@gftchris said:

The fragile McCoy got injured in his first preseason game with the 49ers after going 3-7 for 41 yards and a pick.

Can we just toss the dirt on that grave now?

Zombo

@gftchris said:

He might have had the cannon arm of Ty Detmer instead of the pop gun arm of Charlie Frye...

For QB's my top one is Greg Cook. But others that I don't think have been mentioned would include Dr. Frank Ryan and Chad Pennington.

EDIT: Almost forgot my main man on the D-line... Jerry Sherk.... cut down by a knee in his prime.

@the-gipper said:

I don't remember the details but I think it was an injury in a preseason game and i'm pretty sure he never played again.

@emporerghoolie said:

No, I said I don't want live in the land of regret...which has nothing to do with memorializing the past.

By that I mean I don't think we should constantly be bemoaning the fact that "we coulda drafted Superman, instead we got Wally Cox" (you gotta be old enough to remember that reference...think,like the Urkle of his day)

@miktoxic said:

You think? (The same can be said, I think, about Albert Belle, perhaps?)

@browns149 said:

Yea, but that is not the theme of this thread.

@mark-o said:

I remember the Browns drafting him....but I don't recall what happened to him. What happened?

Zombo said:

Miller played 10 seasons? Really?

@miktoxic said:

You need an RX for Adderall. Better living through pharmaceuticals is my motto.

@hoorta said:

it's called age my friend.

i have an ADD practice now i HAVE to do before leaving the house.....keys, phone, cigs, lighter, wallet, sun glasses then while walking out the door i do the macarena hitting all my pockets to make sure everything is there. then remembering to turn off everything off and make sure the dog is in his place etc. etc.

then the worse is driving a mile or 2 after leaving your house and remembering that you forgot to bring your briefcase or camera or laptop considering where you are going and potentially who you might meet.

aye' yi yi. it gets worse every year.

@emporerghoolie said:

Well, not so sure about Ernie Davis, we'll never know for sure.

However, I did come up with two more Browns- Gary Baxter, & Le Charles Bentley. How could i have forgotten so fast?

@the-gipper said:

Ernie Davis' career was cut short by Leukemia, not by an injury.

Ernie Davis would have turned Jim Brown into a second team player. He was bigger, faster and more versitile. The decision to draft him was what initiated Jim Brown's campaign to get Paul Brown fired. What PB did regarding Bobby Mitchell was indeed enough to cuse his firing.

But I thought, you said in another post that you didn't like living in the past............ This entire topic is based in the past.

anyone remember that and who it was?

googled it:

@ballpeen said:

and he also got out of the game before they started testing.

talk about a steroid freak.

@the-gipper said:

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.

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.

@browns149 said:

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?

@the-gipper said:

Then why do you have Don Rogers, or Sean Taylor, or Eric Turner. They all died of non-football stuff