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Tips on how to prepare for the NFL Draft as a fan

Ronny Hurd — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:02:38 +0000

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With only 2 days away from the 2011 NFL Draft you need to start preparing for the whole 3 days of the 2011 NFL Draft. Luckily I am a veteran at preparing for the NFL Draft, so I will give you some tips that will make you have a great NFL Draft experience.

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Jon Gruden’s QB Camp Reaction: Jake Locker

Ronny Hurd — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:50:11 +0000

I had to do it lol. brightandearlyblog.com

To think I just thought Jon Gruden was just another coach, psh was I wrong. Jon Gruden is a very intelligent guy, who is helping out these young quarterbacks to become successful players in the NFL on his show called Jon Gruden’s QB Camp. I did not get to see the whole show, but I did see the whole Jake Locker segment, which happened to be pretty intriguing.

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Scouting report: Titus Young, WR, Boise State

Jesse Bartolis — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:32:29 +0000

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NFLMocks Weekly Podcast!

jdove — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:16:19 +0000

Alright ladies and gentlemen NFLMocks is proud to bring your our first NFL Draft Podcast! The podcast will be brought to you every week so be sure to tune in. … [visit site to read more]

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Scout Notebook 9/8/10 – Completion % vs Accuracy

joshd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:31:18 +0000

Welcome to the first edition of the Scout Notebook! At NFLMocks, we wanted to find a way to discuss in more depth how we analyze prospects. Often times people fall in love with the stat sheet (I blame fantasy football, but its too much fun to not play!) or use it as a crutch to support a player. Stats, however, clearly aren’t the only thing it takes to translate to the NFL. Just check the top ten at of any of the individual NCAA records and see how many NFL stars are there, especially the quarterback records. Quarterback is one of the toughest positions to scout and the process for evaluating them is full of conjecture and misinformed opinions because there is so much bias towards stats. Stats can be used in evaluation, but they still have to be applied correctly. Michael Rosenberg of SI.com recently wrote an article where he thrice tried to correlate stats with projected NFL success:

“Accuracy” Locker completed 58 percent of his passes last year — pretty good, but not special. Yardage? He threw for 2800 last year, 33rd in the FBS. Leadership? Locker has yet to post a winning record.”

All three statements use stats incorrectly to identify qualities in a quarterback. He pits accuracy against completion percentage, pure statistical data to future on field performance, and holds intangible qualities directly effect win/loss records. The worst offense would be linking leadership, an intangible quality, to wins on the field. Leadership can only take talent so far and talent can win without it on the field, but we can save that for another time. Today we are going to start at the beginning of this misguided statement and talk about how Accuracy and Completion Percentage are different.

How many times have you seen the quarterback on your team hit a wide receiver in the numbers only for him to bobble it away? A second in the break of their concentration and they miss an easy catch. How many times have you seen your team’s quarterback over or under throw a target, much to your chagrin? Both actions hurt the quarterbacks completion percentage, but only one is the fault of the quarterback. The completion percentage has outside factors weighing in how its formed including the offensive scheme, the quarterback, the receiver, the defense, and the level of talent each of those factors possess. Accuracy, on the other hand, is all about ball placement. Ball placement though, doesn’t appear on any stat sheet and can only be determined by watching a lot game tape on a quarterback in order to judge consistency. This would be a good point to have a visual demonstration that I could have made used Adobe Photoshop or perhaps with some video equipment that would network my DVR and computer to allow me to edit the games I record (Are you reading this Santa?), but for now we will have to use our imaginations for this next example.

To help illustrate what we are talking about, we are going to use a non-football example. Above is an archery target. Sharpshooters to gun range enthusiasts will tell you that the most accurate shots on the target will be centered on the middle or yellow area of the target and get less accurate as they get away from the center. Imagine if you will, two sharpshooters showing off their targets. Each took ten shots, and each hit the target ten times. Shooter A has 5 shots in the blue zone, 3 in the black, and 2 in the red. Shooter B has 5 shots in the red, 3 in the blue and 2 in the yellow. Both shooters had a 100% completion percentage since all ten shots landed on the target, but Shooter B was much more consistent in hitting toward the center of the target and thus more accurate.

Now going back to football, we can replace the color coded target with the receiver’s jersey. The numbers are now the yellow center and passes are considered less accurate as they move away from the numbers into the extremities of the receiver. This is, of course, a very simplistic view because unlike the stationary archery targets, the receivers are nine times out of ten moving and the ball placement must take the coverage into consideration. For example, lets look at the most exciting, but toughest to complete pass: The Long Ball. Here are three examples that I could find on YouTube of accurate down field passes:

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Mystery Prospect Game: #4

jdove — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:02:22 +0000

Alright NFL Mocks readers we are going to start up a little competition that will be held each Monday morning. We will highlight some attributes and stats of a specific NFL Draft prospect and we will allow you the readers to guess the prospect. … [visit site to read more]

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2011 NFL Draft Positional Rankings: Cornerbacks

jdove — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:58 +0000

Here at NFLMocks we are continuing to preparations for the 2011 NFL Draft. We are flying through our Scouting Reports and have put out our 1^st Mock … [visit site to read more]

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2011 NFL Draft Positional Rankings: Linebackers

jdove — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:00:51 +0000

Here at NFLMocks we are continuing to preparations for the 2011 NFL Draft. We are flying through our Scouting Reports and have put out our 1^st Mock … [visit site to read more]

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NFL Team Needs: AFC North

jdove — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:15:34 +0000

The newest segment for NFLMocks is the NFL Team Needs focus. We are going to bring you division by division team needs and these needs will be updated throughout the offseason and during the actual season. And after the season is said and … [visit site to read more]

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NFL Team Needs: AFC West

jdove — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:46 +0000

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