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00:06The number 10 worst free agent signing of all time, Emmitt Smith to the Cardinals.
00:11Let's go team. Let's go baby.
00:15Emmitt Smith's the all-time leading rusher.
00:16But Emmitt Smith does the impossible.
00:19He also wasn't a very good free agent signing for the Cardinals. He could be both.
00:25The NFL films, of all the people, to have top 10 as one of the worst free agent signings, I
00:31think Emmitt's going to be mad at you guys.
00:35After 17,000 rushing yards and three Super Bowls,
00:39You've got undoubtedly one of the best backs in the NFL ever.
00:43our number 10 worst free agent signing was a cowboy who decided to head farther west.
00:50What up, fellas?
00:52In 2003, the Arizona Cardinals solicited the NFL's all-time leading rusher with an attractive offer.
01:00How sweet it is.
01:02A two-year contract worth $8 million.
01:07What is that about?
01:09Yeah, I remember being at the owners' meetings and the news broke they were going to sign Emmitt Smith.
01:13And we were all thinking, wow, a 34-year-old running back. That's the answer for this team.
01:24The sad thing is that Emmitt should have never played in another uniform.
01:28I just can't picture Emmitt Smith full blood red.
01:31He's a cowboy. He should have never left for there.
01:34Emmitt Smith wearing the bird on the side of the head.
01:37You just kind of knew it wasn't going to work.
01:42Everybody knew Emmitt Smith was done.
01:44At those days, it seemed like the last team to know anything was the Arizona Cardinals.
01:49So, they're holding up Emmitt like, oh, we just got this guy.
01:52You know, we're expecting him to lose 10 years, you know, right before your very eyes.
01:56And if anybody wants to give $8 million to me when I can barely walk, I'll take it.
02:02Ha.
02:04You look at the Emmitt Smith signing and you wonder how much of that was a publicity stunt.
02:08Boy, Emmitt Smith. That's all we want to see. Emmitt Smith.
02:11The card.
02:12They just want to sell jerseys. They just want to sell tickets.
02:17Emmitt Smith didn't give millions to Emmitt Smith because he was a great football player.
02:21They wanted a billboard for downtown Phoenix.
02:23They wanted people to go to their games.
02:25There's nothing like a man that knows why he's here and does what he likes to do.
02:29The low point of the whole thing was week five, Emmitt went back to Dallas and it was a train
02:34wreck.
02:35I mean, he had six carries minus one yards rushing, got knocked out of the game early on.
02:40So, he finished the game with more shoulder injuries than rushing yards.
02:44For the majority of his career, Smith sparkled on the NFL stage.
02:48But in his first season with the Cardinals, Emmitt rushed for only 256 yards,
02:54which works out to roughly $31,000 a yard.
03:02Emmitt Smith is no doubt one of the all-time greats,
03:05but he's also the number 10 worst free agent signing of all time.
03:11It's just a shame that tacked on to the end of his career on his resume now
03:16is that sort of downhill slide as an Arizona card.
03:20Emmitt Smith should have been taken away in handcuffs for stealing money.
03:23That's what should have happened.
03:25The number 9 worst free agent signing of all time, the Lions sign Scott Mitchell.
03:32Yeah, Scott Mitchell.
03:35Well, I don't think that move worked too well, do you?
03:38What can you say about Scott Mitchell other than bad things?
03:42Nothing good's going to come.
03:42He threw for 4,400 yards at over 30 touchdowns back in 1995, under 15 interceptions.
03:53Only three quarterbacks had done that ever in NFL history,
03:57and the others were Marino and Moon.
04:01How about that?
04:03He doesn't belong on the list.
04:06Come out of me.
04:10For Scott Mitchell to even get that starting gig, I mean, what did he do to earn that gig?
04:14He backed up Dan Marino.
04:15He held a clipboard.
04:16I guess he, like, walked down the sideline without tripping.
04:20Scott Mitchell got his big break in the NFL because Dan Marino broke down in 1993.
04:27There could be something critically wrong with Dan Marino.
04:32Scott Mitchell had a few really nice games for the Miami Dolphins in relief of Dan Marino.
04:43Mitchell looks into the middle, steps into the pocket.
04:46He throws the end zone.
04:47Bad open touchdown.
04:48Takes a tour around the league and goes to see a few teams, signs with the Lions.
