Classic NFL Draft Moments

[Guest]

1983 NFL Draft - part 1 (check out the Chargers' draft prospectus starting at 4:45. Also, audio is terrible)

1983 NFL Draft - part 2

1983 NFL Draft - part 3 (Billy Ray Smith drafted at 12:39)

Bengals draft David KLOLingler

[Guest]

Torrey Smith nails it:

Kiper on the Colts drafting Trev Alberts:

Dallas drafts Emmitt Smith:

NY Jest draft blunders:

I'll keep looking for more, and please feel free to add your own.

[ArtistFormerlyKnownAsBKR]

How we didn't get Elway n '83 is a mystery.

[Mister Hoarse]

Gene Fucking Klein logo:

[Formula 21]

How we didn't get Elway n '83 is a mystery.

Nobody knew Elway would be THAT good.

[Yubaking]

How we didn't get Elway n '83 is a mystery.

The hell with Elway (proud member of the top 5 overrated QBs of all time). We could have had Bruce Matthews, Dan Marino and Darrell Green in round 1 without trading up at all. Score that 1 way better QB and two other Hall of Famers. In fact, with hindsight we could have had:

1-5 Bruce Matthews
1-20 Dan Marino
1-22 Darrell Green
4-95 Greg Townsend
6-141 Reggie Roby
7-192 Richard Dent
8-202 Mark Clayton
9-245 Tim Krumrie
10-272 Jesse Sapolu
11-304 Karl Mecklenburg
11-307 Anthony Carter
12-314 Bill Bates
12-329 Nate Newton

That would have been an "okay" draft.

[QSmokey]

I know you realize this, but you can apply that sort of 'what if' scenario to almost ANY draft in hindsight. I realize that having THREE #1s is a rarity, but even in the years we didn't have multiple high-round picks, if you look at a draft 3-4 years down the road and then allow yourself a 'do over', you'd be looking a hell of a lot better in (probably) ALL cases. Let's apply that theory to the 2011 Draft, where we had a #1, two #2s, and two #3s:

Pick #	We took	We could/should have taken
18	Cory Liuget	Jimmy Smith, CB
		Adrian Clayborn, DE
		Phil Taylor, DT
50	Marcus Gilchrist	Greg Little, WR
		Torrey Smith, WR
61	Jonas Fucking Mouton	Justin Houston, DE
82	Vincent Brown	Shereece Wright, CB
89	Shereece Wright	Richard Sherman, CB

Hardly the 'mother lode' that could have been the 1983 Draft, but Sherman, Houston, and Little/Smith would have been huge upgrades to what we got instead, even if we had still taken Liuget and Wright.

[Gwynning_Spirit]

According to some dick doing estimated historical QBR's , Marino put up the best seasons of the 83's and even Kosar had a better estimated QBR season than Horsehead ever did:

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=9076

So this is either more fodder for QBR being shit, and/or Elway only ever did anything because he was good at riding coattails.

[ArtistFormerlyKnownAsBKR]

Nobody knew Elway would be THAT good.

Really? I remember that draft and I think the consensus was he was going to be great. Naysayers notwithstanding he had a great career and was better than any QB we had during that period and was better than our combination of picks. How great would it have been to transition from Fouts to Elway?

[6025]

Fuzzy memory here, but I think the Colts wanted all three #1s. Plus, Fouts was holding out prior to the draft and I believe Klein would have made that trade if the Fouts deal fell through.

[6025]

But I agree, Marino was there for the taking, and I think he scored low on the wonderlick, plus the drug rumors, turned a lot of teams off.

[Mister Hoarse]

But I agree, Marino was there for the taking, and I think he scored low on the wonderlick, plus the drug rumors, turned a lot of teams off.

Haha. Those rumors were true.

Hindsight is always easier for those with their head up their ass. - M. Hoarse