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Co-Creator: Bootleg Football | Senior Draft Analyst: @2ndCityGridiron | @BearsOverBeers | Game film is my drug of choice.
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So… brace yourself. A QB just came in for UTSA because they’re getting blown out by Tennessee. Led UTSA right down the field and gave them their first score.
It’s Josh McCown’s son. 😳
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Trading Khalil Mack is not about making the Bears better in the short term.
It's about amassing assets, clearing big money off the books as quickly as possible, and shifting money from the defense to the offense to load up around Justin Fields in the future.
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So... I invented a new stat. We always talk about how important support for a QB is, but I couldn't find a stat that showed what I wanted to, so I made one. And then... I had to make another one. So yeah, I made 2 stats. Here's a video (and a thread) on why, how, and who helped:
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3-what now? 😳
Not many 340-pounders can run like this. Kenneth Grant (78) can move.
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Some news: For the first time in a very long time, when I woke up this morning I didn't have a boss. The last time that happened it was because I didn't know what I wanted to do. This time, it’s because I know exactly what I’m gonna do.
Ball is indeed life for the next stretch.
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It kilks me that people think Ryan Pace is gone if Trubisky bombs.
Huh?
Look at the way this team, with significant injuries on both sides of the ball, has dominated today.
Then look back at the team he inherited.
Pace stays. He’s been masterful.
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This is what kills me: The CHI leadership saw this from Matt LaFleur for the past 2 years and still thought: “Ya know what I think our best counter against that is? Running back another year of Matt Eberflus.”
Suffice it to say we see that differently.
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Sometimes I think about how my 10-year-ago self would react if he stumbled on to social feeds today:
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Growing up Syracuse was the closest D1 university to me. I’ve always followed the Orange and I love RB’s... so not yelling about Tucker for the past couple of years has been difficult.
This year, I’ll probably let it all out. 🤩
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Kinda wild. Took a video today that a million people viewed. 🤷🏻♂️
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I tried to call an Uber, but Google Translate screwed it up and I got... a Kollmann?
Seems fine. Only weird thing is the app says I have to pay him in BPM - Beers Per Mile. Meh. We’ll figure it out.
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I deeply appreciate Derek Carr's son working hard on getting the Raider squint down, even without an eyepatch.
A+ for effort.
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The Shaheen trade is like finding a bunch of lint in the back of your couch... and having your neighbor offer you $5 for it.
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Bootleg listener
@m_zhou15
found us at SoFi and came over to say hi. Her first NFL regular season game!
She listened to every offseason preview episode we put out this summer (all 40!) on her drives to work. Really cool to get to meet her.
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"I wanna be a draft analyst" Cool.
-5:30 wake-up
-Coffee
-90 min. film review top HBCU players
-Breakfast in the car
-4 hours standing in the near-freezing rain watching practice
-Lunch (sandwiches)
-Haul gear, set up, research & conduct prospects interviews (3 hours) cont'd.
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Just over 3 years ago,
@BrettKollmann
and I decided it might be fun to build a place for us to talk ball, so Bootleg Football was born. We just passed 30k subscribers on YouTube. The amount of support all of you have shown us & keep showing us is incredible. We're deeply grateful
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To all the Bears fans saying it's Bijan or bust... it's really not. Starting NFL RB draft round:
R. Mostert: UDFA
R. Stevenson: R4
N. Chubb: R2
D. Pierce: R4
I. Pacheco: R7
A. Ekeler: UDFA
B. Robinson: R3
A. Jones: R5
T Allgeier: R5
D. Foreman: R3
R. White: R3
J. Conner: R3
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Austin Reed and Caleb trained together this offseason in Florida.
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I hear there is a giant ketchup bottle looking for a new home...
* ducks and runs *
Report: Bengals trying to sell naming rights to Paul Brown Stadium.
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Anybody who has ever spent any time elbow-deep in a Porsche transmission tunnel taking apart the shifter linkage will see this and nod knowingly. German engineers man: making cool, complicated shit since forever.
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What the hell do you want him to say? “This organization hung me out to dry and wasted a year of my career.”? Because that is 100% what happened.
Garrett Wilson: “I don’t know what to tell y’all. I don’t know what to tell the fans. I’m out of words. I’m out.”
