Oh boy, I sure hope nobody brings up our 2017 NFL Draft
Perfect.
People don’t forget!
So glad we took Jarrad Davis over this bum
Really? TJ Watt would have been awesome in Honolulu Blue!
Edit! Hurrah! My most downvoted post!
No, not really. I am very not okay with Davis over Watt
I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone that Chi, Det, and MN had the opportunity to draft Rodgers before Green Bay in 2005, including Minnesota twice.
We are playing the long game with rodgers. Just need him to share some dick picks and get ousted from the Jets so we can go on our run
I'm for it as long as it ends the same.
Yep, with the Bears ending his career like they did Favre.
Don’t forget the Wrangler Sunset where he will con the poorest people in America. In all honesty, that seems the most plausible of the things left on the Favre bucket list
Might wanna re-evaluate your game plan
See I'm able to cope with this one pretty easily. He slipped to the 20s because he was a project. He needed his mechanics completely rebuilt, which Clements successfully did from the ground up while Rodgers sat behind a HoF QB for 3 years.
There is a 0% chance any of the divisional rivals would have succeeded at doing this, so it doesn't bother me that we didn't take him
Now TJ Watt, that's a guy who looked like an All-Pro from his first snap in his rookie year
What’s that, you say? A 0% chance the Vikings, Bears, or Lions can successfully develop a QB?
That’s nonsense. Culpepper had a near MVP season and only lost to manning who had the best single season for a QB up until that point.
But that poster is also full of shit. I was fucking pissed that Rodgers went to GB. As a USC fan, I watched a lot of Cal, and Rodgers was the shit in college. I knew instantly that SF had fucked up and Rodgers would tear it up in the NFL.
I was too young to care that deeply about draft positions, but what the other guy is saying is that it's difficult to develop a project QB when you are in constant need of a QB1 now. Bears are a perfect example of it.
Oh I don’t disagreewith you. I was just saying that the Vikings did develop a top QB even if his career was cut short. Unfortunately, we haven’t had any more success drafting QBs than the bears have since then. Teddy was ok, but I don’t think he was going to be a top QB even without the knee injury.
And also Rodgers was so clearly beyond Alex Smoth that it was mind boggling that smith went over Rodgers which seemed to be a last minute change in rankings. That was also a weird draft where most teams just weren’t QB needy at the time.
Christian Ponder?
Culpepper. Ponder was a disaster the moment a draft pick was wasted on him.
If only there were some QBs in this league who will never be the guy, but can still sling it decent. Men who would play the position for relatively cheap, serving as an interim at the position while teams found and developed the true heirs and successors to their QB1. These mediocre QBs could go on a journey from team to team and make an entire career out of it; we could call them "journeymen."
I see all the teams with empty GM slots calling your number after this revolutionary insight.
Detroit had drafted 4 of the last 5 Super Bowl winning QBs
No, completely rebuild a QB, Lions have done pretty well at developing Goff.
You’re confusing developing with managing
Spot on.
He should have said Stafford. It's really just the Bears that are incapable of developing QBs
What about developing AND supporting?
All people talked about was how Rodgers was a "Tedford system QB".
I get it Akili Smith, Dilfer, Harrington, Boller. But he was better than all of them in college.
Yeah as much as I don’t like to compliment the Packers I definitely don’t think Rodgers would have been HoF elite anywhere else.
IIRC, one person correctly predicted that Rodgers would go to the Packers (most mock drafts are BS, but it's still interesting that he got it right). Basically, it was a coin flip between Smith and Rodgers to the 49ers, but between them and the Packers, none of the teams really had a need for a quarterback either (though the Bears did draft Orton in the same year, but in the 4th round) and would rather use their 1st round picks on other needs.
If Rodgers had gone to the 49ers, it's likely that Smith would have ended up in Green Bay instead.
No snark.....thanks. That's an interesting backstory, and it makes sense.
Sorry, but we had Joey "The GOAT" Harrington.
Exactly, we needed to surround him with weapons like Mike Williams. It's OK, we got a project QB in the later rounds, Dan Orlovsky. In the coming years everyone would know about "Safety Dan".
But why would Detroit take a QB like that when we had the bomb trio of Harrington, Garcia, and Olovsky?
OMG, I completely forgot about Mooch bringing in Garcia. He was supposed to be the starter but got hurt, came back mid year, stunk and Joey H, stops and looks right at Mooch and says "look who's come crawling back" and then he Harringtons all over the field.
Garcia was widely reviled by the Cleveland radio hosts & fanbase because, it was whispered, he had that West Coast “metrosexual” vibe …
If Caleb at all stumbles in his first year, look for CHGO radio to start whipping up the hysteria
Minnesota that had Daunte Culpepper coming of the 4700 yards and 39 passing TDs?
That would have been falcons level dumb
Lions had Joey Freakin Harrington then. No way we’re taking a QB when we already had this stud.
The Randy Moss miss is worse smh
Don’t look at us. We had a qb in his prime that recently had an mvp type season. Not our fault we are literally cursed and his career ended there pretty much.
Thanks dude, first time hearing about it.
He fell because he probably came off as the colossal douchebag that he is, but meshed well with the folks in Green Bay. Obviously, the juice ended up being worth the squeeze, but I get not being able to be in the same room with the guy. He probably dropped some theories about 911 and busted out his acoustic guitar halfway through the interview.
The Steelers did what?!
Oooh 69 upvotes... sorry man, I can't
Nice
Shut up
I wanted TJ Watt and Tanoh Kpassagnon over Jarrad Davis and Teez Tabor.
I hope no one brings up any Lions draft during the Quinntricia era
Everyone was on vacation those three years. It was one big Trey Lance pick
It's ok bb those dark days are behind us
Every time I close my eyes I see how excited I was in those years. Stafford, Slay, Tate, Ansah, I spoke so highly of that core. I don't recognize the Lions anymore, and I say that positively.
Ted Thompson died after not making this pick...RIP
Yall took trubisky over mahomes
Who cares about some old ass dudes drafted in 2017?
You’ve crossed the line with this one
They would’ve ruined TJ too…
So I'm supposed to sit here and be miserable about first round cb busts by myself like I'm fuckin Stephen Glansburg??