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Who do you think is the greatest #1 overall pick since 2000?
JaMarcus russell 😂
Eli
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@@stylestunner5526 agreed. he was so good he wanted to be fair
Might end up being Joe Burrow
17:41 "Assuming Burrow is back to full strength, there should be high hopes in Cincinnati again." This aged VERY well.
Exactly what I was thinking
he will still be good if they keep them alive...
@@reaganshepherd4824 with free agency and Jackson Carman development with trey Hill and just add to the Bengals defense then watch out and I'm packers fan
Yes, yes it certainly did.
Forreal
I like the casual "after a two year jail sentence"
Lol me too
Oh come on. So it was federal prison. So it was for dog fighting, plus torturing and killing the dogs for pleasure. ESPN says it's racist to ever talk about it again, so that's the end of it.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 then don’t watch... and keep whimpering and weeping
Yes a lot sports news won't talk about what he did, and it was horrific.
@@maxamillionphillipbeckett3237 So you're just gonna defend him cause sports? Bet you defend OJ too.
It’s good to see that after years of hard work and patience, Matthew Stafford has been rewarded with a chance and win at Super Bowl 56.
In the stadium he actually plays at on top of that
“The question was Winston or Mariota” *the answer was neither*
The jury's still out on both of them at least.
Would rather had Mariota at Tampa than Winston. I hated Winston with a passion.
That surprise me, I thank a better carrer for both
I'm glad they pointed out that the Texan management failed to build an OL to protect Carr. The guy might have been a legit great QB. The rare times the OL was able to do their job Carr looked good. Dude could win games when he wasn't getting rocked. But that kind of damage adds up quickly. Damn shame. Also major props to Alex Smith. 49's total failure at the coaching level was clear to anyone who wasn't the GM. What a waste of talent and heart. Dude could have easy helped build a powerhouse for SF but they pissed it away. Glad he got the credit he deserved at KC. Dude has plenty of haters from a time and situation that was completely out of his control.
Imagine choosing a clown like Kaepernick over him...
Smith had 7 different OC during his time with the 49ers
He failed in the playoffs with KC never made a super bowl 😂😂
@@calcaleb7041 He did with the 49ers.
That's the way l feel too about those two guys, Carr was practically a human pinata and Smith didnt he have a new coach every other year? Offensive coordinator? he was a class act he never said anything bad about the Niners.Also Singletary was a horrible coach!!
So y'all know on average DAVID CARR WAS SACKED 62 TIMES A SEASON BETWEEN 02-06
They made this video for the bengals lmao
Hi Stidham
@@hokucy6300 hey
@@-Maverick. You aren't good at football
@@hokucy6300 hey bud wtf is your problem the man plays in the NFL are you taking the piss or something?
When Brady retires you have to do "What happened to EVERY player drafted before Tom Brady in the 2000 Draft?".
Someone actually did that, it’s an hour long, one of the worst drafts in recent memory besides brady
J &D productions did that
@@user-uk1kw4vn6v urlacher too though
Done already.
Only problem is it’ll be an hour or 2 long😅
I never noticed how fast the ref was running on the Desean Jackson touchdown lmao
Right?! I’ve seen that highlight a million times but for some reason that caught my eye for the first time rn, old head had burners!
@@southviewarab bro he's flying! He ran infront of DeSean to get out of the way 😂😂
What about the throw though? Obviously everyone associates Michael Vick with his crazy mobility and acceleration when running the ball, but goddamn son he had a cannon for an arm, when he loaded up and stepped through the throw he could launch that shit.
“Could’ve gone pro, you know…”
Only 1 Super Bowl champion in Eli (and perhaps the only potential HOF on here) in 20 years of first round picks. Just goes to show the best players can be drafted at any time. Stafford has the most potential on here to win a SB and maybe make a case for the HOF as well depending on how well he does in LA.
Holy shit I did not expect to see you here. Lol
@@casualnoob7316 I had the same thought
Eric Fisher has a ring as well, and for some of these selections it's too early to tell HOF. If Myles Garrett keeps up his production he'll get in.
