Your teams worst draft moves

[SonnyCID]

The What if game is always incredibly depressing.

 

[chf]

Toss up between....McGwire, Mirer and Bosworth IMO

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Not even close to being a toss-up. Mirer played pretty well as a rookie, and we got a King's ransom for him from the Bears. Bosworth couldn't stay healthy. McGwire just sucked.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Everybody needs a QB so missing on a HOF QB possibly the best pure passer the NFL has ever seen is definitely bad for business for almost every team. Thankfully my team doesn't quite fall into that category considering we got Elway out of the deal.

bad thing is there would have been more teams if they didn't have worse drafts elsewhere. (Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien & such)
Granted hindsight is 20/20 but I could see using hindsight 20+ regrets not drafting Dan Marino.

 

[BoiseMike19]

Not even close to being a toss-up. Mirer played pretty well as a rookie, and we got a King's ransom for him from the Bears. Bosworth couldn't stay healthy. McGwire just sucked.

God bless America for your right to your opinion......oh wait.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Something I didn't realize until I saw a show on Cowboys & Niners (the Catch & all)
In 1979. Last year before Staubach Retired. The highest rated player the Cowboys had on their board in the 3rd round was Joe Montana. Granted Doug Cosbie was picked who might have been the best most complete TE before Witten, but since Cowboys liked all three (upside included) of the QBs, they passed on Joe Montana even though he was their clear best rated player at that time of the draft. Could you have imagined if the Cowboys went from (going into the 80's) from Staubach to Montana fluidly. So even though I don't have a single bad thing to say about Cosbie (who I always think of is underrated for a TE in the history books) I don't mind electing this is one of the boys biggest oops in the draft.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

God bless America for your right to your opinion......oh wait.

I have to agree with chf. What he said is true.

 

[NinerSickness]

Browns' fans can go back to this thread in 3 years when Carson Wentz is mediocre and Jared Goff is negotiating a deal to be the highest-paid QB in the league.

 

[Rockinkuwait]

Something I didn't realize until I saw a show on Cowboys & Niners (the Catch & all)
In 1979. Last year before Staubach Retired. The highest rated player the Cowboys had on their board in the 3rd round was Joe Montana. Granted Doug Cosbie was picked who might have been the best most complete TE before Witten, but since Cowboys liked all three (upside included) of the QBs, they passed on Joe Montana even though he was their clear best rated player at that time of the draft. Could you have imagined if the Cowboys went from (going into the 80's) from Staubach to Montana fluidly. So even though I don't have a single bad thing to say about Cosbie (who I always think of is underrated for a TE in the history books) I don't mind electing this is one of the boys biggest oops in the draft.

Wow, that is crazy... Of course Staubach to White to Aikman wasn't really a bad situation for them. But passing on Joe is a big one especially if he was your top guy.

Really had a nice long run of QB's until they screwed it up in the early 2000's. Sent those firsts for Galloway so instead of reaching for Drew Brees in the first they reached for Quincy Carter in the 2nd to replace Aikman.

 

[jarntt]

The jets need their own thread

 

[Southieinnc]

I'll have to ask @HammerDown but I think Brady was our worst draft pick.....

 

[Rex Racer]

The pick: QB Giovanni Carmazzi, No. 65 overall in 2000
The miss: QB Tom Brady, No. 199 overall to Patriots
There were six quarterbacks taken before Brady in the 2000 draft before New England pulled the trigger in the sixth round. While every team passed and didn’t have any idea that Brady would turn into maybe the greatest quarterback of all time with his four Super Bowl rings, this move by the Niners looks most embarrassing. Brady, a Bay Area native who worshipped Joe Montana, should have gotten a chance from San Francisco as an underrated prospect from Michigan. Instead, the team went for a kid from that QB hotbed, Hofstra.

I never bothered with thinking about Brady as a bad draft move. Nobody that I have ever known could tell me he would be what he has become.

True, but hindsight is always the smartest guy in the room.

 

[Rex Racer]

I wasn't surprised to see a lot of 83' references with Dan Marino connected to them.

If my memory serves me Marino dropped on many a draft board because his knees were already junk.

 

[beardown07]

2001 8 David Terrell WR Michigan
2002 29 Marc Colombo OT Boston College
2003 14 Michael Haynes DE Penn State [v]
2003 22 Rex Grossman QB Florida [v]
2004 14 Tommie Harris DT Oklahoma
2005 4 Cedric Benson HB Texas
2006 — No Pick — — [w]
2007 31 Greg Olsen TE Miami
2008 14 Chris Williams OT Vanderbilt
2009 — No Pick — — [x]
2010 — No Pick — — [x]
2011 29 Gabe Carimi OT Wisconsin
2012 19 Shea McClellin DE Boise State
2013 20 Kyle Long OT Oregon
2014 14 Kyle Fuller CB Virginia Tech
2015 7 Kevin White



David Terrell was a pretty big bust at 8 too.


That's a pretty crappy list there for a few years. Tommie Harris, Greg Olsen and Kyle Long. That's about it, in fideen years.

Hope Kevin White pans out. Off to a shitty start tho.

 

[Wamu]

I refuse to list all the fucked up draft picks the Cleveland Clowns have made since '99.

 

[johnson]

think you guys are missing the point........the article isnt the worst draft pick ever, its the worst draft pick the team made when they passed up other positions of need. Who else could they have got that they needed that year, what great player did they pass up that they actually needed

They traded up and gave away their 2nd round pick to move up to draft a QB nobody even had on their draft board that high anyways. That idiocy alone qualifies.

This is the Bills...they are always a team with multiple needs come draft time. As for QB, drafting Schaub and keeping a draft pick in the process would have been better.

But they also passed up Karlos Dansby, Steven Jackson, Ben Watson, Bob Sanders, etc for a massive bust at QB.

 

[darken65]

True, but hindsight is always the smartest guy in the room.

 

[Rex Racer]

I'll have to ask @HammerDown but I think Brady was our worst draft pick.....

That's a no brainer right there. Brady is the worst QB New England has had since Hugh Millen.

 

[Southieinnc]

That's a no brainer right there. Brady is the worst QB New England has had since Hugh Millen.

Tony Eason was the real man.....

 

[Rex Racer]

Tony Eason was the real man.....

Champagne Tony got us to the SB without cheating too!

 

[megalodon30]

I remember when Ayers was drafted and seeing Clay Matthews still on the board going "What are you doing?!" Same when we picked in that same draft Moreno over Orakpo. I don't know how many Bronco fans I talked to that were jumping up for joy when Orakpo was still on the board and were shocked when Moreno's name was called.

I believe this is called "McDaniels Syndrome."