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00:09welcome to who's number one i'm trey wingo they were surefire guaranteed can't possibly miss
00:15bet the house all-time locks we're talking about football players folks specifically those chosen
00:20in the nfl draft to trumpeting fanfare and millions millions of dollars and then from
00:25off the high board into the pool of great expectations they belly flopped we're talking
00:31they gotta be in the first round too draft bust folks floperooskies we're talking about players
00:37who are supposed to be go to the cashier and collect sure things and turned out instead to be sonic
00:43booming busts you know who they are espn classic presents the 20 biggest nfl draft busts and trust
00:50me this is the one category in which nobody wants to be number one cardinals are a good example of
01:04a
01:04team that drafts players and then fails to develop them michigan state linebacker anthony bell
01:10tennessee wideout clyde duncan colorado state quarterback kelly stouffer mississippi defensive
01:15and freddie jonah from 1984 to 1987 the cardinals went 0 for 4 in the draft's first round i guess
01:23it all starts from the top and there always seemed to be confusion surrounding the cardinals and their
01:27draft reflected it and their wins and losses have reflected it everybody's got a point to bill bid
01:32oh the cardinals field draft players and field development i don't even think they can get
01:41developed players to succeed that's just the cardinals and there goes bid will
01:52well how can you have a good organization when he is your owner kelly stouffer they couldn't even get
01:59him signed and he wound up playing his short career elsewhere players that they drafted were not
02:04graded out that highly overall it's just a series of evaluations that the cardinals made that didn't
02:10fall in line with what the rest of the league really fought luck plays a big role in any uh
02:16draft bust
02:17but in the case when you freddie jonah was the cardinals all-time sack leader well officially anyway
02:27he has 60 sacks 60 sacks in nine years what made some 67 and a half sacks in nine years
02:36what makes
02:36him a bust he had two 11 and 14 sack season hello what makes him a bust you see a
02:50pattern like
02:52people that are making the decisions
02:5919 19 19 has perhaps the worst draft history in the national football league
03:0619
03:10he's going for all of them end zone
03:16from 1992 to 1995 the bangles on mike brown's watch drafted no worse than 6th and were sure they
03:23had hit pay dirt but for the bungling bengals pay dirt turned out to be a swan
03:29they did have a string of bad picks they had a string of very high picks none of which worked
03:34out
03:34for them david clingler was a sensational college football quarterback but clearly unathletic and not
03:41very strong in the pocket a little bit sidearm bust johnna carter i think could have he got the crap
03:49beating out of them i don't blame david clingler for not not doing stuff you got sad 80 you got
03:56sad
04:00two and a half times a game what what do you think that's 40 times a season
04:08and kajana carter got injured and big daddy dan wilkinson
04:13wasn't really a bust he had a good career this is this is wrong to all three of them wrong
04:20been a top
04:21player had he ever been healthy if only he didn't get hurt and get hurt and get hurt
04:26copeland was the product of a national championship team and was just a very good college football player
04:32who didn't translate into pro football big daddy wilkinson was just not a hard-working player when
04:40he got to the bengals he had all the talent in the world he got by on that talent for
04:43a while in pro
04:44football but he was not worthy of the number one overall pick these guys may have been good football
04:51players but they just went to the wrong franchise because they didn't have the best teaching coaching
04:57staff you could have brought anybody in there and there was a good chance they were going to fail
05:01hell they could have destroyed troy aikman if they drafted jerry rice jerry rice probably
05:06would have been out of the league with inside of two or three years
05:11no he would not have genius they drafted carl pickens and he was a perennial pro bowler
05:22why would jerry rice is worse than carl pickens good receiver is going to be a good receiver anywhere
05:34most of the teams in the league would have made the same mistake
05:38and taken andre bruce had they had the top pick in the draft in 1988 blinded by his speed rush
05:46atlanta
05:46took auburn linebacker andre bruce among those whom the grievously mistaken falcons could have drafted
05:51instead how about michael irvin tim brown or bill romanowski andre bruce was as big a
05:58rush guy off the corner as anybody i've ever seen it was a disservice to him to to be drafted
06:05that
06:06high he was not nearly as good as his draft position indicated
06:13lander selects andre bruce linebacker auburn playing that position defensively you're required