@nick l I think we meant a ring that the player started for
Eli has 2
Courtney Brown is the most forgotten #1 overall pick of all time.
Forgotten for good reason he got injured nothing remembered. He was good but
Had no idea who he was
Who?
Who?
Who?
What a shame Detroit couldn't do anything with Stafford, wasted the majority of his career where any competent franchise could have probably won multiple Superbowls with him and a little help around him.
Hopefully the rams help him
@@chaseelliotfan9855 Spoiler: They do
Ur right he only had the greatest wide receiver of all time.
@@chanceishikawa1699 ya and a terrible o-line, terrible defense, terrible front office, pretty bad running backs, and while i love megatron, he is not the goat, Jerry Rice the goat
@@chanceishikawa1699 key word: only. That's all he had for a few years, not even his entire career.
Eli Manning's throw in Super Bowl 46 was incredible. While inconsistent, he delivered in the biggest moments and gave New York 2 more championships. Best #1 overall pick of the 2000s in my opinion and definitely should be considered for the hall of fame
I just dont think you can consider somebody who even his proponents cite his inconsistent play, as one of the greatest individual athletes of all time
@@swallowme535 Hey say what you want about Eli, only 2 other players here have rings and one is Carr behind Eli in 2011-12.
@@neverlast12 Greatly written. Totally agree. And that David Tyree pass was probably one of the most epic plays i seen in a zsuperbowl
Eli is very average. If he gets in HOF it is because the players around him who helped him win 2 rings.
@@joem1382 Average? Average is 4 years and a retirement, Eli has rings and apperances. And obviously he isn't gonna bring a whole team by himself, even Dan Marino had Mark Clayton and Mark Duper.
“The Cardinals look fine as long as Murray makes plays like this.” *DeAndre Hopkins jumps and catches a Hail Mary over 3 defenders*
Wouldn’t had happened without murray
Exactly. A total prayer lol.
@@dba_luke1327 fair, hes a good QB... But like that WOULDN'T have happened without DeAndre Hopkins either lmao
Aaron Rodgers still better
@Nyght just cuz u fast doesnt mean u a good QB
Wish they tought us this in history class
Here before this comment becomes viral
That would be cool, but the nfl draft has no important significance in US history.
yeh instead they teach us about some guy that died 3000 years ago
Wish they taught* you how to spell
I wouldve passed lol
Vick threw that pass to D Jack 60 yards fyi. That man had a cannon bro.
I love watching that clip and I hate the eagles
Whats even crazier is, D Jax is STILL getting behind ppl like that lol
Too bad cannons aren't particularly accurate.
Yeah, if he had a cannon he'd have packed it full of puppies.
@@mikemiken1963 you feel good about that joke?
Everytime I see that highlight of Clowney blowing up the running back from Michigan I am reminded how I am more impressed by his inside penetration move than his actual hit stick. Clowney was 6'6" 270lbs freak vs. Vincent Smith who was 5'6" 180lbs. Also a reminder that Taylor Lewan, the Michigan LT had Clowney's # most of that game.
I went to South Carolina while Clowney was there he was a freshman the same year I was a freshman, he was amazing to watch live and I still remember watching that hit from that bowl game live on tv it was amazing.
Lewan was once joking about how he had clowney locked up all game but the one time he gets through on a missed assignment it goes on national television as an example of him being dominant.
Amazing Lucks injuries caused retirement so young. What an amazing talent.
every colts fan has a pit of sorrow in their heart for andrew luck. i miss that legend so much
Palmer was one guy who played with more talent in College than he did in the Pros. Those USC teams of that era were LA's pro team.
Yeah since LA sports fuckin sucked for a whole ass decade
@@KingJori_ LA football maybe, but the dodgers and lakers were tuff lmao
@@KingJori_ wait there was no NFL football in LA lol
Palmer was a really talented player, it's just that he was playing for the Bengals. The Bengals usually screw up the development of a player especially quarterback, and to make sure a quarterback becomes a franchise player (as well as healthy) that takes good coaching and a good front office. The Bengals kept signing players who were cheap or had off field problems and didn't fit in their offensive system like Cedric Benson. The front office of the Bengals was one of worst in the league at that time, it's better now though. During the Andy Dalton era, Marvin Lewis had complete control over the personel.
