Most disapointing Patriot draftee

[VJCPatriot]

Chad Jackson and Laurence Maroney. Missing on our first two picks in 2006 pretty much killed that draft.

 

[Ochmed Jones]

Ken Sims is interesting.

In college he was a great 4-3 DT. The Pats take him #1 overall and try to make him a 3-4 DE. Add in a bad attitude and countless broken legs and is it any wonder the guy bombed?

That would be like graduating college with a degree in history and landing a job as a computer programmer. Something's got to give.

This is why I am so glad that BB does not like to "Project" 1st rounders to different positions in the pros.

In the BB era my most disappointing pick is Watson. A huge TE with 4.4 speed that was supposed to work the deep seem of the defense, but is currently soft as a banana in a bowling alley and couldn't catch the flu if he was in Alaska in his underwear standing in tub of the CDC's nastiest viruses.

 

[DaBruinz]

Based on production/value versus expectations.

RB-Maroney
TE-Dan Graham
OT-Adrien Klemm
S-Gus Scott/Dexter Reid
DT-Dan Klecko
QB-Rohan Davey
OT-Kenyatta Jones
RB-JR Redmond
LB-Andy Katzenmoyer
RB-Robert Edwards
CB-Chris Canty
WR-Hart Lee Dykes
RB-Reggie Dupard
DT-Mike Ruth
C-Trevor Matich
QB-Tony Eason
DE-Kenneth Sims

WOW. How can guys like Redmond be a disappointment? How can Robert Edwards have been a disappointment? It wasn't his fault that he tore his ACL playing in a Rookie Beach Flag Football Game during the Pro-Bowl week.

How can you not have Eugene Chung on your list?

I'm gonna be honest. With your list, one seriously has to wonder if you actually watched anything of the Patriots prior to 2000 and didn't just add names like Matich, Ruth and Sims because of other people..

 

[DaBruinz]

I am astounded that people are putting Reggie Dupard and Laurence Maroney into the same category.. It just goes to prove how ridiculous some of you are in your standards..

 

[Real World]

Maroney's problem can be attributed to his health, or lack there of. The kid still has a chance to be a good player, and pick. He's produced in stretches, so we know there is some ability there. He's undoubtedly been a disappointment from a production standpoint, but he's still a player with ability, and most importantly, on the team. Chad Jackson on the other hand, was already cut. Talk about a total disappointment as a draftee. The team traded up to get him, when better recievers were taken behind him, and I don't even know if he's still in the league. El Busto supreme.

Bethel Johnson was a disappointment too, but he helped us win a SB at the very least.

 

[tombonneau]

Maroney's problem can be attributed to his health, or lack there of. The kid still has a chance to be a good player, and pick. He's produced in stretches, so we know there is some ability there. He's undoubtedly been a disappointment from a production standpoint, but he's still a player with ability, and most importantly, on the team. Chad Jackson on the other hand, was already cut. Talk about a total disappointment as a draftee. The team traded up to get him, when better recievers were taken behind him, and I don't even know if he's still in the league. El Busto supreme.

Bethel Johnson was a disappointment too, but he helped us win a SB at the very least.

Agree on Chad Jackson. His Bustocity is compounded by the trade up and the fact had the NEP stood pat they could have taken Greg Jennings instead.

 

[TrueBeliever]

Eugene Chung never got me excited in the first place, so he didn't disappoint.

What was the deal with him anyway? Back in the mid-'90s, when I was in college, I started collecting football cards again and for some reason one of Eugene Chung's rookie cards had an insanely high book price, like $7 or something like that. It got to be a joke in the card shop I hung around at, guys would say, "You think I'm rich or something? Do I look like a guy who could afford a Eugene Chung card?"

As for Eason, I never really saw him play (though I do have videotapes of two of the '85 playoff games and Super Bowl XX, and a 1984 game against Dallas he was in) but I thought he was a decent QB in the regular season but really embarrassed himself in the Super Bowl. If I'm not mistaken he's still the only QB to start a Super Bowl without completing a pass in the game.

Katzenmoyer, I remember shortly after the Pats drafted him, I read somewhere that another team passed on him because their DC met with him for an interview; reportedly the DC asked Katz who his football role model was, and Katz said someone like **** Butkus or some other famous linebacker. But when the DC asked him why, Katz said it was because of that player's signature dance he made when he was introduced at gametime.

