Eric Green F.A. TE in 1999 Hatchette was a good find on this list. How about Ryan Yarborough and Alex Van Dyke? FS Damien Robinson is another one. A guy who thrived in the Tampa two but Hermie couldn't get much out of him.
In the first Coslet/Steinberg year, we drafted Thomas, Rembert, and Stargell... In the 2d year, we drafted Nagle. Ughhhhhhhh!!!!
Al Groh should not be the coach. Even if he did have a rough (and short) end to the 2000 season. Even though starting 6-1 and ending 9-7 is hard to do and pathetic, it isn't nearly as bad as coaches like Kotite and Herm. And you forgot special teams, so how about adding: K #6 Doug Brien
I'll buy that. K #6 Doug Brien P #4 Louie Aguiar As for the coach, it's not the worst but the most disappointing. We have enough ammo to put together quite a staff--Pete Carroll could be DC, all kinds of ways we could go.
I agree with most of the list. I do not recall Neil O'Donnell being that good and he was a fairly expensive free agent pick up. If Chad gets injured again we can put him on this list. What about Bellicheck, wasn't he coach for a day. He should be on the list.
Groh was a disappointment but registered a winning season. If he had stayed another season he might have been less of a disappointment. Kotite really was much worse. He was looking weak when we got him, but amazingly managed to fall way below even those basement expectations. Nice guy, good mentor for Chrebet, terrible coach.
Foley, Groh, Lageman, Malamala, and B Thomas got a bad rap. Also, most of the TEs produced. The rest of the guys on the list were absolute bums. Blair Thomas didn't start out too badly RBBC with McNeil. He was neer the same after he fumbled agains the Bears on Monday night though. Huge waste of a # 2 pick.
Was he a dissapointment or just consistent. I remember him losing his last seven games with the eagles to end the season before we picked him up. To be dissapointed you must at least expect something good. He was just a bad move.
Maybe Joe Walton would be a better coach for this group. He actually did coach many of them and was probably instrumental in drafting a lot of them, since we had no GM in those days. He took over a good team and took them steadily down hill in seven years, finishing 4-12 in 1989 to dip below 500 for his career. I believe he also brought Kotite into the organization for the first time, but I'm not sure about that. Even had his own chant--"Joe Must Go!"
He may be thinking of CB James Hasty drafted the same year as McMillan (1988). Booty was a nickel back drafted the same year but he only played 1988-89, I think.... Bobby Jackson (sigh) - cost the Jets the '82 regular season game at MIA, he was burned twice, once on a TD, and he dropped the game-clinching INT with :50 seconds left (right in his chest), allowing the Dolphins to kick the game-winning 47 yard FG. Had the jets won the regular season records of the two teams would of been reversed giving the Jets a higher seed and they may have faced Miami at home for the title instead of the mud bowl.....
for Coach you should have Lou Holtz or however you spell it, didnt they get killed day after day with him?
I'm going to suggest putting Bill Belichick on the coaching list. I think the word "disappointment" suggests that you had high hopes and the results didn't meet the expectations. I don't think anyone had high hopes for Rich Kotite, we all knew we were screwed when we hired him. We fired a coach that lost 4 games in a row (Pete Carrol) and hired Kotite who just lost 7 in a row with Philthy before getting fired. So I don't think Kotite had a "disappointing" career, because we knew he had zero expectations to begin with, he was supposed to suck. When we hired Belichick, I had huge expectations and assumed we were on the right track, we finally hired the right guy. Obviously, my hopes were dashed in record time.
We traded our #1 pick to a conference rival for him. We could have gotten a TE to match his production for almost nothing. I expected more than we got.
I agree with that. Seeing what he went on to do with New England, of all teams, only rubs it in that much more. Even if he did it in Cleveland or something it wouldn't be as bad. But yeah, the whole thing stunk.