@@owainkanaway8345 Benson revived his career in cincy! Wtf are u talking about. He was great in cincy
"After a 2 years in jail" still a fresh sentence.
Imagine Aaron going to SF and having all those great defenses behind him. Would have been crazy.
Fun fact-Bradford was the last 1# pick to get a ridiculous rookie contract and they were team friendly from there on
KZhead labels people who still start their comment with the played out and overused "fun fact" meme sentence as sheep minded, unoriginal and loserish attentioncseeking behavior
@@xx_ummer_xx1039 I do not give a fuck
@@FalloutProfile truth though. Just like "hold my beer" and "Nobody" meme sentences are incredibly played out and really shows a lot about people who keep using them....lame minded
@@xx_ummer_xx1039 Go smoke another bowl and spare me from your pseudo-intellectualism bullshit
@@FalloutProfile I don't smoke
The biggest what if question What would of happened if the Niners picked Aaron Rodgers instead of Alex Smith
If you think deep on this one, a LOT would have changed (or not depending on perspective). Had Rodgers gone to SF, aside from what may or may not have happened to his career and the Niners, if we go on the premise that he had a relatively similar career as he's had in GB or even a somewhat lesser one (c'mon, it's Rodgers!), would Kaepernick come to the Niners in 2011 and ultimately start a long-overdue social revolution? (Yes, it could be argued that Kaep would've done it on any team, but that's not the point of this comment.)
We had no stability coaching wise and the question would be "why didn't they pick Smith?"
Theres a pretty good kto video on this
I think Rodgers would still be in San Francisco because he grew up loving the 49ers and I don't think he will have left.
As a Niner fan this pick will always be a big thorn 8n my side. Smith, even with his later success (but no super bowls), was just so cringey to watch. At best, imho, he became adequate, but he was never 1st round worthy. This pick bothers me more than any other of the bad ones. Because they could have had Rodgers ... 😡
Watching this after superbowl LVI hearing “there should be high hopes in cinci once again”😂
And there are! Who Dey!
NFL Throwback just blessing us with heat after heat!!
Thanks, dawg!
With the Alex Smith retirement, the farthest back first overall pick still in the NFL is Stafford.
And clowney is next
Being the first overall pick gives you bragging rights, but it also means you're going to an awful team
I’m not sure why more people don’t address this more often. It’s unfortunate when you don’t have teammates that can’t protect you. Furthermore a toxic environment can ruin a good player’s career. Players should have more input regarding their careers. Some need a little more training and exposure before they play full time.
Vick going to jail for 2 years then making the pro bowl is such an underrated achievement
Totally. I also love he did his time and accepted what he did. I wish some of these guys (tyreek hill type men) were held as accountable as Vick.
Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.
@@dirkdiggler. I see what you did there
@@tillztakes9080 what did hill do
@@ghost-iu9hv he hit his pregnant girlfriend
I really wonder where Vick’s career could have went had he never gone to prison, could he have gotten a ring? The possibilities are endless I say.
Maybe this is just me but I really think he was 2 inconsistent as a passer
@@jamman950 he really was he didnt get better as a passer until he went to Philadelphia under Andy Reid.
@@jamman950 wtf Vick had a cannon 🤣🤣
@@rodneyhall3991 not talking bout just arm strength
@@rodneyhall3991 Arm strength isn't the same as accuracy. Rookie Josh Allen is a great example, amazing arm strength but very below average accuracy.
Glad we had you Andrew, thanks for sacrificing your body for our entertainment.
Been loving these draft videos lately
2:01 That's literally how every Seahawks Fan felt for the last 3 years
I remember being like 12 years old or so the first Atlanta home game I went to with Vick. If you didn't get to see him in person you don't have the full scope of a special player he was.
