10 HORRIBLE NFL Free Agent Signings That RUINED A Franchise
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Reggie White, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Drew Brees. These are just some of the greatest free agent signings in NFL history. These guys made immediate impacts and directly led their teams to a Super Bowl championship.
Of course, the vast majority of big-name free agent signings never pan out. In some cases, a team cuts bait and manages to correct the mistake rather quickly. But as you’ll learn with these 10 free agent mistakes, sometimes these massive signings can set your team back for years.
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The worst signing in Redskins history is when Dan Snyder signed the papers to finalize buying the franchise!
Don’t say redskinss it’s a slur
@@randomest9356 he was talking about the potatoes chill
Well said!
@@randomest9356 cry about it, I know many Native Americans who were proud to be represented by the Redskins
@@randomest9356 don't be that guy
It’s hard to blame Kerry Collins for the Raiders demise when they drafted a player out of LSU named Jamarcus Russell
And sent John Gruden to Tampa in the first place
Al Davis's franchise is still dealing with the karma from doing Marcus Allen shady.
"To me the whole thing was a waste of great talent and energy. If you don't like me, let me go. And I never understood that. Let me go play football someplace else. Now, if you love power, I can understand why you keep me there.- Marcus Allen
Uh 😐 no it’s not Kerry Collins should have never been drafted he is was and will always be a walking dumpster fire 🔥 🔥
Kerry was a good QB took my giants to a super bowl. Raiders we’re a mess WELL before he got there.
Lol I thought that soon as I seen the thumbnail
Saying that Kerry Collins is the QB that set the Raiders back by a decade is an AWFUL hot take. Kerry Collins was signed to backup Rich Gannon (and be a stopgap starter after Gannon retired until they brought in a promising young QB). No one expected Collins to stay with the Raiders longterm, nor was his contract reflective of him being a longterm option at QB.
And then the colts signed him after that
@@noeonespecial6818 didn’t he take over for Vince Young in Tennessee too?
He was still bad.
Drafting JaMarcus Russell #1 in 2007 set the Raiders back for nearly a decade
@@S_Over_Street Still mad at that. I was on the hype train until he decided to hold out.
Brock Osweiler to the Texans??? Gotta be up there
Don't forget Ed Reed and Ahman Green as well. But Bill O'Brien becoming GM as well as coach was the worst decision. He should have been fired not given more control.
Didn’t ruin us cause we got Deshaun right after
The Eagles "Dream Team" is worthy of a documentary😂😂
More like the Eagles Meme Team
That's another one that Jon Bois should tackle for Dorktown.
Would be an awesome 30 for 30
Vince Young happy to have an actual #1 wide receiver? How dare he do such a thing
"Kerry Collins setback the Raiders for years”.... Two spots later on the list, " maybe they could've drafted a legit QB like Kerry Collins"... Make it make sense.
Was just going to comment on this. The guy doesn't really know what he's talking about.
You guys should do “10 Super Bowl Darkhorses for 2022”
I’m not sure nearly a third of the league can be dark horses
The Seahawks signing Eddie Lacy in 2017 FA was a huge mistake. That man gained so much weight and could not run to save his life. Seattle still hasn’t had a franchise running back since the super bowl with beast mode.
That signing wasn't the beginning of the end for the Seahawks. The trade for Jimmy Graham was
I wouldn't say a huge mistake, just a swing & miss
Hahaha have you seen the clip of his last season in Green Bay? One of the Packers players is yelling, “Run fat boy, run!”
Rashad Penny just ran for 750 yards in 10 games last season, and Chris Carson has broken the 1,000 yards mark twice in his career, and he ran for 680 yards in 12 games in 2020, if they stay healthy this season I think Seattle should probably have a top 5 running attack. Plus they just drafted their next super star in Kenneth Walker so…
@@leifopstad2972 At least you can say Seattle got some production out of Graham. Percy Harvin trade was much worse - a TD in a blowout win is about all Harvin did for Seattle.
There have been FAR worse raiders FA signings than kerry Collins
True, but that was still a bad signing. Remember the Broncos game when he let the ball go by him? The team never recovered.
Although not a FA J. Russell was a waste of time and money on a lazy QB.
Most of Raiders f ups are drafts. Ruggs. Arnette. Heyward-Bey. Russell.
DeAngelo Hall was worse. Guy got beaten on coverage over and over his first game and got cut into his first season.
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Albert Haynesworth played for the Redskins, not the commanders.
