TMQ's All-Unwanted Team

[Tortured Soul]

Nothing so remarkable on the Bills: Fred Jackson on the first team, Donald Jones, David Nelson and George Wilson on the watch list. I don't think there are any glaring omissions.

 

I think his QBs are a bit confusing. Michael Vick was the 1st overall draft pick. He wasn't unwanted by the Falcons, so much as he was incarcerated. Teams held off on picking him up due in part to the layoff but mostly due to the PR hit they expected to take. Still, Philly picked him up pretty quickly. Hard to really see the top overall pick as unwanted.

 

His second QB is Drew Brees, and this one really gets me. His own team made him a $50 million offer (granted, it was heavily incentive-laden after his shoulder injury) to retain him when he hit free agency, after franchising him the year before. He ended up taking a $60 million offer, $10 million guaranteed. That hardly qualifies as unwanted. The best TMQ seems to be able to muster is that he was unwanted by the Dolphins, who decided to gamble on Culpepper instead (thank god).

 

It's harder this year, since QBs who actually met his criteria in years past - Warner, Romo - are not viable options this year. Is there any decent QB out there that was unwanted?

[Mr Info]

TMQ

 

"Monday Night Football Analysis: The winning play for New Orleans on Monday night -- a bang slant to a tight end split wide right near the goal line -- was the same action the Saints employed to take the lead in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.

 

The nifty variation was that the Saints lined up trips left then sent a man in motion left to make it quirk left, drawing attention to the overloaded side. (Trips comes from triple; TMQ maintains that four receivers on the same side should be called the quirk, for quad.) Buffalo tried the same play near the goal line on its opening drive Sunday against New England; Sean Payton might even have gotten the play from that game. But the Bills being the Bills, the pass to the lone guy clanged incomplete; the Saints being the Saints, the pass to the lone guy was the winning touchdown."

[Malazan]

TMQ

 

"Monday Night Football Analysis: The winning play for New Orleans on Monday night -- a bang slant to a tight end split wide right near the goal line -- was the same action the Saints employed to take the lead in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.

 

The nifty variation was that the Saints lined up trips left then sent a man in motion left to make it quirk left, drawing attention to the overloaded side. (Trips comes from triple; TMQ maintains that four receivers on the same side should be called the quirk, for quad.) Buffalo tried the same play near the goal line on its opening drive Sunday against New England; Sean Payton might even have gotten the play from that game. But the Bills being the Bills, the pass to the lone guy clanged incomplete; the Saints being the Saints, the pass to the lone guy was the winning touchdown."

 

That seems to be full of the truthiness.