Toss up between Ron 'NOT-SO' Faurot(cious) (#15 pick round 1 1984 draft...I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT THIS CREAM PUFF), Browning Nagle and Blair Thomas
as far as my vote i have to go...... 1. obrien over marino 2. brady over sapp 3. farrior over manning with #3 i am speculating in a way but i think that the jets should have committed to the mannings for the 1st pick. we never will know any of the truths leading up to any of the picks but i do believe parcells could not commit to manning hence the QB stays put at Tenn. with sapp and brady - i was told by a very very reputable source that there was some serious tension in the draft room leading up to the pick. in fact - one of the scouts had said he "didn't care if sapp wanted to grow a pot field at hofstra, we have to take him" and i quote.... jil
I would have to say that Browning Neagle and Kyle Brady are both (since I have been a Jets fan) that I can remember. A few of the players you guys have mentioned...Lam Jones? I have never heard of. Brady at 9th or 10th (i can't remember exactly where) was a screamer at the tv moment for me.
LOL...yeah, there's a reason you've never heard of him...he never did anything worth talking about. He was a track star w/ 4.2 speed or something ridiculous. They traded 2 number #1's to move up to take him, I think, 2nd overall (definitely top 5). The problem was he couldn't play football! He was the first guy I thought of when I saw this thread. Ron Faurot and Mike Haight are a close 2nd and 3rd all time for me.
I call bullshit on that one. Ken O'Brien ws the second best quarterback that the Jets have ever had. You guys seem to forget who came out on top in the shootout with the Miami Dolphins. If you need a hint it sure as hell wasn't Dan Marino. If Wesley Walker stayed healthy for three straight years, O'Brien would have put up some truly incredible numbers.
Yeah, I'm w/ ya, man. KOB may not have been on Marino's level, but to me a guy who was a 2 time pro bowler, started for multiple seasons, and has some franchise records, is far from a bust.
No way was Johnny Mitchell one of the worst draft picks ever. I wouldn't even call him a terrible pick, not a great one - but certainly not terrible. Here's his stats while on the Jets: Year TM | G | Rec Yards Y/R TD | +----------+-----+-------------------------+ | 1992 nyj | 11 | 16 210 13.1 1 | | 1993 nyj | 14 | 39 630 16.2 6 | | 1994 nyj | 16 | 58 749 12.9 4 | | 1995 nyj | 12 | 45 497 11.0 5 | When was the last time a Jet TE got 600+ yards receiving?
I think Alex Van Dyke was the worst pick simply because we passed on Tony Brackens for another WR. We already picked a WR with the first pick.
Definitely a weirdo and had a bizzare comeback try when the Tuna was coaching. I remember him begging Tuna to give him a chance to make the team, and then he suddenly quits camp and falls off the face of the Earth. But he was a productive player for 4 years.
I'm not saying the on-field results don't justify Marino over O'Brien, but Marino was known to be doing a good amount of blow on the Pittsburgh campus his senior year. That may have scared off some teams, Jets included.
This is unfair to Rob Moore because he was a good player, but when the Jets took him in the first round of the 1990 Supplemental Draft, it left them without a first round selection in the 1991 draft. Had they had a 1st round pick in the 1991 draft, they most likely would have selected Brett Favre.
How can you say we would have drafted Brett Farve in the First round. He wasn't a first round pick by any other team, but we would have taken him? Thats awful speculative don't ya think. He fell to the 33rd pick, and after finishing 6-10, do you honestly think we would have taken him with a top 10 pick? I don't.
See above comments about the Lageman selection. Ron Wolf was planning on drafting Favre, but the Falcons beat the Jets by one slot. If the Jets had a 1st round pick and wanted Favre and didn't want to take him real early, they could have traded down into the 20s.
