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In this thread, we remember Football Guys from yesteryear. I'm not talking about your Barry Sanderses, your Joe Montanas, your . I'm not thinking of the famous or the talented. I mean guys like... Laurance Maroney.  I don't even know why I think of him sometimes. I guess it has something to do with getting back into football in 2007 when the Pats were King Shits and I was living in Massachusetts, so I guess it was just being surrounded by all things Pats. But even then, even when I can't say I really knew a whole lot about the game, I recognized thaHe shook around the field like a piece on one of those electronic football boards. I sometimes think of John Fourcade just because he was in Tecmo Super Bowl. Who is John Fourcade? He played for the Saints in the late 80s and early 90s I guess. I have a blank Saints Jersey from back when Reebok were ditching all of their poo poo cheap since they lost the NFL license. I occasionally think of trying to get some iron on letters for it and if I ever do, they'll spell out FOURCADE because it's a weird name. I paid $5 for that jersey. it would probably cost more to get whatever the hell materials I would need to actually apply a name and number to it. So who do you think of in the dead of night? What random NFL has-been or never-was or flash in the pan haunts your dreams? Did you just think of Lito Sheppard right now? or Danario Alexander? Tavon Austin or Jeff Feagles? Post a long screed about them. Post just their name. Post their stats. Post Random Football Guys.
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Punter A.J. Trapasso. https://youtu.be/_CwheVbNFFo?si=GvIy5aQdB5tDIu01 For some reason the Jeff Fisher Titans decided to run a trick punt in a preseason game. Trapasso faked the handoff and ran it into the end zone himself. He washed out of the league and ended up in camp with a UFL team but didn't make the final roster so the above clip is basically his career highlight reel.
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Feb 13, 2024 15:02
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sean10mm posted:Malcolm Mitchell was a rookie WR for the Pats who actually looked good in 2016 and caught a bunch of passes during the 28-3 comeback, but somehow nobody noticed when they drafted him that his knee cartilage looked like aquarium gravel so he was done in a year. He read a book at my daughter's school last year and she got a free copy. 
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Feb 13, 2024 15:05
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Durandal1707 posted:Igor Olshansky I don't know anything about him but for some reason any player with -sky in their name always sticks in my head.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:10
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Insertnamehere31 posted:John Runyan I remember Brown coming out of the tunnel wearing an old school, Friday the 13th hockey mask one game. The Eagles lost.
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Feb 13, 2024 22:25
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Leonard Weaver. Looks like the Eagles just randomly have a good fullback. Plays one year and it's not like an FB is gonna be a foundational piece but he looks good when he's out there. Early next season he gets tackled and his knee bends the wrong way and he's out of the NFL. 
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Feb 14, 2024 02:09
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Don Beebe
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Feb 14, 2024 03:27
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Chris Maragos. Incredible gunner and special teams beast.
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Feb 14, 2024 14:52
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Tashard Choice He was really good at falling forward to get 3 yards. Classic "you need "X" yards he get you 3 yards" guy.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:25
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Black Lighter posted:Jason Avant That man put all his skill points into catching and was just kinda a dude in all other ways. Surest hands in the league.
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Feb 15, 2024 00:02
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Beanie Wells
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Feb 15, 2024 13:00
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fartknocker posted:Jermaine Wiggins Wiggy is one of the morning guys on WEEI up in Boston now. He is decidedly not a smart man. I dont know much about his football career other than he played for the Florida Tuskers in the UFL.
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Feb 16, 2024 03:03
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Anderson Koopa posted:Anyone remember Ron Brace? That sounds like a ref name.
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Feb 17, 2024 04:34
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Black Lighter posted:LaVar Arrington I wanna remember, was he a linebacker? For the Cardinals? Dan Gronkowski Hyper deep cut: Maurice "Mo Chedda" Fountain
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Feb 18, 2024 00:43
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Kurgarra Queen posted:Aaron Maybin I always confuse him and Jason Babin.
