Chalk Talk On Patreon: Former Eagles Pro Scout Dan Hatman Talks Advance Scouting, How To Be A Scout
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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For more interest in becoming a football scout, check out "The Scouting Academy" at https://scoutingacademy.com/ or email Dan Hatman at director@scoutingacademy.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of Chalk Talk on Inside the Birds. I'm Jeff Mosher, |
| 0:15.1 | alongside Adam Kaplan, and we're so, so excited about the guests we have right now. He has worn many hats in the NFL. |
| 0:23.5 | In fact, he's wearing a hat right now. |
| 0:24.8 | It's just not an NFL one. |
| 0:26.5 | He is a former scout, pro scout, with the Philadelphia Eagles. |
| 0:30.6 | He's been with two other NFL teams. |
| 0:32.4 | And right now, he's the founder and the director of scouting development for the scouting Academy, which we'll talk about too. We're really happy to have with us, Dan Hatman. We really appreciate the time that you have today to entertain us and educate us, really on the scouting process. Oh, happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So we're going to do a couple of things. We're going to talk about the job that you had. |
| 0:56.0 | So, Dan, for your context, right, this show chalk talk, Adam and I have been very fortunate to have, what we try to do is educate people on a certain element of the game behind the scenes. |
| 1:06.8 | So we've had head coaches, we've had GMs, we've had personnel directors, we've had |
| 1:10.9 | offensive coordinators, defense corps, head trainers. |
| 1:13.5 | We've had literally almost every kind of outside of equipment manager. |
| 1:17.6 | We may have had every single type of NFL employee, but you are our first kind of pro scout |
| 1:23.7 | who did advance scouting. |
| 1:25.7 | And while we're in the middle of the season right now, |
| 1:27.9 | we thought it would be a great idea to sort of give us what the life is like of someone |
| 1:33.1 | who doesn't actually get to watch his own football team each week that he works for |
| 1:38.2 | because he's out scouting other teams. |
| 1:41.1 | So just start off talking to us about the job that you had with the Eagles as a |
| 1:45.7 | pro scout from 2011 to 2013. So pro scouting, I mean, you got to take anybody that's no |
| 1:52.8 | longer college eligible and that becomes our job. So this is people that are playing in other |
| 1:58.5 | leagues. This could be the CFL, any of the spring leagues. We've had 700 of them here this could be the CFL any of the spring |
| 2:01.7 | leagues we've had 700 of them here in the last decade but any of the spring leagues that are up |
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