Dan Fouts picks a punter ahead of Tom Brady in MMQB All-Time Draft

[resdubwhite]

Was he high when he made that pick?

 

[SHOWTIME15]

G

Fouts

I know, but you can copy and paste what you wrote and apply it to manning.

 

[Love The Drake]

I know, but you can copy and paste what you wrote and apply it to manning.

Maybe besides the defense part being they played in 2 different NFL's.

 

[BobDigital]

What is the draft based off of? Are we doing just best value or team building? How many teams are in this draft?

Depending on the structure I may not take Brady first if I think i can get LT or Reggie White and than a QB like Staubach or Unitas as well. I personally feel there is a little more distance between the best LB or DL then the best QB at this point. So it would depend on how the whole thing was structured.

 

[Love The Drake]

Maybe besides the defense part being they played in 2 different NFL's.

Also Manning has 2 championships

 

[sb1]

Polian picks Levy and Dungy. Lol no bias there.

 

[conway]

I might actually take Gronk first, at least if health is not an issue. The difference between him and the next best all around TE is enormous. Winslow and Sharpe and Gonzalez just didn't have the size to block the way Gronk does.

And Moss being so low is a joke. He had one season in his prime with a good (ok, best ever) quarterback and he set the all-time single season TD record. He put up great numbers most other years despite Culpepper, a washed up Cunningham, and a bunch of other garbage players throwing him the ball.

 

[TBR]

He had to have been trolling.

 

[Biffins]

Well, there's pretty much no question now that Dan Fouts is my 1st pick in the first round of the NFL All-Time Douchebag draft. Obviously, he sucks so much at pretty much everything that his first option in football and in life is to punt.

He picked Ray Guy as the 4th overall pick in the all-time NFL draft. Brady went 9th to Peter King.

Full draft here:

The MMQB NFL All-Time Draft

Fouts doesn't understand what "All-Time" means. He only picked played from 70-80s that he played with or competed against. That's it. He even admitted it. In his explanation for picking Ray Guy he said he saw what a tough player he was to play against. I think Fouts missed the whole point. This isn't a Best of 70s-80s that Fouts played against. This is All-Time Draft. Everyone of his picks is from his own era. Yeah really. Even the coach.

 

[Biffins]

I didn't know quite a few of the players on that list. Shocker for me was seeing Don Hutson, a Packers WR from 1935-45 get picked 8th overall, #2 offensive skill player behind Jim Brown. I know basically nothing about him - will be interesting to research later.

As for the piece itself, would've been helpful to see depth charts or something to see starters / backups for each of the teams, otherwise the round by round is a pretty unhelpful way to parse through to find the actual end result of the draft.

NFL records
As of the end of the 2016 NFL season, Hutson still holds the following records:

most seasons leading league in pass receptions (8),
most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receptions (5),
most seasons leading league in pass receiving yards gained (7),
most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving yards gained (4),
most seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (9),
most seasons leading the league in total touchdowns (8),
Most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (5),
most seasons leading league in scoring (5, now tied),
and most consecutive seasons leading league in scoring (5).

Records held as of retirement:

• Most seasons led league, scoring: 5*
• Most consecutive seasons led league, scoring: 5*
• Most touchdowns scored in a quarter: 4*
• Most touchdown receptions in a quarter: 4*
• Most points scored in a quarter: 29*
• Most seasons led league, touchdowns: 8*
• Most consecutive seasons led league, touchdowns: 4*
• Most seasons led league, receiving touchdowns: 9*
• Most consecutive seasons led league, receiving touchdowns: 5*
• Most seasons led league, receptions: 8*
• Most consecutive seasons led league, receptions: 5*
• Most seasons led league, receiving yards: 7*
• Most consecutive seasons led league, receiving yards: 4*
• Most receptions, career: 488
• Most receptions, season: 74
• Most receptions, game: 14
• Most receiving yards, career: 7,991
• Most receiving yards, season: 1,211
• Most receiving yards, game: 209
• Most receiving touchdowns, career: 99
• Most touchdowns, season: 17
• Most touchdowns, game: 4
• Most points scored in a calendar month: 74 (Four games in October 1945) - since passed by Paul Hornung (77 - Five games in October 1961) and LaDainian Tomlinson (78 - Five games in November 2006)

Note: * = remains an NFL record as of 2016 season

 

[PatsFanSince74]

In Golf, they love to debate who is/was "The best player never to win a Major."

Fouts would be my #1 contender for "Best QB [SB era] never to play in a Super Bowl." Maybe he has a hard time wrapping his head around a guy who's gone to seven.

Must be the San Diego Curse, as I think my #2 on that list would probably be Rivers, who might not get to Canton.

Trying to think of others.
Vick self-destructed, so I don't have him in contention.
Who else?

 

[Huckleberry1]

Polian picks Levy and Dungy. Lol no bias there.

It's not like he could have taken Belichick, He wouldn't work for a GM who throws games.

 

[Wordsmyth]

Dan Fouts and Ian Eagle, uggghhhh! Worst broadcasters to do the Pats games!

Cringeworthy performance.

 

[50-yard-line]

But it's not the all-time team. It's the all-time DRAFT.

So grab the guy who was so far ahead of others at his position, you gain a bigger advantage.

Why grab a Brady 1st, when you can get someone close in the second round, with only 12-people picking? Manning went 20th, in the second round.

Same with RBs.

Ray Guy was a monster in his era - a field-position game changer. He was hitting punts with massive hang time way down the field. I mean, i don't agree with the pick, but I understand the reasoning behind it, even though Fouts could have waited a round or two and still grabbed the guy.

The stranger pick to me was Jonny U so high up. I mean, yeah, he was great, but he wasn't even the best at his position.

 

[Nikolai]

Meh...

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

Fouts is so bad at his post-playing career.

 

[TheFlyingWedge]

Maybe Fouts is less a troll than he is just plain stupid

 

[BradyFTW!]

Unless we're going to seriously consider the possibility that a punter could be the fourth greatest player of all time, I think we should just acknowledge this was either a poorly execute and obvious troll pick or the product of a CTE-addled brain (or both) and move on.

Marv Levy and Tony Dungy getting selected ahead of Belichick is way, way worse IMO.

 

[RDS11]

I don't really understand what purpose that draft served, since they are not even doing a compare of the teams at the end.

That being said, Ray Guy is the only punter in the Hall of Fame, and I don't see many more going in the next few years. There are 33 QBs (and counting) in the HoF. So if Fouts wanted to gain one the biggest advantage at any position over the other GMs, drafting Guy was a not as shocking as it seemed. Just like fantasy football, the very best players are not always selected first, the players that have the biggest gap with the other players at the same position will usually go higher.

Accorsi got to draft Elway...and keep him this time ! I got a chuckle out of that one...

 

[Huckleberry1]

But it's not the all-time team. It's the all-time DRAFT.

So grab the guy who was so far ahead of others at his position, you gain a bigger advantage.

Why grab a Brady 1st, when you can get someone close in the second round, with only 12-people picking? Manning went 20th, in the second round.

Same with RBs.

Ray Guy was a monster in his era - a field-position game changer. He was hitting punts with massive hang time way down the field. I mean, i don't agree with the pick, but I understand the reasoning behind it, even though Fouts could have waited a round or two and still grabbed the guy.

The stranger pick to me was Jonny U so high up. I mean, yeah, he was great, but he wasn't even the best at his position.

Look, I'm rooting for you, but Fouts still has a much better shot at the Jets GM job.


Great try though.

Best of luck.