wingsauce7
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Cardinals in '86 used the 32nd overall pick on kicker John Lee. Terrible. Bill Bidwell was super smart.
I have to agree with chf. What he said is true.
Idk, Ken O'Brian had some great seasons in the 80s. Not a complete bust.The jets need their own thread
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.
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.
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.
The Vikes worst move is Christian Ponder.
Still have no idea what the hell happened there. It was obvious to anyone that saw him in college that he didn't have the nuts to play in the NFL. His ceiling was solid clip board holder. And we took him with the #11 pick overall with some killer defensive prospects still on the board.
Since the same GM that drafted Ponder still runs the Vikes, I like to think that he showed up drunk to the draft and told the guy who asked for the Vikes pick that he needed to "ponder" the decision a little longer and there was a misunderstanding.
Well that Marino guy that they passed on that EVERY Jet fan wanted wasn't too bad either...Idk, Ken O'Brian had some great seasons in the 80s. Not a complete bust.
how is he still hanging on to that piece of ass wife of his?
The clock has to be ticking on that marriage
Marino reportedly fell due to rumors he liked the white lines.
The awful part about those Rams drafts from the Martz' era is that they whiffed hard on most of their mid to late round picks, too. Billy Devaney wasn't much better as you listed a few of his rejects, too.Some of the picks made under Martz' leadership were just plain awful. The Rams screwed up the draft so many times before they got Snead at GM that it's no wonder it's been such a long rebuilding process. Jason Smith, Donnie Avery, Brian Leonard, Tye Hill, Joe Klopfenstein, Alex Barron, Robert Thomas, Trung Canidate, etc.
The awful part about those Rams drafts from the Martz' era is that they whiffed hard on most of their mid to late round picks, too. Billy Devaney wasn't much better as you listed a few of his rejects, too.
Snead has been above average but when its all said and done, Greg Robinson might end up being the biggest Rams bust of all time if he doesn't turn around. He went #2 overall in a stacked draft. I thought he was a Guard prospect. I think you wanted Mack like a lot of other people but the Rams didn't really need him even if he would've ended up being in 30~% of the snaps. Most people wanted Sammy Watkins (the guy who I drafted on this board in a mock draft) and he certainly would've been an upgrade for the Rams. They also could've taken Bortles and he certainly would've been an upgrade for the Rams. Such an awful pick.