Off The Charts Football Podcast

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) welcomes SIS VP of Product and Engineering Will Hester ( @WHester ) to the show. Matt and Will talk though Will's background (3:07), his time with DraftKings and the rules for employees participating in contests (6:55), his process for success in DFS (12:53), what advice he would give to someone looking to...

On this special throwback edition of the Off The Charts Football Podcast from February 18, 2021, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) and Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) are joined by N. Jeremi Duru ( @NJeremiDuru ), an author and law professor who is an expert on the NFL and its head coach hiring practices as relates to People of Color. The group discusses how the NFL is doing in that regard (2:56), how...

Neil Stratton of Inside The League joins Matt Manocherian of SIS for the sort of conversation that you might hear on the bleachers at the Senior Bowl or after hours at the NFL Combine. 

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) welcomes SIS scout Jordan Edwards ( @babyrhino79 ) to the show to take an in-depth look at NFL offensive line play. Matt and Jordan look at the best (3:07) and worst (24:52) offensive lines from 2021 based on Total Points,  examine some key additions and losses heading into 2022 (41:18), and break down some line...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) takes a look back at the NFL draft through a couple of different lenses. First, Mark welcomes SIS injury expert James Rodriguez ( @JamesRInjuries ) to the show to take a look at the health of some of the top picks in this year's class (0:43). Then, Mark is joined by SIS draft guru Nathan Cooper ( @ncoopdraf...

On this special edition of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) hosts an all-SIS roundtable featuring Stephen Polacheck ( @PolacheckFF ), Alex Vigderman ( @VigManOnCampus ), and John Todd ( @therealjohntodd ) to look at the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft. Some highlights include the Jaguars taking Travon Walker and Devin Lloyd (0:36), Derek Stingley Jr. over Sauce...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) welcome Ryan McCrystal ( @Ryan_McCrystal ) of Sharp Football Analysis to the show to preview the upcoming NFL Draft. The guys discuss Travon Walker as a potential top pick (0:31), how Ryan uses stats to evaluate OL prospects (4:56), which EDGE should go at the top (8:29), Sauce...

On this special episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) welcome Hayden Winks ( @HaydenWinks ) of Fantasy Underdog ( @UnderdogFantasy ) to the show. Hayden discusses the SIS data he uses in his player evaluation (0:55), Drake London vs. Treylon Burks as the top WR in this class (4:30), the curious case of George Pickens (8:47...

On this week’s episode, Matt Manocherian and Stephen Polacheck talk NFL Draft philosophy, both from a broad perspective and with plenty of specifics. Matt addressed the idea behind drafting a QB even if you already had an elite one and where Malik Willis and Kenny Pickett fit best. Matt and Stephen then broke down the rumblings that the Jaguars will select Travon Walker with the first pick, then d...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) interviews a group of SIS employees to officially introduce the SIS NFL Draft Website ( nfldraft.sportsinfosolutions.com ), which is now live! Matt talks stats and articles with R&D team members Alex Vigderman ( @VigManOnCampus ) and Stephen Polacheck ( @PolacheckFF ) (0:49), examines the scouting process wi...

On this special episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) spotlight women in football through conversations with ESPN football writer and analyst Mina Kimes ( @minakimes ) and football researcher Robyn Ritchie ( @RR_SportsStats ) and  Mina discussed the most intriguing NFL stories of the offseason, her opinion on this year&apo...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) introduce the upcoming SIS NFL Draft website, our replacement for the Football Rookie Handbook. The show opens with a brief look at the biggest NFL news from the past week (0:33) before transitioning to an examination of some of the features on the new site (4:36), an early loo...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) are joined by Alex Vigderman ( @vigmanoncampus ) of the SIS R&D team to take a look at the upcoming NFL Draft from a statistical perspective. They look at how our scouting grades match up with eventual player production (0:35), what we can glean about this group of QBs (10:...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) are joined by SIS scouts Ben Hrkach and Jeff Dean to break down four more draft prospects. The show opens with a look at some of the QB movement over the last several days (0:30) before transitioning to the prospects, which include Western Michigan WR Skyy Moore (11:15), Coasta...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) is joined by SIS scouting gurus Nathan Cooper ( @ncoopdraft ) and John Todd ( @therealjohntodd ) to provide some insight into the scouting process our company uses to evaluate draft prospects. The group opens with an overview of the process (1:00) before moving on to how we evaluate specific positions featuring...

On this episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @MarkASimonSays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) are joined by American University law professor and author Jeremi Duru to discuss the state of the NFL as it relates to hiring Black coaches and front office members, and Pro Football Hall of Fame senior advisor Joe Horrigan to detail the history and origin story of the Black a...

On this episode of Off The Charts, Matt Manocherian and Mark Simon take both the long and short view of the Super Bowl. They dig into the most meaningful things to come out of the game and do a super-specific breakdown on how both teams approached the game defensively, how the QBs played, and why going to Cooper Kupp on 4th-and-1 was absolutely the right play (or was it?). Thank you for tuning in...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) and Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) welcome SIS R&D member Alex Vigderman ( @VigManOnCampus ) to the show to preview Super Bowl LVI. The group gives their most important things to watch for (1:13) before looking at the game from both the Bengals (3:27) and Rams (14:54) perspectives and highlightin...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) is joined by fellow SIS members Nathan Cooper ( @ncoopdraft ) and Stephen Polacheck ( @PolacheckFF ) to look back at Championship Weekend and to break down some prospects from the Senior Bowl. The show opens with some quick Super Bowl talk, including the biggest takeaways regarding the Bengals-Rams m...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) and Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) look back at a wild NFL Divisional Round (including some potential new overtime options) (0:18) and preview the two conference championship games: Bengals-Chiefs (5:33) and 49ers-Rams (15:07). Corey March ( @corey_march1 ) also joins the show to give some prop betti...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) and Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) hit on a number of topics including the progression of the Cincinnati Bengals with SIS Research Associate Stephen Polacheck ( @PolacheckFF ) (0:24), season leaders in Pressures Above Expectation (9:20), and a look at the SIS All-Rookie team with John Todd ( @thereal...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) welcomes fellow SIS members Alex Vigderman ( @VigManOnCampus ) and Nathan Cooper ( @ncoopdraft ) to the show to look ahead to the first round of the NFL playoffs. The group begins with a discussion about the non-division winners and their chances in the postseason, assessing the 49ers (0:35), Raiders...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) and Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) welcome fellow SIS member Alex Vigderman ( @VigManOnCampus ) to examine how the top contenders are trending heading into the final week of the NFL season. The group breaks down the status of the Chiefs (1:08), Patriots (5:19), Bengals (9:35), Titans (12:02), Bills (...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) and Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) welcome fellow SIS member John Todd ( @therealjohntodd ) to the show to look at an example of icing the kicker from the Monday Night Football game (based on the discussion from last week) (0:26), discuss NFL playoff storylines heading into Week 17 (2:07), and to int...

On this week's episode of the Off The Charts Football Podcast, Matt Manocherian ( @mattmano ) and Mark Simon ( @markasimonsays ) welcome fellow SIS members Nathan Cooper ( @ncoopdraft ) and John Todd ( @therealjohntodd ) to the show to discuss icing the kicker (0:53) and to introduce the first-team offense for the inaugural College Football All-SIS Team (11:28). Check out the full article on...