06:21to do more than just use your speed to come off the corner and kill the quarterback so when he
06:26got to
06:26the nfl and there were requirements beyond just doing that he had a problem the funny thing about
06:32andre bruce is that he lasted a pretty long time in the nfl not as a great player certainly but
06:37one that
06:38was serviceable because you're number one you know right away you're supposed to be a difference maker
06:43and he was not a franchise player he just never really was capable of ever living up to expectations
06:55and then people figured him out oh he can't he can't he doesn't want to put the work in he
07:03doesn't
07:03want to do this he can't beat you if you do this he can't beat you in this game and
07:09he was gone for nine
07:20years call me a nut but i thought that there was a he was a can't miss i don't know
07:27how that didn't
07:27work 17. courtney brown was as unstoppable as an avalanche at penn state but as the first overall
07:33pick in 2000 by cleveland the often heard defensive end melted away averaging only 29 tackles a season
07:39over five years before the browns released him courtney brown when he came out the big debate was
07:44do you take him or do you take his penn state teammate lavar errington who's going to end up having
07:49the better career who's going to end up being the more dominant player the first choice in the nfl
07:56draft the cleveland brown select courtney brown who courtney brown he was the number one pick
08:04in in an nfl draft i had no idea why hasn't he worked in the pros as well he probably
08:11has been
08:12derailed by injuries more than anything else for raw talent he was one of the quickest defensive ends
08:18i saw and unfortunately with the injuries we never had a chance to see the sustained quickness
08:23he doesn't have that intensity that drive that will to dominate football games with the god-given
08:30talent that he clearly still has lavar ankin obviously with the redskins has been a heck of
08:35a player courtney brown to this day has not been able to stay fully healthy and has certainly not
08:40shown anywhere near the pass rush ability with the cleveland brown that he did in the college level at penn
08:51state
09:04in ncaa history when he came out of wisconsin he was going to be something supernatural maybe a combination
09:10of of speed and power that the game had to see since earl campbell 16. here's a guy who absolutely
09:17dominated in the big ten a good college conference oh what a great day to run that was ron dane
09:25clearly
09:25was a guy that was the beneficiary of an outstanding offensive line with big holes playing against defenses
09:32that weren't across the board physically imposing as they are in the nfl he was the great dane at
09:40wisconsin winner of 99 and the giants top pick in the 2000 draft but as a running back in the
09:47nfl
09:48dane more bark than bite unable to average four yards per rush in any season he came into the league
09:56kind of billed as the thunder to tiki barber's lightning and you know thunder never rumbled ron
10:02is a little man in a big man's body he doesn't think of himself as a power back he got
10:07it in his
10:08mind at wisconsin that he was twinkle toes that he had a little bit of this and a little bit
10:13of that
10:13he could make you miss it would have been cool if he turned into another jerome bettis or or somebody
10:19like that but that wasn't what he did in college he was more of a guy that hit the edge
10:36and then used
10:36speed if ron dane could ever figure out that he's just your basic 250 pound sledgehammer he could be
10:44a very useful pro back lon's style of running was great in college but in the nfl it didn't work
10:57johnny lamb jones the guy that could dominate college football because of his speed
11:08as a collegian you could fly to the ball and you could disguise sometimes your
11:14frailties at that position he couldn't catch he couldn't catch you're gonna be a receiver if
11:21you can't receive johnny lamb jones was not physical enough to be a high caliber nfl player
11:28at texas johnny lamb jones was a star in the olympics he won gold but as the number two overall
11:34pick in
11:351980 by the jets he reminded draftniks that speed alone not enough he wasn't a football player happened
11:42to run track it was the other way around that's why he was a bust he was not a receiver
11:46he was a
11:47guy who ran 100 meters if you just wanted a guy to run nine routes up the sidelines say beat
11:53that
11:53corner and we'll try to throw you the ball deep lamb jones might have been your guy
11:59people thought he was going to fly by everyone as a deep threat in pro football and he had his
12:04moments
12:05but he never quite lived up to his lofty draft perch
12:08i just remember one of the jets coaches telling me after they had drafted him there's one thing that
12:13we didn't we didn't understand about johnny lamb jones he can't catch the football
12:2314 14.