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This comet tail plot shows QBS (marked by the QB pictures) and their EPA/play mark (the sharp point). Long tail pointed right = outperformed their support. Short tail either way = performed fairly equal to support. Long tail pointed left = underperformed relative to their support
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I know there will be a lot of questions about how we pulled this together; what numbers we used, and why we used them. This chart that
@arjunmenon100
created shows summary data for all of the 2023 regular season. The final column (OVERALL COMPOSITE SCORE) = QBS
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We've had a lot of "firsts" with Bootleg this year, but this one feels worth noting: our first video ever over 100k views. 💪🏽🎥↗️
Damn. The support y'all send our way is amazing. Can't thank you enough.
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This will never not be amazing (from the 2013 Alabama football roster):
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Y’all ever get on an amusement park ride that just got cooler and cooler and kept getting faster the whole time?
Yeah, this is kinda like that.
#BootlegFootball
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Honestly feels like I’m dreaming before I sleep: Caleb & Rome are Bears.
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I was today years old when I learned that topped off doesn't just mean “filled up” anymore. 🤷🏻♂️
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I… I… holy shit. 😳 Unreal. Keenan is an amazing route runner and will be tremendous for a young QB.
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If Ryan Poles comes out of today with Tretter and Armstead...
Chicago should throw a damn parade. Jus' sayin'.
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This is soooo dirty. Put out the bad/damaging stuff when it matters most (without checking it/contesting it); and then almost a year later, when that player is rocking it at a historically great level, you say “Sike, it didn't really matter anyway. Haha.” GTFO.
Remember the S2 cognition test?
Its creators now tell the Wall Street Journal that C.J. Stroud’s poor result was “potentially invalid” and should never have been leaked.
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Rolling through my day doing about a million random tasks and this pops up. Definitely made me sit back for a second and think about the ground we've covered.
Left with a deep sense of gratitude for everybody who has pitched in, followed along, or just cheered us on. Thank you.
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We need a title. Go!
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Packing to head to Caleb's pro day and I wanted to say "Thank You". Not because we hit some subscriber goal or got a new sponsor, but because I get to do this... and that's because of all of you. It's a wild gig, but I deeply appreciate the opportunity to do it.
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So if you took me back in time and told me that a delicious BBQ lunch, drinking a couple of beers, and talking football would eventually turn into... 2 MILLION lifetime channel views (within the first 3 years) - I would've laughed at you. But here we are:
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One day, I’ll tweet this about the Bears.
One day.
Honestly cannot remember the last time the Texans were this fun to watch man lol
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If Shane Waldron can develop a QB and build a consistent scoring offense, he’ll achieve hero status in Chicago.
CHI’s defense was comfortably a Top-10 unit by the end of the season. Paired with a consistent scoring offense the Bears could be strong contenders for a turnaround.
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Craziest thing that always gets me about this throw: he looked at it for second.
He took 2 steps and then let it go... and still beats the runner by 3 steps. The definition of a frozen rope. Absolutely unreal arm talent.
Bo Jackson literally had an assault rifle attached to his body 🔥
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Nothing like being on the
#ShrineBowl
practice field, surrounded by NFL coaches, scouts, and agents, for the moment Tom Brady retired. Everybody was head-down in their phone all at once.
Completely surreal feeling.
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This is Ken. Ken has been to 454 straight Bills games. Home and away.
I’m just gonna let that marinate for a minute.
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We announced the Bootleg Podcast draft season guest list this morning and it's
#Elite
:
-Brandon Thorn
-Emory Hunt
-Matt Harmon
-Matt Bowen
-JT O'Sullivan
-Jordan Reid
-Mina Kimes
-Daniel Jeremiah
So ridiculously excited to bring you these episodes.
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Now maybe folks will take the talk of picking a QB at
#1
seriously. Sad day, as when Justin was drafted I believed he would be the answer at QB... but it did not happen. I hope he thrives under Tomlin and absolutely crushes it; he's got the talent to. New start for both sides.
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Some days are bad.
Some days are good.
Some days are better than that.
...and some days (a very few indeed) the tape fairy brings you 2 terabytes of all-22 college football game film.
