2009 NFL Draft. The worst in history?

[Drink IRON City]

Well if he had a plan to play for awhile and make some money he could have very easily misled teams to make them think he loved it to make sure he was drafted as high as possible. Wouldn't be too hard and he would be dumb if he didn't attempt to get them to believe that.

I agree as HINDSIGHT is 20/20. Some here think, after the fact, that the steelers should have known something, before it happened. Mendy showed signs of being a really good RB. They initially didn't make a mistake on drafting him. It wasn't until later, that his performance didn't merit the draft pick.



Salute the nation

 

[Ron Burgundy]

There can be years where the pickings are slim but I also think the number of guys who come out early can hurt the draft quality, where another year of college ball could help their development.

 

[Stryker]

I wonder of Mendenhall decided he didn't want to play football before or after Ray Lewis broke his scapula by hitting him from the front side of his body.

FYI people, your scapula is your shoulder blade. Pretty damn tough to break getting hit from the front.

 

[Omar10213245]

I wonder of Mendenhall decided he didn't want to play football before or after Ray Lewis broke his scapula by hitting him from the front side of his body.

FYI people, your scapula is your shoulder blade. Pretty damn tough to break getting hit from the front.

I hate mendy too, but it IS possible to suffer a broken shoulder from a head-on collision. Are you saying that mendy faked having a broken shoulder?

 

[Vader]

It didn't take much to see that Mendenhall didn't love football. That is a failure in the evaluation process.

They never even interviewed him before the draft. There was a reason he was falling like a rock. I know they thought he'd never be there to pick so it wasn't necessary. However, they have interviewed players that dropped further like DeCastro without issue.

 

[Coryea]

I never thought Mendenhall fit our style to begin with. I always thought he would've fit a west coast offense or an offense like Manning runs, spread the field and run from that formation.

 

[Superman]

They never even interviewed him before the draft. There was a reason he was falling like a rock. I know they thought he'd never be there to pick so it wasn't necessary. However, they have interviewed players that dropped further like DeCastro without issue.

I want to believe that after the Mendenhall fiasco, that they began interviewing everyone.

 

[Steel G]

I agree - you want to talk about worthless running backs talk about Tim Worley, our first round pick in 89 - 7th overall, or Greg Hawthorne. our first round pick in 1979, or Walter Abercrombie, our first round pick in 1982 - Mendenhall probably exceeded their output combined.

Hawthorne and Worley, definitely. Abercrombie, as a Steeler, was actually really serviceable with 3343 rushing yards on 842 attempts with 22 TDs and 138 catches for 1353 yards and 7 TDs through 6 seasons. His best seasons were '85 and '86 while he was essentially splitting carries with Pollard and Jackson the fullbacks. And, those were some really ****** teams he was playing on.

 

[Coryea]

Hawthorne and Worley, definitely. Abercrombie, as a Steeler, was actually really serviceable with 3343 rushing yards on 842 attempts with 22 TDs and 138 catches for 1353 yards and 7 TDs through 6 seasons. His best seasons were '85 and '86 while he was essentially splitting carries with Pollard and Jackson the fullbacks. And, those were some really ****** teams he was playing on.

Frankie Pollard, I was only 7 in 1985, but I remember him breaking a long run down the sideline and was knocked out of bounds around the 10 or so, he just laid there, he couldn't catch his breath.

 

[Rod Farva]

I hate mendy too, but it IS possible to suffer a broken shoulder from a head-on collision. Are you saying that mendy faked having a broken shoulder?

........think he might have been referring to ray ray's propensity for piling on, or "making a tackle."

 

[suncitysteel]

Didn't I see Bruce Davis in a recent TV commercial, peddling some sort of copper/therapeutic sleeve thingy?. "NFL Star Bruce Davis", I think the caption read.

 

[hamster]

Limas Sweed will forever be the brunt of jokes. If you are out in the backyard playing catch with someone, and they keep dropping passes, more often than not, you will say "You have hands like Limas Sweed!".

 

[Vader]

I want to believe that after the Mendenhall fiasco, that they began interviewing everyone.

Possibly. I don't know and don't have the time to go back to each draft and see how far (if any distance) their #1 picks fell and if they interviewed them. I just never understood, at the time, why they didn't. RBs always fall just because of the position. And there were several RBs projected to go in the 1st round that year. It made no sense to me. I did however think Sweed was a steal in the 2nd round.

I remember TMC liked the Davis pick while I hated it. Davis looked like a kicker standing next to the other LBs on the team.

 

[Wingman]

Limas Sweed will forever be the brunt of jokes. If you are out in the backyard playing catch with someone, and they keep dropping passes, more often than not, you will say "You have hands like Limas Sweed!".

He has become the replacement for Dwight hands of Stone.

 

[Superman]

Possibly. I don't know and don't have the time to go back to each draft and see how far (if any distance) their #1 picks fell and if they interviewed them. I just never understood, at the time, why they didn't. RBs always fall just because of the position. And there were several RBs projected to go in the 1st round that year. It made no sense to me. I did however think Sweed was a steal in the 2nd round.

I remember TMC liked the Davis pick while I hated it. Davis looked like a kicker standing next to the other LBs on the team.

McFadden, Jonathan Stewart and Felix Jones went before our picks.
I was hoping we'd take Duane Brown or Mike Jenkins.

Ironically, we can snag Antoine Cason.

 

[Superman]

and if you really want it to sting...

3rd round, 73rd overall pick

 

[POP]

I agree - you want to talk about worthless running backs talk about Tim Worley, our first round pick in 89 - 7th overall, or Greg Hawthorne. our first round pick in 1979, or Walter Abercrombie, our first round pick in 1982 - Mendenhall probably exceeded their output combined.

Abercrombie rushed for 3,343 yards. Mendy for 3,562. And Abercrombie was on far worse teams, with no QBs to speak of. All things considered, I'd take Walter over the spinning piece of crap.

 

[Steeltime]

Frankie Pollard, I was only 7 in 1985, but I remember him breaking a long run down the sideline and was knocked out of bounds around the 10 or so, he just laid there, he couldn't catch his breath.

I still remember Pollard's play in the 1984 playoff win at Denver. He played like a man possessed, and the winning TD run involved one of the hardest collisions I have ever seen on a goal line play. Pollard and the Denver defender met head-on at the 1-yard line, and the collision was freaking amazing. Pollard made it into the endzone despite the fact that he certainly appeared woozy from the collision.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Abercrombie rushed for 3,343 yards. Mendy for 3,562. And Abercrombie was on far worse teams, with no QBs to speak of. All things considered, I'd take Walter over the spinning piece of crap.

Abercrombie was here a lot longer though. The best you could say about him was that for a running back he was a great singer. Seriously.

 

[Omar10213245]

........think he might have been referring to ray ray's propensity for piling on, or "making a tackle."

ah ok, fair enough

 

[Stryker]

I hate mendy too, but it IS possible to suffer a broken shoulder from a head-on collision. Are you saying that mendy faked having a broken shoulder?

You didn't read the entire word and you stopped at shoulder. The shoulder blade is on your back, which is what Mendy broke. To break your shoulder BLADE from the front or side means that Mendy was hit with such force at the perfect angle that it pushed his arm back into his socket, pushed the bone through the socket and STILL had enough force to break the bone behind it, being the shoulder blade. Hate all you want on Ray Ray piling on stats, but that dude could hit like a freight train.