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Originally Posted by Keith
Those old profiles used to draw in a lot of outside search traffic to the site. But man, were they a bitch to write. Ric's original idea to have a War Room page as I recall was centered on the Texans being understandably sucky in those early days and having the draft be a major focal point for us back then (especially pre-2002). Now that there's a viable product on the field to watch and evaluate, the draft (relatively speaking) has taken a somewhat lesser role in comparison, so the 'bang for the buck' reduced a bit.
We used to write those (at least I tried to) in the summer when there wasn't much going on. Even split between the three of us though, it was a lot of work to pull together. That said, since there are fewer graphics on ItB, that saves me quite a bit of time ...no. I think my wife would kill me for finding more time away from the family!!  It's funny though... every now and then I still see someone referencing something like an Atari Bigby profile from HPF. |
Thanks popanot, and I agree with what Keith said. I enjoyed researching and writing the profiles, especially when I had seen the player enough to give my own perspective or was otherwise able to come up with something fresh by finding some little-reported fact, Texan angle, etc. But they were very time consuming, and too often I found myself trying to write about players I hadn't seen play firsthand which meant having to rely on others' opinions. But it was cool to see them referenced all over the net, even a few times on NFL.com.