04:53I could have gone to a lot of places, and I chose to come here
04:56because I thought this team had the potential to win and win now.
05:01The Lions may have had potential, but they also wrote the biggest check.
05:10If you were casting a role in a movie and you wanted a quarterback, it would be him.
05:15Big.
05:16What a big man he is.
05:176'6", 230-pounder Scott Mitchell.
05:21You know, here's a guy everyone thought had promised.
05:23Came in and played well through a beautiful pass.
05:26Right there to gun it into the numbers.
05:28Once the light shined on him brightly, you began to see his flaws and his faux pas.
05:33He is not a really accurate passer.
05:37In the clutch.
05:39Mitchell.
05:40Near side.
05:41Picked up.
05:42Towards the end zone.
05:44Game over.
05:48In his first two seasons, our number nine worst free agent rode Barry Sanders to the postseason.
05:54Barry Sanders to Pater.
05:56However, the playoffs proved to be no free run.
05:59Here goes Mitchell.
06:01He's setting up.
06:02He lets it go.
06:03It's intercepted.
06:04It's intercepted.
06:11Never win a playoff game.
06:12You know, Scott Mitchell just gets totally destroyed in history.
06:18And I know he wasn't that good.
06:20And I know he whined a lot.
06:22Scott Mitchell pleading his case with whatever official he could get to listen.
06:27But he wasn't as bad as everybody says he was.
06:30People forget just how good Scott Mitchell's season was in 1995.
06:34He had 32 touchdowns.
06:41He had only 12 picks.
06:43Our play-by-play breakdowns, he comes out as the best quarterback, most valuable quarterback
06:47in the league.
06:48What more do you need to say?
06:50He doesn't win any games.
06:51Or at least not games that matter.
06:53This lion went out like a lamb.
06:55Going 0-2 in two playoff starts with five interceptions.
06:59All right, he's not the greatest quarterback.
07:04He just couldn't play in the playoffs.
07:09Simple as that.
07:11And it wasn't the greatest free agent signing.
07:14But there's been a lot worse than that.
07:16Free agency was better to no one than Scott Mitchell because he never would have been a
07:21millionaire in Miami.
07:22But he was a millionaire several times over going to the Detroit Lions.
07:27The number eight first free agent signing of all time, the Texans get a green back.
07:34Who?
07:37The Amon Green signing was totally over the top because it was clear he didn't have anything
07:41left.
07:42Green has bounced in and out of the lineup with injuries, but they say he's healthy now.
07:46By that stage of his career, he was a worn down, broken down player.
07:51And the Texans certainly needed better than that.
07:54They invested, thinking they had better than that.
07:58He is an unbelievable Packer.
08:01You know, he ran for a lot of yards.
08:05In Green Bay, Amon Green rushed for over 8,000 yards and was a four-time Pro Bowler for
08:11the Packers.
08:19There's Houston, you know, really trying to find something.
08:22And they go out there and, you know, Amon Green put up the good numbers and let's bring
08:26him in.
08:27And that's going to change our landscape.
08:28It's a powerful runner.
08:30He signed a four-year, $23 million contract.
08:35The acquisition that we're making today is just the perfect one for us.
08:45Perfect fit if you're getting the original Amon.
08:48You're in your late 20s.
08:49You can't stay healthy.
08:50He never played.
08:51He was hurt the entire time.
08:52He never played for the Houston Texans.
08:55It just seemed that way.
08:57Between 2007 and 2008, he appeared in just 14 games and never ran for 300 yards.
09:05I really think in the case of Amon Green, it was just a function of a player at a position
09:10in which you reach a certain age and you can no longer play at that level.
09:13Amon Green, lifting off the field.
09:15Our number eight worst free agent may not have lived up to his contract, but he did
09:20earn over $41,000 per rushing yard.
09:24Amon Green running nothing.
09:28But when you see, like so many times, the guys at the end of the line, he gets a big
09:33signing
09:33bonus.
09:34Amon Green didn't do squat.
09:36Ron Dane actually played better for them than Amon Green did.
09:40It's the resurrection of Ron Dane.
09:42When you have that term, Ron Dane wound up being the leading rusher, it means someone
09:46made a personnel decision to goof.
09:48This Texans team under Coach Kubiak must be awfully disappointed right now.
