Truncated Careers
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Charles White
"And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve." -
RBs seem to have the worst of the injury situation. I can only think of a few QBs whose careers were derailed by injury:
Tim Couch is one
Jack Thompson
Greg Cook
a few others had derailed careers, like Todd Marinovich/Vince Young/Jamarcus Russell/Ryan Leaf....but there problems were either a suckage appendage, or drugs.
Can you think of any others?
RBs seem to have the worst of the injury situation. I can only think of a few QBs whose careers were derailed by injury:
Tim Couch is one
Jack Thompson
Greg Cook
a few others had derailed careers, like Todd Marinovich/Vince Young/Jamarcus Russell/Ryan Leaf....but there problems were either a suckage appendage, or drugs.
Can you think of any others?
Bert Jones
Chris Miller
Zombo
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Defenders that I can think of:
Dimitrious Underwood
Steve Emtman
Gaines Adams
Courtney Brown
Andy Katzenmoyer
Don Rogers
Sean Taylor
Eric Turner
Offensive Linemen:
LeCharles Bentley
John Clay
Levi Brown
Notice how a lot of this seems to affect the Browns more than anyone? (or, more likely, I am just more familiar with the Browns players)
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Charles White
White's career hit a roadblock with his cocaine habit...but he made a rebound to have a semi-productive career.
Nine years, 3075 yards. Twice as long as the usual RB career, though he didn't gain a lot as he turned out to be just OK.
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RBs seem to have the worst of the injury situation. I can only think of a few QBs whose careers were derailed by injury:
Tim Couch is one
Jack Thompson
Greg Cook
a few others had derailed careers, like Todd Marinovich/Vince Young/Jamarcus Russell/Ryan Leaf....but there problems were either a suckage appendage, or drugs.
Can you think of any others?
Bert Jones
Chris Miller
Zombo
Zombo said:
Bert Jones
Chris Miller
Zombo
I thought about Bert. He did play 10 years, but yes, he could have gone longer without injury.
But Chandler played for 17 years. Injuries may have taken some of the zip off the ball, but he still had a long career.
Heck....you could put Kosar in here. He only had a 12 year career.
But, for this, I was thinking of people who were cut off in their prime....or who showed promise before reaching their prime.
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Probably the best that never was:
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Maybe the best next to Jim Brown:
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Gosh, don't those uniforms look familiar.
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The Big Kat suffered a neck injury early on that required fusion surgery, and that ended his career. I think he would have been a Spielman/Urlacher type player.
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Defenders that I can think of:
Dimitrious Underwood
Steve Emtman
Gaines Adams
Courtney Brown
Andy Katzenmoyer
Don Rogers
Sean Taylor
Eric Turner
Offensive Linemen:
LeCharles Bentley
John Clay
Levi Brown
Notice how a lot of this seems to affect the Browns more than anyone? (or, more likely, I am just more familiar with the Browns players)
Defenders that I can think of:
Dimitrious Underwood
Steve Emtman
Gaines Adams
Courtney Brown
Andy Katzenmoyer
Don Rogers
Sean Taylor
Eric Turner
Offensive Linemen:
LeCharles Bentley
John Clay
Levi Brown
Notice how a lot of this seems to affect the Browns more than anyone? (or, more likely, I am just more familiar with the Browns players)
Maybe the biggest bust ever
Tony Mandrich
"And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve." -
Defenders that I can think of:
Dimitrious Underwood
Steve Emtman
Gaines Adams
Courtney Brown
Andy Katzenmoyer
Don Rogers
Sean Taylor
Eric Turner
Offensive Linemen:
LeCharles Bentley
John Clay
Levi Brown
Notice how a lot of this seems to affect the Browns more than anyone? (or, more likely, I am just more familiar with the Browns players)
Maybe the biggest bust ever
Tony Mandrich
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Defenders that I can think of:
Dimitrious Underwood
Steve Emtman
Gaines Adams
Courtney Brown
Andy Katzenmoyer
Don Rogers
Sean Taylor
Eric Turner
Offensive Linemen:
LeCharles Bentley
John Clay
Levi Brown
Notice how a lot of this seems to affect the Browns more than anyone? (or, more likely, I am just more familiar with the Browns players)
Maybe the biggest bust ever
Tony Mandrich
Maybe the biggest bust ever
Tony Mandrich
I am trying to deal here with guys whose careers were cut short with injuries, not guys who were busts because they just sucked.
Besides, Mandarich actually had a fairly lengthy, though maybe not spectacular career. Leaf, Russell would more like fit that vein.
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Maybe the biggest bust ever
Tony Mandrich
I am trying to deal here with guys whose careers were cut short with injuries, not guys who were busts because they just sucked.
Besides, Mandarich actually had a fairly lengthy, though maybe not spectacular career. Leaf, Russell would more like fit that vein.
I am trying to deal here with guys whose careers were cut short with injuries, not guys who were busts because they just sucked.
Besides, Mandarich actually had a fairly lengthy, though maybe not spectacular career. Leaf, Russell would more like fit that vein.
Then why do you have Don Rogers, or Sean Taylor, or Eric Turner. They all died of non-football stuff
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I am trying to deal here with guys whose careers were cut short with injuries, not guys who were busts because they just sucked.
Besides, Mandarich actually had a fairly lengthy, though maybe not spectacular career. Leaf, Russell would more like fit that vein.
Then why do you have Don Rogers, or Sean Taylor, or Eric Turner. They all died of non-football stuff
Then why do you have Don Rogers, or Sean Taylor, or Eric Turner. They all died of non-football stuff
Yea. They died. Death = injury. I didn't say it had to be a football injuy. So did Ernie Davis, Joe Delaney, Gaines Adams and a couple of others perhaps...non football issues.
The guys you referenced didn't die or get injured. They just sucked. See the difference?
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Yes, death is a reason that one's career can be truncated:
Ernie Davis died of Leukemia
Gaines Adams died of heart failure
Joe Delaney drowned
Sean Taylor was shot
E-Rock died of intestinal cancer
Rogers died of cocaine overdose
Korey Stringer died of heat stroke
Pat Tillman died in action
Derrick Thomas died of an embolism from a car accident
Jerome Brown died in an accident
David Overstreet died in an accident
Chris Henry died in an accident
Don Fleming died of electrocution
Big Daddy Lipscomb died of a drug overdose
Brian Piccolo testicular cancer
Corey Smith was lost at sea
Marquis Cooper was lost at sea (in same incident with Smith)
So, yea, death counts.
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How about WRs/TEs. Can't think of many. Perhaps K2 could fit here. Anyone else?
How about WRs/TEs. Can't think of many. Perhaps K2 could fit here. Anyone else?
No one knows how good he could've been in the pros but Patrick Rowe was very very good at San Diego State and never played for the Browns.
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Sucking can ALSO truncate ones career.
"And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve." -
Bo Jacksons career may have been cut short, but it was long enough to sustain the legend....Bo was as good as it gets in a couple of sports.
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