<v Speaker 1>Wednesday, May twenty twenty six, you are listening to the

<v Speaker 1>Daily Dose Sports podcast and I am your host, Clinton Daily,

<v Speaker 1>coming to you from the my High City here in Denver, Colorado,

<v Speaker 1>and we are back for another week of talking sports

<v Speaker 1>with a dose of common sense. Hey, Happy Wednesday to you.

<v Speaker 1>I hope your week is going along well. You are

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<v Speaker 1>I hope that you, your family, are friends, everyone in

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<v Speaker 1>I've got something a little bit different for you this

<v Speaker 1>week on the Daily Dose. You know, I've got a

<v Speaker 1>few things to attend to. But never fear because I

<v Speaker 1>have compiled a few Daily Dose Top five from past episodes.

<v Speaker 1>Now we know the NFL Draft just took place a

<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks ago. Well, these Daily Dose Top five

<v Speaker 1>are heavily NFL Draft flavored. In fact, we go back

<v Speaker 1>to some of the earliest days of the Daily Dose.

<v Speaker 1>Right now, We've got some memorable Daily Dose Top five

<v Speaker 1>lists for you today. Today we count down the top

<v Speaker 1>five times quarterbacks were drafted. Both one and two. We

<v Speaker 1>count down the top five highest drafted kickers and punters. Ever,

<v Speaker 1>the top five draft classes up all time, and the

<v Speaker 1>top five times there were no quarterbacks taken in the

<v Speaker 1>first round of the NFL Draft. Sit back, relax and

<v Speaker 1>enjoy some of the best of the Daily Dose Sports podcast. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>as we do every single week. Right now, we are

<v Speaker 1>going to give you our Daily Dose Top five. We

<v Speaker 1>do this every week. It is a very very popular segment.

<v Speaker 1>You don't want to miss it. You know, this week

<v Speaker 1>with the NFL Draft going, and I told you earlier,

<v Speaker 1>we saw the two quarterbacks being drafted one and two,

<v Speaker 1>Jameis Winston at one and Marcus Mariota at two. You know,

<v Speaker 1>if there's only been that was only the sixth time

<v Speaker 1>that quarterbacks have actually been drafted in the modern area

<v Speaker 1>one and two. It doesn't happen that often. And so

<v Speaker 1>we wanted to count down the five times that quarterbacks

<v Speaker 1>have been drafted one and two. And I will tell

<v Speaker 1>you this for the most part, and I want you

<v Speaker 1>to keep this in mind. With Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota,

<v Speaker 1>one guy usually does well, one guy doesn't do so well.

<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you'll see both of them not do great, but

<v Speaker 1>usually it's one does well and one doesn't. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if that's coincidence, I don't know what that is.

<v Speaker 1>It's hard to figure. Jameis and Mariota, I've talked to

<v Speaker 1>you in the past about that. I'm not quite sure

<v Speaker 1>what to expect from either guy. I like Mariota. I

<v Speaker 1>think he's a good guy. He might be a good

<v Speaker 1>quarterback eventually. I don't think he's run anything close to

<v Speaker 1>a pro system, so I think that is going to

<v Speaker 1>be a huge adjustment for him. Jamis, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what to expect from that kid. I mean, you saw

<v Speaker 1>him on draft night displaying his maturity as he gets

<v Speaker 1>to make sure to get his photograph with some crab legs.

<v Speaker 1>Obviously he's grown up and has learned and moved forward. Right, So,

<v Speaker 1>without any further ado, let's move on to the Daily

<v Speaker 1>Do Top five five times quarterbacks have been drafted in

<v Speaker 1>the NFL Draft one and two. Let's go to number

<v Speaker 1>five twenty twelve. Twenty twelve, the number one pick in

<v Speaker 1>the draft that year, Stanford's Andrew Luck went to the

<v Speaker 1>Indianapolis Colts. And Andrew Luck has been very, very good.

<v Speaker 1>We have seen he was one of those guys that

<v Speaker 1>you honestly you saw him when you came out of

<v Speaker 1>the draft, and there are certain guys, you know, Winston Marrioda.

<v Speaker 1>You look at me, I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they're gonna be good. Could be

<v Speaker 1>good if they get in the right system. Could be

<v Speaker 1>good if they get with the right team or the

<v Speaker 1>right coordinator. But I'm not Andrew Lucky just looked at

<v Speaker 1>and he said, Man, this guy's gold. There is no

<v Speaker 1>way he's not gonna be good unless he just has

<v Speaker 1>injury problems. He's huge. You know the funny thing about Luck,

<v Speaker 1>He's way more athletic than you think he is. He's

<v Speaker 1>really athletic. Dude ran well in the combine. He can

<v Speaker 1>move for a big guy. This year, I do think

<v Speaker 1>he has a huge test because they have brought in

<v Speaker 1>some weapons and have put weapons around him. Big test

<v Speaker 1>for Andrew Luck this year. Number two in that two

<v Speaker 1>thousand draft, twenty twelve draft number two pick was out

<v Speaker 1>of Baylor. Robert Griffin, the third went to the Washington Redskins.

<v Speaker 1>Had a great year that first year, and we were

<v Speaker 1>sitting there going, man, Luck and Griffin, they are the future.

