Whoever made this list knows nothing about Tim Couch. Couch and Kevin Johnson were the ONLY bright spots on the WORST team ever fielded by the NFL. The league was mad at Cleveland for the fit they though when their Browns were taken away because of bad ownership. So the league sets them up to fail and fail they did. Couch had guts and played hard every game with no offensive line, no running game, and no receivers. Do your homework Couch was a winner who never had a chance with the team he was drafted by.
i'm not even a browns fan and have to agree with you on that couch was on ans expansion team that's normally a recipe for disaster. i want to know why brady quinn and johnny manzeil aren't on this list myself.
@@mikeshafer5366 Manziel was a great athlete without the right attitude or discipline. It's yet another sad story of a truly gifted individual who threw it all away.
Tim couch wasn't that bad compared to leaf, russell, rosen, Wilson ect... He and Carr were in expansion teams with horrible coaches and players, which ruined their careers.
Couch threw that cool hail mary,he was decent for a year,better than yeah for sure Jamarcus Russell,Johnny Manziel and that Browns QB right before Mayfield!
@@terrytitus5291 He was decent but he could of been better if he had help around him with better players and better coach staff in Cleveland or he was with another team. The Cleveland Browns ruined his career just like Carr was ruined by the Houston Texans.
Tim Couch wasn't the worst by a long shot. Sure he was roughed up and hurt all the time on a franchise that was starting over from the ground up, but he still at least had a career. He even showed glimmers of his talent when things went right. I'll sacrifice Deshone Kizer before Tim Couch
Agreed. Given that the browns were practically a farm team at that time, and doing a major long game build up, give the man a lot of credit for doing even half as well as he did! The orgs moral was in the toilet, and had to face up needing to spend a bit of time building, or go bust.
Living in Cleveland, I agree about Tim Couch- that poor kid was thrown to the lions! Deshone Kizer was truly a bigger waste of time... and then there was Johnny Manziel!
Couch actually wasn’t bad, the team and the fans he played for were and if anything. His offensive line wasn’t worth a dime, and the fans chanted, “Kill yourself!”. Couch wasn’t able to bear the stress, and couldn’t work with what little he had. So I don’t know why you put him as Number 1, if anything, you should’ve put Rusty Lisch at Number 1!
yeah he was not a good QB, but there is no way he was the worst player. He played 5 seasons in the NFL and was a starting Qb on a bad team. He won NFL rookie of the month and AFC offensive player of the week awards. The worst player of all time should not even get much playing time or ever sniff those awards.
Tim couch averaged a 77 QBR for his career, not horrible at all...Nathan Peterman 1 and 3 with a 3-12 TD to INT ratio. His QBR ratings for each year in the league were 12.4, 8.0 24.3 and 1.3 Rick Norton with the Dolphins and Packers who had a record of 1-10 and 7-30 TD to INT ratio. He was so bad he once went 7-26 passing in a game for 43 yards and 5 picks What about the guy before Jamarcus Russell on the Raiders? Andrew Walter 2-7 as a starter with a 3-16 TD to int ratio In his rookie season over 8 games went 2-6 with 13 INT's and 13 fumbles
A 77 QBR is absolutely awful, what drugs are you on? 😂 And no, he didn't have a 77 average. It was a 75 average, and yes, that's still awful 🤣🤣 64 tds to 67 ints... yup, still awful. Tim Couch is among the worst to ever do it ffs... and the only reason he was allowed to suck for as many seasons as he did was because he was a #1 pick.
Couch was a lot like David Carr in Houston. He got thrown into an impossibly bad situation with no support. That first three years are hugely important for NFL QBs to develop, and neither of those young men got the chance to do that. Like many other people mentioned, how are Jamarcus Russell and Jonny Manziel nowhere on the list?
David Carr had it bad. I remember a sport based comic strip that showed him laid out cold staring up at the Houston smog/sky wondering why he had no offensive line.
to be honest i feel the same way about josh rosen he was drafted by a terrible terrible cardinals team no talent except for fitzgearald. then was traded to another terrible team in the dolphins overall rosen never really got a fair chance to show what he could do and that is sad.
@ryan33689 7 months ago Who let this guy decide the worst players He did. Obviously. You want to make a video about something and post it? Go ahead. As long as it doesnt break YTs T&Cs , you're good. Say what you like. Does not even have to be factually correct. Most comments are just opinions. Why not the OP? His opinion, thats all. YOU make a video then :)
He broke his collarbone, healed, came back and broke it again. Maybe I’m missing something but to me that shows heart and a fighting spirit; not something he should be mocked or criticized for.
I thought Russel would be #1. This channel is just stupid. He screams at you, says stupid things that aren't true, and his entire videos are low quality. Have any of his fans actually seen high quality content on this same subject? Why do they even watch this crap?
I remember Brian Bosworth was an epic bust and could easily have made this list, which focuses too much on QB's, I suppose because they have easily measured stats.
