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.
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