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re: NFL player busts for original team but had a good career elsewhere?

Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:26 pm to
Posted by TTsTowel
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Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:26 pm to
Mark Barron
Lagarrette Blount
Marshawn Lynch (kind of)
Aqib Talib (kind of)
Jake Plummer
Posted by TTsTowel
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:27 pm to
quote:

WR Brandon Lloyd (sp?) was givin chances with SF and DAL but it wasn't until frick boi Kyle Orton came along in Denver that he lead the league in yards iirc. Had a good three year run in Denver.
Yea, that was wild.

He had a crazy catch radius for his size, and reminded me of Lynn Swann with his body control and acrobatics.
Posted by theducks
Where The Blazers Play
Member since Aug 2013
13712 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:36 pm to
Right?

Orton gave him some wild balls to grab but he always grabbed them. Felt like he was on ESPN's SC top ten plays weekly. He really helped me cope with the loss of Marshall.

What amazes me about McDaniels is that in his short time here, we was damn good at getting targets. Signing Lloyd, drafting Thomas, Thomas, and Decker. Meanwhile in NE they haven't had a good rookie WR since??? Edelman? That's the only one I can think of.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:51 pm to
Eli Manning
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
123632 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:52 pm to
Spencer Ware from Seattle to KC
Posted by nvasil1
Hellinois
Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:55 pm to
quote:

Jake Plummer

Explain this one to me. He had some of his better seasons in Denver, but they were a much better team than the Cardinals.

He was a 2nd round pick and got the Cardinals their first playoff win since they were in Chicago. I don't think of him as a bust there.
Posted by TigerBait2008
Boulder,CO
Member since Jun 2008
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 5:56 pm to
Is all you do starting shitty threads?
Posted by gobuxgo5
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 6:09 pm to
quote:

s all you do starting shitty threads?


You got me. Stay classy
Posted by eddieray
Lafayette
Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:02 pm to
Tony Mandarich 2nd overall pick (just ahead of Dion Sanders, Derrick Thomas, and Barry Sanders).
Was terrible at GB, sat out 3 yrs (drugs, alcohol) and then came back and was serviceable for the Colts for 3 seasons.
Posted by jorconalx
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Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:27 pm to
Jim plunkett

ETA: I am so late the the party I'm turning out the lights
This post was edited on 12/8/16 at 8:28 pm
Posted by LL012697
Member since May 2013
3963 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:31 pm to
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Brees

Because of the injury? I wouldn't call him a bust in San Diego, he had a couple of good seasons. He obviously took it to another level when he got to New Orleans but I don't really think of him as a bust
Posted by The Ostrich
Member since May 2009
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:36 pm to
Anybody said Reggie Bush? after he left the Saints he had 3 solid years in MIA.
Posted by Tiger Ryno
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:40 pm to
Plunkett

Unitas.

Jimmy smith

Posted by iAmBatman
The Batcave
Member since Mar 2011
12382 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:40 pm to
Bust may not be the right word but there was a reason they drafted Rivers. Based on his play there, he wasn't going to be the QB of the future for them.

Don't get me wrong, I think he's great and love that he's a Saint but if anyone says they predicted his success in Nola then they are full of shite.
Posted by Brettesaurus Rex
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2009
38259 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:53 pm to
quote:

Anybody said Reggie Bush? after he left the Saints he had 3 solid years in MIA.

You really calling a key player in a Super Bowl winning team a bust ? If anything he didn't really do shite after he left Nola.
Posted by Bass Tiger
Member since Oct 2014
46151 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:22 pm to
Eddie Kinnison was mediocre with Rams ended up with Chiefs and had several yrs at or over a 1000 yds, Priest holmes left the Ravens, had not done much, ended up with the Chiefs and had the record for the most TD's and I believe combined yards in one season until Ladanian Tomlinson broke that record.
Posted by LooseCannon22282
Mobile
Member since May 2008
33745 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:52 pm to
Mike Vrabel- originally picked by Pittsburgh- thrived a lot more in New England

Ahman Green- originally with Seattle- made the Pro bowl a handful of times with Green Bay
Posted by The Ostrich
Member since May 2009
2542 posts
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:53 pm to
quote:


You really calling a key player in a Super Bowl winning team a bust ? If anything he didn't really do shite after he left Nola.

As the #2 overall pick, stat wise yes...in Miami he had two 1000+ yard seasons
Posted by eddieray
Lafayette
Member since Mar 2006
18023 posts
Posted on 12/9/16 at 6:17 am to
Joe Horn was a backup in KC, then pro bowler with the Saints. Not really a bust though because he wasn't highly regarded coming out.
Posted by JinFL
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Member since Oct 2004
3940 posts
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:36 am to
Jimmy Smith, there are tons of these examples.
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