vmax Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 (edited) Pretty good article by Joe... BELIEVE IT OR NOT, OZZIE NEWSOME & CO. HAVE MISFIRED AT TIMESI look at the team's 20 biggest draft busts.In my view, "busts" are those players who proved to be so totally inept, they could barely perform at an NFL level when they actually did get the opportunity to play. If their career was hampered by off-field transgressions and constant injuries, that certainly didn't help.1. TEXAS LB SERGIO KINDLE (SECOND ROUND, 2010) 3. OHIO STATE QB TROY SMITH (FIFTH ROUND, 2007) 5. WASHINGTON STATE WR DEVARD DARLING (THIRD ROUND, 2004) http://www.pressboxonline.com/2015/04/20/ravens20-the-teams-20-biggest-draft-busts Speaking of busts.... Edited July 8, 2015 by vmax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thundercleetz Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hmm not sure if I agree with his rationale for not including Boller, Travis Taylor or Mark Clayton. Interesting list though lots of old names I hadn't heard in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravnravn Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Double D was no bust, he made billicks dog house and that was the end of that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalBilly Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Pretty good article by Joe... Speaking of busts....I'll see your bust, and raise you two... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rastaman831226 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'll see your bust, and raise you two... OOOoooooh! Me like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmax Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Nice!The short story on Boller for me is it cost the Ravens a shot at another SB because they did not have a legit, playoff caliber QB.This is a good read and walk down memory lane. I remember many of us seeing the potential in these players, pulling for them to get better, hoping the light bulb would go off....and then surrendering that it's not going to happen. The Agony of being a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldno82 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Yeah...I don't see how you can leave Boller off the list---he was a first round draft pick. Nice guy but didn't seem to 'get it'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravnravn Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Yeah...I don't see how you can leave Boller off the list---he was a first round draft pick. Nice guy but didn't seem to 'get it'.He can't be on the list, as much as i disliked the slug he still left us with a decent record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsylvester Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 How is Deron Burnt toast Jenkins not number 1? They trade up for the stale burnt bread.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rastaman831226 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 He can't be on the list, as much as i disliked the slug he still left us with a decent record.Defense left us with a decent record. Defense has and will always be the Ravens calling card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravnravn Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Defense left us with a decent record. Defense has and will always be the Ravens calling card.I think of busts I think of Leaf, akili Smith, bozworth, I don't throw boller in with them boller made us cheer, then 5 minutes later he made us yell wtf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado700 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 OOOoooooh! Me like!I thought you were one of them homosexuals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBird Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Interesting article but to list the last player drafted as a bust is a stretch. He wasn't expected to make the team as few few do and he was Art's pick. Art gave the drafting duties to Oz but wanted to make one pick for old times sake so it the Mr. Irrelevant. There were also some 6th and seventh rounders. Not as many make teams from there as well. Ozzie's second round has always been his worse round but he scored recent guys like Ray Rice and Torrey Smith and Jernigan last year so he's on a roll. I'd list Swan Edwards as a big bust, the first player Ravens took after they gave up that #1 pick for Boller. NE got Vince Wilfork with that #1 pick. We get Swan who didn't even play til his last year and made some plays and left for Free agency. I'd list Kruger the Beast as another big bust who did nothing every year til his last year and only 1/2 year after Suggs returned getting 9 sacks. He was used only in situations. Guys like to point to his sacks in the SB but had they left him in the entire game like he wanted he would have lost the game. They can run all over him and did. Oher is another bust after showing some promise his rookie year he didn't do much afterward switchingto LF and finally back to RT. Fans like to blame that as a reason for his failures. Gruden blamed hisbrain said he stands,there w/o a clue as to what to do like when TP crept up on him. That would have been time for one of his many fast start penalties but he wasn't smart enough to think of that. He got beat bad on Joe's miracle high throw in Denver but Joe side steps the rusher and steps up in the pocketto drill the ball for the winning TD. We won the SB in spite of Oher and his giving up a sack during that game. Ravens didn't even try to sign either one and they left and now Oher is out of football and blaming the book writtenabout him. Kruger was bitter about lack of playing time as a #2 draft pick but Ozzie said he had 4 HOFers aroundhim and still couldn't stay on the field the entire game as a #2 pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBird Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Furthermore, I posted a link a few years ago that more of Ozzie's draft picks are still playing than any other GM.Not sure about now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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