Let's talk about when we were wrong...

[Wundrbread33]

I thought it would be interesting to have a thread where we just poo all over ourselves for times when we DRASTICALLY overrated a player that ended up flopping tremendously.

To get things kicked off...

I was all over that David Gettis train. I mean I rode in every cabin, held jobs as the conductor and engineer,....heck I even sang show tunes from the caboose when the train entered town.

Injuries took promise away, but I felt like the kid was pro bowl material...only to get cut from us and then cut again by other teams. Even sparring injury, there is no way he could have lived up to the hype I had created in my head.

 

There that felt good. Who is next?

[Ricky Spanish]

That Cam Newton Guy is going to SUCK and we will Pick Marcell Dareus

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

-really, really believed in matt moore

-had similarly high hopes for clausen

-was hyped for david carr and thought he just needed to spend a few years on the bench and he'd take over when delhomme hung it up

-was on the "lol scammy scam laptop his dad tried to hock the BCS trophy can't run an NFL offense" train until cam's public workout

-wasn't a fan of the kuechly selection

-i was really intrigued by tank tyler and thought he'd develop into a great player for us.  also louis leonard and some of those other scrubby DTs we had at the tail end of the fox era

-bdjs (if you don't know what that means you need to learn the lore) until week 1 2009 when we reached the final frontier and it was obvious he was done

 

[imminent rogaine]

Kevin Dyson. *sigh*

[imminent rogaine]

Also, I think we can all admit to being a little too hopeful for Nakamura. I thought he was going to come in here and wreck house... instead he just came in here and fell down.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Also, I think we can all admit to being a little too hopeful for Nakamura. I thought he was going to come in here and wreck house... instead he just came in here and fell down.

yeah

he was trapped behind ed reed remember

[JawnyBlaze]

I was big on the Gettis train too.  I bought a Everette Brown jersey before that season started....

 

 

I lose.

[TheRed]

That Cam Newton Guy is going to SUCK and we will Pick Marcell Dareus

 

 Of the QB's Gabbert would be the only one I would risk drafting in the first round.

 

[TheWiz]

George Seifert... 

hurts so deep

[Jase]

In my youthful naïveté, I thought that Todd Sauerbrun was a well adjusted, run-of-the-mill hard hitting punter that didn't at all use steroids.

[LinvilleGorge]

Hated the Kuechly ( I wanted Dontari Poe, Michael Brockers, or Stephon Gilmore) and Beason (I wanted Greg Olsen) picks.  Loved the Joe Adams pick.

[Mr. Scot]

Hated both the Newton and Kuechly picks.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

dante rosario was another guy a lot of us expected to explode at any given time but it never happened obviously

also i had forgotten all about this (spoiler for huge gif)

that ref did not want moose touching him

[motocross_cat]

I always thought drew carter would be the truth .