*J Love report will be out later today.
== 2026 Scouting Report Change ==
The Year of Change for FFM includes a new style of full scouting report presentation. The Jeremiah Love report is my first of the year and will be my first attempt at a new format/flow. I will tinker with the first several full scouting reports trying to find my favorite new style/presentation...it will be an evolving thing. I have had the same general flow/order to my full scouting reports for probably a decade now. It was time for a change. Changing it up some will be a work in progress.
What’s changing:
1) I am going to add a Gemini A.I. abbreviated (but more expanded than last year) scouting report version at the end of the report. Last year, I was doing smaller Grok summaries. Why am I doing/adding either A.I.’s?
I want to show you what the WORLD thinks about a prospect as well. Most football analyst’s scouting reports/thoughts on top prospects are in 99% agreement with each other...only separated by who adds the most acronym metrics or YouTube clips of the coolest looking plays to add to the report visual. So, all the A.I. does is go out and gather dozens (hundreds?) of scouting reports and scouting commentaries done or said on a prospect and forms a consensus scouting opinion from it and spits it out in seconds for me/the world. It’s the most Hivemind thing there is on what I’ve always accused the football world of being -- a Hivemind, a lockstep Groupthink. With A.I., we have access to the entire Hivemind groupthink in 30 seconds.
I think it is important to not only scout the player, from my perspective and study...but it is important to know what the rest of the world thinks...BECAUSE we (FFMers) are all essentially playing AGAINST the public. Kinda like the stock market. There are buyers and sellers on each side of a stock. We are drafting or investing in (or avoiding) these players for Dynasty/Fantasy, or trading for them, or trading them away, or betting on their season-long props, or investing in their rookie cards in the sports card market. I wanna know what THEY (the public) think. I gotta know how they value a thing to try to predict what they are gonna do with said prospect. THEY (the public) are even more predictable through A.I. and we are the unpredictable variable raging against the machine, in a lot of cases.
2) On the new format attempts on my full scouting reports, I’m going to (try to) jump right into what I think about the player scouting-wise. I am going to try to avoid wasting time with too long an intro or setup.
I used to try create literary masterpieces with each report, and I still will to a degree when warranted...but I am gonna try to get more into what I think is important right away. I’m doing all the same research behind the scenes that I have always done (with some new changes for 2026), but I don’t think I have to do a Pulitzer Prize documentary report or deviate too far off the road about the State of the Union/Football. I’m gonna try to convey the best of my notes and chop away some of what might have been ‘filler’ on prior formats/reports that might have been a good idea (or not) in the past, but then it just became a grandfathered-in part of the scouting reports without much thought.
However, the Jeremiyah Love report is so important to several ripple effects of Dynasty, Fantasy, betting, etc., that there’s a lot of deviation and extras in that one.
3) I’m going to put the full recent season game logs on each report. I think there is some value in seeing a player’s season, progression, noticing where they might have beat up on the weak and struggled against the strong, and so-on. I’m gonna let Gemini produce it and I’ll just put it on the report.
I know you can just go see it for yourself on a web search, but I’m going to include it on the new reports to see how it feels/helps…or not.
4) And on some of the scouting reports, I plan to add FFM scout Ross Jacobs’s take on some of the high-level players...to compare our notes. Whether we discuss in a chat/text (and I’ll put that chat on the report) or do a video Q&A with him or he just pens a critique of my scouting report. I like Ross doing his work on a prospect, then we come together and debate what we saw. Sometimes it sends me back to the drawing board, and that’s a good thing.
In the end, I’m trying to be the ’most right’ and ‘the fastest to being right’. Being early and spot-on is worth its weight in gold. BUT, where I think we (FFM) are different than any football analysis out there...we keep scouting, we keep challenging our ideas when new info comes in. I want to be ‘right’ first, but if not...I need to be ‘adjusted quickly to being right’.
I don’t get the value of the mainstream’s scouting ‘belief system’ -- where they conduct their scouting study, publish their report, then move on to the next prospect report...and their January or whenever opinion now is their reality for forever. Things change. I watch more and more tape of college games every day all offseason, so do our other scouts and analysts, so I might be studying a defensive player in March from (example) Texas Tech, but I see something I didn’t catch before on an offensive player/his opponent that I fully reported out on two+ months prior. I’ll note it and re-scout the player if needed. My first scouting report does not have to be THE END. I hope it is, but they are fluid...it’s a journey of discovery. The NFL Combine can change things. Then watching them in training camp and the preseason can change things on the rookies.
My 2026 report flows are changing...and they are a work in progress to find a new, lovely presentation. Some things remain the same as the past decade, other things cut out, and some new things added.
Let’s see how it goes.
Hope you enjoy the first attempt with the Jeremiyah Love report...of many to come.
