Draft Season: Biggest misses

[Bigvinny]

12 hours ago, Happy Gilmore said:

Sammy Watkins.  I thought he would be an instant WR1 and stay there for years.

Same here. I live in South Carolina and watch a ton of Clemson games. He also had just dominated Ohio State in the bowl game. I called WGR the day of the draft and told Sal that I wanted the Bills to trade up and take Sammy. They did but it was kind of downhill from there. 

[skibum]

17 hours ago, HappyDays said:

I thought Pat Mahomes would bust. Strong arm, physical, but inconsistent accuracy and decision making and he played in an air raid offense in college. Credit to the Chiefs for being patient with him and turning him into the most exciting player in the league.

I did too. To me, he looked like a 14 year old punk you would see selling weed under a bridge somewhere. I just didn't think he was a mature adult, and figured he would crumble under the pressure of being a pro. Boy, was I wrong. 

[BUFFALOKIE]

12 minutes ago, skibum said:

 To me, he looked like a 14 year old punk you would see selling weed under a bridge somewhere.

 

I just didn't think he was a mature adult.....

LOLOL!!! I know you meant no harm, but srsly?

 

Who sells weed under a bridge? "A mature adult", hell an immature kid knows better than that.

[chris heff]

I called the EJ pick and hung in there with him way too long.

[Rico]

12 hours ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

I'm going to be honest, I'm never too low on a player. If anything I can overshoot a bit on some of my favorites but that is also rare...

 

I have forseen the likes of:

Christian McCaffrey

Luke Kuechly

JJ and TJ Watt

Joey and Nick Bosa

Cooper Kupp

Julian Edelman

Eric Weddle

Wes Welker

Leighton Vander Esch

Harrison Smith

Gronk

Ryan Kerrigan

 

Soon to be:

TJ Hockenson

Josh Allen

You didn’t list any CB’s. How did you feel about Jason Sehorn?

 

And what about Isabella the Great?

Edited April 18, 2020 by Rico

[CNYfan]

18 hours ago, Blokestradamus said:

2015 - Way too high on David Cobb (Minnesota RB), Kevin White, Devante Parker, Maxx Williams (Walford and Koyack also crashed and burned, RIP my credibility). Xavier Cooper, Owa Odighizuwa, Paul Dawson, Hayes Pullard, Eric Rowe. Best player I was way too low on, probably Jamison Crowder.

 

2016 - Most of the WR class, if I'm honest. Stephen Anderson (Cal TE), Landon Turner, Noah Spence, Bronson Kaufusi, Jeremy Cash, AJ Stamps. I was a lot lower on Buckner, Hunter Henry & Jack Conklin.

 

I'm not going any further or I'll cry

 

I'm doing good, thanks. How are you?

Didn't you tell us OL Jon Miller was going to be the cat's pajamas?

[Blokestradamus]

10 minutes ago, CNYfan said:

Didn't you tell us OL Jon Miller was going to be the cat's pajamas?

 

I definitely thought he was going to be a decent fit for what Greg Roman was running. His second year, we started to see some of that come to fruition. Then the scheme changed.

 

I don't call having a Late 2nd - Early 3rd grade on a guy that's been a low-end starter for 60 games a miss though.

Edited April 18, 2020 by Blokestradamus

[OldTimer1960]

18 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

This is mine too. 

 

The other one that springs to mind is Corey Davis the receiver the Titans took. I was convinced he was a #1 guy. 

I think with Rosen the problem seems to be with his work ethic and attitude rather than his physical talent.  While there were suggestions in media that maybe football wasn’t important enough to him, that stuff is really hard for anyone to have insight into unless you can interview him, his coaches and others around him - stuff that nobody here has access to.

[Buffalo Boy]

Ryan Mallett.

Kid  had a cannon for an arm and some off the field issues which meant we could pick him up later.

Was so pissed when the Pats took him and thought he might eventually take over for Tommy boy???

Edited April 18, 2020 by Buffalo Boy

[1ManRaid]

11 hours ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

But she didn't know McCaffrey would go on to be the best RB ever

I don't have many misses

Getting a strong whiff of shooting first and then painting the target around the arrow then.

[OldTimer1960]

I remember thinking that Soloman Thomas was going to be great.  I also didn’t like Mahomes or Watson - I thought that Watson’s receivers in college made him look better than he was and I didn’t thought that Mahomes college offense and his school yard plays wouldn’t translate to the NFL.

 

Hmm, not so good on those counts...

[Buffalo Boy]

11 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Whoa there pilgrim

 

Let's see in 12 to 15 . Jim Brown ,OJ ,sweetness, Barry

 

Kids got to earn it

If Rhule/ Brady use him correctly he might be on his way to the HOF . If they run him into the ground , maybe not.

[Ethan in Cleveland]

Joey Bosa 

Christian McCaffrey 

[Sherlock Holmes]

2 hours ago, Rico said:

You didn’t list any CB’s. How did you feel about Jason Sehorn?

 

And what about Isabella the Great?

Well, loved Jason Sehorn. I think we are seeig some discrimination in the DB department honestly. Hopefully that will work itself out.

 

Isabella is going to be dangerous, not sure why he didn't have a breakout season yet but with Hopkins maybe he will get his this coming season! I know Renfrow started slow but picked it up at the end of the year as well!

2 hours ago, 1ManRaid said:

Getting a strong whiff of shooting first and then painting the target around the arrow then.

Not even close, I have had meltdowns to the point of a temporary ban on missing out on some of these guys as proof.

 

I do have misses but it is over shooting on some of these guys... Hock and Isabella could be case and point if they don't pick it up these next few seasons.