09:53Green was a huge disappointment and a tremendous waste of money.
09:56He just kind of slid out the door and nobody paid any attention to him.
10:00The only thing anybody talked about is what a bust he'd been and how he should have been
10:04arrested for stealing.
10:11What's going on today?
10:13This was more on the Browns.
10:15Hey.
10:16You know, Jeff Garcia is an interesting player.
10:18I think there's something fishy about Jeff Garcia anyway.
10:22Any of you guys bring any gum out?
10:24No.
10:25Nobody wants fresh breath on this.
10:27Got some gum?
10:28Got any gum on you?
10:29They gave him all the money.
10:31Garcia back in the pocket, throws the slam, picked off.
10:34$25 million is a lot of money.
10:36Bubble Young.
10:38That one made no sense.
10:41Krispy Kremes.
10:43Let's get a box.
10:48A three-time Pro Bowler with the 49ers, our number seven worst free agent signing was one
10:54of the NFL's hottest commodities before the 2004 season.
10:59Hell of a flow, Jeff.
11:01Nice job.
11:01It's a hell of a flow.
11:02Garcia was a good player, a good quarterback for San Francisco.
11:06Jeff Garcia just threw the perfect pass.
11:11Jeff Garcia was an overachiever, so at the time I'm thinking, you know, that's a pretty
11:14good play for the Browns to get him.
11:16Brings some stability, so I probably would have made the same mistake.
11:20That might be one of the greatest comebacks in playoff history.
11:23Bringing Jeff in was a show that, you know, that the Cleveland Brown organization is all
11:27about, getting us back into the playoffs.
11:30The Browns were searching for veteran leadership, and the 34-year-old Garcia struck gold with
11:36a $25 million contract.
11:41Yeah, baby!
11:42How about that?
11:44Another day, another hard dollar, dog.
11:49It's a football!
11:50Garcia's in trouble, in the pocket, and he got stripped of the ball, it's picked up!
11:55We got into a situation where we were down, we never really got into any sort of rhythm
11:59as far as an offense was concerned.
12:01Garcia was one of those guys that you'd be better off, you know, as a backup, where if
12:06somebody gets hurt, you plug him in there and he plays well.
12:09To give him all the money to be the starting quarterback, you know, you didn't have to do
12:13that.
12:13You look at the Browns, he was a winner.
12:16He put up good numbers.
12:18It was just the Browns were terrible.
12:21It was just the Browns were terrible.
12:21The Browns quarterback turned, Tim Couch, Spurgeon Dessert, Doug Peterson, and then you
12:30went out and got Jeff Garcia.
12:37Garcia didn't even last a season.
12:40The Browns released our number seven worst free agent signing after only ten games.
12:46That right there went sick to your stomach.
12:49The Jeff Garcia thing, that's more attributable to the ineptitude of the Cleveland Browns than
12:54it is Jeff Garcia.
12:55Come on, Lord, give us a break here.
12:57Come on, Lord, do the right thing.
12:59Come on.
12:59Jeff Garcia, after he left the Cleveland Browns, took two teams.
13:05You've got to give a lot of credit to Garcia for making this happen.
13:09That's character, baby.
13:10I'm telling you, that's character, baby.
13:11And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
13:14He even won a playoff game.
13:18I see you, Jeff.
13:19I see you, baby.
13:19He was a good quarterback at that time.
13:21He was just surrounded by a lousy team.
13:23That's crazy when you can see it right there that his knee was nailed.
13:27And bless your heart, Cleveland.
13:29I think you have that effect on people.
13:32Number six, worst free agent signing of all time.
13:35San Diego signs David Boston.
13:37The expectations were so high.
13:41He's got it.
13:41He scores.
13:42This was a gigantic signing in San Diego.
13:45The Boston reverses his field and pumbles the football.
13:48Then he has all of the issues with the performance-enhancing drugs,
13:52the attitude issues, the injury issues.
13:54A complete bust.
13:58David Boston had so much talent.
14:03Shoots it to the near side for Boston.
14:05He goes way over the air.
14:06He got it.
14:07He scores.
14:08David Boston had one or two great years with the Arizona Cardinals
14:13where you thought this guy is a receiver and he can be as good as anyone in the league.