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Feb 18, 2024 21:29
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Jivesauce posted:Dominic Rhodes? Possibly the best RB the UFL had in 2010, he played for the Florida Tuskers. Rhodes managed 9 TDs and got 551 yards on 127 carries, good for 4.3 ypc. Doesn't sound all that impressive but the UFL only had 8 games/ season, and the league's offensive lines were absolutely awful, to the point that there was a rule that teams could only rush 5 defenders at most. I'd make the argument for Lorenzo Booker though. Booker was in a platoon RB situation on the Hartford Colonials. Both he and his running mate, Andre Dixon, got 76 carries on the season. Dixon was listed as the starter primarily because he'd attended UConn and the front office wanted some hometown talent to get local fans interested, but he was just a guy who plodded up the middle for short gains. Not a power back, he just clearly wasn't an NFL-level talent and wasn't even drafted by an NFL team. Booker, on the other hand, put up 5.4 ypc on the same number of carries. He got 80% of Rhodes' yards on 60% of the touches. He was a 3rd-rd draft pick by the Dolphins but traded to the Eagles. Got cut by them and sat out 2009 for no reason I can locate. He spent part of 2010 on the Colonials and then some of 2010-2011 on the Vikings, mostly as a KR, and then a short stint with the Bears before hitting IR and just never playing again. Nobody wanted to keep him for long but he genuinely looked the part of an NFL RB. I have to wonder if he was just seen as a pain in the rear end to work with. He did boycott games to protest the UFL's ridiculous transfer fee ("Hey NFL, if you want to poach our players you pay us $250,000, isn't that smart!?"), which, fair, but also suggests he was outspoken about any bullshit he encountered. Oh, I guess the Las Vegas Loco's RB that year, DeDe Dorsey, also put up 4.7 ypc. That was on about 90-ish carries. Dorsey spent some time as a bottom-of-the-depth-chart guy on the Bengals in 2007-08. Despite being one of the few competent RBs in the UFL, I don't think he ever made it back to the NFL. The award for top RB that year went to Sacremento Mountain Lions running back Cory Ross. Ross was able to assemble a 435-yard season on the back of 121 carries. So, 3.6 ypc. He did have the league's longest rush with 75 yards, which if taken away gives him a season with 360 yards on 120 rushes, or exactly 3 ypc. Love that easy math. Ross had been drafted by the Ravens but only spent a year on the squad. Last I heard (ages ago now) he was looking to get into coaching. The end.
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Feb 19, 2024 14:24
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David Beuhler Technically a kicker, but at 6'2, 225, was more like a linebacker that could kick the ball far but sucked at directional kicking so he couldn't make field goals reliably. Did 25 reps on the bench at the 2009 combine and ran something like a 4.5-4.6 40. The Cowboys decided to keep him for kickoffs but also roster Dan Bailey because having two kickers is apparently a good idea. He loved him some kickoff coverage though and would gleefully rush at returners.
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Feb 20, 2024 04:17
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You know Marcus and Desmond, but do you recall, the least famous Trufant of all? Isaiah Trufant was the shortest of the three Trufant brothers. At only 5'7, it's kinda understandable how he didn't get drafted out of college. He worked his way up through various football leagues, including the Arena League 2 in 2006, then the Indoor Football League, and finally the United Football League from 2009-2010 and earning two UFL Championship rings with the Las Vegas Locos. Trufant was easily one of the best CBs in that league despite his size and won DPOY in 2010. This did net him a few years in the NFL with the Jets and Browns. He had a knee injury in late 2013 and despite making the Browns 2014 roster, didn't finish out the season and never stuck with a team after that. Sad but I guess a 5'7, 32-year old corner coming off a knee injury isn't at the top of anyone's list. One of those guys where you could totally see the talent but could also get why he wasn't anyone's first choice at the NFL level.
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Josh Heupel
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fartknocker posted:Why, after all these years, did I still instantly recognize Rusty Smith? That man is 50% forehead.
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Feb 21, 2024 18:16
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Stewart Bradley. A rare, actually good Eagles LB. Not like amazing, just not some average-below average dude that fills out a roster slot. Got concussed repeatedly. Ended up with the Cards where he got concussed more and was out of the league pretty quick.Crescent Wrench posted:Riley Cooper He was the guy whose most notable thing was he called a security guard at a concert a slur. Chip Kelly loved him though.
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TASTE THE PAIN!! posted:My man Jerricho Cotchery My favorite fact about him is that he was born with 6 fingers on one hand. Kind of a shame he'd had the extra ine removed before he got to the NFL.
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Black Lighter posted:Levon Kirkland It was a bold choice drafting a player out of Costco, but dammit, it worked!
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Feb 25, 2024 23:28
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Tom Tupa had such a punter-rear end name that eventually he became one.
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Gonz posted:Larry Centers Reggie Corner
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I was gonna say Gary Player but I guess that was a golfer, not a punter like I thought.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Scott Player Ah, that's who I was thinking of!
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kidcoelacanth posted:"tom brady" Tom Brandstater
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Brock Osweiler
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Andrew Sendejo. Sendejo was easily the best safety in the UFL. If you'd have asked me before checking Wikipedia, I'd have told you he spent like two years in the UFL and then like... three with the Vikings? Maybe retired around 2014-15? Nope. Sendejo was with the Vikes for seven years. Then he ended up on the Eagles in 2019, recording a pick against Kirk Cousins, getting released, then ending up back with the Vikings, which is a real Vikings-rear end story. I'm kinda stunned to find out he was actually on a roster (Colts) in 2021.
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John Madden. Not the coach, the player.
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Fat Jesus posted:gently caress the cowboys 
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Anthoney Toney: the man with two names that are both Tony.
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fartknocker posted:He sucked in Tecmo. He was an Eagles RB yeah.
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Brandon Lafell. That's a real dude who hung around a while because he wasn't bad but also wasn't good.
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Also while looking up stuff about Brandon Lafell, I remembered Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins but got them mixed up. Thought they were like, a 6th and a 7th-round pick respectively, but Dobson was a 2nd rounder. lol.
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Bob Crable.
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