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Originally Posted by Beemnseven
I guess that depends on how we define the term "lately". If you mean this year, none -- thank God. But this is the first year we've been conservative with free agent signings. But take my hand Matty, and let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we?
Mark Brunell -- granted, we like the way he's playing now, but, considering that his first year was a complete disaster, at least one season under his $43 million contract was an utter waste.
Jeremiah Trotter -- Classic Washington Redskin front office move. He's a beast as an opponent, but we pick him up when his old team doesn't want him anymore; puts on a burgundy and gold uniform and couldn't make the team at Duke.
Jessie Armstead -- This one goes back a bit further, but again, what's "lately" ?
Mike Barrow -- Our brilliant front office in action again. We signed this guy knowing full well of his knee problems.
Chad Morton -- Do I really have to explain this one?
David Patten -- It's early, I know. So the jury is still out so far. I'll give him until the end of this season. But if there's not a significant improvement in his numbers, especially considering that teams are really going to start clamping down on Santana Moss and Chris Cooley -- sorry Matty, he belongs in this group too.
Clinton Portis -- I know some people consider it a federal offense to criticize him, and maybe he's not on the down side yet, but he fits in the overpriced category as well as any other.
This is just a random sampling from 2002 to last year. Again, I'll give them credit for Snyder and Cerrato getting a hold of themselves, and not acting like Paris Hilton on Rodeo Drive. Maybe Snyder has learned his lesson from the days of Bruce Smith, Deion Sanders and Jeff George. That's why I went easy on you and left them off the list. Otherwise, I'd have overloaded the server with this post.
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In the last two years:
-barrow wasn't expensive because he was a risk (just like fiore and harris), patten issn't breaking the bank either, even though he hasn't been super productive.
-portis and brunell got paid a lot (samuels and lavar too), but at least they're contributing and are well above their backups in terms of skill and production, so i wouldn't label them busts.
what about washington/harris/springs/griffin/clark/taylor/marshall, rabach/cooley/moss/sellers/thrash?
They're all performing at or above their contracts, so don't they cancel out the 3-4 "overpaid" players an the couple negliable injury risk players we tried out? over the last two years we really haven't overpaid for bad eggs like we did with trotter/armstead/bruce smith/deion etc in the past.