Name change has to be spoken no matter what
@@vanessastegall Bullshit
@@vanessastegall but when the narrator mentions the raiders he says Oakland with the text reading Las Vegas lol so in one he claims current name but in others goes with the previous name. Flip meet flop lol
I think the Chicago Bears signing Freakin Mike Glennon 3-year 45 MILLION DOLLAR contract. 18.5 a year. Glennon was horrendous in the Windy City which let to the firing of John Fox and drafting Mitchell Trubisky.
I agree. Worst bears signing ever
Agreed. I think everybody was scratching their head at it.
Chicago for years has been so desperate for a QB because they really never had a good one in their entire franchise history. They are the only team without a 4k a year passer. It's crazy considering it's been a passing league for years.
Didn't they sign Glennon and then immediately draft Trubisky
The story of Bears QBs, really
That really wasn't a bad signing, the Bears had a ton of cap space and needed a veteran QB in house and Glennon wasn't terrible in Tampa even with how dysfunctional Tampa was at the time. All of Glennon's guaranteed money was in the first year so after year one they were able to cut him for free which people seem to forget, that was less of a 3 year deal and more of a 1 year prove it deal.
I don't understand how Kerry Collins is on the list for the Raiders and not Javon Walker, Matt Flynn, or Antonio Brown? Or even Lane Kiffin.
I have to defend Elvis Grbac a bit here. He had a great previous year in KC, throwing for over 4000 yards. Unfortunately, after he signed with Baltimore, RB Jamal Lewis went down for the season during training camp, giving the Ravens zero running game for the entire 2001 season. Kinda hard to be successful when your opponent knows you ain't gonna run the ball.
Show some respect for Terry Allen 🤧😂
@@jruth77 Uhhh...
To paraphrase Eddie Murphy in Coming To America, "Terry Allen was 164 years old when he played for the Ravens!! Sheeeeeit!"
The bigger mistake was letting Priest Holmes go. He became one of the best backs in football for the Chiefs. But they obviously didn't know they were gonna lose Lewis.
@@centuryrox 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
I remember Chief fans were pissed that Marty wouldn't stick with Rich Gannon going into the playoffs, instead Grbac comes back from injury and out of loyalty Marty starts him. Gannon made the offense so much better, in a couple of years he would be playing in a Super Bowl under the Raiders. I never considered Grbac a star.
As a Raiders fan, Kerry wasn’t good but he also had some of the worst and most dysfunctional Raiders teams ever around him. As soon as he left and went to Tennessee he actually played really well.
Yeah Kerry was brought in as a backup to Gannon, then took the job when Gannon got injured. Nobody in Oakland ever thought he was going to be the long term solution.
"The Lions could've drafted a better QB like Kerry Collins" during the Scott Mitchell segment while completely ignoring the fact that Collins was someone you already bashed earlier in the video
Simmer down now
Totally missed Houston Texans' 4 year/72 million dollar deal/mistake to Brock Osweiler
The raiders hate is unreal not even bad contracts
This channel is definitely biased against the Raiders.
Hearing and seeing nick foles and Carson Wentz with the Lombardi trophy makes me that much happier that a guy like Matthew Stafford got the Nod.
Browns signing deshaun Watson may set them back years.
That was a trade not a free agent though
@@danielkaczmarski5688 regardless, they’ll prob be Fd for another 5-7 years. Browns are forever cursed. Watson getting all that guaranteed money may turn out to be the biggest blunder in nfl history. We’ll see.
The Raiders had Andrew Walter, who led the league in most Touchdowns Dropped by Receivers, that is not a joke. Kiffen wanted to stay with Walter and Draft Calvin Johnson. That got him fired.
Yep if Kiffen was given a few more years I think we would have seen a much different Raiders today. Not saying Lane was/would be a great Head Coach but that plan would have been great. He isn't dumb and knew to get coaches that would have covered his coaching weaknesses. But two years to turn around a whole franchise is too much to ask of anybody. Same thing with Tom Cable, not a good head coach but knowledgeable enough with team building/chemistry that he could have made the team better over the long term.
Basically Al Davis, destroyed the chance for his franchise to flourish in his later years. 😞 sad to think of, as he was once ahead of the rest of the league.
Way too harsh on Kerry Collins. Raiders had nothing for him to build around. Neil O'Donnell was just a product of an offensive system. He was mainly a game manager good as the system and supporting cast were.
"...Raiders could've signed Tory James and paired him with ALL-Pro corner Charles Woodson (by not signing Larry Brown)". FACT CHECK: Tory James DID play for the Raiders and Woodson for 2 seasons regardless of the Brown signing.