I'd have to say the biggest one in recent memory was Chad Jackson. I remember when we got him in the draft and so many football pundits were saying, "How did he fall into the 2nd round?!" They were calling him the Pats' "first round pick taken in the second round", etc. Guess the other teams saw something Belichick didn't...?

 

[Lifer]

Not even close

Kenneth Sims

In 1981 the Colts and Patriots played each other the last week of the season, loser gets #1 pick and Sims, who was supposed to be an absolute stud. Both teams tried to lose so bad. I remember my brother calling me hysterical with laughter when the Colts punter punted it into his own center.

Sims had one decent half season before he broke his leg in the Patriots SB year 1985.

 

[Pats Fanatic]

Actually Dennis Byrd, Ron Sellers and Phil Olsen were pretty disappointing and just plan bad.

 

[mgteich]

You beat me to posting this.

I am astounded that people are putting Reggie Dupard and Laurence Maroney into the same category.. It just goes to prove how ridiculous some of you are in your standards..

 

[Lifer]

You know, had the defense made one more stop at Indianapolis and one more stop in Arizona, Maroney would have been the lead running back on 2 Super Bowl Championship teams.

Im my mind he is NOT a bust.

I feel that any player who has a part to play in a team winning a Championship, which the Patriots did in 2001, 2003, and 2004, has done what I wanted, he helped the team get to the promised land.

For that reason, I will never consider Bethel Johnson or J.R Redmond busts. Bethel doesnt make that runback at the end of the half in Indy in 2003, who knows if we get home field. J.R. in the snow game and the Super Bowl. Im forever grateful.

 

[Julius]

Bethel Johnson also caught a big touchdown againts Tennesee in the Playoffs. Also there was a great regular season catch againts Seattle that stands out.

 

[maverick4]

Chad Jackson.

He won the catching drills and obstacles competitions, had great production in college, was a speed demon, was coached by a great offensive mind in college... and then did nothing.

 

[alvinnf]

Agreed, Chad Jackson is "All hat no ranch"......

 

[AzPatsFan]

You guys are just too young.

How about Football Phil Olsen. He nver even donned a Pats uniform after a first round draft. Then there was Dennis Byrd, one mediocre season and done as first round pick. Chris Canty played two years before they dumped him...

Ken Sims was a fairly good DT but certainly not the first pick in the draft.

 

[Jimke]

You guys are just too young.

How about Football Phil Olsen. He nver even donned a Pats uniform after a first round draft. Then there was Dennis Byrd, one mediocre season and done as first round pick. Chris Canty played two years before they dumped him...

Ken Sims was a fairly good DT but certainly not the first pick in the draft.

I immediately thought of Olsen when this thread began. His situation
was a completely screwed up mess. GM Upton Bell made Olsen his
#1 draft choice in 1970. He tore up his knee in the College All Star Game
and never played a game for the Patriots because Bell did not file the
required paperwork with the NFL to retain his services for 1971. Bell had to
trade Olsen to the team of his choice the L. A. Rams for a 1972 #1 choice.

Bell traded this #1 pick plus a 1973 #2 pick to the Giants for Fred Dryer.
Trouble is Bell did not speak to Dryer and he refused to report to the
Patriots. Dryer was traded to the Rams for Rick Cash and the Rams
1973 first round pick.

Mercifully, by 1973 the Patriots had fired Bell and hired Chuck
Fairbanks. Fairbanks used the pick to draft Sam Cunningham.

 

[Julius]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Jim Plunkett

 

[Jimke]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Jim Plunkett

Jim Plunkett had an awful team around him and had very little chance

to succeed. He got the stuffing knocked out of him. Chuck Fairbanks

arrived a couple of years too late to salvage Jim.

 

[dryheat44]

Bell traded this #1 pick plus a 1973 #2 pick to the Giants for Fred Dryer.
Trouble is Bell did not speak to Dryer and he refused to report to the
Patriots. Dryer was traded to the Rams for Rick Cash and the Rams
1973 first round pick.

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I dind't realize Hunter was Patriots property for a brief while. I liked that show.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

rod shoate was a great lb/athlete from oklahoma that should have been all world but became a decent not great player. that was the most disappointing for me.