Quote:I've never, nor will I ever, called myself a scout. If anything I look at it as a coach, although I don't call myself that either. I played from as early in my life as I can remember until junior year of high school, mostly as a middle linebacker and TE (aka glorified OT since my school threw less than 10 times a game). My osgood schlatters disease got too bad for me to be able to keep up with conditioning (and I wasn't good enough to hope for a scholarship) so I stopped playing my senior year and was fortunate enough to be allowed to sit in with the coaches as they watched and broke down film, observed gameplan construction, etc. After high school I stayed connected and helped out where I could as I guess what would be a quality control coach now even though it didn't have a title and didn't get paid, I was just kinda around doing whatever. After two years of that I the head coach move to a different high school and I gave up the coaching aspirations, because honesty it's an extremely life sucking job and there is like a .001% of ever making more than a meager living at it. 

 

I don't have a set grading scale like a scouts inc or anything. I just watch and compare traits, starting by position to do a rough sketch of how I rank them individually then slowly combining them. I don't even go as far as putting out a firm mock draft or top 100 or anything. Well, I have in the past as a guess writer for a couple blogs, but not anymore because it's jut not worth the amount of work it takes to take that next step. Now I just watch a whole lot of cutups because it's what I really like doing as a hobby and I give pretty educated opinions. I do my best to only focus on what we can realistically observe as far as it comes to gameplay. There are examples where behind the curtain stuff like medicals or interviews can change stock but I don't deal with that since it's just conjecture as far as the public can know.