The other thing is that folk make it out like the Jets turned down the guaranteed number 1 QB in the draft but KOB and Marino were not in the first 4 QB's off the board anyway taken 5th and 6th. Denver will be happy with their choice in Elway. KCC not so much as Blackledge was not so clever. Bills had Kelly for a long time, I wonder if their fans wank over Marino instead of Kelly every off-season? Cheats got Easen, I guess they would have taken Marino retrospectively.
cortez kennedy was the pick we should have made..... rebuilding BEGINS with defense when u already have a QB. i had the opportunity to ask d. steinberg this question in person during the 1991 camp and he looked at me like - how dare you question the GM.
posted this somewhere the other day..... if the colts could have worked out a trade prior or during round 1 of the 83 draft, they would have taken marino with any first round pick they would have received. he was #2 QB on their board.
but he might have refused to play there too, Jilozzo....nobody wanted to play for the lameduck Baltimore Colts, with their drunken, unpredictiable owner Irsay, and the abusive Frank Kush!
Tez was a great player, jilozzo. Still hard to believe he died at such a young age. He was basically the only great player the Seahawks had in the early and mid 90's, lol.
Well in a do over I suspect Denver would have still selected Elway but obviously KC would jump on Marino. As for a Jets do over the possibilities are endless but how about Marino and Jerry Rice ( although Toon was a great player himself beset by concussions ) along with Emmitt Smith a little later ...
The worst thing about the trade was that Terry Bradway said there were no tight ends in the draft better than Doug Jolley. Jolley caught 29 passes for 324 yards and one touchdown as a Jet (and incidentally, that was bang on his career averages, so that is what everybody should have expected). Heath Miller, drafted by the Steelers after the Jets would have made their first-round pick in 2005, finished his career with 592 catches for 6569 yards and 45 touchdowns.
I agree with you, I thought he was going to be decent but he never seemed to develop. Pat Kirwan, who was with the Jets at the time, has a regular show on Sirius NFL radio. I remember Pat saying something about how they "drafted a guy really high and he was working out OK until he fumbled on Monday Night football and the guy wasn't the same afterward. He couldn't handle adversity" or something like that. I'm writing from memory and that's the jist of it. I'm pretty sure he was talking about Blair Thomas.
But they drafted Elway. Are you saying they would’ve taken Marino as well if they could’ve got back into the first round?
Denver didn’t take Eleay remember. They drafted Chris Hinton and later pulled a trade for Elway with the Colts.
I always thought the Gholston selection was a bit over-criticized. Obviously he sucked and didn't work out, but it's not like he was a bad prospect. He dominated some pretty good tackles in college (bitch slapped Jake Long around) if I remember correctly. What I'll never understand is that as bad of a football player as he might've been, why the fuck did he never see the field? Even in obvious pass rushing situations? You spend a pick that high on a guy, he's gotta see some time in his first couple years. Prove to yourself you screwed up.
Agreed. I was surprised by that too. McNeil was a hell of a player. One of my favorite mid 80's Jets.