12:25edus hits the first one and breaks free 40 45 still going touchdown
12:32physically this was a guy that just you looked at him and he said he has all the tools that
12:37guy's going to be
12:37a star with the bear select running back penn state university curtis enos curtis enos was a monster
12:49running back at penn state so he seemed a perfect fit for the monsters of the midway
12:54yeah he had all the tools then
12:59the injury bug flame torched his toolbox
13:04the bears drafted him fifth overall in 1998 but the monster was meek in three seasons
13:10he rushed for four touchdowns i don't know what happened to curtis enos god he was horrible in
13:16the national football league curtis enos was a guy who was great running in holes you better be able to
13:22make some of your own yards when you play for the bears because late in the season that's going to
13:26be
13:26what you have to do to win he was more about the money and the contract and everything else and
13:32didn't necessarily have the desire to be the best he could be in the national football league
13:37that's one thing the nfl does is exposes players that are either iffy about it or aren't sure what
13:43they want to do and it showed itself early and he and the bears were victims of that
13:5113 13 13 13. terry baker might be one of the first of the heisman troll
13:59he's a quarterback 13. terry baker was a run first pass second quarterback at oregon state good
14:05enough to win the heisman in 62 and entice the rams into drafting him number one overall they made him
14:10running back and in three years he rushed for 210 yards he might have been ahead of his time because
14:16he was a very mobile quarterback and of course that was way before the west coast or any kind of
14:20offense that he never threw a touchdown in the nfl and made us left-handers look really bad so
14:28thanks a lot that we didn't see another left-handed quarterback for years after that thanks
14:39that used his skills the draft really wasn't as sophisticated in terms of scouting there wasn't
14:48a combine at the time it was before the days of cable television before uh espn's game day we didn't
14:55see players unless they were in your area or on the abc game of the week so terry baker was
15:01kind of a
15:01creation of the media people on the west coast and nfl teams didn't get enough hands-on scouting with
15:06this guy they could have played single wing i guess in the nfl he would have been a great player
15:11but
15:11you know they actually had to throw the ball down the field and he just wasn't up
15:16he wasn't nearly as polished as you need to be in the passing game to be a contributor in the
15:21nfl
15:28blair thomas was he was as big a go-to back as i ever saw in college
15:35blair thomas will score he's the one who epitomized the term penn state running back
15:42when you talk about what a real bust is blair thomas was cat quick and uncatchable at penn
15:48state the jets drafted him number two overall in 1990 in six years he scored a grand total of nine
15:54touchdowns becoming the third nittany lion running back to make our list of enigmatics
15:59blair thomas we all thought was going to be a heck of a football player you know kind of
16:03shied away from contact never really got going i don't know if it was a matter that uh he didn't
16:09like the sport didn't like the pain of the sport i mean you saw that he had that kind of
16:13sleek
16:13body and speed but it never did translate into the nfl he was just along for a great ride at
16:20penn
16:21state with a lot of offensive linemen who did become nfl players and or stars
16:31blair seemed to be the one that kind of set the bad trend for running backs coming out of penn
16:36state
16:37everybody always felt there must be something in the water in happy valley because these guys come to
16:42the nfl and they just can't run hard he wasn't a terrible player sometimes when you take these
16:47guys as high as blair thomas was selected you raise expectations to a little bit of an unrealistic level
16:55even if you have a decent career it's not good enough high draft picks gotta have a great career
17:01and although thomas had a few moments certainly a few and far between
17:06hey he started his career five yards a carry
17:11his rookie year i guess he got figured out
17:1911.