<v Speaker 1>These two are gonna be so good. And then Robert

<v Speaker 1>Griffin got hurt and he kind of forgot how to

<v Speaker 1>play quarterback. And you know, the thing about Griffin that

<v Speaker 1>stands out to me is that he it doesn't seem

<v Speaker 1>like he has a sense for avoiding injury. Like I

<v Speaker 1>watched some of these guys play, and you know, you

<v Speaker 1>watch a Russell Wilson or someone like that, and he

<v Speaker 1>gets out of the pocket and he's moving and here

<v Speaker 1>comes a safety in and he gets out of bounds,

<v Speaker 1>or he throws it away or he slides, and Robert

<v Speaker 1>Griffin just has none of those senses. He just runs

<v Speaker 1>out and someone just blasts him, and he, oh, what happened?

<v Speaker 1>I had no idea kind of strange. Let's move on

<v Speaker 1>to number four. Number four, nineteen ninety nine, the Cleveland

<v Speaker 1>Browns select out of the University of Kentucky Tim Couch.

<v Speaker 1>And you know Tim Couch when he was at Kentucky,

<v Speaker 1>he put up some huge numbers. Problem was kind of

<v Speaker 1>that same situation with Mariota. He was playing, you know,

<v Speaker 1>in a system and in a coach with how mummy

<v Speaker 1>where they were putting up these giant numbers and you

<v Speaker 1>looked at him and said, oh, man, I throwing the

<v Speaker 1>ball over the place. Yeah, except for He's never come

<v Speaker 1>in and had to read a defense at the line

<v Speaker 1>of scrimmage in his life, because mummy did that for

<v Speaker 1>him from the sideline. He had some injuries, had you know,

<v Speaker 1>some broken thumbs and some different things. Never quite got

<v Speaker 1>on track. It was in the league a while, but

<v Speaker 1>never never really a starter. Number two selection in the

<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety nine draft, Syracuse quarterback Donovan McNabb drafted to

<v Speaker 1>the Philadelphia Eagles, went for thirteen season, six time Pro Bowler.

<v Speaker 1>And here's all you need to say. He took the

<v Speaker 1>Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl. How many guys can

<v Speaker 1>say that him? And like Ron Jaworski, that's it, end

<v Speaker 1>of the story. Donovan McNabb, you know, never won the

<v Speaker 1>Big One, but had a great, great career and was

<v Speaker 1>always very very solid. You know. But just the year before,

<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety eight, eight quarterbacks taken one and two again,

<v Speaker 1>number three on our list. In nineteen ninety eight, number

<v Speaker 1>one pick in the NFL draft goes to the Indianapolis Colts.

<v Speaker 1>Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manny. And we know what Peyton has

<v Speaker 1>done obviously here in Denver. You know, he's rewritten the

<v Speaker 1>record book and contrary to popular belief, actually has won

<v Speaker 1>a Super Bowl. I know we tend to forget that

<v Speaker 1>about Peyton Manning, but Manning actually has won. He can

<v Speaker 1>never win the Big One. Oh yeah, except for that

<v Speaker 1>time he won the Big One. He has won the

<v Speaker 1>Big One. What are you talking about? So you know

<v Speaker 1>Peyton Manning, and I know there's a lot of talk

<v Speaker 1>when he was coming out, do we take him or

<v Speaker 1>do we take the other guy? I can remember vividly thinking,

<v Speaker 1>if you take the other guy, you're an idiot. Because

<v Speaker 1>with the number two pick in the nineteen ninety eight draft,

<v Speaker 1>the San Diego Chargers selected Washington State quarterback Ryan Leaf.

<v Speaker 1>He had the big arm, had put up some big

<v Speaker 1>numbers up at Washington State, big strong guy, except for

<v Speaker 1>the fact he really didn't love the game and he

<v Speaker 1>really wasn't driven to be great. And you saw it

<v Speaker 1>right away he came in, he didn't do his job,

<v Speaker 1>wasn't really studying the playbook, didn't really know what he

<v Speaker 1>was doing, getting mad at the media. He lasted four

<v Speaker 1>seasons in the NFL, one of the all time biggest busts,

<v Speaker 1>might be the biggest bust ever drafted four seasons. He

<v Speaker 1>was completely out of football, had some legal troubles, did

<v Speaker 1>some jail time for drugs. Ryan Leif again one of

<v Speaker 1>those situations where it was Boom on the one side

<v Speaker 1>with Peyton and bust on the other side. With Leaf

<v Speaker 1>number two on our list. Nineteen ninety three, number one

<v Speaker 1>pick in that draft, the New England Patriots select out

<v Speaker 1>of Washington State Drew Bledsoe. And Drew Bledsoe was a big,

<v Speaker 1>strong guy, had a huge arm. All those measurables. He

<v Speaker 1>had a good career. But I think we all kind

<v Speaker 1>of remember Drew Bledsoe for what he didn't do. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he played for fourteen seasons in the NFL. He had

<v Speaker 1>four he went to four Pro Bowls, he went to

<v Speaker 1>the Super Bowl three times, and he even won a

<v Speaker 1>Super Bowl, well sort of because the part we do

<v Speaker 1>remember he had some bad losses, He had some injuries

<v Speaker 1>through a lot of interceptions, and he got replaced by

<v Speaker 1>Tom Brady, and Brady came in. Bledsoe had had the

<v Speaker 1>horrific injury at mid season, and Brady came in and

<v Speaker 1>somehow took the Patriots all the way to the Super

<v Speaker 1>Bowl and won it. That's the one super Bowl that

<v Speaker 1>Bloodsoe was a part of number two in that draft,

<v Speaker 1>Notre Dame quarterback Rick Meyer, selected by the Seattle Seahawks.