Love how he didn’t say Bradford won a rookie of the year and he played for two terrible head coaches before landing on the Vikings where he was basically aged and destroyed thanks to his former teams.
He threw nearly as many int as tds his rookie year not nearly as impressive. You’re right about eh horrible coaches but still doesn’t justify the fact they put so much money on him knowing he wasn’t going to pan out.
@@tfromcali89 they didn’t know he was gonna pan out plus at the time he was one of the greatest college Qbs of all time. The injury’s derailed his career. Look at Trevor Lawrence the guy is a goat but he plays on the jags... one injury could derail his whole career.
@@tfromcali89All i'm gonna say is look what happened to his numbers when he was in a stable organization like the Vikings 🤷♂️
This is why I laugh at the draft hype. "This guy is the biggest can't miss candidate since Baker Mayfield .. I mean, Jared Goff .. or uh, Jameis Winston!"
I get your point but Baker is definitely not a scrub dude can ball
Honestly tho.. every guy that’s drafted number 1 is talented.. it’s all about the situation ur drafted too. Most franchises drafting number 1 are shit🤷🏾♂️
@@wesleypresley420 big facts wtf
@@ced3797 thats true, but the main problem is that draft stock is only based on physical attributes. How big or strong or fast a guy is. No matter what scouts or GMs would like to think, you can't look inside a guys mind and see what motivates him, how driven he is, etc. Thats why the greatest football player of all time was drafted 199th overall. There are plenty of guys that had natural talent and athletic ability their entire lives, so they get scholarships and find success in college effortlessly. Then they go to the NFL, where everyone is a freak athlete and they have to actually put in effort, in practice, in film study, etc. Analysts act like the draft is a science, where higher picks equals better players, but that's not true. Its much more about luck and finding hidden value, there's no such thing as guaranteed success.
@@dylanfarnum4121 very well put. And your point about these guys suddenly be surrounded by other guys who are all also freakishly talented and how are they going to respond is totally spot on. How do you measure that?
Watching this after most of the wild card round this year just adds on to the accomplishments of those in the more recent years of this list.
The greatest thing since 2000... the implementation of the rookie wage scale. Now the only hold outs will be how the money is allocated.
Ya and usually guys like sam Bradford would get just as much money as the highest paid qb in the league most of the time which was weird formula
i feel bad, so many players that could have been good, but got ruined by bad teams, example matthew stafford, such a great player but got nowhere with a bad team, glad he got a chance with the rams and won the sb
Meanwhile Burrow turned around a terrible team his first full season.
The toll injuries take on players is heart breaking. Luck would be a hall of famer but had to retire. So many other players get beat up. So much of this is just random.
Alex Smith's injury wasn't just career threatening, it ended up being life threatening.
Damn near lost his leg too
The fact that Vick was able to come back to the league is just mind-boggling.
Why?
@@JakeStz He ran a full-on dog fighting ring where he even hung dogs up on trees to die...what do you mean why? 🤣
@@wesmiller5070 He served his time. Why wouldn't be be allowed to go back to work? Everyone else who commits crimes are allowed to go back to work after they get out lol
@@JakeStz Bc his “work” isn’t just some run of the mill job, it involves being a figure of a franchise that is seen globally and should be for someone who is a good role model human being, not a scum bag who can throw a ball far lmao
@@wesmiller5070 51% of players have a criminal record. 21% of players are felons. I don't know what league you're watching for role models, but the NFL isn't it lol. Just let people pay their debt to society and move on, no need to keep talent out for feelings
That Alex Smith naked boot on 3rd and about 9 I still remember watching live as it happened .... one of the gutsy-est calls ever ... if memory serves me correctly that happened in OT as well
That was a nice little laugh during the video…… Slings iiiittttt, right to Denver lmao
Eli Manning is the most accomplished #1 pick on this list by far.
Most accomplished but least impressive. He's never had a blowout season. But he wins games and wins titles, so he's got that going for him.