14:18From 2000 to 2002, David Boston was one of the most exciting young stars in the NFL.
14:25And that's why David Boston has become a star.
14:28Boston's market value peaked before the 2003 season
14:33when the San Diego signed our Natsworth free agent
14:37to a seven-year deal worth $47 million.
14:41$12 million guaranteed.
14:43Give yourselves a hand, man.
14:45Let's get it going here together.
14:47Yeah, they guaranteed David Boston $12 million,
14:51even if he only plays for him one year.
14:53Who could have imagined he only played for him one year?
14:57Boston struggled immediately as a charger,
14:59and what was supposed to be a bright future in San Diego
15:02turned into a disaster.
15:05Did he lose the ball?
15:06Looks like he lost it.
15:07He wasn't a very mature guy.
15:09He got in a fight with a strength coach.
15:11Teammates didn't like him.
15:12The media didn't like him.
15:13Falling asleep in meetings.
15:15Lucas just seemed to be lacking.
15:17Drug use.
15:18Talk about some guns.
15:20He's got them.
15:24You know how some kids rebel.
15:26One of the more interesting stories is that his dad's an official.
15:29His dad, Byron Boston, one of the better officials in the NFL.
15:32What's David's number, anyway?
15:3489. There he is right there.
15:3589.
15:3589, yeah.
15:39This is not the way the Chargers were hoping to get out of the game.
15:42You know, the only question I remember asking David one time,
15:45like, when he dropped the ball,
15:46why did you drop the ball?
15:48Because he had dropped some of the easiest passes.
15:49And the nightmare continues.
15:51And I remember just telling me, he goes,
15:53I got bad hands.
15:54You know, I mean, that's not a great quality
15:56if you're going to be the featured number one receiver in an offense.
15:59The complete drive over.
16:01And he just became more of a problem for the team
16:04than he was any kind of solution.
16:05And no one with the club was sad to see him go.
16:13How do you, how do you mess up being Drew Brees' top receiver?
16:18Neil O'Donnell to the Jets.
16:21Neil O'Donnell, franchise quarterback,
16:24doesn't quite have the ring to it.
16:25And that's, that's really all I remember about it.
16:28Jets were trying to replace an aged, aging,
16:31old, beat up, run down quarterback that couldn't.
16:36Isn't that you?
16:38That's you right there.
16:39Planting, that was me.
16:41So they replaced me with him,
16:43and they gave him all the money.
16:49Neil O'Donnell's good fortune
16:51came on the heels of two bad interceptions.
16:54And he fires a pass, and it blew,
16:56and it intercepted at the 40.
16:57Well, the Jets saw Neil O'Donnell
16:59throw two of the worst interceptions
17:00any quarterback has ever thrown in a Super Bowl
17:02and said, that's got to be our guy.
17:04And the shame of it is,
17:05O'Donnell threw it right to him.
17:06There was no receiver out there.
17:08So he loses the Super Bowl,
17:10and now he's the marquee guy with the Jets.
17:13I'm really excited to be here.
17:16I came back to New York
17:17because it's a great challenge
17:19and a great opportunity.
17:21I thought O'Donnell was decent.
17:22I mean, I didn't think he was a great quarterback,
17:24but I thought he was a professional quarterback.
17:26I know the money they gave him was ridiculous,
17:27but at the time,
17:28I actually thought it was a pretty decent signing.
17:30He had to do something.
17:31The team was terrible.
17:32They looked at the quarterbacks they had.
17:35They didn't like any one of them.
17:36Oh, yeah, Bubby Brister playing quarterback that year.
17:38Boomer was also still around.
17:40Frank Reich, I think he was involved in that, too,
17:42back in 1995.
17:44I think that anybody coming in,
17:46making a big splash out of it,
17:48was going to be something worthwhile.
17:50If you want to coin a word,
17:52it would be upgrade.
17:56I tell you,
17:57I'm so impressed with Neil O'Donnell.
17:59I mean, he's better than you even think he is.
18:01I mean, he's accurate, you know.
18:03He has an approach.
18:05He's, you know, just a quiet leader,
18:06demands of himself.
18:07It's showtime!
18:10It's showtime, Jets!
18:12Come on, Neil!
18:13After signing the biggest free agent contract in Jets history,
18:17O'Donnell went winless in six games
18:20before his season ended because of injury.
