Eagles Hire Daniel Jeremiah (1 Viewer)

[Don Quixote]

Good while it lasted...

Eagles hire scout/blogger/podcaster Daniel Jeremiah

Scout.com's Adam Caplan noticed on the Philadelphia Eagles website that NFL scout and one of the more informative NFL bloggers and podcasters around, Daniel Jeremiah was listed as a college area scout. According to Caplan, Jeremiah was hired to replace a scout that had left for Cleveland.

Jeremiah is a noteworthy hire simply for the mini fame he gained as blogger and podcaster. He started the incredibly useful "Move the Sticks" podcast in which the former scout talked about everything a scout looks for in prospects at all positions. He also told some great stories about the combine, player visits, pro days... really everything that a pro scout does. He was also an active twitterer with over 18,000 followers. You'll notice that he curiously stopped tweeting on May 7th. Soon enough based mostly on his internet work, he was appearing on ESPN shows as an expert.

Back before the draft I told everyone they should be listening to his podcast and highlighted a story he told about King Dunlap having the worst physique he'd seen at the combine.

Jeremiah was formerly a scout for the Ravens and Browns, so his link to the Eagles was probably Phil Savage. I just find it interesting that we actually know quite a bit about a guy who holds a typically anonymous position in the organization.

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[identikit]

DJ was a great resource on twitter, movethesticks and Ask5 on the podcast menu...

Best wishes to him on his new endeavor....

 

[Don Quixote]

His Twitter account and web site both now appear to be gone.

 

[Pickle Rody]

Bloom or Lammey have any inside info they want to share.....?? I'd be interested in anything they might be able to add.....

 

[Andrew Garda]

Had the pleasure to interview him on my show a few months ago - great guy on and off the air. Glad he's back in 'the show'.

 

[wildbill]

I always enjoyed his visits to the Audible. I hope he can come back some time.

 

[GroveDiesel]

That's awesome for him, but sucks for all of us. Frankly, he was the number 1 reason I even have a Twitter account. Loved his appearances on The Audible as well. I wish he had been picked up by ESPN, SI, FOXSPORTS or NFLN. Or maybe he's just doing what he really loves. I'll certainly miss his insights and info.

Reading Daniel Jeremiah was like reading Football Outsiders only with actual experience and professional knowledge added in.

 

[Dave Larkin]

Really enjoyed DJ's podcasts and thoughts about prospects leading up to the draft. I hope he prospers in his new career.

 

[anakin]

Really enjoyed DJ's podcasts and thoughts about prospects leading up to the draft. I hope he prospers in his new career.

He will be missed!

 

[Pickle Rody]

Could this be a helluva coup for the Eagles scouting department?

The Eagles drafts have been fairly strong under the Lurie/Banner/Reid tenure. Well maybe not from everyone's perspective, but at least from mine. I think this hiring makes the Eagles scouting department even better.....now it's just got to prove itself in the next few drafts.

 

[maxwelledison]

That's awesome for him, but sucks for all of us. Frankly, he was the number 1 reason I even have a Twitter account. Loved his appearances on The Audible as well. I wish he had been picked up by ESPN, SI, FOXSPORTS or NFLN. Or maybe he's just doing what he really loves. I'll certainly miss his insights and info. Reading Daniel Jeremiah was like reading Football Outsiders only with actual experience and professional knowledge added in.

 

[GroveDiesel]

Could this be a helluva coup for the Eagles scouting department?The Eagles drafts have been fairly strong under the Lurie/Banner/Reid tenure. Well maybe not from everyone's perspective, but at least from mine. I think this hiring makes the Eagles scouting department even better.....now it's just got to prove itself in the next few drafts.

Well, I love the guy, but at the same time, let's be honest about his career so far as a scout. He's already been let go by more than one team in the past. That doesn't necessarily mean that he's not a good scout, but if he was THAT good, would he really have been without a team last year? That's not to bash Daniel at all, but I think what made him special to all of us that love football is that he is an excellent communicator that was willing to talk nuts and bolts of football with fans without dumbing it down. The Lions brought in a guy widely considered one of the top analysts in football to be their GM and he proceeded to run the organization into the ground. I happen to believe that Daniel Jeremiah DOES know his stuff and will probably be a nice addition to their organization, but I'm not sure that it's some giant coup that they got him or something that will suddenly make the Eagles some unstoppable drafting force.

 

[David Dodds]

I loved him on our podcasts. Obviously we wish him the very best and lasting success within the Eagles franchise. And he is welcome back anytime he wants to talk football with us on the Audible.

 

[Jason Wood]

Could this be a helluva coup for the Eagles scouting department?The Eagles drafts have been fairly strong under the Lurie/Banner/Reid tenure. Well maybe not from everyone's perspective, but at least from mine. I think this hiring makes the Eagles scouting department even better.....now it's just got to prove itself in the next few drafts.

