I’m think Matt Leonard would have been good if he wasn’t for Cardinals

​@@Gulag00 Yet Kurt Warner went there and revitalized his career

@@riquetc0060 - Warner taking the starting job in AZ really shook Lienart's confidence. He never recovered from it.

@@stephenh5944 Why do you think Warner took the starting job in the first place? Leinart was never a good NFL quarterback.

That's better than me, my alcohol & drug addled mind thought Jimmy G did those things, forgot Cassel existed

For real, even Cassel's 2008 season alone was light years better than Leinart's whole friggin career

@@Jetfire507PTYCassel was allowed to develop on one of the greatest teams of all time, so he didn't have to go out and ball, he could just be a game manager and have some success. Leinart went to a dumpster fire in Arizona. Same deal with David Carr. Whoever went to that 2002 Texans squad was going to get reduced to a greasy splotch on the turf.

That's not crazy. That was true all along. Leinart was nothing more than a glorified winebag.

Unfortunately, a lot of players peak in college and then fall off in the pros. Leinart being a prime example of that

why are we shitting on Matt Leinart though what did he do

Our sisters were best friends in high school. I didn’t really know him bc I had already left for college, but he was always a respectful stand up guy by all accounts

But he did have a healthy enough ego to spurn Josh McDaniels and forge his own legacy as the Chiefs starter. He gave them a tropical paradise island of a victory season in probably one of the NFL's historically most desolate oceans of losing football. I think Chiefs fans will always love him for that--but what do I know, I'm just a Broncos fan who just watched last season...🤣😂😢😭

@@Montag87 I'm a longtime Chiefs fan, we had really high hopes for him when he came riding in on his magnificent white stallion. He didn't live up to those hopes, yet he never did anything to make us dislike him. He's not as loved in KC as Trent Green still is, but he's a standup guy

@@randy7928 Cassel, or Cassuck, as many Chiefs fans called him, was not fond of his time in KC. He's been interviewed saying the Pats had the best fans and were his favorite place he ever played. Remember Eric Winston and his gladiator speech when Cassel was injured and finally benched? I remember the fans turning on him not only because he was not very good but because Scott Pioli, the GM at the time who came from the Patriots, REFUSED to let Cassel be benched. These were some of the worst years as Chiefs fans.

Yeah. Backup QB and starting QB are different positions with different responsibilities during the week and gameday. The Patriots didn't draft him to play. They probably figured that if Brady was out, they're screwed anyway. They drafted him for the same reason they re-signed Brian Hoyer so many times.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I remember him cause he almost played for 20 damn years.

He threw a beautiful deep ball

Came here to say this. This might sound terrible, but I was watching the week 1 games at a bar in Pittsburgh that year, and there were a few people who audibly cheered when that highlight played on the screens. I think we all knew the Steelers were only gonna win a Super Bowl if they got to avoid Tom Brady.

@@phreakzilla8514 Damn Yinzers. ;D

It’s really crazy how Cassel ended up playing at all. Brady didn’t play that preseason at all due to a foot injury. Cassel was so horrible in the preseason that Belichick was trying to bring in veteran competition with Chris Redman. And when Pollard hit Brady in week 1, Pollard blitzed through Sammy Morris, who was only playing because Kevin Faulk had a 1 game suspension for bringing weed to a Lil Wayne concert in the summer. And even after all of that, Belichick was going to sign either Chris Simms or Tim Rattay to be the starter for the year before he changed his mind and went with Cassel

Bernard Pollard AKA *The Patriot Killer*

@dnasty312 don't remind me plz. He not only ended bradys season, but also ended Wes welkers the following year, forced gronk to have an ankle injury(limiting him in sb 46) and had Steven ridley fumble and Injured in the 2012 afc Championship

I mean, he had experience in Arena and NFL Europe before he permanently joined the Rams

​@@1wayroad935yeah but he was also bagging groceries at the time he got called up

One of the best QBs of all time is an insane thing to say 🤣🤣🤣he’s not even like a top ten quarterback of his era

@@Supermoneygang12 By far one of the best QBs of his era. More SB appearances than literally any other 2000s QB I believe with 3? Literally every season he played a full 16 games he made the SB. Let’s also not forget the only player until literally THIS PAST season to have won MVP and SBMVP in the same season. Let’s not forget one of the best ALL TIME playoff QBs. Easily a top five statistical playoff QB.

@@Supermoneygang12 oh wait mb, he was second most SB appearances from 1999-2010 with 3, only behind Tom Brady who was on the Patriots, a team fined and punished several times within the 2000s for cheating to get to said SB games. Stfu.

Imagine how dangerous oklahoma would have been those years if he could run like he did before the knee injuries.

White's mobility was superb before the injuries

Same with kellen moore, no injuries but the dude was very immobile

and he beat out Larry Fitzgerald for the heisman, who became one of the best

@@mtj027 He was unbelievable until the injuries slowed him down and we saw what happened in the Big 12 Championship Game Oklahoma may have won it all that year if they replaced him with Paul Thompson before the Big 12 Title Game. White was clearly handicapped in his last two games

People nowadays know that you have to cash in this kind of hype

@@jorgeabud1133Truth. Even if cardale did bad in workouts, there was no chance he would have fallen to the 4th round the way he did after coming back.