18:23The Jets finished 1-15,
18:26the league's worst record.
18:28Come on!
18:29Give it!
18:29I can't imagine a poor performance
18:32by a New York Jet team
18:33since they were the New York Titans.
18:35As it turned out,
18:36O'Donnell is a guy that,
18:38you know,
18:38it was banged up a lot.
18:40Wasn't very mobile.
18:41Couldn't get out of the pocket.
18:42You know, this is no Baryshnikov
18:44wearing our number 14.
18:45You're going to pressure him.
18:46You're going to make him move.
18:47He's doing what he doesn't want to do.
18:49Some of his teammates questioned
18:51his toughness in leadership
18:52and desire to play the game.
18:54Our number 5 worst free agent
18:56lasted only two years.
18:58Which was weird
18:59because none of those guys
19:00ever went to the Super Bowl.
19:03Yet.
19:04He did.
19:06New York before Bill Parcells
19:08decided to pull the plug
19:10prior to the 1998 season.
19:15Was it really a good signing, Will?
19:17No, because what did he do?
19:19Did he make them any better?
19:20Did he even do anything?
19:22He had no help.
19:22He had nothing.
19:23It was...
19:24He didn't have coaching.
19:25He had nothing.
19:25Anytime a defense can get a smack
19:27on Neil O'Donnell
19:28that just adds another smack
19:29to a long, long list of hits.
19:31The quarterback is supposed to do more.
19:33You're supposed to be the guy
19:35who can take mediocre talent around him
19:37and raise him to another kind of level
19:39on his best day.
19:40Neil O'Donnell was not that type of quarterback.
19:42It was just unfortunate
19:43that it didn't work out for Neil.
19:45But he got a nice payday.
19:47Really nice payday.
19:56That's a memory there in Cleveland.
19:59It's a real short one.
20:00I don't even remember that one.
20:01It was a bad, bad signing for the Browns
20:03and probably most Browns fans in Cleveland
20:04will remember it as the last worst thing
20:07Art Modell did before he took the team out of Cleveland.
20:12In 1995, the Browns looked to be contenders.
20:16So owner Art Modell literally went for broke
20:19and made Andre Risen the highest paid receiver
20:23in NFL history.
20:28Art Modell was convinced by the experts around him
20:31that Andre Risen was going to be the final piece to his puzzle.
20:34Talking to him yesterday, he was all smiles
20:37talking about this Cleveland Brown team
20:39and especially the addition of Andre Risen.
20:42He goes right, he plays well, they can go to the Super Bowl.
20:45And one of the main things he said was
20:47to sign Andre Risen, he had to go to different banks
20:50to get the money in terms of signing bonuses.
20:53While Modell would regret shooting for this bad move,
20:57it was an ill-advised comparison that would come to haunt him.
21:01I never will forget the day that Art Modell sat
21:04in the press conference and said,
21:06the experts have told me, you know,
21:08that this guy Andre Risen can be as good as Jerry Risen.
21:11Of course, all of our eyebrows, you know, really went up.
21:13What Art said was true.
21:16Bad Moon Risen, the greatest, right there, Risen.
21:19I mean, come on, that's just ridiculous.
21:22Jerry Risen was a better athlete.
21:24He was faster, better dexterity.
21:26So what Art said was true.
21:28What he didn't say is that one guy was committed to his craft
21:34and the other guy was just happy being good.
21:38I think he proved to be not every bit as good as Jerry Rice.
21:42He's more like a minute Rice, I think,
21:45is how it wound up being for him in Cleveland.
21:47In his one year in Cleveland,
21:50our number four worst free agent failed to catch 50 passes.
21:54By next season, Risen would be in Jacksonville and Cleveland.
21:58Football team for the first time in 50 years.
22:01What you have here in Cleveland is one big unhappy situation.
22:04I just remember him dropping a lot of passes
22:06and not, you know, not coming up with big catches in the clutch.
22:10And I'm going, he did this in Atlanta.
22:13You know, why couldn't he do this here in Cleveland?
22:18Because the Browns.
22:21What the f*** I want from him, man?
22:23Get him!
22:24Get him, man!
22:26Andre Risen in that Atlanta Falcons system
22:29is a lot different than Andre Risen outdoors in Cleveland.
22:34Risen is standing there watching.
