How to Build a Championship Team About 8 months ago, I was sitting at my work computer thinking “why are the Detroit Lions so incredibly bad?” This question led me to two more fundamental questions: “how do the great front office executives draft? Do they draft certain positions at certain times, and how frequently do [...]
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Rivals100 Findings
In the last article, Before They Were NFL Stars, we examined which players from the Rivals100 list ended up being chosen in the first day of the NFL Draft between 2006-2009. Those 68 players became the basis of this analysis. I wanted to know how many of these elite high school athletes become highly sought [...]
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What Is The Ideal? Since the NFL combine is just around the corner, there will be lots of discussion about so-and-so having an ideal attribute of some sort. But wouldn’t it be helpful to know what ideal means? I sure think so…. Today, let’s examine what the ideal defensive end looks like so we have [...]
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