<v Speaker 1>You know, he played he had never played in a

<v Speaker 1>pro style offense. I mean, Rick Meyer came into the league.

<v Speaker 1>He had played in that Lou Holtz offense. They kind

<v Speaker 1>of ran some option kind of stuff. It just wasn't

<v Speaker 1>the same. He had some measurables. He had a big arm,

<v Speaker 1>and he had you know, some of those things, but

<v Speaker 1>he just never quite adjusted. He played twelve seasons in

<v Speaker 1>the NFL, but mostly as a backup. Never really got

<v Speaker 1>on the field that much except for early and he

<v Speaker 1>never really produced. Number one on our list of when

<v Speaker 1>quarterbacks go one and two in the NFL draft. And this, this,

<v Speaker 1>for me, might be the best, the best group of

<v Speaker 1>the whole bunch. We've seen a few words hit and

<v Speaker 1>then miss, hit and then miss. These are two hits.

<v Speaker 1>Nineteen seventy one, with the first pick of the NFL

<v Speaker 1>draft of New England Patriots again, take Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett.

<v Speaker 1>You know, he was good with the Patriots, but he

<v Speaker 1>didn't have didn't have a very good offensive around him.

<v Speaker 1>He was running a Chuck Fairbanks system, so it wasn't

<v Speaker 1>a real conducive offense for him being a good quarterback.

<v Speaker 1>Didn't have much help around him either, and he ended

<v Speaker 1>up getting you know, traded to like San Francisco and

<v Speaker 1>then being traded to Oakland. And he ended up in

<v Speaker 1>Oakland backing up Dan Pastorini and Pastorini I want to say,

<v Speaker 1>he broke his leg or something. And at thirty three

<v Speaker 1>years of age, they put Jim Plunkett in with the

<v Speaker 1>Raiders offense, and he takes the Raiders to the Super Bowl,

<v Speaker 1>wins the whole thing. Two years later, at thirty five,

<v Speaker 1>he does it again. You know, he is the only

<v Speaker 1>two time Super Bowl winner that is not in the

<v Speaker 1>NFL Hall of Fame, never made it to a Pro Bowl.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe that has something to do with it. Second pick

<v Speaker 1>in the nineteen seventy one NFL Draft out of the

<v Speaker 1>Old Miss University, the New Orleans Saints select quarterback Archie Manning.

<v Speaker 1>Archie Manning played thirteen seasons, went to two Pro Bowls.

<v Speaker 1>The thing about Manning he played on like dreadful teams

<v Speaker 1>like these are not your modern day New Orleans Saints

<v Speaker 1>that he went to. These are your dad or your

<v Speaker 1>grandfather's New Orleans Saints. They could barely even field a team.

<v Speaker 1>They were so horrible. These are the teams that were

<v Speaker 1>going seasons with one win or no wins, or two wins.

<v Speaker 1>He had no help and somehow Archie Manning still managed

<v Speaker 1>to be great. He was a phenomenal player, unlike his

<v Speaker 1>son with the huge forehead. A scrambler, could move around,

<v Speaker 1>could hurt you on the run, could do a lot

<v Speaker 1>of different things. He's a very, very athletic player. But

<v Speaker 1>he just didn't have any help around him. And you know,

<v Speaker 1>it just kind of goes to show you when these

<v Speaker 1>quarterbacks come out, it depends on where you go. You

<v Speaker 1>might have a ton of ability, you might have a

<v Speaker 1>ton of measurables if you get in a bad situation,

<v Speaker 1>if you get in with a bad team. And you know,

<v Speaker 1>when these when these teams are drafting early, that is

<v Speaker 1>a lot of time. What we're seeing. You're going to

<v Speaker 1>bad teams and sometimes bad system and maybe not a

<v Speaker 1>coach that suits you. Know what you do, you get

<v Speaker 1>drafted a little bit later might be a better situation.

<v Speaker 1>We will keep an eye on how the jamis Winston

<v Speaker 1>Marcus Mariota scenario plays out, as we do every week,

<v Speaker 1>we've got to get to our Daily Dose Top five.

<v Speaker 1>You know another team that I would put on the

<v Speaker 1>loser list. I would probably put Tampa on that loser list.

<v Speaker 1>And I'll tell you why the Buccaneers traded up like

<v Speaker 1>three picks to draft a kicker in the second round,

<v Speaker 1>a kicker. They took the kicker out of Florida State.

<v Speaker 1>He's got a big leg, he doesn't miss from from

<v Speaker 1>inside of forty. He's never missed a field goal. But

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I'm trading up and drafting a

<v Speaker 1>kicker that. And I understand it because with the NFL today,

<v Speaker 1>with the new NFL rule changes and everything, kicking that

<v Speaker 1>extra point it's a little bit bigger. I still struggle

<v Speaker 1>moving up to draft a kicker though. So today on

<v Speaker 1>the Daily Dose, we look back at the times that

<v Speaker 1>kickers and punters got drafted the highest. Today our Daily

<v Speaker 1>Dose Top five, the top five highest drafted kickers and

<v Speaker 1>punters of all time. Because sometimes you move up to

<v Speaker 1>get a kicker a punter and it doesn't quite turn

<v Speaker 1>out the way you think it will. And sometimes it's good,

<v Speaker 1>we have some examples of that. Sometimes it's really really bad.