22:36He cost his team almost 50 yards in field position.
22:38He was the first scary team distraction.
22:41Andre's going to come off the ball
22:43and he's over, he takes a shot!
22:44It's a big game!
22:45He was more in the news for what was happening off the field
22:49than what was happening on the field.
22:51Bad Moon also came with his Bad Moon girlfriend
22:53who later set his house on fire, of course.
23:00Money, he disappeared.
23:01And, you know, later was seen in the Super Bowl getting a ring.
23:05Super Bowl 31, lock!
23:08In New Orleans, Bad Moon!
23:10Only in Cleveland could you have a Pro Bowl player come here,
23:14not really do anything, then leave,
23:17and end up getting a Super Bowl ring.
23:20It is going to be a touchdown, Andre Risen!
23:23Number three worst free agent study of all time,
23:26the Raiders Super Bowl MVPs.
23:29I shook my head. I could not believe that.
23:32Here's a pass in the flat.
23:33Hooked up by the Cowboys. Larry Brown may score!
23:36Larry Brown was never a great cornerback.
23:39This guy is lightning.
23:40Only special...
23:43...teams player will MVP, and he was absolutely useless.
23:47The big Sombardi trophy is coming home!
23:50You got the feeling that Al Davis sat there watching the Super Bowl going,
23:53I wish I had that guy!
23:55Our number three worst free agent signing of all time is the tale of two Super Bowl MVPs...
24:02Touchdown for Desmond Howard!
24:05...and the great expectations of an NFL renegade.
24:13The great thing about Larry Brown in that Super Bowl was all he had to do was show up with
24:17his hands attached to the end of his arms
24:19because the ball was thrown directly to him by Neil O'Donnell on those two throws.
24:23He ends up with two picks.
24:24And the shame of it is, O'Donnell threw it right to him, there was no receiver out there!
24:29Here's a pass in the flat.
24:30Hooked up by the Cowboys!
24:32Woohoo!
24:32All he had to do was put his hands out!
24:34You get one more, you get one from Neil.
24:36Is that it?
24:37Turn up.
24:38I'll vote for you, Doc.
24:39No one can give me a job.
24:40It was a freebie, it was a gift, and I gladly appreciate it.
24:44The Raiders rewarded the MVP of Super Bowl XXX with a lavish $12.5 million contract.
24:54He was terrible once he was in that system.
24:58Hey, Larry!
24:58That's how you play, baby!
25:00With company!
25:01How can the Raiders spend this kind of money on Larry Brown?
25:06He was a very average player.
25:07He certainly wasn't a guy that you were going to plug into your defense, and your defense was going to
25:11get better.
25:12Touchdown, San Diego!
25:14It didn't really work out very well at all.
25:16He just didn't have those coverage skills because he went to the worst possible team for him.
25:20Went to a man-to-man coverage team.
25:22And that wasn't really his game.
25:24He was more of his own guy.
25:25Brown started one game for Oakland and was released after two seasons.
25:31I can't believe I am witnessing this.
25:35It was embarrassing.
25:37They give him all this money, can't play, doesn't work, goes out to the black hole,
25:42falls right into the black hole, and gets consumed with a vacuum of nothingness.
25:50The Raiders found their next free agent failure in Super Bowl XXXI.
25:55Desmond Howard, kicker turn in the Super Bowl for the Packers.
25:58Within minutes, I think, he was signed by Al Davis.
26:01Touchdown for Desmond Howard!
26:04They are saved 99 yards.
26:06Desmond Howard, wonderful kickoff guy, but do you really want to give that much of a kickoff turn guy?
26:11The Raiders gave Desmond Howard a blockbuster deal in 19...
26:15They did that and didn't thought they could try a...
26:19...1997, even though this retired for a jerk career.
26:23He may have gone.
26:25Midfield, to the 40, the 30, the 25, 20, the 10, 5!
26:29Touchdown for Desmond Howard!
26:34Wow!
26:35Wow!
26:36Desmond Howard had been on three different teams in the three years before Oakland signed him.
26:41He only had one season with more than 300 yards receiving.
26:44How Oakland had bounced from team to team, and had always been going to be something more special,
26:48it's going to solidify their franchise, beats me.
26:52Back set to a fumble!
26:53Fumble by Desmond!
