The Todd Marinovich Award

which current NFL QB has been the biggest bust? there are so many candidates to choose from that it'll be hard to really narrow it down. the criteria is that the player must have been a first or second round draft pick who was seen as the savior of his team or the NEXT starter to take over for an aging veteran.


first up we have former overall number one pick of the Houston Texans and current backup QB for the Carolina Panthers, David Carr. Carr's bust factor really comes from the fact he was a number one overall pick who never lead his team anywhere near the playoffs or even to a winning season. in college he was a superstar at Fresno State and racked up wins against BCS teams like Colorado, Wisconsin, and Oregon State. when the Texans selected him as their first ever draft pick, most people saw him as their QB for the next ten years and a future pro-bowler. unfortunately the Texans never bothered to draft an offensive line to block for Carr and he ended up being sacked 249 times during a 5 year stretch. finally the Texans gave up on Carr and traded for Atlanta backup Matt Schaub and sent David packing. Carr has always seemed like a fairly descent QB and would probably be good if put on the right team. i think he'll resurrect his career in Carolina and will go down as an average NFL QB who maybe won a playoff game or two.

i give his current bust rating a 5.


our second Marinovich nominee is Ravens QB Kyle Boller. Boller was the Ravens' first round pick in 2003 and was thought of as being the QB that the team needed to get them back to the Super Bowl. mostly he's been the QB that gets benched for Anthony Wright or Steve McNair. his career stats are 55.7% completions, 36 tds to 35 picks, and a QB rating of 70.5. basically those are the career numbers of a journeyman backup Qb taken in the 6th round who hung around the league for a decade...not a 1st round draft pick. Boller seems destined for an early exit once his contract runs out or whenever the Ravens decide to cut him. they already drafted Troy Smith as his possible replacement and i wouldn't be surprised if they took another QB in the 2008 draft. Boller's days in Baltimore are numbered.

his bust rating is a 6


our final nominee for biggest current bust and winner is Joey fucking Harrington. the former Lions, Dolphins, and current Falcons QB has been a total disaster almost since day one of his career. his numbers are 55% completions, 72 tds vs 79 picks, and a QB rating under 70. Joey Harrington comes from the Jeff Tedford school of QB robots which also produced Boller and Superbust Akili Smith. for whatever reason Tedford removes whatever part of the brain that QBs use to make good decisions and replaces it with a computer chip that can only run his college offence. once that player graduates his chip stops working and he goes to the pros and becomes a complete liability.

his bust rating is a 8.5

other potential/current busts taking up a roster spot and wasting your favorite teams money and giving you a false since of hope are Aaron Rodgers (another fucking Tedfordbot), JP Losman, Jason Campbell (war eagle...damnit!), Charlie Frye, Chris Simms, Alex Smith, and Sex Cannon Grossman.

we need to come up with a new award for player with insane talent who wasted it away by being a complete moron in life...we'll call that the Michael Vick/Pacman Jones award.