JaMarcus Russell released: Digging back in the archives to highlight my idiocy

that Brady Quinn was your safe alternative.

That wasn’t a good draft for QBs.

[insert joke about Jamarcus of having a superhuman/extraterrestrial ability to gain weight]

how someone could be so good, and care enough (you have to) to be so dominant in college…then suddenly stop caring once you get to the NFL? I guess before he was playing to get the money…now he’s already got it.

Another thing wrong with rookie pay system. Keep em hungry…don’t make them 21 year old 20-millionaires

actually believed all the “other-worldly” type hype about him and figured he could just turn that talent on whenever he felt like it.

is that he really did have the talent to be a huge star in the NFL but he didn’t have the work ethic

I learned my lesson with Crabtree. It was almost as if he read my comments and wanted to shove it in my face. His route running and point of attack on the football weren’t anything special in college than he shows up 6 weeks late in the season and is best route running, attacking the ball at the highest point rookie WR I’ve seen in the long time.

Or just become a RT hahahaha

Apparently, this seems to be a continuing thread in the NFL. Unlike other sports, players are literally thrown into the fire, and told to either burn bright….or “burn baby, burn”! I can only thank the big “Ohhhhmmmm” in the sky that although we have our quaterback issues, we didn’t go down this trail. Both Quinn AND Russell were touted by every sports rag and media outlet as the next big “IT” QB. However, I think that although it’s easy to blame just the player, one must look at the WHOLE of the situation.

I have harped on end about poor Alex. But, even the Niners in their rebuilding mode has done much more than either the Raiders or the Browns as far as trying to field an entire team that can compete in todays league. With Quinn, he has shown flashes of the fire that made him such a commodity coming out of Notre Dame. (another “brick” he had to tote, as ALL players from that school CAN’T POSSIBLY MISS, right?) But I digress….The Browns were caught between a rock and a hard place. Trying to compete with a coach obviously on the way out , and replacements that simply weren’t good fits to begin with.
As for JaMarcus….well…what can I say …….it’s the Raiders. reminds me of another quote about the epitomy of a stupid idea, and results.

IMO, the league had much less flameouts when it came to players as the old NFL would always have a veteran to run the show, while the new lion learned from the sidelines to make the grade. I can’t say what the crux of the issue is, wheter it’s ballooning contracts, or win now expectations that have created this void of talent in the league. All I do know, is that unless something is done and soon, the emregences of JaMarcus Russells, and Ryan Leafs, will outweigh the Rothelesburgers, (onfield) and Sanchez’s that make ths sport the best in the world.