26:56Oakland went 4-12 that season, and Howard, like Brown before him, never delivered for the silver and black,
27:03making this pair of Super Bowl...
27:05He got shoulder blocked by the kicker.
27:09MVP's number three on our list of three agent flops.
27:14Really?
27:14The Raiders belong at number one for this.
27:17It's almost like Al Davis watched one game a year, where that would be the Super Bowl.
27:21He's like, who's he?
27:22He'll do whatever he wants.
27:23We'll bring him in.
27:24Just win, David!
27:26Cheers!
27:27Number two, first for the agent signing of all time.
27:30The Bucs give the big Bucs to Alvin Harper.
27:33Number two.
27:34I work with AT&T, baby.
27:37Just throw it in my area code, because I'm going to make something happen with it, baby.
27:39Just get me a rock.
27:40That's all I ask.
27:41Just get me a rock.
27:42Yeah, that was a bad signing.
27:44In Tampa, he was supposed to be the man.
27:49Wow, did he take a hit?
27:51Expectations higher than maybe they should have been.
27:53And I couldn't tell you one thing he did for Tampa Bay that season.
27:57Oh, my God!
27:59I don't know who the hell you think you are.
28:00He was a bridesmaid.
28:02He would never become a bride.
28:09Our number two worst free agent signing was a key component of one of the NFL's greatest dynasties.
28:16What a play by Alvin Harper.
28:19What a great play.
28:20Cowboys are back.
28:22You go watch some of the footage of those Cowboys teams.
28:25Alvin Harper was a good player.
28:27He'd have three guys draped on him.
28:29He'd catch the balls.
28:29Throwing it for the bunch into the end zone.
28:31And I went to school with Alvin.
28:34And his ability was phenomenal.
28:36High jumped over seven feet coming out of high school.
28:39Could run like a deer.
28:40Yo, man!
28:42Speed!
28:43Unbelievable speed!
28:44Alvin Harper is infamous in the Bay Area for being the guy in each of the championship games,
28:5092 and 93, that the Cowboys beat the 49ers to catch a late pass that clinched the game.
29:02Those hands are worth a lot.
29:04A whole lot.
29:05You're going to see what they're worth today.
29:07While Dallas won two rings in the early 90s, Harper hit the NFL market in 1995 and was quickly snatched
29:15up by Tampa Bay with a four-year contract worth $10.6 million.
29:22Alvin Harper took the money and didn't run.
29:25He got hurt almost immediately.
29:26Barely got on the field.
29:28And Tampa Bay wrote the big check.
29:30He was going to be a guy that changed their fortune.
29:33Look what happened.
29:34A bust!
29:36Maybe not the biggest bust in Tampa, but it was clear that Harper was not the same playmaker he was
29:43in Dallas.
29:44He is guadalty!
29:46Well, we expected him to come to Tampa and change the culture.
29:49We're having a little business today.
29:50You know, he was a number two receiver in Dallas, and we expected him to come to Tampa and be
29:55a number one receiver.
29:57He wasn't a number one receiver in the National Football League.
30:00Alvin Harper was your classic number two.
30:02All of a sudden, now you're the number one receiver.
30:06Eh, not the same thing.
30:07You don't have a Michael Irvin on the other side to take away that coverage.
30:11Hey, when you don't know what to do, just dial 82.
30:14This number two receiver only lasted two seasons in Tampa and is now our number two worst free agent signing.
30:23I saw right away that Alvin Harper had his money.
30:26He had his Super Bowl rings already, and there was nothing Tampa Bay really could offer him
30:31at this point in his career other than paychecks.
30:34Hey, don't.
30:35Don't hate, babe.
30:36Don't hate.
30:37Get on, don't.
30:38He doesn't get hate.
30:38I think Alvin Harper was one of the worst free agent signings, and that falls on the team.
30:43I think the Bucs did not understand what he was and what they were getting,
30:47and therefore it turned out to be an absolutely horrendous free agent signing.
30:52And now, the number one worst free agent signing of all time, anyone to the Redskins.
30:58Ha!
30:59There's a number one, and then there's everybody else, and the Redskins have to be at the top
31:04of the list.
31:09This is a category that deserves its own top ten list, because I couldn't even distinguish
31:14one from another.
