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Wulaw Horn

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Logging in to check my email I gave a brief skim to their "worst #1 overall picks of all time"

They only had David Carr rated the 9th worst overall number one.

Bull crap- he deserves to be in the top 2 or 3 for sure. Just one of the most fantastically, franchise altering stupid picks ever. And then it got even better by them extending him and not taking VY.

They had Mike Vick at #10. I don't know that I can agree. He won a bunch of games with not much talent around him and took them 1 step away from the super bowl and made them relevant. If I was the ATL I'd consider that pick a win (from a football perspective), dog fighting notwithstanding.
 
He doesn't have a chance to be a quality back up, he had one and he flamed out in carolina in such spectacular fashion that they got an 847 year old qb who had been out of football for the entire year (maybe longer) and an undrafted never was and put them in front of Carr.

And it is franchise altering in the sense that they tied their identity to him and built around him and passed up opportunities to build in other areas and then passed up other QB solutions b/c he was the face of the franchise.

Drafting him set them back years, to the point that they were still an embarrassment 5 years into their existence, when every other modern expansion team (including the woeful Cleveland Browns who the NFl actively screwed during their formation) had reached the playofffs by year 4 at the latest.

Just an absolutely horrible pick all the way around. Drafting a QB as the first pick of expansion franchise is almost certain to be a bad idea b/c of the fear of ruining him. Drafting tha particular QB took stupid to a whole new level.
 
Sims was incredible here. Think Rod Wright before the injuries, and then some.

But he never did jack **** in the NFL. Big flop for the Pats.
 
I've distrusted the Texans from the moment they hired Casserly (and as a houstonite who hates the cowboys this was not fun), I hated the Carr pick. Taking that fat sack of crap Travis Johnson over DJ just about did me in forever. Passing on VY turned it into hatred. Screw that organization- I hope everyone involved in the David Carr fiasco burns and never succeeds in any professional endeavor ever. I hope all Bob McNair's horses lose every race the same way his football team loses season after season after season. Carr is way too low as a bust. He's way worse than what they are giving him credit for.
 
Some folks should try going with decaf. Maybe a little 50/50 mix.

Carr was a bust, but he wasn't one of the greatest busts of all times. A bust is when someone the entire football world predicts to be a multi year pro bowler turns out sucking it hard. A lot of fairly casual NFL observers had no idea what the **** Casserole and his boss were thinking when they picked Carr. I still recall being doubtfull about Carr, but I figured the guru Casserole (which is how the Houston media presented him) knew more than I did. Of course, even I would not have bet the farm on an O lineman with a bum shoulder.
 
Their failure to have a leader or QB worth a damn for 5 entire years made them a miserable franchise.

With more hope maybe they sign better free agents, win sooner, or you know, actually win. instead, they are the worst expansion team in the modern era. Yeah- I'd say that's franchise altering.
 
David Carr is about on par with Tim Couch in terms of back #1 overall picks. As mentioned before, it's not his fault the team didn't draft VY or provide him with an O line to keep him from getting shell shocked.
 
As much as I think Carr stinks... he was far from being the only reason the Texans have sucked over the years.

I'm surprised he is even in the top 10.
 
You guys do realize that we are only talking about #1 overall picks here, right? And the article really doesn't go back further then 78 I don't think.

I mean, were talking about a really small sample size here.
 
Kenneth Sims was being named for every award he was elligible for his senior year, including the Heisman. Then Texas played the TCU Roaches and they cut blocked him about 3 times in a row until they broke his leg. He was out for the season and never seemed to recover in the Pros. That was back in when TCU's attitide seemd to be if they couldn't win a game, they'd at least hurt someone good. It was a gamble to draft him that high given the injury, but he certainly showed great promise based on his performace at Texas up to that point.
 
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