Yeah and it was on that super bowl team in 2002 too wasn’t it LOL
Dee Ford in S.F. cost them DeForest Buckner. $85 million for 6.5 sacks and something like 13 games.
Crazy how out of 32 teams it seems this list only consists for like 4 teams 😭😂
In light of Deshaun Watson's contract, this video is already obsolete.
Man some of those signings were brutal. Who would've thought one player can ruin a whole franchise for years
Oh sorry James harden you say something?
Kerry Collins should have been removed from the list. He was a Ryan Fitzpatrick a guy who will win you games and get you through a rebuild, not the franchise cornerstone. He was signed as a backup to Rich, like how Schaub was for Vick.
I agreed with everything you said until you made the schaub comparison.
Matt schaub was drafted in 04. Vicks 3rd year.
He wasn't drafted to take anybody's place. 😂
@@itsclobberingtime631 Yeah Schaub was drafted as a backup, as Vick got hurt the year prior and they didn't have really a backup plan to him at the time.
Speaking of Schaub , he was a way worse signing for the Raiders than Kerry Collins. Collins was basically the best plan B option available when Rich Gannon went down with his career ending neck injury.
How did my Panthers signing Sean Gilbert not make this list? Or was that because of a trade? It's been so long, I forgot.
Bell wasn't the problem Gase was. Signing O'Donnell set the Jets back at QB for a quarter of a century? Sure just gloss over Vinny T taking them to the AFC championship game. Or Chad Pennington winning multiple playoff games. Or Sanchez taking them to two AFC championship games. But yeah Neil set them back for 25 years🙄
I’m starting to think OP doesn’t actually watch the nfl lol
Love your videos
Herschel Walker, Vikings. The Vikes gave up 11 draft picks and that helped the Cowboys big time!
Josh Norman was another one that Washington messed up. He wasnt super fast. He was better at sitting in a Zone and reading the WR routes and QB eyes. They put him in Man all the time, but he wasnt fast enough. To prove this, I will point out how he elevated the Buffalo Bills defense when he got there. Aside from getting stiff-armed into Infinity by King Henry lol.
True story. When Neil O'Donnell finished his Steeler Contract, he was either going to sign with the Steelers, or go f/a with the jets.. He finally calls his agent in New York . And when Neil said he wanted to re-sign with the Steelers, his agent told Neil not to do anything
until he got there. (Agent lives in NYC, Neil in Morristown NJ) . You know the rest of the story: agent takes player from good team and good stats,(where player wanted to go btw)to a team with a bad record, where the qb struggled. So it was win/win for the Jets/agent loss for O'Donnell and Steelers.
Can someone tell me the agent's name?
Oakland signs SBXXX Mvp Larry Brown In 1996 & SBXXXI MVP Desmond Howard in 1997
Cleveland signs Andre Rison in 1995; Modell moves his team to the city of Baltimore the following year and that team wins SBXXV @ the turn of the millennium
Idea: 5-10 teams that will be really good or really bad for the next 10 years
Don't forget Jeff Garcia to the Cleveland Browns
Don’t really get the reference to Kerry Collins?
The Acquisition of Carson Palmer hurt the Raiders more than Collins. Collins was a FA, but the Raiders and mostly Hue Jackson, traded away the future for Palmer.
Mitchell wasn’t that bad in 1995
He had over 3,000 yards and a league high 32 touchdowns with Detroit
How does Nnamdi signing “Ruin” the Eagles when they turn around and win the SB 6 years later?
Where's Jeff garcia for the Cleveland browns or alvin harper for the tampa bay buccaneers?
I love that you can tell these channels are run by people who were babies when some of these guys played. There’s always at least one mispronounced name.
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I sort of, kind of, maybe am editing that video right now.....want me to include a screenshot of your name in the video?
There just might be a video you're interested in that's posting live in about 20 minutes.....
They said the ravens had horrible play they next 6 years after 2001 season lmfao they must have forgotten about Steve McNair 2006 season at 13-3
I agree. He was the first QB since Dilfer that really played up to expectations... until the Colts game.
Day 2 of asking for 5 NFL players who play great against one team and 5 who play horribly against another
Ok so the raiders didn't draft Tory James in 1996 to pair with Charles Woodson but they did sign him in 2000 as a free agent to pair with Charles Woodson and he was on that 2002 raiders team that played the bucs in the superbowl. Do your research bruh
Fact Check!
You forgot Alvin Harper to Tampa bay!