Two former NFL players who should be on your list are : 1:Clyde Duncan,an all-time bad pick by who was then the St.Louis Cardinals,and 2:Ken McCaffee, a former Notre Dame all-American, who was a first-round bust with the San Francisco 49ers. Larry Carroll
You said that Heath Shuler once had a "43% passer rating." I'm pretty sure that a player's QB rating is not given as a percentage. In other words, it's given as a number. Try this instead: 'Heath Shuler once had a QB rating of 43.'
To top that off, even 43 is not accurate. Heath Shuler's lowest season QBR is 46.6. I can't take this video seriously, this guy has put "no effort" (to paraphrase his own words about Charles Rogers) into his information. Takes 3 seconds to google Shuler's QBR, another 3 seconds to verify that Donovan McNabb is not a Hall of Famer, and another 3 seconds to find much more accurate lists of NFL busts (JaMarcus Russell, Johnny Manziel, Tony Mandarich just to name a few off the top of my head even.)
The Couch pick isn't really a very good one. To start with, the Cleveland team he played for in his rookie year was an expansion team. They can call it a "revival" team if they want, but they were introduced under the expansion rules. There was very little talent around him. So, he went 2-13 (didn't play in the first game). Maybe the most talented player on the offense was Kevin Johnson, another rookie, and Couch still managed more TDs than iNTs. This despite getting sacked 56 times. The only recognizable offensive lineman was Lomas Brown, who was 36 at the time. Not a Couch or Browns fan, but it is a stretch to call him the worst of all time.
Tebow's 1st and only yr as a starter he went 7-4 and led the NFL with "5" 4th Quarter Comebacks and had another 1 in the playoffs against a 12-4 Steelers Team coming off of a Super Bowl loss to the Packers. Say what you want but Tebow was a Winner. He got things done 1 way or another
I actually been to a game with Tim Couch and Akili Smith starting against each other. The Browns walked all over the Bengals. Back then the Bengals had no quarterback production, period.
C.Rogers was the poster child for total failure. He was repeatedly busted for drug possession at MSU, but the reports always got "lost". The head coach came with him to avoid NCAA sanctions, but only further enabled his drug addiction. When he failed multiple drug tests in the NFL, the Lions bailed on both of them and eventually fired Matt Millen for his role in the debacle.
I remember that between 2003 and 2007, Detroit drafted four receivers in the first round. Calvin Johnson, the last of the bunch, became a Hall of Famer.
To give Couch some credit - he played on a reconstituted Browns team. Basically, a brand new expansion team. Translation: they sucked! And it's kind of hard to throw a football while laying on your back! That being said, however, I do think he was definitely overrated. I was never a Tim Couch fan. Definitely not a #1 pick.
These aren't really worst players, 6 of 7 could be described as most disappointing QB draft busts. They weren't all terrible players, most of them were pretty good players who either were head cases or crippled with injuries. The worst players in NFL history would be guys no one ever heard of who were drafted late or UDFE who proved very early in training camp that they were horrible and never saw the light of day.
My player that fits your description is offensive lineman Danny Watkins. He was drafted by Andy Reid for the Eagles (During Reid's 2011-2012 meltdown that eventually got him fired). He wanted to be a fireman, and by age 26, that is exactly what he was!!
When do you think the NFL started? 6’7” is too tall. Leaf is a much better person now. Sometimes it’s where you land. Some teams screw up the best talent.
You have to realize that if your the number 1 draft pick that generally means your going to the worst NFL team who needs a lot more then a QB. Usually it's more then likely the OL. I always wonder how many 'could have been' QB's there have been had they been on a team with decent talent around him.
Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Sean Bouwens, #66 Detroit Lions. Watch the 1994 playoff game where Barry Sanders has negative rushing yards and you will see arguably the worst game an O lineman has ever played.
Akili Smith and the playbook reminds me of Joe Montana and George Seifert drawing a play in the dirt. They nailed it and we know the rest. How did he even get through high school? "I'm the bottle cap, you run past the rock and I'll throw the ball" Duh!
Even while having a solid career at LSU, Jamarcus Russel was something of an underachiever. The year after he went to the NFL, Matt Flynn who had been a backup for three years, took the Fighting Tigers to a national championship. Everyone thought LSU was stepping down in QB talent when instead they got the starter they needed.
One player I was severely disappointed with…Kelvin Benjamin. He had an average first two seasons, then an ACL injury disabled him for a year. When he returned, you could tell he wasn’t giving 100%. Appeared to be afraid of getting hurt again. He was traded to Buffalo where he continued to play like a timid little girl. He was benched then released. I think the Raiders showed interest in him for a week or two, but didn’t sign him. Such a disappointment. 😮
I know basically nothing about Kelvin except for his fame for becoming fat as an NFL wide reciever. How is that even possible? Don't they have conditioning & nutrition in the NFL?
Most QB failures are on the organization more then the QB. Not all, but most. Leaf was a good example of it being the QBs fault. For the tecord, San Diego wanted Manning
