Here are Mirer's rookie stats. Not bad except for the TD/INT ratio. 1993 SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Games 16 Completions 274 Attempts 486 Comp. % 56.4 Yards 2833 Yds/Att 5.8 TDs 12 Ints 17 Sacked 47 QB Rating 67.0
The Majic Man - Don Majkowski, QB, Packers Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson - LB, Cowgirls William "Refrigerator" Perry - ******, Bears
Looks like some pretty good names in this thread. I think some people are confusing let downs with flashes. The best I think that are in this thread are Barry Foster, Natrone Means, and Gary Brown. Gary Brown is the epitome of flash in the pan. Mirer is a good one, along with Harbaugh.
Gary Anderson (placekicker, Minnesota Vikings) ... just kidding ... Seriously though, I'd have to say: Natrone Means Christian Okoye Bam Morris Cecil Collins (Miami Dolphins RB a couple yrs ago) James Stewart (RB) Karim Abdul-Jabbar
and yet he lives forever in glory as a dominating running back on Tecmo Super Bowl. okoye sweep to the bottom, unstoppable.
^^^ lol @ the Tecmo Super Bowl comment. I never thought of Karim Abdul-Jabar as that great. What were his stats? I always thought he was just really hyped because of his name. I think Elvis Grbac had maybe one good season, but I thought he was overhyped too. Al Toon. Maybe Jevon Kearse?
Thanks for a lot of great contributions. Man, there are a lot of former players that I've forgotten about-- I guess that's why they are flashes in the pan. Of all, though, I think Okoye was the biggest. He had, maybe, one great season and was probably out of the league within two years. No injuries, either, that I recall. Anybody know for sure?
I seem to remeber Okoye having a vary serious injury to one or both of his knees and wasnt the same ever again. However im realy not very sure.
I believe Karim had 17 TDs in one season a while back. And the chiefs picking Elvis Grbac over Rich Gannon has to be one of the worst decisions ever.
Couldn't agree more. The guadiness of Rice's statistics almost works against him. People see astonishing production over two decades and assume that the stats are padded and that there was never really a single period of dominance. (this might be true for someone like, say, Karl Malone.) btw - there are a lot of great Rice statistics. Here's my favorite: on a sheet of paper, in the left margin, jot down Rice's age, starting at 21. Go all the way up to 40. Then, next to each age, write that season's receiving yardage. At age 30, tear the sheet in half. Take the top half and rip it to shreads. If you add up the yardage since age THIRTY, you get 12,525. That dwarfs the CAREER numbers of all but six other wideouts in the history of the NFL.
My favorite flash in the pan: Mark Rypien. In 1991, Rypien's campaign was nearly flawless. I still have the Fantasy Football magazine I bought for 92 that had him on the cover. The experts thought he would be a premier quarterback for the next five, six years. And then he was exposed. In 1991, the Redskins had one of the most balanced teams of all time:a stern running game - (ernest byner), a brusining o line (jacoby, lachay, the rest of the hogs, i'm forgetting them), the Posse (gary clark, art monk, ricky sanders---a good blend of speed and savvy), and a punshing defense (charles mann, wilbur marshall, a spry darryl green) Rypien only thrived because EVERYTHING ELSE was perfect. The follwing year, Byner was a year older and a year slower, the o line was hurt by injuries, and there was some up and coming team from Dallas. Rypien is my favorite example of how a QB can be in the right place in the right time and all the sudden be considered one of the big boys. It doesn't take long for the spell to fade. for the record, i'm not a redskins fan. they just pissed me off that year and the memory still burns. remember when the oilers played them in game 8, and if we won we would have gone 7-1? We had a chance to win the game in the waning seconds, and then Ian Howfield missed something like a 35 yard field goal. Next week, he was canned, and in comes Al Del f**k Up. [sigh] good times, good times . . .
Ian Howfield Bucky Richardson Allen Pinkett Bo Orlando, Jeremy Fuller (and the entire Buddy Ryan 4-6 @ Houston, to be frank) Andre Ware Rodney Peete Neal Anderson Eric Bienemy
Also: Heath Shuler (Redskins QB in mid-90's, I think he was #2 draft pick) Kordell Stewart, JJ Stokes, and Jeff Blake are all flashes in the pan as well IMO.
Oh man, I remember that game like it was yesterday. Next to the Buffalo loss, that has to be one of the worst heartbreaking Oiler games ever. I remember the week before that in a blowout win against Cincinatti, Howfield missed like 3 extra points.