31:17Over the last decade and a half, no team has taken a more active role or spent more money
31:23in free agency and gotten less in return than the Washington Redskins.
31:29Wow, I mean, the list goes on.
31:31Dana Stubblefield.
31:33Deion Sanders.
31:34Adam Archuleta.
31:35Antoine Randall L.
31:36That didn't work.
31:37Bruce Smith.
31:38Jeff George.
31:39We even forget that when Steve Spurger came in, he tried bringing in Danny Werfel and Jockez
31:43Green and just making them the Florida Gators.
31:45They're not all bad.
31:47London Fletcher.
31:48Let's have fun for the man next to you, man.
31:51Let's go ahead and play for each other, man.
31:52It's time to date.
31:53London Fletcher's the big one.
31:55He's panned out in a major way.
31:58Year after year, we watched them sort of sign the guys with the AARP cards and bring
32:03them in and completely overpay them.
32:06The Redskins' recent run of bad luck began in 2000 when they overpaid for a pair of aging
32:12stars in Bruce Smith and Deion Sanders.
32:16It was literally like they signed the 1992 All-Pro team, but it was 2000, and none of
32:22those guys panned out.
32:23Deion Sanders had the toe issue.
32:24Bruce Smith, I mean, he was basically there to try to get the sack right now.
32:29Bruce Smith, 199th career sack, which is a new NFL record.
32:34Jeff George, the next season, he got cut.
32:36He was our starting quarterback and got cut before the third game.
32:39Then they had the famous Adam Marchaleta signing.
32:42And the biggest problem with it is they had a safety on their roster who was better.
32:46And that was a guy named Ryan Clark.
32:47Ryan Clark is still a great player with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
32:51He throws it long down the field.
32:53The pass will be intercepted.
32:54Steelers have it.
32:55Ryan Clark.
32:55And Adam Marchaleta has been out of the game for a long time.
32:59Yep.
33:01You need to divide up number one.
33:03You need to have a either redo the list and make it number two and number one or do a
33:07one
33:08and one A because Albert Hainsworth deserves his own category.
33:11Albert Hainsworth, the big $100 million deal.
33:14He wanted it.
33:15Is he worth it?
33:15$100 million.
33:17And with the Daniel Snyder get absolutely nothing.
33:20When I line up in front of somebody, when I put that helmet on, it's to kick butt and
33:25it's to make sure that guy knows that I'm the best player I ever play against.
33:29I mean, he has the most active off switch of anybody who's ever played the game.
33:34Down on the ground, you have to...
33:40And you got to continue to chase Michael Vick.
33:42And that's not good to put that on tape.
33:44This last offseason was just amazing.
33:47What is going on with Albert Hainsworth and the Redskins?
33:50You had Albert Hainsworth not running these sprints, then maybe going to run these sprints.
33:55Hopefully he'll get it done tomorrow, but it may take two or three days, may take a week.
33:58I really don't know.
33:59Hey, Albert, can you run from here to there?
34:02Nah, man.
34:02Nah.
34:03I can't do that.
34:04When he doesn't want to do the fitness test, that might be a good indication that maybe Albert
34:08Hainsworth's not your guy.
34:11The football management in Washington always thought we want to be the best that we can
34:17be in March, and that's going to help us win games.
34:21The Hainsworth signing will certainly put the Redskins among the contenders for the mythical
34:25off-season Super Bowl.
34:27I honestly think Daniel Snyder's heart is in a good place.
34:30You have to like him because he's willing to go to whatever lengths he needs to to try
34:35and build a winner, and he's willing to write a big enough check.
34:38In football business, you're banking on one individual player, and so if that individual
34:42player gets old or starts to break down, your entire project, your entire investment
34:48goes down with it.
34:49The Washington Redskins may never, ever win a championship again if they keep on with the
34:56mistakes that they make signing free agents.
35:02In the NFL, the art of finding a good free agent is not an exact science.
35:07You have to understand why the player performed well where he did.
35:12You can't just take a piece and put it somewhere else and think it's going to work.
35:16You've got to sign guys who fit your scheme.
35:18You've got to know what the plan is, what you're going to do with them.
35:22For every Reggie White or Drew Brees, there are two or three Albert Hainsworths.
35:28So if you're shopping for a free agent, buyer beware, because you don't always get what
35:35you pay for.
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