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2135462, RE: I think some of the SoCal "failures" that they highlighted were a little...
Posted by Bombastic, Thu Feb-21-13 03:18 PM
>disingenuous...
>
>"Matt Leinart, Kyle Boller, J.P. Losman, Akili Smith, Dan
>McGwire and show-stopper Todd Marinovich..."
>
>I never thought Leinart was that good, I thought he benefitted
>from playing with a ridiculously talented team. Boller sucked
>in college and I think he completed less that 50% of his
>passes,
Boller was one of many QB fuckups by Brian Billick post-Super Bowl before picking up McNair: Elvis Grbac, Chris Redman, Boller, Anthony Wright.

I don't remember anyone thinking Boller was gonna be any better than Eric Zeier besides Billick.

but scouts fell in love because he could throw a ball
>60 yards on 1 knee. Losman was one of those out of nowhere
>workout wonders too.
Not to mention Losman was playing at damn Tulane, obviously he wasn't pedigreed coming out of HS.

As for a Akili, I don't think any of the
>dudes that went off to play baseball for a few years then came
>back to football ever panned out. Dan McGwire got notoriety
>because of his brother, Marinovich had a fucked up childhood
>and became a crackhead.