Glad Stafford has an uncursed team to play for 👍
man im so thankful to alex smith for giving me some good years of kc football . appreciate that dude so much.
As a lions fan, seeing Stafford again made me emotional 💔
Eli is pretty underrated honestly, the guy was way to solid in the playoffs.
As a Rams fan I still think to this day Bradford could’ve led us to greatness if they could have just protected him.
Great video, this is the kind of videos that keeps my attention
Just yesterday I was talking to my dad (both chiefs fans) and I said: "Why doesn't anyone really talk about the massive comeback Indianapolis pulled against us, 38-10 at halftime?" "Well we were there, so it was more of a sinking feeling than it actually was. And the Chiefs weren't that good." Thanks for bringing it up. I hated that game.
Craziest thing is between all 20 of them only 3 have won a SB with 1(D Carr) as the backup to E Manning. On top of that the only one to win a SB with the team that drafted them was E Fisher with KC in 2020.
Bad news for Lawrence tomorrow.
We need the updated version, especially about the Goff-Stafford trade results
I wish Cam Newton could still play half as good as he did when he was a rookie... that guy was electrifying.
This deserves an update.
Its a curse for first round draft picks your time in the pros is very limited. But it makes sense people who are at the top of draft class always pushed themselves at 110% so the body is more broken down.
I love this channel
Stafford now has a ring 🤝
#1 pick of 2020 did pretty, pretty, pretty good in 2021. Super Bowl ain't bad in year 2 for a team that had won 6 total games in the previous TWO seasons.
It really sucks that Luck had injury troubles had he not had them he'd have been on levels equal to the man he replaced in Indy
Blame Grigson. By the time we got rid of him and brought in someone who knows how to actually build an O-line it was too late.
3:40 might be the best throw in nfl history
Great video! Took a lot of time to make!
Michael Vick, Cam Newton and Kyler Murray were unstoppable in their first year as rookies and their second year in the league!!!
Clowney is such a great run defender. I think he’ll flourish in Cleveland.
i think clowney is still the highest rated high school player ever on 247sports
It's STILL only Cleveland.
good seeing Stafford finally gets his Superbowl ring after all those years wasted in Detroit
Bro that stafford TD Was legendary when it happened
Alex Smith’s high school team Helix in San Diego had Reggie Bush on it. They dominated everyone they played.
Now, can we get what has happened to every #2 overall pick?
#2 are like cursed or something
@@Cody435 chase young? Nick bosa?
@@dba_luke1327 two examples though. Bosa has to recover from bad injury same as barkley Trubisky was a bust Wentz was both great and horrible Mariota was meh Greg Robinson sucked Joeckel sucked Rg3 could never stay healthy Von miller is an amazing player though and so is suh
@@willtaylor4341 suh considered amazing??
@@esaiarellano he is tho..
Fun Fact:When Kyler Murray a.k.a. (The worlds favorite toddler) ran a 40 yard dash,he did it in 4.31
KZhead tired of people who keep overusing the played out "fun fact" meme sentence. Labeled as sheep minded and unoriginal. Its sp overused and played out. Damn
@@xx_ummer_xx1039 At least it's a relavent comment though
@@raychelallen9298 I promise you... on everything..i knew someone was going to comment the way you did. Lol bro. Nevermind. It's crazy how after years of experience in a certain field, how you can predict certain actions w/o a doubt of mind. Now i understand the field of criminal profiling
@@xx_ummer_xx1039 what is criminal profiling? Did I do something bad by accident?
Russ is the world’s favorite toddler
Good stuff!
Good way to start the day Throwback
I didnt realize we still had such shitty tv back in 2001 - i remember that being the era of 'no one will go to games ever again with HD' and 'ticketmaster surcharges are just an annoyance they won't last'
Seeing this makes miss Andrew Luck. Just right when it seemed like he was getting it together after a few injury ridiculed seasons he retires. I can’t blame him either.
I remember hounding Card shopping for the HIGHLY anticipated Tim Couch rookie card! Yeah I got a couple... Yeah... 😥
For this discussion, Eli is the standard. Garrett, Murray, and Burrow are the only recent picks that have any kind of chance for a comparable career.
