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2006 Ottawa Renegades Scouting Department
Friday March 24, 2006
Ottawa Renegade 2006 Free Agent Try Outs, a Long Term Success Story in the Making.
The list is impressive. It starts on the East Coast, stops in Jacksonville and Miami Florida and then jumps to Texas; Houston and Dallas, from there its Western US try outs in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. And all this is in December 2005 as our competition is in the process of closing up team offices and shutting down for the holidays. Head Coach John Jenkins never sleeps, and neither do his coast to coast team of super-scouts.
Fast forward to March 2006, Coach John Jenkins has logged far too many miles to count and the schedule incredible as it reads like a rolling stones concert tour with talent camps taking place again in Houston and Dallas Texas, Jacksonville and Miami Florida, Mobile Alabama, Hattiesburg Mississippi, Atlanta Georgia, Memphis Tennessee, Denver Colorado, Los Angeles California, Wilmington North Carolina and Washington D.C. all of which have been logged to date March 21st.
More venues of potential talent and workouts that most teams put on in a season and currently more than all eight other CFL franchises combined. This scouting machine is staffed with veteran scouts brought together by John Jenkins and coming off a banner year of production in twenty-eight National Football League training camps which compiled over one thousand player report files that have been called cutting edge scouting material. This is the foundation of the new Ottawa Renegades player personnel department and files to be set up in house by new Director of Football Development Coach Richard Wade and Vice President General Manager Forrest Gregg. The triumvirate of Gregg, Jenkins and Wade, have slowly overhauled the Renegades Negotiation List with additions like Santonio Beard, Alabama, Frank Strong Southern California, Roderick Warren Minnesota, Charles Howard Florida State and Canary Knight Alabama. Young players from storied NCAA programs loaded with outstanding individual talent, desire and the drive to impact the Ottawa Renegades franchise in the future if not immediately. Both Charles Howard and Canary Knight have been signed and added to the Renegades 2006 roster.
Gregg’s expertise has been invaluable to the program both, in revitalizing contacts within the National Football League, and with top player representatives across the United States. Forrest Gregg has been in a system that was built through player development in his days with the Green Bay Packers under Vince Lombardi and played that skill when building his own Championship team while coaching in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengal’s. An endeavor that culminated in divisional and conference titles and a Super Bowl run. Last summers NFL training camp scouting was a constant source of buzz surrounding Gregg’s return to football and an invaluable tool for the rebuilding of the Ottawa Renegades team.
Leading the way as Director of US Scouting is long time veteran Hal Dyer, who leads up the program on the East Coast, Central Region Director David Dotson and West Coast Director Jon Nielsen round out the over achieving group and drive the efforts of their regional and area scouts. “We have a very well developed professional scouting group at work,” declared Coach Jenkins. “We work extremely well together and have a good system in place to locate and work out potential player talent. This group, this scouting machine people tend to forget produced the CFL Most Outstanding Player in Nikolas Lewis in 2004 with the Calgary Stampeders and to a man that is our goal once again to find and workout that type of impact players and introduce them to the Ottawa fans and the CFL. We are highly confident in our efforts and with the diligence that we have put in to date and this gives us the confidence in our program as well as in the future of this football team. We will have a very long term effect on football in Ottawa as our system produces football players and we develop over time, this will be clearly demonstrated upon the field of play this season.”
In Jenkins system his coaching staff serves during their out of season time working within the scouting machine in various areas across the country. This is strength of the Jenkins scouting program, this in addition to the legion of scouts the team uses make it a formidable tool. Combine with the in house support and management that Forrest Gregg supplies the program has begun developing a very sophisticated system of potential players that are free agents both in the US and in Canada, a draft scouting program designed to impact the teams Canadian content issues and contact base regionally and nationally.New additions to this system include 2005 area scout Ken Robinson, who ceaselessly grinds out leads and stocks the workouts from his Arizona headquarters. Gregg has likened Robinson to a New York stock exchange broker who can quote the facts of virtually hundreds of potential players available and has played a big role in the Western region this season. Also under the leadership of west coast scouting director Jon Nielsen (a former Toronto Argonaut QB under Jenkins) is area scout JJ Fayed. A data base expert and outstanding up and coming young scout Fayed is a part of a new generation of scouting professionals learning the John Jenkins systems.
This powerful scouting machine, operating on all cylinders is now set to drive the efforts of the Ottawa Renegades and create a new energy within training camp with unbridled competition at every area within the team. It will be a new and exciting chapter in the history of the Ottawa Football and perhaps the finest opportunity to compete for Canadian footballs greatest prize; the CFL Grey Cup just as the new management celebrates this Ottawa achievement thirty years ago this season.
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