17:21from the washington 29
17:30the university of washington defensive tackle was the number one overall pick in 92 by indianapolis
17:36but in six injury-filled seasons with the colts dolphins and redskins he was able to start only 19
17:42games he was a product of the weightlifting craze by whatever means he got way bigger in college than
17:51and edmund outstanding a 280 pound tackle emma was a guy who could dominate at the college level
17:59because of his raw strength against college guys steve was a man among boys but when he gets onto the
18:08pro
18:08level at some point all those guys are equally as big or stronger or faster quickly he was exposed
18:17as just another guy when he was in indianapolis he could never be healthy and that happens a lot
18:24of times when you're a big muscle weight lifter guy and you're not very athletic you just don't hold
18:29up well under all the physical beating one of the great specimens as far as what you would want in
18:35seeing a player develop as a defensive tackle but unfortunately because of those injuries he never
18:40developed in the nfl and had a very short career i know it's painful and you say you've covered there
18:48is a guy that was anointed the next great notre dame quarterback there was something about being a
18:55quarterback at notre dame that just had everyone enamored at any given time no matter who he was
19:00i mean he was supposed to be montana he was supposed to be theisman he was supposed to be
19:04handwriting and he turned out to be nothing he was not supposed to be terry handwriting because
19:11terry handwriting was terrible in the nfl he was supposed to be the other two
19:20the seahawks chose rick myers second overall in 93 expecting him to take them great distances
19:26he's logged the miles all right by himself chicago green bay new york san francisco oakland and detroit
19:34it looked like he was going to be okay i think he's actually rookie of the year
19:38but after that it was straight downhill
19:44got a lot of longevity out of the fact that the great bill walsh dubbed him as sort of a
19:50next montana
19:51type but his play on the field never proved it he couldn't throw the football accurately i don't
19:56understand why people couldn't see that if given any pass pressure he completely fell apart
20:03and tom forrest and the people who were running the seahawks at that point realized he just wasn't
20:08all that here's a guy who two teams spent first round picks on because he was traded
20:15uh by the seahawks to the bears for a first round pick it's kind of disappointing to me
20:20uh that he has not had had a better career he's had a long career but not playing a whole
20:26lot
20:27and it's like whatever became of rick myer and he's still floating around but you never
20:31know what team he's on he was a victim of hype
20:39so much pressure so much money so much time put into a guy and then you flop
20:46washington waited 33 years to spend its top pick on a quarterback
20:50in 94 the redskins spent it on heath shuler of tennessee
20:54they should have waited longer his career stats 15 touchdown throws 33 picks
21:00what a move inside the 10-5 touchdown
21:05redskins
21:06where'd his wheels go man where'd his wheels go
21:09they've made some bad choices over the years
21:12they drafted a quarterback who is 21
21:17like he's john hadel is this is still the 60s yeah you're you're not too bright if you draft a
21:27quarterback who wears number 21.
21:32yes but this is one of the worst if you talk to redskins people they they always keep trying to
21:38say
21:38well it was it was his pick he had succeeded very much so at tennessee because of his athletic skills
21:45tennessee at that time had such great receivers that they ran a lot of two-man routes he didn't
21:50have to make a lot of reads at the next level he was having trouble adjusting to defenses and
21:56actually learning offenses
22:01within a few games they realized he didn't have it he couldn't do it
22:09and all of a sudden here's his low round draft choice gus ferrado comes in
22:12and simply from the very beginning looks better
22:15do you think of their quarterbacks over time as vibrant sort of leaders guys who were
22:21enthusiastic and vocal in the huddle and he's shuler was was not those things he was a nice guy
22:27nice guys can play quarterback but they better have a tough shell around them
22:31he's shuler never had that tough shell because of the great crescendo of interest it made the flop
22:37the thud that much louder there were so many expectations and unfortunately in the end just
22:43so many disappointments for he's shuler
22:52and the nation's capital brought him in and he failed to capitalize in front of the nation
22:59with the first pick in the draft the cincinnati bangles have selected running back from penn state
23:05kajana carter
23:10dingles dingles go to cincinnati number one see you something bad's gonna happen
23:18i'm seriously gonna call this guy twice he got injured several times jana carter avoid the cincinnati
23:26curse and the penn state curse short answer uh no since being drafted in 95 he's played in only 59
23:33games and with two surgeries and a boatload of injuries seems to have more stitches than yards
23:39curtis enos blair thomas kajana carter that's the curse of the penn state backs no one wants to take a