<v Speaker 1>Let's count down our Daily Dose Top five number five

<v Speaker 1>on our list. In the first round of the nineteen

<v Speaker 1>seventy three draft, at pick number twenty three, the Oakland

<v Speaker 1>Raiders took a punter named Ray Guy. Ray Guy played

<v Speaker 1>for thirteen years. He was a seven time Pro bowler,

<v Speaker 1>led the NFL in punting three different seasons, and he

<v Speaker 1>was a to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in

<v Speaker 1>twenty fourteen. Hey that's not bad. That's not bad. At

<v Speaker 1>the end of the day. Still punter. I mean he

<v Speaker 1>still plays what four snaps a game or whatever it is,

<v Speaker 1>if things are going the way that you want him

<v Speaker 1>to go. But hey, that's about as good as it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna get. Right there. That's probably the best example we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna get right there. Number five, number four In two thousand,

<v Speaker 1>first round, again a little bit of a trender. The

<v Speaker 1>Oakland Raiders trade up to the number seventeen pick, and

<v Speaker 1>with the seventeenth pick in the two thousand draft, they

<v Speaker 1>select kicker Sebastian Janakowski. Now, Janikowski is kind of a

<v Speaker 1>mixed bag. I'm not gonna lie. Yes he's kicked some

<v Speaker 1>huge kicks. Yes he's made some really really long kicks.

<v Speaker 1>He's he can boom the ball, but he's not always

<v Speaker 1>that accurate. He's made one Pro Bowl. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>that you'd really say he's made the Raiders that good.

<v Speaker 1>They've never won anything since he's been there. So was

<v Speaker 1>that seventeenth pick overall in the draft? I mean, it

<v Speaker 1>wasn't like you brought him in. Well, he transformed our franchise.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, roofied a few more people, but I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if it's really that, you know, if he's really

<v Speaker 1>done that much for your franchise. And that's number four,

<v Speaker 1>number three on our list, and I've got news for you,

<v Speaker 1>it's gonna go downhill from here. Number three on our list.

<v Speaker 1>In nineteen seventy eight, or the first round pick, number fifteen,

<v Speaker 1>the Saint Louis Cardinals at number fifteen draft Steve Little,

<v Speaker 1>Steve Little who had gone to Arkansas and Steve Little

<v Speaker 1>and the reason that they grabbed him so early. Steve

<v Speaker 1>Little had kicked a sixty seven yard field goal against

<v Speaker 1>Texas in nineteen seventy seven. But when they grabbed Steve Little,

<v Speaker 1>it turned out that Steve Little was very good, I

<v Speaker 1>mean his time and basically, you know, he was pretty

<v Speaker 1>much just a field goal kicker, he made just forty

<v Speaker 1>eight percent of his kid I mean, his accuracy wasn't

<v Speaker 1>very good. Six games into the nineteen eighty season, the

<v Speaker 1>Cardinals cut him, and then it kind of gets worse.

<v Speaker 1>Steve Little got cut and within hours of getting cut,

<v Speaker 1>he had a horrible car crash that left him a quadriplegic.

<v Speaker 1>You know, needless say, never played again. Died at the

<v Speaker 1>age of forty three. Sad, sad story. With Cardinals taking

<v Speaker 1>Steve Little never quite turned out number two on our list.

<v Speaker 1>In nineteen seventy nine, the New Orleans Saints, who had

<v Speaker 1>nothing on their roster. They had no players, They needed

<v Speaker 1>help everywhere. So what did they do with the number

<v Speaker 1>eleven pick. They drafted a kicker slash punter by the

<v Speaker 1>name of Russell erksl Ben. Yeah no, seriously, I'm not

<v Speaker 1>making this up now again. He is also tied for

<v Speaker 1>longest kick in NCAA history. He had kicked a sixty

<v Speaker 1>seven yard field goal versus Rice. When he played for Texts.

<v Speaker 1>He lasted for six seasons. He played in fifty nine games,

<v Speaker 1>mostly a punter and if they needed like a long kick,

<v Speaker 1>he would come in and try it and usually miss it.

<v Speaker 1>It wasn't just wasn't very good, made about half of

<v Speaker 1>his kicks. He ended up after his career, went into

<v Speaker 1>a career as a financial investor, and he ended up

<v Speaker 1>getting busted for securities fraud. And he's in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of serving ninety months in you know, federal prison. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>so not real good for Russell erksill Ben. I hope

<v Speaker 1>I'm pronouncing that right. Then again, he's a kicker, who cares,

<v Speaker 1>what's he gonna do? Number one on our list Daily

<v Speaker 1>Dose Top five highest drafted kickers and punters. We saw

<v Speaker 1>Tampa move up get themselves a kicker in the second round.

<v Speaker 1>How about this in nineteen sixty six, Washington with the

<v Speaker 1>number six pick, not second round, not third round, the

<v Speaker 1>number six overall pick, they select Princeton kicker Charlie Gogelac.

<v Speaker 1>Now go Golac was one of the first soccer style kickers.

<v Speaker 1>He was one of those guys that would come in

<v Speaker 1>from the side kind of take that. You know, they

<v Speaker 1>got so much more power than the straight on kickers

<v Speaker 1>that we were used to back in the fifties and sixties.

<v Speaker 1>Go Golac came in. It's okay, I mean he played

<v Speaker 1>six seasons. He made about fifty six percent of his kicks.

<v Speaker 1>But here's the problem. When you draft a kicker that early,

<v Speaker 1>there's usually a guy later in the draft that you

<v Speaker 1>look back and say, oh, we could have had him.

