Trench Warfare

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit trenchwarfare.substack.com In addition to the deep dive on the O-line class that Duke and I put together for you here, my first batch of scouting reports from this class were released today over at Bleacher Report as part of our updated top 100 big board . There were 19 total OL in the top 100 with nine blockers inside the top 30. Repor...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit trenchwarfare.substack.com Geoff Schwartz and Duke Manyweather join Brandon Thorn to draft their O-line units for the next three seasons. The considerations are simple: Age & contract of the player + performance. They each provide background and rationale behind each selection while incorporating bigger picture topics all centered aroun...

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Brandon shares his notes, observations and key takeaways from the 6th annual OL Masterminds summit. He recaps the Legends panel featuring Andrew Whitworth, Steve Hutchinson, Will Shields, Bruce Matthews, Robbie Tobeck, Damien Woody and Richie Incognito before sharing insight from Lane Johnson, Terron Armstead and more current players. Lastly, he shares stories from dinners, exclusive video and mor...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit trenchwarfare.substack.com OL Masterminds founder Duke Manyweather and NFL.com's Lance Zierlein join the show to break down our favorite day 3 OL prospects in the 2023 NFL Draft. What does a successful day 3 pick along the OL typically look like? How do you determine what position a guy can/can't play? And what is Duke's 'secret sauce'...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit trenchwarfare.substack.com Duke and I discuss the most impressive offensive line units in the NFL, which lines are surprising us and letting us down the most and break down many of the players within those groups. We also draw on some metrics such as pass attempts, sacks taken, QB time to throw, play-action percentage and more to help p...

Each year that we get together for OL Masterminds, I think back to the inaugural event in 2018 when we had 27 total people show up to the state of the art Baylor Scott and White Sports Therapy and Research Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. We first met in a classroom on the second floor of the facility. Duke Manyweather and I set up chairs and did early morning coffee runs prior to everyone sho...

With the NFL Draft set to kick off in just over a week, I asked The Athletic’s Dane Brugler , one of the premier draft analysts in the business and someone I regularly discuss prospects with, to join me on a podcast. As Dane said in the opening of this podcast, this sort of conversation is one we’ve had almost daily on various prospects and evaluation methods, so it was mostly us peeling back the...