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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Aug 25, 2020 14:16:49 GMT -5
Tony Mandarich certainly did not live up to expectations but he had some decent seasons with the Colts at the end of his career.
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Post by Spider2024 on Aug 25, 2020 15:34:03 GMT -5
Alberto Del Rio has been called a waste and a bust in the WWE. Yet is a multi-time World Champion. Good pure wrestler, yes, but his character became too one-note as 'arrogant Hispanic guy who wins with armbars.' I think that's why he never built up much of a following among WWE fans or TNA fans. (Also the fact that he was a major dick & very hard to work with.)
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 26, 2020 17:18:15 GMT -5
In the history of the New York Mets, this begins and ends with Gregg Jefferies.
Dude was pegged as the absolute future of the franchise as a prospect, and it rubbed a number of his teammates the wrong way. He could never, ever live up to the hype, but in his five years as a Met he still managed to hit to the tune of nearly a .750 OPS and a 111 OPS+, before eventually having a couple All Star seasons in St. Louis where he looked to have fulfilled his potential before injuries derailed him.
It's too bad, too: go back and see some of the media coverage of him when he was a kid and you can tell there were a lot of people both in the clubhouse and in the press suite who were ready to eat him alive from day one. Didn't help that he was seen as a harbinger of the replacement of many of the beloved '86 Mets who had won the world championship.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Sept 7, 2020 11:39:11 GMT -5
Tony Mandarich is pretty much the definition of this. He was supposed to be the best lineman ever, he was drafted in the top 5 in a class that included Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders, Derrick Thomas, and Deion Sanders. Guy totally flames out in Green Bay, then goes to the Colts and does a respectable job.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 12:14:53 GMT -5
As a Cincinnati kid...I’ll just throw Akili Smith in. There are 100 to pick from Akili didn't even had a mediocre career. The CFL felt like he wasn't good enough.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Sept 7, 2020 14:15:57 GMT -5
Alexandre Daigle had a pretty decent career. Anybody would have been a flop playing for the early 90s Ottawa Senators.
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Post by jobber316 on Sept 8, 2020 13:27:51 GMT -5
Jefferies had hype that was just nuts in the late 80s. I don't think the Mets gave him enough of a chance. By 1993 he was a terrific player that got some MVP consideration and hit .342. He also hit .325 in 1994 with STL, but then ended up going to Philly. He never was the HOF guy that people thought he might be, but was a solid career .289 hitter.
I'm puzzled at the Grant Hill mentions here though. The guy went into the HOF in 2018 on the first ballot. Career win share of 100. Ditto Dwight Howard, who has a career win share of 134 (which is 37th all time). Howard is a career 17 and 12 guy over 16 years and that is easy HOF.
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Post by karl100589 on Sept 10, 2020 13:55:45 GMT -5
I always thought Shawn Bradley was better then the ridicule he got.
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Post by sfvega on Sept 11, 2020 4:27:29 GMT -5
I always thought Shawn Bradley was better then the ridicule he got. He was a passable starting center for many years, a great shot blocker, and appeared in Space Jam. Quality career.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Sept 13, 2020 15:02:54 GMT -5
I always thought Shawn Bradley was better then the ridicule he got. 8 points 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocks a game are certainly passable numbers. Not worth a #2 pick but outside of the guy taken after him there weren’t really any future greats
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Sept 13, 2020 15:13:35 GMT -5
I always thought Shawn Bradley was better then the ridicule he got. He was okay Never worth his pick but a solid enough NBA career. Doesn't help that every dunker in the NBA during that time has a slam on him but he didn't play scared so shit like that will happen
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Post by Barry Jobber 81 on Sept 18, 2020 9:25:18 GMT -5
Rick Mirer. Football experts say he had one good rookie season but never got better after that, but he had a better sophomore season than his rookie year. When Tom Flores was fired as the Seahawks head coach, his career in Seattle spiraled downhill. His name is synonomous with QB busts but Mirer doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, and Cade McNown. Mirer did play for eight seasons in the NFL. He did have solid stints as a backup QB.
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Post by bob on Sept 18, 2020 9:37:40 GMT -5
RG3 -- though I'm not sure he should be considered a bust because injuries destroyed his career
Tommy Maddox, he was XFL version 1 MVP which revitalized his career
he was in the NFL from 2001 to 2005, and won a Super Bowl with the Steelers in 2005
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Post by Barry Jobber 81 on Sept 20, 2020 8:57:14 GMT -5
Desmond Howard. Someone who was a Super Bowl MVP and a one-time Pro Bowler shouldn't be called a bust. Raiders get criticized for signing Howard but he made big plays for them as a kick and punt returner. He didn't become the next Jerry Rice but he found his niche on special teams.
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Post by fw91 on Sept 20, 2020 19:59:19 GMT -5
I always thought Shawn Bradley was better then the ridicule he got. He was okay Never worth his pick but a solid enough NBA career. Doesn't help that every dunker in the NBA during that time has a slam on him but he didn't play scared so shit like that will happen And he was in Space Jam!
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