OT - Who would you vote for Most Overrated Player?
Slow day..but curious. Who do you think is the most overrated player in a sport? Maybe not the entire sport, perhaps by position?
Also/Or...most overrated/dissappointing player coming into or going out of Michigan in any sport?
Maybe overrated isn't the right word, but I had high expectations for for D. Terrell and Edwards heading into the NFL.
For transparency, this was inspired my opinion that Brett Favre is the most overrated player in NFL history.
My dad tells me Unitas was better than all of them!
but not great. 1 Super Bowl victory in 20 years that our Desmond Howard won for him. Most Interceptions of all time. His passer rating in his last 12(!) post seasons was 77, and he threw 18 interecptions in his last 10 playoff games, in which he was 3-7.
He had 6 seasons with more than 20 intereceptions.
1 season with single digit intereceptions.
Not saying he is Rodney Peete lol, but he doesn't belong in the conversation with Brady or Montana.
I would say Terry Bradshaw. Yes he did win 4 superbowls, but he played on a team that was loaded on both sides of the ball. Pretty much any QB in the league could've lead those teams to championships.
My favorite quip about Bradshaw (can’t remember who said it) was that he couldn’t spell “cat” if you spotted him the “c” and the “a”.
I think it was Dallas LB Thomas Henderson, the original "Cocaine Cowboy."
Hollywood Henderson--found out what happens to a player that rubbed Tom Landry wrong.
.250 batting averages. Does like to flip his hair around. Thinks he should be far and away highest player in baseball. Good luck with that
Picking a dude's BA on May 2nd is not at all representative of his overall quality. The crowd that hates Harper and is eager to call him overrated is so large that he's probably underrated by the general public.
Yeah, this is a terrible pick. Harper is elite. Not liking someone isn’t the same thing.
He's a pretty boy, arrogant prick, but he is a very good baseball player
Harper is among the best in the game right now. I'd be stoked to have him on my favorite team.
Once in 6 full seasons has he had lower than a .270 average, he hit .330 one year and .319 last year. And thats before you get to his power or plate discipline. And oh, hes just 25. Get outta here.
This is outrageous.
It's true he's a quirky guy. But I'd take him on my team in a second!
I'd just have to remind him there's a wall in the outfield.
It's true he's a quirky guy. But I'd take him on my team in a second!
I'd just have to remind him there's a wall in the outfield.
all that height and he never actually caught anything.
I always thought Carmelo Anthony was overrated. He won a title in college but never seemed to do anything to make other players better.
Good answer.
and Iverson. Iverson was a career 0.425 shooter. No way a guy shooting 0.313 from three should shoot 3.7 threes per game.
Some players are always just so fun to watch like Iverson, so I see why he gets the hype. It feels like Melo has just always been overated and not terribly exciting to watch.
He doesn't measure up too well using today's advanced metrics, but wow, he was amazing to watch.
There's no doubt in my mind he's the fastest basketball player I've ever seen, especially when he was at Georgetown. He would have been an amazing college QB if the bowling alley incident hadn't happened.
He was like a faster, smaller Westbrook. Super fun to watch, not ideal to play with or win NBA titles.
It was so much fun watching him fly through the air and dunk on big men at Georgetown.
It was like the basketball was a part of his body, but I will say that Kyrie is damn close.
You have to take into consideration Iverson was listed at 6’1” but was in reality probably a few inches shorter than that. Not too surprising that he only shot 42% for his career at his size. Iverson was great in his prime and drug a bunch of scrubs to the finals in 2001.
Stood next to him at a party-AI is a legit 6' and one of the greatest little men to play the game.
carried a bad Sixers team to the NBA finals. If you look at the players, they had zero business being there. That's a testament to AI's ability to carry this team to the NBA Finals. He's a great individual talent but as a team player? Not so much
Only question is, who in NBA history took a worse team to the finals.
The East was extremely weak in 2001. Milwaukee was the 2 seed that year. Think about that. It is possible that all 8 teams in the west were better than any team in the east being that the 8 seed in the West was a Kevin Garnett lead Minnesota team.
Yeah but the Bucks had Big Dog,Ray Allen, Michael Redd, Tim Thomas and Sam Cassell. They were by far more talented than the Sixers, yet Iverson still pulled his team to victory in tha series.
Michael Redd was a rookie who averaged 2 points a game. Tim Thomas avereage 12 and 4 that season.
He was only a three-star coming out of high school (ducks).
and raise you Mateen Cleaves. He won a title in college but he was undersized, couldn't shoot, and not a high end athlete. Yet somehow the dude managed to parlay his "leadership" into a first round draft pick. At least he seems to have his post-NBA act together...
Didn't he have a sexual assault charge not too long ago in Flint?
My bad that I wasn't more overtly facetious about his post-NBA life. HIs pre-trial hearing is coming up at the end of the month, as a matter of fact (after the initial trial was overturned). It turns out the state supreme court wasn't interested in his appeal, so the second trial is moving forward.
Carmelo looked like a downright liability this year in OKC
Carmelo = post achilles Kobe and has for almost his entire pro career. Not good, Bob. OKC is idiotic.
I'm a young person, but I've always thought Joe Namath was overrated, he is a HoF QB and seen as a larger-than-life, transcendent player, but he was a 50% passer with 47 more interceptions than touchdowns. One game a career does not make.
I agree. He brought the Jets a Super Bowl and was a big time personality, but he was a very medicore, verging on bad QB
Joe Namath was absolutely overrated.
was overrated, but the game was just so different prior to the 1978 rule changes that liberalized pass interference and more importantly, changed pass blocking rules (i.e. allowed blocking with your hands).
None of those guys from that pre-1978 era have stats that would stand up today.
We have a winner -- this is the best answer by far. Namath is insanely over-rated.
I can't understand why Kirk Cousins' name is mentioned as much as it is.
In today's NFL if you get a QB that's even a little bit good and/or talented you have to hold onto them forever.
Cousins will not do well with Minnesota. Letting go of Case Keenum was dumb.
I live in Cleveland. I have NO idea what that must be like.
None.
Brian Sipe was servicable.
You know the NFL has a QB shortage when Cousins, who has a less than 2-1 TD to INT ratio, is a QB teams fight for in free agency
get hit so hard in a game against the Steelers that he ran over to the sideline and threw up before promptly returning to the field and throwing a touchdown pass to Antonio Freeman on the next play. His 297 consecutive games played streak will never be eclipsed in my book because it happened in the days when they played full-contact, tackle football. I hate the Packers with a passion, but I can't deny his greatness.
Favre's INT record is the One True Unbreakable Sports Milestone and regularly playing with concussions is not admirable.
The 297 game streak is not a sign of greatness, its just pure luck that he never got injured seriously enough to miss a game. If Eli Manning didn't have an inept coach and GM last year, he would be less than 5 seasons away from breaking the record.