Thread: The Confessional, or, Where to Eat Crow

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Wy? To the best of my knowledge he never made any mistakes like that.

He pretty much blew Cobbs. Of course he (and I) were right about Plummer.

Originally Posted by beefstew25

He pretty much blew Cobbs. Of course he (and I) were right about Plummer.

Oh yeah, Cobbs...forgot that one.

All right, no qualifiers -- but I'm still having a hard time thinking of a player I really had a boner over that stunk balls. I'm thinking.

I dont think ive had any bad assessments. I guess my first will probably be what ever happens with Royal. Ive been tooting his horn before the draft and after we got him. So if he fails to live up the expectations that i think he can live up too than i guess i will be eating a lot of crow. I guess if there is one player that i will never live down (although i wasnt on a forum at the time he was drafted) it would have been Nash. I watched what he did at Tennesse and thought he would be the shiznit. Ooops.

Oh yeah, I also supported Foster. That was kinda dumb, but when I did a comparative analysis of his allowed sacks and his DVOA compared to other tackles in the league, he was in the Top 10-12 at the position; but as you can see with Detriot now and the drafting of Gosder Cherilus, they think he sucks balls too. My mistake. Hope that's not a qualifier, but why I really liked the guy!

Sure I was wrong about Griese, Walls, O'Neal and many others. They didn't pan out but I also didn't anointed any of them as great after just one season and at the same time I don't write players off after just one bad season.

Jake Plummer, I argued and argued with my dad. I did give up after the AFCC game though........ I was positive we were going to draft Linehart. Thank goodness Jay C fell in our lap. I love that kid.

My worst ones have to be

Quentin Griffin
Lenny Walls
Ashley Lelie

Quentin Griffin and Tatum Bell have to be mine (at least my most recent).

I guess I'm just a sucker for OU & OSU grads after watching their whole college career.

i didn't think dumervil would make it as a pro, and now he's one of my favorite players. . . .

Tatum Bell here. I was really hoping Bell was going to be the man after Portis was traded. Though he did produce for us it was clear that he wasn't the bell cow I was hoping he was going to be.

I thought Lelie was a legit number 1. I thought Kuper would beat out Holland for the starting right guard spot. I thought Hixon would emerge as a speedy threat on our team (he did, but with the Giants. ). There's a lot I'm forgetting.

Originally Posted by dogfish

i didn't think dumervil would make it as a pro, and now he's one of my favorite players. . . .

Finally, one that we can be glad you were wrong on...

Originally Posted by LordTrychon

Finally, one that we can be glad you were wrong on...

Well, in that vein I didn't think Brandon Marshall would amount to crap, due to some early hints of attitude issues - nightmares of another Marcus Nash. So far I'm mostly looking very wrong here if he gets his head fully in the game.

Terry Pierce...

Being a Big 12 guy, I really expected Pierce to come in here from KSU and earn a starting spot at LB. He looked like a solid 2nd round pickup but he got injured a couple times and never really lived up to potential.