I'm an Ohio State fan and I wanted him to go for the draft instead of come back to college. I'm always on the side of whatever is best for the player, and I did not think there was any real chance he was actually that good so going for the inflated contract was his best option.

​@@jorgeabud1133yup if that scenario happens today that kid either transfers or enters the draft

Jamarcus Russell...that LSU Bowl Game is why he got drafted 1st Overall. Al Davis and Raiders Fans fell in love. I watched it happen in Real Time on the Myspace Raiders Group. It was hilarious, and only got funnier as time went on.

It makes you wonder how many times the NFL has gotten it wrong and how many potential HOF players never got a chance

Warren Moon ring a bell either? Dude was a hall of famer in two football leagues.

@@coldcatproductions7737 Love Moon also. Had a hell of a spiral

We were awful damn close to no Tom Brady either. If Bledsoe doesn’t get injured he probably holds a clipboard a few more years and is selling cars in Michigan now.

​@@MrRyan-wu4jxnot exactly. Brady outplayed Bledsoe in that preseason, but BB was concerned with a lack of experience. He would eventually become a stsrter. Bledsoe wasn't BB's kind of guy.

@@sikecar534 preseason doesn’t mean anything, even back then the idea was not to get your starters hurt. Bledsoe would take a few reps with NFL players on the field then Brady came in with and against guys just trying to make a roster. If Bledsoe finishes that playoff run with a Super Bowl ring there was nothing Brady would’ve been able to do take the job from him in the time left on his rookie contract in New England, and he may not have found a job elsewhere after that.

@@MrRyan-wu4jx go and watch what BB says on Brady's 6 on that matter.

The Chiefs would have been much better off using the Cassel money to upgrade the offensive line for Thigpen and Jamaal. Everybody knew it was insane to pay him $16 million per year.

Decent, cause the same team (no important changes on the roster) went 16-0 the year before with Brady throwing 50 TD passes. So loosing 5 more games while throwing half as much TD is decent at best.

@@Smido83 Brady's 50 TD season was sandwiched by 2 25ish TD seasons.

@@cod-the-creatori mean BraDy didnt really have a true number one receiver until Moss got there and he got 50 tds. I highly doubt he would’ve had 25 tds in 2008 if he didn’t get hurt, he would’ve probably got high 30s low 40s. 2009 he was coming off an injury and that team wasn’t the same team anymore, 2007 and 2008 Patriots were the exact same team with an easier schedule than 2007

@@azazelvalentine1762 So if someone doesn't throw 40 TD's on their way to an 11-5 season, they're merely "decent"? You're comparing this dude to the greatest of all time, not only the greatest of all time but the best season the greatest of all time ever had.

@@cod-the-creator who said anything about having to throw 40 tds? You mentioned Brady throwing 25 tds in 2009 as to try to make Cassel’s season seem more impressive,my whole comment was about Brady would’ve threw for more than that if he didn’t get hurt. I also didn’t say anything about Cassel, I was talking about how the patriots performed as a whole. But let’s be honest 3693 yards 21 tds 11 ints 63.4 completion percentage and a passer rating of 89.4 is literally decent😂 that’s not a good season and you know it’s not. Those numbers are similar to Brady first few years, and most people considered Brady mediocre his first couple of years. Cassel wasn’t horrible, he was mediocre and was a huge downgrade from the season before with the same exact team and easier schedule and he also got sacked more than twice as much as Brady

I’m thinking it’s the other way around. He studied constantly but no one noticed his perfect record until they needed it.

I don't think this will ever happen again. These days you would be crazy to stay as a backup when you can transfer to a different school to get a starting position.

He physically could not run at all even in college. If no one got open he had to throw it away or eat a sack. Kind of a sad story.

Thank you for saying that. I was thinking the same thing.

*59-0* is like a core memory for me. 🥰

@@SamBrickellSame. I was just a teen, but I still remember the stress of going into that day hoping the committee would select us despite the VT loss. And then the bombs started landing 😂

Even though it was Ezekial Elliott who beat those teams.

Omg FINALLY someone else sees it too. Richardson is about as sure of a bust as there is. Dude hasn't performed well at any level. He's athletic, seems like a nice kid, but he sucks at playing football. My heart sunk when we drafted him.

Yeah, hopefully he’ll be one of those guys who blossoms when they hit the pros. I’m not a Colts fan, but he seems like a good guy, so I can’t help but pull for him.

I don't know when the NFL decided that running fast and having an incredibly strong arm mattered more than accuracy and football IQ. He probably will have some highlight plays based on his athleticism, but how many times do you throw the balls 60 yards down field? They're only hope is to do what Baltimore did and change their entire offense to suit him but even then he's got to be able to make some decisions that he has proven so far unable to. Back in high school we had some players who were faster than our quarterback and could throw the ball further downfield, but they did not make good quarterbacks. They were more of a used as a gimmick every now and then but not an every down type of player. For all of the hype around Lamar Jackson, he has won exactly one playoff game with that system. I get that this guy is a athletic freak, but I'm just glad it's not my team that drafted him. Don't wish him any ill will and I hope he succeeds but until he proves it I will doubt that that style works until someone can win the super Bowl with it.

Lukas Van Ness was a first rounder this year and he didn't start any games