BUT... "Contributing on the Field" is not always something a Football front office can control...... Busts happen...... What makes DROB THE WORST EVER MOVE IMO, is the fact that it was so easily avoidable.... The DROB decision simply should never have even been made... The second that deal went down I said "Bradway better be willing to give up his 1st born tradeUP" DROB might not fit the term BUST..... It was just a FAILURE the second that kind of bounty was put on DROBS head.....
you hit the nail right on the head. Drob was the #1 bust ever. Boobway not only traded 2 number 1s but he also threw in our 4th round pick. Plus, one of the number 1s was the compensation for LColes, who was voted team MVP the previous year (2002). Therefore Birdbrain Boobway gave up our team mvp from the previous year PLUS our number 1 pick PLUS a 4th round pick for a short, squat toad who took the jets for say, oh, about $50 million with no production. How does Dumbway still have a job?
gholston is by far and away the biggest bust in franchise history. and he's also consider one of the biggest busts in nfl history.
Agree 100%. People hate on DRob because he never became the player everyone thought he was supposed to become, Warren Sapp (Christs sake his nickname was Baby Sapp which created unreal expectations). He had a decent rookie season, and had a pretty solid 2nd year with 50+ tackles and 3.5 sacks, including an outstanding game against the Chargers in the playoffs with 7 tackles. Was he an above average player? No. Definitely average at best. He never lived up to expectations, but Gholston was the much bigger bust IMO. I understand we gave up 2 first rounders for him, but he was still a serviceable player. Gholston contributed NOTHING to this team, but wasted roster space. I can't think of one game, NOT EVEN ONE FRIGGIN PLAY (save preseason), where I praised him for doing something good. Thats beyond incomprehensible when you think about it. He was picked around the area DRob was (4th vs. 6th). Jet Blue, I understand your argument especially about all the off the field stuff (injuries, etc.), but given ALL THAT he was still a decent player, so I can't give him the bigger bust label over Gholston.
The way I see it, it depends on where you're using the "BUST" label. You can use it two different ways: a) HE was a bust. The player underperformed compared to what he shown to be capable on College. Like false advertisement, he showed/promised some things at college level and then he didn't delivered. The player was a bust. b) IT was a bust. The decision of drafting a player was wrong because the player was not scouted correctly. A team took a bad decision, overvaluated a player and it backfired to them. The decision was a bust. imho, d-rob doesn't deserve the bust label (at least not the "top bust" label) because he did performed at his level. The decision was totally stupid and that's obvious, but that's not d-rob's fault, unless you wanted him to say something like "don't pick me that high, I don't deserve that much, just wait and pick me in the 2nd or 3rd round, ok?" Gholston on the other hand HE IS a bust. He clearly underperformed compared to his capacity shown at college. It wasn't his fault to be drafted that high, but... he managed to underperform not only as a 6 overall pick, but he underperformed even if he had been a 6 round pick. He deserves the label.
A nice amount of bad ones but the latest and greatest is definitely Gholston... "The Ghost" Drafed 6th overall as a pass rusher and not only didn't he record a single sack but he did utter shit for us with his time here, This guy is the biggest downer of all-time.
maybe tanny is onto something. by trading our picks away in exchange for proven players tanny won't have to worry about drafting a 'bust'. also, by finishing near the top every year, we draft near the bottom where expectations are about nil (compared to drafting near the top) so the 'bust' word won't be used to much in the future.....
I think we have to take into consideration how much the guy co$t at the time---anyone remeber or know the size of Blair Thomas or D Robs contract at those times-------------thank goodness VG reworked his contract or he would most likely still be here
This is how I see the situation as well. The player was a bust and the decision was a bust. D-rob definately fits the second category, he was a decent player with a degenerative knee condition, and the jets traded up for him anyways. The jets are the idiots here and it was a horrendous decision. gholston was a terrible pick, but as it has been stated numerous times, there wasn't really a halfway decent guy to select there (I still mandate we could have traded back with NO who moved up to 7 for Sedrick Ellis) so Gholston was the choice. He has since become the absolute least productive first round DP in jets history. he is the biggest bust in franchise history and could easily land in the top 15 in NFL history. D-Rob was the worst franchise decision we have ever had, but at least he was productive for us. Gholston has been horrendous and an utter disaster
That is exactly correct. Robertson was definitely being talked about as a likely 1st rounder during the 2002 college football season by draft people and scouts and the like. There are a lot of Robertson haters on this board who like to revise history. What? You won't see any 1st round draft boards unless you are employed in the personnel department of one of the 32 teams. Jones was a solid player who had some very good seasons for the Jets. Parcells did not draft Van Dyke as he was still coaching the Patriots at the time.
