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Joey Harrington: "Despite What You May Think, My NFL Career Was A Success"

I will say one thing about Joey, he was a godsend after watching that statue Culpepper for four games that year.
 
Harrington definitely got a good shot with us to save his career. He just didn't have it.

Pay attention, all you people thinking we're just going to be able to draft the next great QB this spring. For every Aaron Rogers, there's 20 Joey Harringtons.

Tannehill is the most sacked and even worse, by far the most hit QB in the league in his tenure. While he could've avoided some of those, he's really taken a beating and of course it's affected his growth. It is very commendable that he's hung in there and delivered as many throws as he has.

Who knows, though, how the cumulative effect of these has been a detriment to his accuracy and pocket presence?
 
" Joey Harrington: "Despite What You May Think, My NFL Career Was A Success""

Funny, I could imagine Dion Jordan being the source of this quote.
 
Joey's a very high character guy - pity he wasn't more gifted as a QB. He's probably a good example of a player who was drafted too high and carried the burden of expectations but was in a bad team and had his confidence smashed along the way. Maybe there are some similarities to Tannehill. Ryan appears to have greater talent but carries the same burden of expectations and his confidence has been rattled this year.
Very interesting that he respected Saban.
 
Good for him. Hold your head up high, Joey. He made it to the NFL and was a starter. There's only 32 NFL starting QB jobs in the world, and he had one of them. There's no shame in being a mediocre NFL player.
 
Thanks for posting that article, it was a great read. I always liked Harrington, just like I like Tannehill - more as a person than an NFL QB.
 
finomenal said:
Good for him. Hold your head up high, Joey. He made it to the NFL and was a starter. There's only 32 NFL starting QB jobs in the world, and he had one of them. There's no shame in being a mediocre NFL player.
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And he made a ton of money.
 
anyone who makes it in the NFL is a success as a football player.
 
I feel like Tannehill would have an interesting recap of his years in Miami, if he ever looks back on it. Glaring coaching and talent weaknesses surrounding him every year, Ireland and Philbin gutting the roster of the better players, and for a guy who was meant to be a developmental project that would sit behind Garrard and Moore and learn, all of the sudden thrust into action week 1, the first team you face having just seen your snap count on Hard Knocks. Talk about a weird start to a career.

Say what you want about Tanne as a QB, but this team has been nothing but dysfunctional the past 4 years.
 
Joey Harrington - good guy. Bright guy and who can forget his piano playing.

I always thought his calling card would have been solid backup.
 
This is a very good read. I absolutly applaud him for the things he's accomplished mostly by finding his real passion. We all are guilty of judging people soley by their performance and this opened my eyes alot. Thanks Joey
 
I bet Lions fans are not so welcoming. First round bust QBs really sting. Harrington, though, was another guy that was overdrafted and probably would've been good if he had a chance to sit and learn and come in to a better situation. The Lions were a dumpster fire and he was thrown out there with almost zero chance to succeed.

The irony is that if Harrington would've started for the 2012 Dolphins, he probably would've done OK. Tannehill's rookie year was either 8-8 or 7-9, indicating a team with some talent around him, especially on defense. Harrington was much more ready to start in his rookie year than Tannehill in his. Could you imagine Tannehill starting for that Lions team, or the Cowboys of Aikman's rookie year?
 
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