To be honest, I think it's more of a hell of a coup for Daniel. Daniel managed to leverage his social graph (Twitter, podcasting, blog) to get re-hired as a professional scout by an organization that has a reputation for being among the best run. THAT is impressive, and lesson of what a little initiative can do for someone looking to make their mark in a competitive field.

 

[Andrew Garda]

Could this be a helluva coup for the Eagles scouting department?The Eagles drafts have been fairly strong under the Lurie/Banner/Reid tenure. Well maybe not from everyone's perspective, but at least from mine. I think this hiring makes the Eagles scouting department even better.....now it's just got to prove itself in the next few drafts.

To be honest, I think it's more of a hell of a coup for Daniel. Daniel managed to leverage his social graph (Twitter, podcasting, blog) to get re-hired as a professional scout by an organization that has a reputation for being among the best run. THAT is impressive, and lesson of what a little initiative can do for someone looking to make their mark in a competitive field.

If you taek anything away from this, take that. This goes for any area of interest/career. You'd be surprised what crushing it in social networking and just your branding can do.DJ killed it last year - and really to do what he did in the time he did it is amazing. Often it takes far more time/patience.

 

[Sigmund Bloom]

Could this be a helluva coup for the Eagles scouting department?The Eagles drafts have been fairly strong under the Lurie/Banner/Reid tenure. Well maybe not from everyone's perspective, but at least from mine. I think this hiring makes the Eagles scouting department even better.....now it's just got to prove itself in the next few drafts.

To be honest, I think it's more of a hell of a coup for Daniel. Daniel managed to leverage his social graph (Twitter, podcasting, blog) to get re-hired as a professional scout by an organization that has a reputation for being among the best run. THAT is impressive, and lesson of what a little initiative can do for someone looking to make their mark in a competitive field.

If you taek anything away from this, take that. This goes for any area of interest/career. You'd be surprised what crushing it in social networking and just your branding can do.DJ killed it last year - and really to do what he did in the time he did it is amazing. Often it takes far more time/patience.

Well it helps that DJ was a scout for 6 years and former college QB. Social networking might have put him back on the radar a bit, but his rep was built over a long period, not just last year. Teams don't really care about scouts media savvy, if anything, they don't want their scouts talking to anybody on or off the record about football, hence DJ's presence online has just evaporated.

 

[Andrew Garda]

Could this be a helluva coup for the Eagles scouting department?The Eagles drafts have been fairly strong under the Lurie/Banner/Reid tenure. Well maybe not from everyone's perspective, but at least from mine. I think this hiring makes the Eagles scouting department even better.....now it's just got to prove itself in the next few drafts.

To be honest, I think it's more of a hell of a coup for Daniel. Daniel managed to leverage his social graph (Twitter, podcasting, blog) to get re-hired as a professional scout by an organization that has a reputation for being among the best run. THAT is impressive, and lesson of what a little initiative can do for someone looking to make their mark in a competitive field.

If you taek anything away from this, take that. This goes for any area of interest/career. You'd be surprised what crushing it in social networking and just your branding can do.DJ killed it last year - and really to do what he did in the time he did it is amazing. Often it takes far more time/patience.

Well it helps that DJ was a scout for 6 years and former college QB. Social networking might have put him back on the radar a bit, but his rep was built over a long period, not just last year. Teams don't really care about scouts media savvy, if anything, they don't want their scouts talking to anybody on or off the record about football, hence DJ's presence online has just evaporated.

Sure that definitely helped. If he were just some guy, nobody's coming calling or nobody is LIKELY to come calling. I don't think I was talking about being media savvy so much as putting yourself out there in a commanding and interesting manner. That's part of branding IMO. DJ may have gotten back out scouting anyway. But getting his takes and thoughts out there like he did gave teams a resume to look at before they even met him. But point taken - it's not like he sprung whole from the ether.Also I was really talking more broadly - just that while his situation was specific to him, much can be done aggressively putting good work out there.

 

[identikit]

I'd say DJ's social networking work helped get him the gigs @ ESPN, which surely helped him remain on the radar in his field.

Also pretty sure his 6+ years' worth of connections with people already working for teams had something to do with it.

 

[Andrew Garda]

I'd say DJ's social networking work helped get him the gigs @ ESPN, which surely helped him remain on the radar in his field.Also pretty sure his 6+ years' worth of connections with people already working for teams had something to do with it.

OF course. there's no magic bullet. Not in any industry. For every piece of dumb luck, right place, right time, right project there are hundreds or thousands of people grinding it out, collecting biz cards, networking on and offline, chatting up people, putting out good work.It's no one thing. It's NEVER just one thing.

 

[Brady Marino]

He's baaaaaaaack!!

https://twitter.com/#!/MoveTheSticks

https://www.facebook.com/MoveTheSticks

 

[GroveDiesel]

Glad to see him back on Twitter.

 

[Don Quixote]