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Say it with me folks: “Progression isn't linear.”
Mac Jones had the best rookie completion percentage of all time (basically), went 10-7 with a pretty bad supporting cast, and then devolved into the worst QB in the NFL
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.
@minakimes
was the first guest we ever put on our bucket list... before we even agreed to start the pod!
She has a standing invitation: any time, anywhere. 💪🏽
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@Johnny_Barks
Dude is a machine. Just still rolling through on no sleep, with no voice, and you’d never know.
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If we plot out the QBS offensive composite score for each QB on one axis, and use their EPA/play data on the other, we get a quadrant graph that starts to show us their efficiency in relation to the amount of support they received from their offense:
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Apparently, Shane Waldron wants his RB room topped off. 🤷🏻♂️
Bears, RB D’Andre Swift agree on a three-year, $24 million deal. (via
@MikeGarafolo
+
@rapsheet
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OK, officials are completely off the rails here. Herbert gets blasted well past the boundary and they call the Chargers for retaliating? Get that shit out of here.
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I think if Justin Fields slides, and it comes down to NE and CHI trading up to get him, the NFL should declare it a tie and award Fields to the franchise that has never had a 3900 yd. passer in a season...
for competitive balance reasons. That’s fair, right? 😎
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I’ll be focusing on Bootleg and growing the business development side to further support what we want to create there.
@bearsoverbeers
will continue on as well, and there will inevitably be new projects that spring to life.
It’s really cool to be drawing this map as we go.
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I just had a wild theoretical (but not impossible) thought: The Superbowl is in SoFi this year...
What if turns out to be Chargers vs. Rams? 😱
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I'll do a full summary of Bootleg draft weekend coverage later, but Folks... you made it a THING this year:
- 4 livestreams (Wed. Q&A, Days 1,2,3)
- 20.5 total hours
- 35.3k chat messages(!)
- 93.9k views as of this morning
Yeah, I'm tired, but I couldn't be happier. ❤️is full.
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Brandin Cooks is easily one of the most underappreciated highly productive players in the league.
Just out there making it happen year after year.
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Looking through the CHI roster over coffee today and remembering Poles & his staff have been quietly stacking lottery tickets:
-CB Michael Ojemudia: former Hawkeye was an R3 pick for the Broncos, tall (6'), good length
(contd)
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This NFL Draft season on Bootleg is all gas, no brakes. Could not be more excited to announce our podcast guest list this year; certified Grade A:
-Jordan Reid, ESPN
-Matt Bowen, ESPN
-Emory Hunt, Everywhere!
-JT O'Sullivan,
@theqbschool
-Brandon Thorn, OL Analyst/Guru
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I will never understand the Bears' insistence in last year's center-rich NFL Draft, that they did not need a center. It floored me then just as much as it does now.
You never know when the snap is going to be high and over your head.
Justin Fields just has to take off after Cody Whitehair's snap.
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Just a reminder: Do cool shit that you love with your friends. No matter what.
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The NFL loves parity, but parity can lead to purgatory: not good enough to win it all, not bad enough for top draft picks. So what’s a team to do?
Have no fear, Bootleg is here to help guide the ‘mid’ teams to the promised land… or at least closer.
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OK,crowdsourcing this one so you can all mull it over during the weekend. We need a better name than “skill position” for offensive players who regularly touch the football. Everything we’ve tried on the podcast (ball handlers, etc.) make my inner 12 y.o. giggle reflexively. 🤷🏻♂️
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* slow clap * for Brandon Aiyuk. I am definitely stealing this:
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To the “I could gain 5 yards in the NFL!” crowd: look at Jeffery Simmons's freaking arm man. 👀
Y’all are going NOWHERE.
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Tanner Conner (WR, Idaho St.). Remember the name. He's basically unfair. 6'3", 230 pounds and runs like a deer. Has track background & loves the weight room. Watch him get into and out of his beak in this drill (last guy). All the guys before him are smaller/lighter.
@ShrineBowl
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This Bears offense is just not it... and it's not close either. So much is broken, disjointed, and just plain off. It's not like they are a few tweaks away from a powerful offensive performance.
Big shake-ups have to take place and it has to be now.