I miss Andrew Luck. An ultimate what could have been.
I’m happy for the browns fans, they’ve been through so much and finally are playoff contenders with Baker Mayfield
19 first round draft picks later...
Baker isn't even that good.
Lions have had it worse then Cleveland
@@danlyons4602 good enough to get them a playoff win for the first time in forever
@@motownmike7509 at this point the lions are just a joke, I’d quit being a lions fan if they never want to improve. When’s the last time they even won a playoff game? 30 years?
Now stafford won the Super Bowl with the rams and burrow came back and took the bengals to the superbowl ! Nice
My favorite thing to do on madden was going back to a game after 5 years and trade for the rookies that ended up being great but had no value in the game at the time
“You can’t rewrite the history of the nfl without Eli Manning!” And that’s why he’s a HOFer.
Exactly
Eli belongs in the hall...the hall of leading the league in INTs in 3 separate seasons and not once being in contention for the MVP
@@PatsRule1224 where are your super bowl rings?
@@PatsRule1224 favre has 336 interceptions, eli's is in the 200s, big ben has never won mvp
eli is not h.o.f. deal with it
9:13 Bradford has been sent to the shadow realm
Lol
Great video.
id love to see a video of #1s vs #2s of each year, "who made the better choice" (if you dont have one already)
I hope Joe Burrow makes a comeback this year. I want to see him succeed so badly.
They picked jamarr chase so yeah, no
@@lukeliszoo3531 they say this is a deep ol class so there still hope
They are going to fail him with the offensive line again. Burrow's hope lies in a trade.
He aint got no line
He has zero protection. Bengals will ruin him.
If Jamarcus isn’t the biggest bust of all time I don’t know who is!
Tony Mandarich
It's probably between Jamarcus and Ryan Leaf
🤣🤣🤣
Well after watching super bowl 56 Stafford finally got his ring and Joe Burrow had his 1st super Bowl appearance
How about that blocking by #89 (I think that's Steve Smith?) on Newton's run at 9:23? That's epic, a WR blocking 3 defenders while pancaking 1 of them! I mean, good run by Cam, obviously, but it's not a TD without the blocking.
What about "What Happened to every quarterback drafted in the first round since 2010"
Man Stafford and Johnson really could have messed around and been another Montana and Rice but the Lions just couldn’t that right either. Watch this year everyone in the media will talk about how good Stafford is. It’s not because he was ever bad, it’s because he never had everyone from the coach, OC , GM and everyone in the building all on the same page. Oh yeah Stafford about to ball and Rams going 14-2
Stafford is -not- clutch. -No way- of course he will win 3 playoff games and get to SB. Gonna be Hilarious watching rams -choke- win it all this year!
Its an illusion, He's Jay Cutler in blue.
@@johnwonder8720 good reference.
@@newagain9964 lol this aged well
@@natecarter3537 😂😂😂😂...... I mean damn, you can’t get more wrong in reference to @NewAgains comment lol
NFL Throwback > throwing out my back
Vick changed the entire football defensive and offensive nfl play
And Stafford got the SB his first season gone from the Lions!
I am curious how David Carr’s career would have turned out if he had a better team around him
They signed Boselli, arguably the best tackle in the NFL to protect Carr. Carr was doomed as soon as Boselli wasn't able to come back from injury.
Thanks for training our dream machine Alex Smith. Mahommes!!!!
Tim Couch standing on that stage with Brown was like "Ashes to Ashes, Bust to Bust."
"High hopes in cincy" *makes AFC Championship*
Makes Super Bowl. Makes AFC Championship the next year.
Luck should have had a much longer career than the one he had, Colts never invested properly in getting an offensive line that would give him the protection he needed. A real shame for the game of Football to see a guy like that to retire at 29 simply because he decided that he didn't want to put his body through that level of punishment
1:07 Oh man those two Viking defenders!
Could you do one about every #199 pick since 2000? :)