<v Speaker 1>Because you know, the Chiefs took running back Mike Garrett

<v Speaker 1>at eighteen. I mean Dallas took defensive back Walt Garrison

<v Speaker 1>later in the draft. There were a few other guys

<v Speaker 1>out there, and you used your pick on a kicker.

<v Speaker 1>Not always the best thing to do. As we do

<v Speaker 1>every single week, we have got to get to our

<v Speaker 1>daily dose top five. Of course, you know, we were

<v Speaker 1>talking NFL Draft this week with Larry. Number of things

<v Speaker 1>that go on in the NFL draft. We see a

<v Speaker 1>lot of weird things. But today I wanted to talk

<v Speaker 1>about some of the best NFL draft classes of all time.

<v Speaker 1>You know, we talked last week, talked about the Pittsburgh

<v Speaker 1>Steelers pulling four Hall of Famers in one draft class

<v Speaker 1>back in nineteen seventy four. Pretty good draft, all for

<v Speaker 1>one team. Now, I'm not looking specifically at one team here,

<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at the entire class top to bottom. And

<v Speaker 1>to be fair, I'm not gonna go back to the

<v Speaker 1>fifties and sixties and some of those drafts back there

<v Speaker 1>there is only like twelve teams and way before my time,

<v Speaker 1>and I just I'm not doing that. But we are

<v Speaker 1>going to count down today the top five greatest NFL

<v Speaker 1>draft classes of the past forty years. And again we're

<v Speaker 1>looking at the entire class. Are we ready off we go?

<v Speaker 1>Number five? Okay, it's still a little bit early to

<v Speaker 1>call this class one of the greatest. Probably I probably

<v Speaker 1>shouldn't have them on the list, but I'm gonna put

<v Speaker 1>them on there because this class has a chance to

<v Speaker 1>have three, four, maybe five Hall of famers in it

<v Speaker 1>if some of these guys in the class of two

<v Speaker 1>thy eleven continue on their current path, they've got a chance. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>they have some bad picks in this class. They do.

<v Speaker 1>If you go back and you look at it, you say, oh,

<v Speaker 1>there's a couple misses in here, But look at some

<v Speaker 1>of the talent that is in this draft class. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>Auburn quarterback Cam Newton went number one to the Carolina Panthers.

<v Speaker 1>He's been pretty solid, not great, but he's been pretty good.

<v Speaker 1>Then at number two, the Denver Broncos took Texas A

<v Speaker 1>and M linebacker Von Miller he's got a Super Bowl MVP.

<v Speaker 1>That's not bad. Cincinnati Bengals picked Georgia wide receiver AJ

<v Speaker 1>Green at four, The Arizona Cardinals picked LSU defensive back

<v Speaker 1>Patrick Peterson at five. Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones went

<v Speaker 1>sixth to the Atlanta Falcons, and at number eleven, the

<v Speaker 1>Houston Texans grabbed Wisconsin defensive end j. J. Watt wasn't

<v Speaker 1>over yet. Later in the third round, Georgia defensive end

<v Speaker 1>Justin Houston went to Kansas City, and in the fifth round,

<v Speaker 1>the Seattle Seahawks took a cornerback from Stanford named Richard Sherman.

<v Speaker 1>So far, in the class of twenty eleven, you have

<v Speaker 1>twenty nine different players that have gone to the Pro Bowl,

<v Speaker 1>and every year they just add more. I know it's

<v Speaker 1>a little early, and I'll admit that, but twenty eleven

<v Speaker 1>has a chance to be a very very good draft class.

<v Speaker 1>We're gonna put him in our top five. I know

<v Speaker 1>we were probably giving them a little too much leeway,

<v Speaker 1>but we're gonna put them in. They're gonna give at

<v Speaker 1>least a little bit of a newer draft class in

<v Speaker 1>this one. Number four on this list, Okay, This class

<v Speaker 1>doesn't have the depth that some of the other classes

<v Speaker 1>are going to have, but it is really really top heavy.

<v Speaker 1>Check this out. In nineteen eighty nine, four of the

<v Speaker 1>first five players selected are now in the Pro Football

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Fame. That's pretty good. The Dallas Cowboys had

<v Speaker 1>the first pick and they took UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman. Akman,

<v Speaker 1>of course, went on to huge success. Michigan State monster

<v Speaker 1>bust Tony Mandrich wentnext. Okay, don't hold that one and

<v Speaker 1>guess this, but at number three, the Detroit Lions picked

<v Speaker 1>Oklahoma State running back Barry Sanders. Again pretty good. At

<v Speaker 1>number four, the Kansas City Chiefs drafted Alabama linebacker Derek Thomas.

<v Speaker 1>We're not done yet. Then at number five, the Atlanta

<v Speaker 1>Falcons picked a speedy cornerback out of Florida State named

<v Speaker 1>Dion Sanders. Yeah. All those four guys went to the

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Fame. And that's not counting guys like Arkansas

<v Speaker 1>safety Steve Atwater, Penn State offensive lineman Steve was Nowski,

<v Speaker 1>Idaho offensive lineman Mark Schlereth, and Ole Miss tight end

<v Speaker 1>Wesley Walls. There are four Hall of Famers in this class.

<v Speaker 1>There are twenty three different Pro Bowlers, and there are

<v Speaker 1>a bunch of Super Bowls in this class. So number

<v Speaker 1>four on our list nineteen eighty nine, it's just gonna

<v Speaker 1>get better. I'm telling you. Number three on our list

<v Speaker 1>of best draft classes has to go to nineteen eighty five.