23:46penn state back anymore after these three guys all were huge busts
23:52kajana he was someone that just got hit by the injury bug and couldn't shake it it was like one
23:56injury after another injury kind of feel for the guy because he worked so hard to get back and then
24:02re-injures himself kajana carter even before he hit the knee seemed to be having a tough time
24:09figuring out what an nfl hole was i wish he hadn't hurt the knee because then we'd know for sure
24:15when you see what he's been through and how he adapted to the role of being a fit player to
24:22make
24:23a roster to just suit out and be a player with the new orleans saints by example says a lot
24:29about
24:29the guy he just was a guy that i think was on the verge of really being a good player
24:34in the nfl
24:35you know he's going to be looked upon you look at the draft say oh look at that guy look
24:38where he was
24:38taken and he never made it but in fairness to him it wasn't his fault
24:46seven seven seven
24:47join me in the signal honor of awarding the 1989 heisman memorial trophy to andre weir of the
24:55university of houston
24:59his senior year alone quarterback andre weir passed for almost 4700 yards and 46 touchdowns
25:05detroit was understandably smitten and took him seventh in 1990 but in the nfl andre was overmatched
25:11his career four seasons 14 games five touchdown throws there are a lot of heismans there are a lot
25:18of heisman trophy winners who did not do particularly well in the national football league but i can't
25:23remember one who was such an unmitigated bus the detroit lions select andre weir quarterback houston
25:32they're committed to the run and shoot this is the best guy that ever ran the run and shoot
25:37and when he was picked by the detroit lions you thought boy it was falling perfectly into place
25:41but andre weir never was able to settle in the system worked in college but you get in the nfl
25:47where
25:47the big boys are and where these defensive coordinators have seen everything it better
25:51be more than the system you better have the talent and you better have the mental toughness to back it
25:56up and unfortunately he came up short on both areas are you are we insulting the greatest running back
26:04of all time arguably barry sanders how much more system do you need if you have barry sanders on your
26:10team he extended a lot of pitiful quarterbacks career or disappointing quarterbacks careers
26:18andre weir must really have been that terrible if he couldn't succeed with barry sanders as his running back
26:26he'll be remembered for his college greatness and his disappearing act in the nfl
26:40the cleveland brown selection is from the university of kentucky quarterback tim couch
26:46should not be anywhere near this high firstly he lies team up playoff secondly he had a lot of injuries
26:53and he had a terrible line he was really the only player on that team who showed up
27:00he's got to be way down the list i don't think he's even top 10.
27:08cleveland obviously made a mistake when they could have had donovan mcnab
27:12six the browns could have probably wouldn't have done anything there either
27:17had dante culpepper too but in 1999 they went with tim couch and they've lived to regret it
27:24among his numbers in a short forgettable career 64 touchdown passes 67 points
27:32he was in large part the product of a pass first system at kentucky they didn't really
27:39ever attempt to establish the run it was just chunk it chunk it chunk it
27:43what a ball when he got to the nfl and the game became a bit more sophisticated he just did
27:52not have
27:53the wherewithal to deal with that he came to an expansion football team that was going to suffer
27:58for a while and i think the fact that tim got beat up certainly caused him to lose some of
28:03his confidence
28:05everybody just kept waiting for tim couch to turn into this great something into tom brady
28:10and he never became tom brady he didn't have much tenacity at all if i could pour some doug flutie
28:17let's say in that body of couches it might be okay if doug flutie took those hits he would have
28:24been killed
28:24all right his first three seasons he was sacked more than three times a game he was sacked 50 times
28:31twice
28:33only time he wasn't is because he was injured and missed too many games from being sacked the other
28:43time tenacity see some of these quarterbacks take those hits
28:50in that division with the ravens and titans punishing defenses and the steelers
28:58when a team like the green bay packers bring you in thinking that hey former first round draft pick and
29:03they jettison you after a couple days in camp you have to wonder where his career is going
29:09ultimately just didn't have that swagger that every nfl quarterback needs to inspire the fans to
29:15inspire your team and most importantly to inspire yourself
29:24lawrence phillips has been thrown off the team for allegedly assaulting a woman
29:29on the field nebraska's running back lawrence phillips was all but unstoppable
29:34off the field he was well all but unstoppable the rams drafted him number six overall in 96
29:41he played in a rage and lived that way too it's a foot race and lawrence phillips will score
29:49piece of crap on and off the field frankie could be hired
