If so....I'd like to hear from you. Its always nice when someone has looked at tapes of players, before they just guzzle from there spout .:rofl: Nothing like an informed view . What players do have you seen that actually play consistently well ? I'm gonna look at a few games. I usually try to tape the bowl games & then re-watch them & checkout the match-ups. Will post later the players that I notice. Would love to hear from you....who you have seen stand-out .
I have evry game o tape and I used to get to watch them more often but w/ a 1 year old running around I don't have that opportunity for now. I guess it was a good thing I ddn't have a chance to watch this season over and over again- it sure wasn't fun back in the mid 90s.
last year I watched every titan game from the past two years to get a feel for Dinger. This year I watched every USC, Memphis and Minnesota game I could get my hands on (which was like two games for Memphis). I have very informed opinions about our late OC as well as Chris Brown and Billy Volek. I have opinions on the four backs and various other prospects on those teams, but the man who stood out most to me on any team at any time was Greg Eslinger. He just never faltered. Setterstrom, too. They were a machine. If you are interested, I can spout from my mouth more.
I have watched tape for sure. I don't watch tape of the jets upcoming opponent or anything, but I do try and watch as much tape on college players and like junc, I have been recording games since 2000...so I watch some
I rewatch Jets games in the offseason when I get the time. I recently watched the Bills vs. the Jets from 1/1/06. I specifically just watched Adrian Jones and O-line play. I think Jones played really well (very nimble, played well in pass blocking as an LT). I think the more playing time he gets (he's a converted TE in his Junior year at Kansas) he's going to be solid. Goodwin was absolutely awful. Got whipped by Sam Adams all game. Bollinger barely survived a couple of Goodwin's screw ups. I know Adams is a very good player, but Goodwin shouldn't have been on the same field. I Tivo'd the Senior Bowl game from January so that I can watch the performance of the players we draft later this month. Mangold, D'Brick, Cutler, D. Williams, Lawson among others played in the game.
18 times here. She's a dirty little whore.:grin: As far as watching tape on guys or teams. If I could I would watch the tape the coaches have access too. All the angles that we don't get going off the tv feed.
What RB standsout the most to you besides Bush ? Setterstrom....what position does he play & from what school.
setterstrom is the guard who played next to Eslinger on the Gophers' line. He's good, but same problem as Eslinger - just way too small. Though I must say that Eslinger is my favorite player in the draft and in the right place could be a pro-bowler for years. He's just that technically sound. As for the RBs, I think Maroney is overrated: that line blew huge holes for him and all he ever really had to do was pick his spot, but he couldn't even do that. There were times where all he had to do was go left to get a TD and he went right. He just seems uninstinctive to me (and very mmuch like Barber, his former teammate). DeAngelo impressed me. He is a complete back, and doesn't need the ball 40 times a game to "get into stride", but he doesn't seem very tough. Yes, he is able to run inside, but he's not the type to lower his head for a few extra yards. He is definitely instinctive, though, he never makes a wrong move and he's always getting what he should get out of a run. Bush is out of this world. ANd Lendale is the biggest enigma to me. He runs like a little guy sometimes, just like Bettis does, but I think that's where they both get in trouble. Yes, great, they have nimble feet, but you need to clear the line before that does you any good. But he also has good instincts. He knws where the holes are even if they aren't where they should be, but I don't know if he'll have as much time in the NFL to just kind of grind away behind an o-line that was ten times bigger than the defense it was going up against. I don't know, nothing too revolutionary here.
Used to be a guy who posted around here named hikeman, who said he would sit in his barcalounger in his basement, taping and rewatching games many times over; then, charting plays and evaluating talent on legal-sized notepads. Of course, he was cuckoo to the point where he'd have nine Jets having Probowl or All-Pro seasons each year, and Dewayne Robertson being tripple-teamed every play. Man, I miss that loopy dude.
I haven't watched the tape in a while (two kids, 1 wife). But I plan to watch it again before the draft. If I remember back, I think DeAngelo looked good among the skill players, Sinorice flashed, and both Croyle and Whitehurst had pretty good games. I'll report back. I really want to study the line play, as I think that's where we'll be spending some of our picks.
I study about 12 hours of game tape a day figuring out our strengths and weaknesses and also figuring out strengths and weaknesses of other teams.
I used to rewatch games obsessively in my youth, but there's crappy angles in most of them and there's only so much you can learn from it versus actual game tape, so I stopped with the futility.
i watch more college football than nfl.. thanks to DVR and Colleg gameplan i tend to see alot of the propects play.. probably watch a few of them more than others.
The truth is, regular game broadcasts are very hard to use in player evals.... especially for linemen. The NFL has non-broadcast cameras that isolate on different things, and don't follow the play. This is something that is done for a lot of Div I schools too. Guys like Mike Mayock have access to those films, as do NFL teams. So, even though I record games and review them, it's not the same thing. Recorded games are an amatuer tool, that an amatuer like me has access to. I'd love to be able to get into the NFL film vaults.... but it aint gonna happen.
