a good pick at the time. Why waste that value on a guy with bad knees at a position that is notoriously easy to find diamonds in the rough for. Well, Edelman won the MVP, but you could make a...

I just did defense, so it would be apt to do offense too. I found this exercise much harder, as there are more options for an offense to pick from (formation, play type, play subtype, etc). I looked at: personnel grouping frequency shotgun/undercenter rate pass/run rate shotgun pass/run...

I just spent a little time with a couple sources for 2017 team stats (PFF and Football Outsiders) that gave me some team tendencies. We tend to categorize defenses fairly crudely, either solely by base defense formation, by generic terms like 'one-gap 3-4' vs 'two-gap 3-4' or something, or by...

Who do you guys like as the top young QBs in the league? For me, this is not purely a metric question. A guy is stuck in his situation, for better or worse. I'm basically judging players simply by how much I'd want them on my team. The Overrated Josh Allen looks like the biggest bust since...

As much as I love football, I regularly take a break between the draft and the start of the next regular season. Somewhere after the start of training camp, I slowly start to tune in again and try to catch up on what I missed. Some years, this is more daunting than others. I was going through...

With the 2018 draft in the books and not an early round QB selected, I'm left to wonder... Who will be the QB of the future? Is Danny Etling a sleeper that we plucked late in the draft, who ends up being a great starter in 3 years? (Not that you could say that right now...). What are our best...

I was spurred by these articles: Reggie Bush, Todd Gurley among best RB prospects I've scouted Gil Brandt's greatest NFL running backs of all time to ask myself, "who is my 'best' running back of all time?" The way I answer such a question is, in many ways, something like the prototype that I...

As I was recapping some thoughts on the latest NFL draft, I started delving in a bit further into the philosophies of the teams. I've been researching football organizations for the past several hours, which is to say every non-player personnel: coaches, executives, directors, analysts, scouts...

Huge fan of the Patriots from afar. Really, I'm a huge Belichick fan. If he became the Jaguars coach tomorrow, I'd move my allegiances. I grew up playing football and analyzing it from a player/coach perspective, not a fantasy football or regional rivalry or reality TV perspective. I just like...