<v Speaker 1>You know, there were a couple of very good defensive

<v Speaker 1>ends at the top of this class, but nineteen eighty

<v Speaker 1>five was actually the year of the wide receiver. Two

<v Speaker 1>defensive ends at the very top of the class. Everybody

<v Speaker 1>was kind of torn, who do you pick? Who do

<v Speaker 1>you pick? This defensive ends really good, the other guy's

<v Speaker 1>really good. Which one should we pick? Turns out it

<v Speaker 1>didn't matter. With a top pick of the draft. The

<v Speaker 1>Buffalo Bills selected Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith. Then

<v Speaker 1>at number four, the Minnesota Vikings selected Pitt defensive end

<v Speaker 1>Chris Doleman. Yeah, both of those guys were pretty good.

<v Speaker 1>I told you it was the year of the wide receiver.

<v Speaker 1>Two wide receivers were taken early. We're not even counting

<v Speaker 1>these guys. The Jets picked Wisconsin wide receiver Altoon at

<v Speaker 1>number ten. A'll Tune had a solid career, not a

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Famer, but a solid career. Then the Cincinnati

<v Speaker 1>Bengals picked Miami wide receiver Eddie Brown. I think Eddie

<v Speaker 1>Brown actually won the Rookie of the Year this year.

<v Speaker 1>He was at thirteen solid not great. But then with

<v Speaker 1>the number sixteen pick, the San Francisco forty nine Ers

<v Speaker 1>took another wide receiver, this one out of Mississippi Valley State. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>Jerry Rice went to thirteen Pro Bowls and is considered

<v Speaker 1>by many to be the best wide receiver ever. Then

<v Speaker 1>in the fourth round, Buffalo also took another wide receiver,

<v Speaker 1>Cootstown wide receiver Andre Reid. The Rams picked up Auburn

<v Speaker 1>defensive end Kevin Green in the fifth round. And again

<v Speaker 1>we're not even talking about players like Herschel Walker, Lomus Brown,

<v Speaker 1>Randall Cunningham, and Jay Novichik. Five Hall of famers in

<v Speaker 1>the class of nineteen eighty five, thirty different Pro Bowlers.

<v Speaker 1>Pretty good class. Not the best one though, number two

<v Speaker 1>on our list. Okay, nineteen eighty one didn't get started.

<v Speaker 1>Real strong, not bad, but not real strong. In nineteen

<v Speaker 1>eighty one, the New Orleans Saints took South Carolina running

<v Speaker 1>back George Rogers with the first overall pick. He was okay,

<v Speaker 1>wasn't great. But then at number two, the New York

<v Speaker 1>Giants took a linebacker out of North Carolina named Lawrence Taylor,

<v Speaker 1>The Seahawks took UCLA safety Kenny Easley, and the San

<v Speaker 1>Francisco forty nine ers took USC defensive back Ronnie Lott.

<v Speaker 1>That's not bad, right, This wasn't over. In the second round,

<v Speaker 1>we saw the Chicago Bears pick up Baylor linebacker Mike Singletary.

<v Speaker 1>The Raiders took a small school guy, some defensive van

<v Speaker 1>from Villanova named Howie Long. And the Saints did get

<v Speaker 1>it right later when they picked up Pitt linebacker Ricky Jackson.

<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah. And then the Washington Redskins they drafted Pitt

<v Speaker 1>offensive lineman Russ Grimm. Seven Hall of Famers, thirty one

<v Speaker 1>Pro Bowlers, and some of the best players in the

<v Speaker 1>history of the game came out of nineteen eighty one.

<v Speaker 1>That is number two on our list. So what could

<v Speaker 1>be number one? Of course it has to be what

<v Speaker 1>we're all thinking of. Yes, it was the year of

<v Speaker 1>the quarterback nineteen eighty three. We remember five or six quarterbacks.

<v Speaker 1>Do you realize there were sixteen quarterbacks selected? It's a

<v Speaker 1>ton of quarterbacks. Any year, that's a ton of quarterbacks,

<v Speaker 1>but nineteen eighty three was the year of the quarterback course.

<v Speaker 1>With the first pick, the Baltimore Colts selected Stanford quarterback

<v Speaker 1>John Elway. Now he would of course be traded to Denver.

<v Speaker 1>With the second pick of the draft, the Los Angeles

<v Speaker 1>Rams selected SMU running back Eric Dickerson at number nine.

<v Speaker 1>The Houston Oilers selected USC offensive lineman Bruce Matthews. Buffalo

<v Speaker 1>grabbed Miami quarterback Jim Kelly with the fourteenth pick, and

<v Speaker 1>lasting until pick number twenty seven was pit quarterback Dan Marino.

