Very excited for the first time Josh Allen launches his helmet after Moore quits on a route.
05.03.2026 17:14 — 👍 94 🔁 2 💬 8 📌 1Very excited for the first time Josh Allen launches his helmet after Moore quits on a route.
05.03.2026 17:14 — 👍 94 🔁 2 💬 8 📌 1Treydan Stukes: Welcome to Kansas City!
04.03.2026 16:55 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gotta go for it with the Stafford timeline. Don't love pick-heavy trades for a corner, but this is a good deal for the Rams with the ammunition they still have
04.03.2026 16:53 — 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 0
Anthony Hill is one of the most interesting prospects in this class. A difficult evaluation. Full scouting report here
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Top 101 free agents is out. some fun ones ...
Malik Willis at No. 1
Alec Pierce: 5
Otton-Pitts-Likely: 18-20
Kwity Paye: 32
Coby Bryant: 38
Joey Bosa: 54
Kenneth Gainwell: 65
Montaric Brown: 68
Cam Jordan: 83
Jadeveon Clowney: 101
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One of my favorite players in this class is Keyshaun Elliott. Not as flashy as other linebackers in this year’s group, but he projects as a starter. Currently 300-odd on the consensus board, but he is a smart, physical, run and chase player with some blitzing-upside open.substack.com/pub/readopti...
23.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
big week on NFL Daily. hit 32 teams with @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social and @patrickclaybon.bsky.social and constructed my Top 101 free agents with @ollieconnolly.bsky.social
Final list comes out Monday. In the meantime ...
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Far and away my favorite football podcast; and their draft stuff is next level. If not already subscribing, now is a great time to change that!
16.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Caleb Downs is The One. www.readoptional.com/p/2026-nfl-d...
16.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Scouting report on Arvell Reese -- my highest graded off-ball linebacker since Luke Kuechly (don't force him to edge!), and the second-highest grade at the position in 14 years www.readoptional.com/p/2026-nfl-d...
12.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And here is the hub for all my scouting reports, podcasts, columns, draft boards etc. for this cycle readoptional.com/p/2026-nfl-d...
First pod with Jon is free for everyone to try. The scouting series is for TRO subscribers. $7 a month for as in-depth evaluations as you will find
It's draft season! @ledyardnfldraft.bsky.social and I kicked off our scouting series with this year's group of top linebackers. It's the most popular thing we do on the pod, trying, as best we can, to give you the feel of being inside a draft room. Give it a try www.readoptional.com/p/2026-nfl-d...
12.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1There were no easy or obvious answers for Josh McDaniels, particularly once Maye's head was scrambled. But *that* is what they spent two weeks planning for? They tried to go strength-on-strength, got stomped and failed to pivot
09.02.2026 12:16 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those two strategies + the sims, some nasty ass rotations, overload fronts to isolate Campbell and Wilson, ballers at every level, Witherspoon playing out of his mind, the Pats offense had no shot
09.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The late-down pressures were basic, but masterfully deployed. When they didn't send a zone-pressure, the Pats o-line and Maye were spinning. The theory and a breakdown of both strategies here www.readoptional.com/p/the-league...
09.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Staples for Macdonald, but pushed to the max on Sunday. The Pats could find no answers. Lone-plugger on early downs was a smart choice: invited the run through formation and then spiked it; quick, internal penetration exposed gap runs or forced RBs to bounce where the second-level could rally
09.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Seahawks spent the night spiking the B-Gap on early downs with Devon Witherspoon and Drake Thomas. Created a five-man front at the snap rather than setting up in it. Then hit the same nickel overload pressure over and over again, including for the late pick-six
09.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 58 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 1
Only four quarterbacks have come back to win a Super Bowl after losing their first SB start — and only one in the modern era (Hurts).
The greatest lie a team tells itself is that there is always next year. Plenty broke right for the Pats this year. It will be tough to return
Josh Allen always knew.
09.02.2026 03:30 — 👍 56 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Shoutout to Aden Durde, the first British coach to win a championship.
And shutout to Leslie Frazier, who was thrown under the mother of all buses in Buffalo. Now, he's a two-time champion coach.
A defensive play-caller guiding a team to a championship post-Belichick. I am levitating. I need several cigarettes.
Thank you Macdonald, Aranda, Fangio, Flores and Rex.
The Seahawks riding the refined vision of Rex Ryan's defense all the way to a championship -- and betting on his preferred blitz paths to get them over the line. My heart is filled.
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Give Devon Witherspoon the MVP, you cowards. Dominant defensive display. Give it to the most impactful defender
09.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 101 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1The same pressure path has beaten the Patriots all night. The line is poor, but the protection plan has been awful -- and so few adjustments.
09.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 2Patriots finally find some rhythm on offense and Maye makes a brutal decision. Tried to chase back a shitty game with one throw
09.02.2026 02:49 — 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1Maye is completely frazzled. Staring down the rush even when he has time.
09.02.2026 02:12 — 👍 48 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 1Needs to be a lot more Henderson for the Patriots. Stevenson is more reliable, but Henderson can turn a flash of daylight into a score. They're not going to drive the field on this group. Now would also be a good time for McDaniels to pull out his favored trick play
09.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Now 10 quick pressures. TEN! One drive into the 2H. And he still hasn't been dropped.
09.02.2026 01:53 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Darnold has been pressured on 42% of his snaps. The Patriots have NINE quick pressures -- and Darnold has been able to avoid any sacks. Standing in under pressure, making enough throws, creating with his legs. That (plus Walker) is the difference
09.02.2026 01:52 — 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Must be very tough for the people who pretended to watch Kid Rock to hold their fingers right now
09.02.2026 01:42 — 👍 65 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0