Worse Personnel Move by your NFL Team

I wouldn’t bet on that.

 

Low hanging fruit. Sometimes it’s too easy.

But, I’m trying to keep it clean and I have handed the dirty baton over to others, most notably on the politics thread.

 

The Rams have a long, proud history of trading either a star player or a prime draft pick for huge numbers of draft picks and then finding a way to do absolutely nothing with it. They did it with Dickerson, Bettis and RGIII.

Also, one of my favorite stats with the Herschel Walker trade was the insane number of players that wound up being connected to that thing in some form or fashion. Once you traced the tentacles of the spinoff trades (the Cowboys, especially, were famous for trading picks for more picks) it was well over 100 players, IIRC.

 

I know the Browns are the poster child for bad moves, but consider this: From 1955 to 1961, Paul Brown let go off Doug Atkins, Henry Jordan, Willie Davis, Dick Lebeau, Bobby Mitchell and Jim Marshall for practically nothing in return. (Now, some of those trades happened for key reasons...ie..Mitchell was sent to DC to get the draft rights to Ernie Davis, Atkins chafed under Brown, Willie Davis was a spare part sent to Green Bay for a dynamic receiver in Billy Howton)

 

I know this is supposed to be moves and not draft picks, but the Redskins and Cal Rossi deserve special mention. Redskins drafted Rossi with their first round pick, only to discover he wasn’t eligible because he was still a junior and only seniors at that time were eligible.

So next year, Redskins drafted Rossi in the first round again, only to find out he wasn’t interested in an NFL career.

 

he also spawned Mike Brown in 1935.

 

William Clay Ford buying the team on the day JFK was assassinated.

 

That reminds me: Bert Bell pushed for the NFL Draft to help the bad teams such as his Eagles. They get first pick in each round of the 1936 draft. Sign none of them.

 

In 1974, the Packers gave up five draft picks — two first-rounders, two second-rounders and a third over the next two drafts — in a mid-season trade with the Rams for 34-year-old, 13-year veteran QB John Hadl. Good job, Dan Devine.

But, a butterfly flaps its wings ... yada, yada, yada ... Brett Favre, right?

 

The entire Joe Thomas era is X-rated for many long-time Niners fans.

 

Two worst moves by the Carolina Panthers in their relatively short history ...

1) Handing Washington two first-round picks, then signing Sean Gilbert to a ridiculous deal.
2) Jerry Richardson's hire of George Seifert.

I will not argue these.

 

Not my team, but who would admit to being a Bucs fan, Steve Young for a second and fourth.