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Having watched the Seahawks for a very long time, there are 2 distinct eras of NFL football in Seattle: Pre-Pete Carroll and Post-Pete Carroll. Before Pete, the Hawks a had bunch of teams that thought they had a shot, if things went right. Pete changed that. (cont'd.)
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Look what you did
@BrettKollmann
🤣
The NFL plans to crack down on illegal tackle alignment starting this week, following the debacle in Week 1 with
#Chiefs
RT Jawaan Taylor, per
@MattVerderame
. This was highlighted on the weekly training tape, which is sent to all 32 clubs and officials.
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If Xavier Worthy lands with a small-armed QB in the NFL, I’ll know the universe hates me and wants me to suffer. 😢
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Not an Onion headline.
I had to double-check.
Update:
#Giants
QB Daniel Jones wants more than New York has offered him. Possibly as much as $45 million per year, or more. A source tells Mike Florio.
Jones has recently switched agents, from CAA to Athletes First.
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-record 2 podcasts
-breakdown & haul gear back to the car
-grab Del Taco & scarf on the way back to the rental house
-edit pods to submit for tomorrow morning
-research tomorrow's interview slate
-answer tweets
-brush teeth
-rinse, lather, repeat
...and love every minute of it
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Bootleg Football recently turned 3, but we were a little too busy to properly celebrate. However, you all still got us a super-nice gift: 3 million lifetime views.
I continue to be blown away by the support y'all send our way. Can't do it without you & would not want to. 😎🤘🏽
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Justin Fields speed is just easy: it allows him to glide around with confidence knowing full well he can mash the accelerator and escape if he needs to.
His speed isn’t an add-on to his game, it’s a foundation off which everything is built.
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Ooops, somebody got Bootleg field passes at the Cowboys game. 😎
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Do me a favor: look at Aaron Donald pushing Tannehill out of bounds last night.
Then look at any one of about 7 hits on Justin Fields tonight. Compare and contrast.
Don't tell me there aren't two sets of calls for vet starter QB's and rookies/subs. You'd be lying to my face.
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Get him to Chicago... now.
He's worth it.
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Ohhhkay then. Was pretty damn high on CAR anyway... this is just more gas on that fire. Going to be a dangerous team.
Four-time Pro-Bowl LB Justin Houston reached agreement on a one-year deal with the Carolina Panthers, per source.
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OK, wild tangent time: I saw
@BengalYouTube
do an NFL realignment thread last week and then I saw this map today and thought "How would I do it?" It was a fun thought exercise.
So if I was given a clean slate & told to shake things up here's how I would realign the NFL divisions
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This is the thing with Fields: he CAN do it. He does it a few times a game; just unleashes high-level QB ability.
CHI has to find a way to get his average processing/time to release down on most plays. If they can, stuff like this will be highlights on top of a solid base
Justin Fields will drop a snap, trip over his linemen and take an unnecessary sack and I'll start shaking my head and wondering am I out of touch?
Then he rips a throw like this and I remember no, it's the children who are wrong.
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This should concern you deeply.
It is fundamentally un-American for a sitting political leader to ignore the results of an election.
"The president has always said he'll see what happens and make a determination in the aftermath" -- Trump will not leave office willingly. They're not even trying to hide it at this point.
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Should be obvious, but this is horseshit, irresponsible, and extremely hazardous to young brains that aren't done forming yet.
You want the game to end? This is the fastest way to do it.
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Every once in a while you have one of those days where you accomplish something you've been aiming towards for a very long time. Today is that day. I got to talk about football (& dogs!) with
@minakimes
... and it was awesome.
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Uh-oh: Aiyuk TD. That small amount of seismic activity you just detected? That came from
@BrettKollmann
‘s house.
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I’m gonna turn this one off and take a break.
Focusing my positive energy for Hamlin right now.
Take care of your mental state. Do what you need to do.
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Watching the safety market turn into the running back market right in front of our eyes.
Bills are releasing All-Pro safety Jordan Poyer, per source.
Free-agent safety market grows.
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Again… no flag for a big hit on a sliding Justin Fields.
Again. It’s automatic at this point.
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Morning is going to break… roughly for Mr. Kollmann.
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