29:55phillips has been ordered to serve 30 days in jail in nebraska this is a guy with trouble written all
30:00over him and you bring him in and you want your city to embrace him when in fact they should
30:05be
30:05picketing he obviously had no clue how to respect authority how to stay within the law how to treat
30:11women correctly a battery complaint has been filed by a woman who claims that phillips assaulted her
30:16this guy should be getting attention and help he should not be being drafted and being brought into
30:20the national football league
30:23dick ramiel passionately believed in lawrence phillips tried to scare him straight tried to
30:30love him straight but in the end there were too many demons inside lawrence phillips
30:35sooner or later you're an adult you have to look in the mirror and maybe say part of the problem
30:40is me organizations kept employing him almost saying to him okay lawrence it's okay you know
30:45he can be a thug he got second chances he got third chances people were always trying to help him
30:54and what a colossal waste of talent
31:00the boz is highly controversial he's highly sensational he's the extreme
31:07at oklahoma brian bosworth created a renegade image and then drafted in 87 by seattle he spent
31:13three years trying to live up to it he had his 15 minutes of fame as the boz exited stage
31:18left he was
31:19a really good college football player with attitude at a time in the 80s where swagger really mattered
31:27he wasn't brian bosworth man he was a boz
31:30bosworth number 44 very few people have a nickname that ends in the z are the fons you're the boss
31:36brian bosworth booming about and he is a pro
31:43brian bosworth is one of the greatest marketing jobs ever done by a professional athlete
31:49boz was madonna in shoulder pads i mean madonna had shoulder pads but boz's were bigger
31:54it was driving a corvette convertible it was chasing chicks it was the cool thing to do and he
32:00was he was he was it he was the master at image how did he get that already some blue
32:06they didn't
32:06have nil back then some blue is rookie bonus check on that brian bosworth reminds me of
32:14deon sanders at florida state when he basically invented the persona of prime time brian bosworth
32:22was exactly that only he was about a third the football player in the nfl the publicity came
32:29first the performance never equaled
32:36wasn't that good but at least he tackled
32:41i don't think his career was ever the same when bo jackson ran him over for a touchdown
32:46here's bow and there goes bow for the touchdown he and bosworth one-on-one and jackson just jumps
32:55him into the end zone everybody's expert i'm tired of hearing about the play me and my dad are like
33:01i watched his play so many times he made the tackle expectation that if it happens the 50-yard line
33:08it's a five-yard game boz was going to come in and storm the nfl and be the next dick
33:15butkus was so
33:16beyond any of my control his career just fizzled out but he had the whole country right there
33:22for a short period of time
33:29three three three three tom rinovich didn't want to be a football player at all i mean tom rinovich
33:35does now wishes he had three todd rinovich wasn't raised as much as he was programmed
33:41his father tried to create robo qb drafted out of southern cal in 91 in the first round
33:47by the raiders he never came close to what al davis wanted playing just eight games in two seasons todd
33:54was engineered to a great extent by his father from the time he was born to beam the national
33:59football league his dad tied his right arm behind his back when he was a
34:04infant and a toddler so he'd be left-handed the guy had never had a cheeseburger and never gone
34:10to mcdonald's every waking moment had to be spent building his body toward pro football stardom
34:17a little power strong stronger every breath this guy had basket case written all over him because of
34:24the way he was raised i remember when we drafted him he had amazing ability but just didn't apply himself
34:34he just took it for granted that he could still play quarterback without being dedicated and it was
34:39a joke he couldn't do that he was under such pressure and he obviously just wanted to be a
34:48kid he was someone who fell into problems with alcohol and drugs and really i think was lashing
34:53out at his father for robbing him of the childhood that he never had tom rinovich just being a living
35:00breathing member of society is a huge tribe oh yeah he didn't cut it in the nfl and he liked
35:06to surf
35:06naked and he liked to party but it could have been a lot worse there's a kid that had a
35:11great opportunity
35:12on to do something and do it well and he let it slip
35:25you're not supposed to be as strong as i am you're not supposed to be as fast as i am
35:28you're not
35:28supposed to be as good as i am seduced by his size green bay took michigan state tackle tony
35:34mandrich with the number two overall pick in 89 the highest in offensive lineman had ever been drafted
35:39the packers could have had a bunch of sanders like deon or barry instead
35:46nobody had a better body as an offensive lineman
35:50everybody had him rated the highest lineman they've ever graded it wasn't like one two three
