Schaudenfreude is greater when the QB from ________ is an NFL bust?

notre dame. the answer is always notre dame.

palmer wasn't a bust tho

Bengals made the playoffs twice in his eight seasons there, and lost their wild card game both times. Those were the only two seasons the team was above .500.

Sanchez made it to the AFC title game in back to back years.

how is this even a question, the answer is CLEARLY Notre Dame

I feel like the notre dame qbs are--even w clausen and even considering palmer--seem more likeable albeit crippled with a more obvious sense of impending doom leads to an immediate and swift nfl faceplant. The usc guys tend to have a slow deflating after an initial bout with misleading success. I love watching both, my only regret being that Ron Powlus and John David Booty didnt fail more spectacularly.

Bengals made the playoffs twice in his eight seasons there, and lost their wild card game both times. Those were the only two seasons the team was above .500.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

well it didn't really help that carson blew his knee out on the first snap of the first playoff game

Sanchez made it to the AFC title game in back to back years.

Sanchez is a fascinating case, because, while he's never been great, his career arc is actually just a straight line going southward.

I think I'm basically a fan of Steve Beuerlein, mostly felt sorry for Todd Marinovich, kinda like Brady Quinn as a person.

Mirer seemed sort of unlikeable. Clausen is a chump. Leinart doesn't seem like he likes football.

Palmer was kinda sweet when he started but now he's like a less mobile version of Daunte Culpepper's corpse.

no way palmer is a bust

Palmer may not technically be a bust, but he's underperformed for the position at which he was drafted (first overall).

palmer's a mild disappointment but only bc he was supposed to be so so good. Tbh I think he ended up on the wrong team in addition to his injury.

USC has put better QBs recently into the NFL, but Notre Dame has the two Joes (Montana & Theismann).

USC others-

Rodney Peete- He was pretty good considering how short he was and he hung around for a long time.
Rob Johnson - Yeah swapping out Flutie 'worked great'. Bills haven't made the playoffs since.

ND-

They pretty much just sucked for 20 years so most of their QBs were always busts in college let alone the pros. Ron Powlus is one that comes to mind, man Beano Cooke raved about that dude a ton and he just wasn't even a good college QB.

I just don't see Palmer as a bust at all. Going to a good club is as much about becoming a star in the NFL as anything and the dude ended up on the Bengals. If anything, they were at least better in his time than the 15 years before it, but that club is a joke as Mike Brown is an idiot. Palmer was pretty good for a couple years and I think he probably tried to do too much at times (with the interceptions). A bust...nah, if the dude would have ended up on say the Giants or Pats or crap many other clubs, the whole story could have been different. Tom Brady if on the Chiefs would not have been Tom Brady became on the Pats. He was drafted by the right club at the right time with the right coach. Brady would have become good and maybe even great, but he might have gotten his brains bashed in by a terrible o-line and dumb coaches that come and go like a carosel too.

It's like with Tim Couch - I just don't see him as the same kind of bust as say Jamarcus Russell or Ryan Leaf at all.

Couch had shown some glimmer at points of perhaps becoming good on some totally SHITE Browns teams that got his brains beat out. He got knocked out by injury which destroyed his throwing arm and Cleveland fell in love with the backup QB.

The guy had the arm, but he just had crap luck where he went. Flip Couch and McNabb around in that 99 draft...that would be interesting to see how it went. I don't think the Eagles would have had the same success, as McNabb's running ability was such a big thing early in his career, but I know he wouldn't have been THAT successful on those Browns team's either.

usc list missing matt cassel, too

beuerlein was good w/carolina, including that one phenomenal warner-esque outlier season (36 TD, 4400+ yds passing.)

i remember marinovich at the very beginning had one good game w/the raiders and then just fell apart.

usc list missing matt cassel, too

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:34 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't think this really counts

i realize he wasn't a starter but his is an interesting case.

Beurlein played forever too, he was a backup for a long time before he started in Carolina.

A QB like Cassel slipping through the cracks with little experience into the NFL is a bit rare, but it happens at RB and some other positions more often like say Priest Holmes at Texas (who rarely played being behind Ricky Williams). There is some other really good Miami running back that was the same way that never played much in college but was a star in the pros that is slipping my mind.

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Get down to it, there is always more hype on ND Qbs. USC is about the tailback at least historically speaking.

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