02-14-2019, 10:03 AM
(02-12-2019, 10:48 AM)Wyche Wrote: I was in the minority, but I was never impressed with Johnny Fartball. Especially after that unknown kid came out in game one the very next year after Fartball left and shattered his single game record. A lot of it was Sumlin's system, and the other was tossing up prayers that Mike Evans and Ryan Swope bailed him out on. I just never felt that would translate well in the NFL combined with his shitty attitude and work effort. Other folks, not so much.
I hear ya...I didn't want the Browns to draft him, because I sort of root for them when they aren't playing the Bengals. He had some impressive plays at TA&M, but as you said, a lot of it was off script or where he had one read or would scramble. It isn't the NFL style, per se, but neither was what Mayfield did a lot of at Oklahoma. Mayfield has a little more meat on his bones, but Manziel was a much better runner. It just seems like we will never know what that kid could have been because of his attitude.
It would be nice to see a high round crapbag bust like that for the steelers, since now they are faced with replacing Brown. They did well with Conner, but I can't help but think that offense might really crash back to earth with JJSS drawing the double teams and Conner is not the player Bell was in his prime.