<v Speaker 1>The very next pick at twenty eight was a kid

<v Speaker 1>from Texas A and M. Kingsville, some defensive back named

<v Speaker 1>Darryl Green. Yeah, he went to Washington. In the eighth round,

<v Speaker 1>the Bearers grabbed a defensive end from Tennessee State named

<v Speaker 1>Richard Dent. That is seven Hall of famers, forty one

<v Speaker 1>Pro Bowlers, and some of those Pro bowlers they're not

<v Speaker 1>too far from being Hall of famers himself. Chris Hinton.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, the guy that was traded for John Elway,

<v Speaker 1>Carl Mecklenberg came out of this draft. Mark Clayton, Roger

<v Speaker 1>Craig and Leonard Marshall, not one, but two quarterbacks that

<v Speaker 1>are in the conversation at least for the greatest quarterback

<v Speaker 1>of all time. The nineteen eighty three draft class has

<v Speaker 1>got to be the best draft class of all time. Now,

<v Speaker 1>as we do every single week, we have got to

<v Speaker 1>get to our daily Ghost Top five. You know, like

<v Speaker 1>I said just before the break, it seems to be

<v Speaker 1>the norm lately, doesn't it. Teams reach for quarterbacks way

<v Speaker 1>too early in the NFL draft. We see it year

<v Speaker 1>after year. Look at the first round failures that we

<v Speaker 1>see from NFL teams at the quarterback position. And I'm

<v Speaker 1>not going way back. I mean, these are recent history.

<v Speaker 1>These are real, real reason Johnny manziel ej Manual, Brandon

<v Speaker 1>Whedon was taken in the first round. Jake Locker, Blame Gabbert,

<v Speaker 1>Christian Ponder, Tim Tebow, Josh Freeman, JaMarcus Russell, and Brady Quinn.

<v Speaker 1>They were all taken in the first round just in

<v Speaker 1>the past nine ten years or so, because NFL teams

<v Speaker 1>always feel like they need to go reach, they need

<v Speaker 1>to go get that quarterback that they think is going

<v Speaker 1>to be their future. Now this year, there is talk

<v Speaker 1>about four to five quarterbacks that could be taken in

<v Speaker 1>the first round alone. I'm sure every one of them

<v Speaker 1>is going to turn out just great. Right of course,

<v Speaker 1>the most quarterbacks that we have ever seen taken in

<v Speaker 1>the first round was back in nineteen eighty three, we

<v Speaker 1>had six quarterbacks taken in the top twenty seven selections.

<v Speaker 1>But believe it or not, going back like sixty years,

<v Speaker 1>there have only been five years that a quarterback was

<v Speaker 1>not taken at all in the first round. Right now,

<v Speaker 1>we are going to take a look at those five times.

<v Speaker 1>Coming in at number five. Back in nineteen seventy three,

<v Speaker 1>we did see Burt Jones taken out of LSU by

<v Speaker 1>the Baltimore Colts with the second overall pick, but in

<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy four there was not a single quarterback taken

<v Speaker 1>in the entire first round. The Dallas Cowboys selected Tennessee

<v Speaker 1>State defensive lineman ed two Tall Jones with the top

<v Speaker 1>overall pick. Now, the Pittsburgh Steelers, they did grab a

<v Speaker 1>wide receiver out of USC guy by the name of

<v Speaker 1>Lynn Swan with the twenty second pick, but it wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be until the first pick of the third round that

<v Speaker 1>Dallas would select Arizona State quarterback Danny White. Then in

<v Speaker 1>the fourth round, the Los Angeles Rams selected Old Miss

<v Speaker 1>quarterback Norris Wis. I mean he did go on to

<v Speaker 1>play a little bit here in Denver. There just weren't

<v Speaker 1>many great quarterbacks coming out in seventy four. The difference

<v Speaker 1>between then and now teams didn't just pick one anyway

<v Speaker 1>and just talk themselves into it and have all this

<v Speaker 1>combined stuff and well, hey, jumped really high, maybe we

<v Speaker 1>should take him with the fourth pick. This wasn't an

<v Speaker 1>untalented draft by any means. In nineteen seventy four. The

<v Speaker 1>Steelers in nineteen seventy four had what might have been

<v Speaker 1>the greatest draft ever. They picked up Lin Swann, Jack Lambert,

<v Speaker 1>Mike Webster, and John Stalworth all in nineteen seventy four.

<v Speaker 1>The Oakland Raiders they grabbed Notre Dame tight end Dave Casper,

<v Speaker 1>and the Denver Broncos took Ohio state linebacker Randy Gratishark. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>that's pretty good haul. There just weren't many quarterbacks in

<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy four, moving on to number four in the

<v Speaker 1>year following the most quarterbacks ever selected in the draft

<v Speaker 1>in nineteen eighty three, we had nineteen eighty four, in

<v Speaker 1>which there wasn't a single quarterback taken in the first round.

<v Speaker 1>The New England Patriots took Nebraska why receiver Irving Friar

<v Speaker 1>with a top pick. The New York Giants took linebacker

<v Speaker 1>Carl Banks at number three, and the Chicago Bears took

<v Speaker 1>Florida linebacker Wilbur Marshall at eleven. But the first quarterback

<v Speaker 1>he wasn't taken until the second round. That's when Cincinnati

<v Speaker 1>selected Maryland quarterback Boomer Assiasin. Then the New York Giants

<v Speaker 1>selected West Virginia quarterback Jeff Hosteller in the third round,

<v Speaker 1>and a few picks later in the third Washington took

<v Speaker 1>UCLA quarterback Jay Schrader. Hey for not having a quarterback

<v Speaker 1>taken in the first round, that's not a bad group

<v Speaker 1>of quarterbacks, really, Boomer assias In, Jeff Hosteller, j Schrader

<v Speaker 1>not bad, but not a single first rounder in that group.

<v Speaker 1>One year later, in nineteen eighty five, yeah, we actually

<v Speaker 1>saw it again. I mean, you could hardly blame the

<v Speaker 1>Buffalo Bills for their top pick. They took Virginia Tech

<v Speaker 1>defensive end Bruce Smith. Of course, he went onto a

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Fame career. The Minnesota Vikings got linebacker Dolman.

