Best Season Impact - By Position Which Season Represents Peak Performance? By Joe Landers - @Jlanders0 My best athletic years are behind me. My most productive professional years are hopefully ahead of me. Every career, position, job type, and endeavor has its own chronological arc of success. All pro football fans have heard the adage about … [Read more...]
Best Season Impact – Defensive Tackles
By Joe Landers Click Here if you missed the Introduction to the Series Defensive Tackles Intuitively, it seems as though Defensive Tackle would be one of the nuanced and tougher positions to excel at in the NFL. Counter-intuitively, the most common peak season among Defensive Tackles is Year 2. Year 4 is very close to Year 2 with a small dip in … [Read more...]
The Physiology behind the NFL Combine – DL & LB
TFE contributor Casan Scott looks at the physiology behind the NFL Combine, analyzing position by position to give us a better understanding of exactly what the numbers really mean coming out of INDY each and every year. If you missed the introduction to this ongoing series, here's a quick link that will catch you up to speed - Click … [Read more...]
Look under every rock – Defining the Patriots hybrid defensive front
The Football Educator is continually amazed by the sophistication of NFL fans and their self-motivated curiosity to understand the various nuances of the game of professional football. There are a number of various websites that you can go to that have BIG NETWORK LETTERS in front of their "dot-com" address, with many writing for these sites or … [Read more...]
Sports Scouting defense budgets – “Buy more Tanks!”
Alabama’s Marcell Dareus with the third pick in the first round in 2011. Ndamukong Suh second overall, followed by Gerald McCoy with the third selection in 2010. Boston College’s B.J. Raji at number nine in 2009, preceded by Glenn Dorsey of LSU at pick five and Sedrick Ellis two players later at number seven (2008). NFL teams are starting to get … [Read more...]