Le'veon Bell is the perfect example of why RBs don't get big contracts after their rookie deals
Andre Rison to the Browns... essentially sunk them for good with that mastermind Art Modell having to move to Baltimore because he'd again f'd up. Prior to Art Modell buying them, they'd won 3 NFL Titles (pre-SuperBowl) and 4 AAFC Championships. Since he bought them, fired Paul Brown, won one more NFL title with Paul's team more or less and then nada... So Andre Rison was the final straw, but Art ruined them.
Scott Mitchell had an incredible 1995 Season when they went 10-6 Winning Their Last 7 Games. He was injured in 1996. While 1997 wasn't as good as 1995 he still did well for The Lions. Bobby Ross didn't have to bench him in 1998 after he threw the Interception that was returned for a Touchdown in Overtime by The Bengals.
The O’Donnell that the Jets got was the same O’Donnell that the Steelers had, but Pittsburgh’s O-line was outstanding, the defense was the best in the NFL, and Barry Foster had his greatest years with Neil..still 100% Jerry Jones paid O’Donnell to throw those INT’s
Yup on that last part
Baltimore signing Joe Flacco to that 100 million dollar 🤮🤮🤮. There’s a crippler for ya too
Suggestion: Top paid/made the most NFL player no matter potion/or one from each position.
MN Vikings giving up an entire team to the Dallas Cowboys for one Hershel Walker WORST free agent signing in the History of the NFL!!!
Minnesota Vikings: Fred “Love Boat” Smoot
I think you meant Washington Redskins. HTTR!
Moral of the video: if you are a Raiders or Commanders fan, mismanagement and God awful decisions have destroyed your franchise for a long time!!!!!
The Grbac signing did cost the Ravens plenty of players on the Super Bowl roster the following offseason thanks to Cap Hell, but it didn't hurt them because they were still playoff contenders. Although the Ravens wouldn't have a long term franchise QB until Joe Flacco.
Grbac was put in a bad situation because of Jamal Lewis being lost for the season during training camp. Baltimore had no running game at all for 2001. Kinda hard to be successful at QB when your opponent knows they don't have to concentrate too hard on defending the run.
Browns have had so many that its hard to pinpoint a specific player that ruined the franchise, perhaps Andre Rison because Art Modell had to take out loans to sign him and the next year browns moved to Baltimore
Earl Thomas to the Baltimore ravens was a horrible signing that impacted the team financially even years after his release! He looked old and slow and un impactful.. he was a cancer to the team and thought because he was on the "legion of boom" , that he is this great player that deserves respect and applause 👏. That's a horrible signing that should be on the list
To be completely honest, Haynesworth specifically asked not to be put in a 3-4 defense. Haslett immediately put him in 3-4. Unfortunately for the Skins, they had given him Fuck You money.
Do the worst signings that helped teams (example is Matt Flynn with the Seahawks)
I don't think the Josh Norman signing belongs here. He did underperform and his play degraded over the course of the contract, but he didn't ruin the franchise. He also created a few iconic turnovers that helped the team win a few games. Some of his perceived poor play should be blamed on the clueless safeties Washington had at the time as well. Not saying he played well, but not bad enough to warrant being on this list.
Suggestion
Free agents each nfl teams should’ve fought to get resigned but let walk?
I think Philly failed Asomugha. He was a man corner and they put him in a scheme that was not clearly not comfortable playing in.
I agree. You sign a guy like that, you change your scheme to play to his strengths.
Yea the worst Kerry Collins highlight you can find is him throwing a pick being up 30-12? Kerry Collins was solid
Most of the time, it's not really the player, it's the management that is to blame
Josh Norman was not great with Washington but he was still a starter who covers number 2 receivers well
You can do a top ten dedicated to Washington alone.
Ummm Brock Osweiller
God bless you guys Always keep God first
2:48 Andy looks good with a Dreadlock pony tail
Watson trade/sign will be on this list a couple of years
Look at drew brees
I knew that that the Raiders, the Jets, and the Redskins/Football Team/Commanders would be prominent on this list.
Kerry Collins played football at my rival high school years before I was that age and a bunch of people around here knew him.
Notice how the Commies are here 3 times, all under Snyder.
Larry Brown benefitted immensely from playing on the opposite side of the field from Deion Sanders the year he won Super Bowl MVP. He had been an above average nickel back and adequate CB for the Cowboys and was something of a success story having been taken in the very last round of the draft. Almost everybody knew it was a mistake for the Raiders to dump that much money in his lap but you can't blame the guy for cashing in on it.
Washington saw Deion as being the final piece of the puzzle for both San Fran and Dallas in back to back years and thought they would do it again. Trouble is the Cowboys and 49ers were both far better teams in their prime than THAT Washington team was. Maybe Snyder was watching NFL Films about the Over the Hill gang that got to the Super Bowl back in the 70s...