<v Speaker 1>San Francisco got a wide receiver out of Mississippi Valley

<v Speaker 1>State named Jerry Rice. But the first quarterback selected in

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty five wasn't taken until the second round, with

<v Speaker 1>pick number thirty seven, when the Philadelphia Eagles took UNLV

<v Speaker 1>quarterback Randall Cunningham. The Buffalo Bills took Maryland quarterback Frank

<v Speaker 1>Reich in the third, Minnesota took UCLA quarterback Steve Bono

<v Speaker 1>in the sixth. Of course, he would go on to

<v Speaker 1>some playing time in San Francisco, a little bit of

<v Speaker 1>playing time in Kansas City, and in the eleventh round,

<v Speaker 1>which of course we don't even have anymore, the Los

<v Speaker 1>Angeles Rams took a little guy out of Boston College

<v Speaker 1>named Doug Flutie, who would end up going to Canada

<v Speaker 1>and playing up there instead. Hey again, nineteen eighty five,

<v Speaker 1>that's a decent quarterback class. Randall Cunningham, Frank Reich, Steve Bono,

<v Speaker 1>Doug Flutie. That's not bad. Sometimes good things come to

<v Speaker 1>those teams who wait. Moving on to our number two selection,

<v Speaker 1>there were no quarterbacks taken in the first round in

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty eight, which, while very talented, might be more

<v Speaker 1>remembered for having a few bus The Atlanta Falcons took

<v Speaker 1>Auburn linebacker Andre Bruce with the top pick, and of

<v Speaker 1>course they ended up regretting it. Tampa, they drafted Wisconsin

<v Speaker 1>offensive tackle Paul Gruber at number four. The Bengals took

<v Speaker 1>Oklahoma defensive back Ricky Dixon at five, And yes, there

<v Speaker 1>was some serious talent in nineteen eighty eight, a lot

<v Speaker 1>of the top teams just missed out on it. Randall

<v Speaker 1>McDaniel went to Minnesota, Michael Irvin went to Dallas, Dermani

<v Speaker 1>Dawson went to Pittsburgh. That's three Hall of famers right

<v Speaker 1>there in eighty eight. But the first quarterback taken wasn't

<v Speaker 1>until the third round. It was a guy that you

<v Speaker 1>will think of, probably more as a punter. The Phoenix

<v Speaker 1>Cardinals took Ohio State quarterback slash punter Tom Tupa with

<v Speaker 1>the sixty eighth overall pick. Chris Chandler went to Indianapolis

<v Speaker 1>at pick seventy six. Washington selected a guy from Louisiana

<v Speaker 1>Monroe named Stan Humphries in the sixth round, and he

<v Speaker 1>eventually took the San Diego Chargers to the Super Bowl

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty eight. No quarterbacks taken in the first round, though,

<v Speaker 1>finally we get to our number one entry on years

<v Speaker 1>of the NFL Draft that there was no quarterback taken

<v Speaker 1>in the entire first round, and this was the most

<v Speaker 1>recent time that we went a first full round without

<v Speaker 1>a single quarterback being selected. In nineteen ninety six, this

<v Speaker 1>was another year of what was probably a little bit

<v Speaker 1>of an underachieving class. Right the New York Jets took

<v Speaker 1>USC wide receiver key Shawn Johnson with a top pick.

<v Speaker 1>Keishawan was solid. I don't know if he was great,

<v Speaker 1>but he was solid. But then we saw a run

<v Speaker 1>of players that never really did much in the NFL

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Hardy, Cedric Jones, Lawrence Phillips. But the Baltimore Ravens

<v Speaker 1>actually struck big in this draft in nineteen ninety six.

<v Speaker 1>Baltimore got UCLA offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden with the number

<v Speaker 1>four pick, and then they got Miami linebacker Ray Lewis

<v Speaker 1>at number twenty six. We did also see Brian Dawkins,

<v Speaker 1>Marvin Harrison, and Terrell Owens all get drafted in nineteen

<v Speaker 1>ninety six, but the first quarterback taken was in the

<v Speaker 1>second round, when Michigan State's Tony Banks was drafted by

<v Speaker 1>Saint Louis. We saw Bobby Hoying out of Ohio State

<v Speaker 1>get taken by Philadelphia in the third round, and the

<v Speaker 1>New York Giants took Danny Kanell in the fourth. There

<v Speaker 1>were actually just nine quarterbacks taken in the entire nineteen

<v Speaker 1>ninety six draft, and honestly, those three guys are probably

<v Speaker 1>the only names that you would even recognize, because I

<v Speaker 1>went down that list, I didn't know any of the

<v Speaker 1>other ones. Now, these are five examples of NFL drafts

<v Speaker 1>where there wasn't a single quarterback selected in the first round,

<v Speaker 1>but we still saw a few solid quarterbacks come out

<v Speaker 1>of these drafts. Is this year's draft class any better

<v Speaker 1>than the ones we just discussed? I have no idea.

<v Speaker 1>I honestly don't. Time will tell, but I know this,

<v Speaker 1>if you are patient, you can find some talent. Taking

<v Speaker 1>a quarterback too high it puts unreal expectations on both

<v Speaker 1>the player and on the franchise, and we see so

<v Speaker 1>many examples of them failing again and again. But I'm

<v Speaker 1>sure that won't happen this year, right, Hey, next week

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