35:56four guys like oh those foolish packers everybody they all agreed that was the sports illustrated
36:04production that was a guy we invented and we tore down and you wouldn't think general managers would
36:11buy into it but they did they bought into this kid as a great great player and he wasn't it
36:16was all hype
36:18everybody in the nfl wanted them to be the greatest offensive lineman of all time and wanted them to be
36:24the superhuman pancake guy if you've been described in your college career as an all-time great
36:33he didn't get pancakes because he waffled about what he's gonna do on the field
36:41how can you fail every nfl general manager should just have a picture of tony mandrich on the wall and
36:48look at it anytime they have any doubt however about a guy they're about to draft wondering whether
36:53his body is for real or the result of science and technology if you are going to select
37:01better make sure he has quick feet so he could play the left tackle position otherwise he's not
37:08worth taking that high tony mandrich didn't have the feet to play the left tackle position
37:12he was not a complete washout he was a good player for a period of time in indianapolis but initially
37:18with
37:18green bay he was a major disappointment welcome back to who's number one in the 20 biggest
37:28so who is number one well let's just say our choice for this dubious honor earned it and he did
37:34it in
37:35spectacular fashion there were those that thought he was better than peyton manning we all look at
37:46this and say it was a slam dunk manning over leaf when on draft day that was obviously not the
37:51case
37:52with the second choice in the draft the san diego charges select quarterback brian leaf
38:02in 1998 the chargers bobby bethard emptied the vault for washington state quarterback ryan leaf
38:07but in three seasons with san diego and dallas he threw 36 picks and only 14 scores never displaying
38:15what had dazzled them all in college i remember writing after the rose ball this guy would be
38:24terrific he's he's cocky but in a good way in a brett farve kind of way
38:30little done i know he was just a complete immature jerk
38:42ryan leaf is the quintessential best he was supposed to be the savior of a franchise they
38:49mortgaged their future and changed the whole culture of their franchise to get him
38:53ryan leaf has been suspended um and fined for conduct detrimental the club he was way too
39:02an explosive personality to deal with failure i have been selfish and i have let my personal
39:09shortcomings get in the way of my professional behavior ryan leaf was not prepared for the nfl the
39:14maturity level i intend to work hard on and off this field and i would appreciate it if we did
39:19not
39:19address this issue again my success depends on the support of my teammates in the san diego
39:24community and i promise to move forward in a positive direction the ability to practice the
39:29ability to take that talent that he had and turn it into something once he got the money he didn't
39:35want
39:36to work at it he got too big he became too opinionated and what he wanted and all he did
39:40was throw
39:41interceptions steps into traffic throws he intercepted again where the hell was leaf throwing that one
39:49ryan leaf could have gotten away with struggling on the field and acting like a complete jerk if he'd
39:56shown his teammates that he was tough they thought he was soft and that killed him he didn't have the
40:01people skills or the mental skills he was horrendous with the media which doesn't help when you're that
40:06high profile don't talk to me all right knock it off
40:17what are you doing you know you got cameras in there and he just acted like a petulant little
40:22kid who couldn't handle the pressure people thought that if he really would try to learn maybe he could
40:27have been great he never tried he never really cared if ryan leaf ever showed all the talent some of
40:36these guys weren't really talented this team make good make them good look at those look at those balls
40:42look at those balls look at the balls in washington state that he threw there's a reason he was being
40:50compared to manning and and he had the talent which makes him even worse if he just wasn't good
41:01in college it would be one thing he was great he just never never wanted to work
41:13those up in san diego county again he had better wear a mask
41:20the nfl really stands for national fanatics league for football is a sport of passion and that attracts
41:26the ragingly fickle and downright loony the draft is where their team finds their savior the player who
41:32knows the way to the promised land but what happens when it turns out that the savior couldn't find the
41:37promised land with a gps well it leads to a second guess and that in turn leads to our resident
41:42second guessers mike and mike fifthman in on a four-man line go look guys i think with ryan leaf
41:50how big his ego was the man's from montana
42:00nobody notable is from your state how are you gonna have a big ego from a nobody state
42:07i thought he was like from western pennsylvania with an ego like that or new york or california texas
42:17nobody's from your state how are you gonna have an ego
42:22you know people from states like those don't get to have egos
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