Bell destroyed his career. One of the dumbest moves in NFL history
Deion Sanders signed with the Washington Redskins, not Washington Commanders!
They aren't called that anymore.
The Vikings signing Kirk Cousins for $84M
Thank God someone says it. I feel in 10 years many will realize the purgatory we are in currently.
Cousins has actually played pretty well. If Minnesota invested in their O line... like.. ever, it would help. Or if they had a decent Offensive coordinator. Or if their defense could stop a Lions team from scoring almost 30 points. Last year the defense allowed more than 25 points 10 times. There are a lot of teams that would love to have him. He's never going to be Aaron Rodgers, so stop expecting him to be.
If Kirk Cousins played like a backup QB, then yeah, that signing would be on this list. But Kirk Cousins is decent enough to where he can be basically an upgraded Ryan Fitzpatrick.
@@brianbasham3517 If you watched the moments that matter...then yeah, sure but he sucks. He's worth under 20 mill a year.
@@darealconman 🤣🤣🤣🤣 He's stealing money from the Vikings cap and can't win any meaningful games. He's God awful and put us back 5-10 years of rebuilding
I get that he’s still with the team and with a new coach and everything coming in, things could turn around. But for that _ridiculous_ contract, Kirk Cousins to Minnesota should be on this list.
The rare time I am glad the Cardinals do not show up on a list. Lol
The Cowboys signing TO set the tone for the Jerry Jones era where Jerry has decided that he is not only the GM but the behind the scenes head coach. I think that defines a ruined franchise.
He doesn't get the hate or recognition because Buffalo, but Rob Johnson off the back of one start in three years for Jacksonville really messed with the Bills. He only started 26 games in 4 years (of a 5 year multimillion dollar contract) and of course cost the Bills the last playoff game they made until McDermott. Buffalo was 10-5 with Flutie, and then trotted Johnson out for the last, meaningless game. He played... fine against a bad Miami team and with the massive contract Philips was pressured to start him in the playoff round. His awful (100 yards on 40 percent completions and taking a safety) is the only reason the Music City Miracle meant anything. Flutie's average play would have put that game out of reach.
You forgot Kirk Cousins. He signed a 3 yr $84M FA guaranteed contract with Minnesota in 2018 and a 2 yr $66M guaranteed extension in 2021. The Vikings have gone 33-31 with one playoff appearance since.
He only put up 4000+ yards, 33 TD's to 7 picks last year....I'm guessing the Vikings problems aren't because of Kirk....
The browns signing Andre Rison. He was great in the run & shoot but couldn’t run disciplined routes. Art model literally took out a loan to sign him. Can someone tell me when was QB for the browns at that time? Was it testeverde?
Signing a good player to an already bad team will also ruin a player's career. Just ask guys like Dwayne Bowe and Javon Walker
Jarius Byrd 🙄
Don’t forget Brandon Browner lol
@@asayles23 facts
Hey, the Raiders have a commitment to excellence. 🤣
Panthers resigning Delhomme to a monster contract so he could throw picks for 2 years and eventually end up in Cleveland instead of resigning julius peppers and letting him walk
Regardless of what channel makes it all these lists like "worst free agent signings", "biggest draft busts", or "worst trades" are always the same players on the list, just maybe in a slightly different order.
Derrick Dockery & Langston Walker, during Buffalo Bills playoff drought
The Texans signing of Ahman Green..
It's misleading to call Grbac a star. He was a backup from the 49er's and lasted four years starting for the Chiefs. You don't trade a QB who's a star unless his last name is Watson.
Elvis Grbac was the worst signing in my Ravens history 😩
I was happy the Bengals beat them in 2001 when he started. Elvis turned down more money from the Bengals.
That was mostly due to Jamal Lewis tearing his ACL on NATIONAL TELEVISION! If that doesn't happen, Grbac at least has a serviceable year.
I think the broncos have been hamstrung by the presence of elway as general manager...happily that's changing as he will no longer have a say in who gets recruited...
Le'Veon Bell was only a bad signing because of Adam Gase's incompetence
Clearly it was a terrible idea for the Tampa Bucs to sign Brady!
"Worst" should just be about outcome. Bad things happen to good people sometimes. Instead, the decision itself needs to be scrutinized. Like Haynesworth, who was a bad decision even if he played up to his past performance. But a good guy who goes down with an injury after signing? How is that a bad decision?
I'm struggling to sympathize with Ray Lewis' plight of not winning more. Not bad for a guy who escaped prison.