RiverDog":121wldy0 said:Ahh, you guys are too damn young.
The worst draft choice EVER by the Seahawks is without a doubt Andre Hines, an offensive tackle out of Stanford. In 1980, we selected him in the 2nd round, #44 overall. He was so bad that a rumor started that we drafted him by mistake, getting him mixed up with one of his OL teammates from Stanford. Here's what Jack Patera had to say about Owens:
"He was absolutely terrible", former Seahawks coach Jack Patera said. "Our scouting department said that this guy was going to play 10 years. He had no intestinal fortitude. He couldn't push himself to do anything. I don't know if he could run down the field and throw a block because he never did. He was in worse shape than I was (Patera at the time was at least 50 pounds overweight)".
Hines took part in 9 games and was out of the league after his first season. The only reason to argue that he wasn't the biggest bust in team history is that we spent "just" a 2nd rounder on this guy.
sorry, but 2nd rounders come and go in this league, past and present, so often that it makes the draft beatniks as reliable and laughable in retrospect as a local weatherman.
but completely and utterly missing on a #4 overall pick the way the team pissed away the Curry pick reigns supreme in this discussion. and it wasn't just his lack of an efficient nfl career, I don't remember the guy ever having an efficient nfl game.
remember when trivia: the 2009 draft also was the draft when johnny knox was picked up by Chicago in the 5th round. anyone remember the bears vs seahawks game when there was a loose ball on the field and he tried to scoop it up and was literally bent backwards? ended his career, and the guy was quite an electric player. IIRC he had just came off a pro bowl year as a returner/receiver type.