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

I forgot how many years he was in detroit, but it felt like an eternity and they consistently sucked.
 
Jordan makes Harrington look like a hall of famer. Harrington who had varying amounts of failure and success vs a guy who was just a complete and utter failure in every aspect of football and also some aspects of his personal life.

darefugee said:
" 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.
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Even when Harrington started for us he had more INTs than TD's but I recall a good number of those picks were because of drops. If I remember correctly a good two or three of them were directly because of McMichael dropping passes.
iamtiv said:
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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Think about how john beck feels. I bet his write up would be similar...
 
Well written article. Not a dig as I still think Ryan can turn it around next season, but anyone else think of Tannehill when reading the check down thing? I wonder if Ryan too has a bit of a fear of messing up.
 
21-0 Against NE at home.... sending lots of snowbirds north on I95 pissed to hell. I love you Joey Harrington.
 
Joey did a recent interview for a Detroit paper as well. Basically admitted that he was a shell of himself after his career in Detroit. After Mariucci got fired and Dre Bly blamed Joey, he said he just lost all of his confidence. Stated only 2 people within the organization gave him support; one teammate and a guy who worked in the cafeteria. Said at that point he felt like he wasn't a part of a team anymore and he wasn't having fun.
 
Thanks for posting. Really great read. I like that he called out the biggest jerk of all - roger goodell. This guy has ruined the sport for me.

Joey has a good head on his shoulders and seems like a good guy.
 
Great read. Thanks for the post.


There’s something special about being able to take your kids to their grandparents’ house, to have their aunts and uncles around the Thanksgiving table. For as much as this country loves the sport of football — and I include myself in that — there are thousands of things that are more important. I think we lose sight of that sometimes. In our race to win on the field, we forget about the human beings who make it all happen. About the people dealing with their own struggles, far away from the glam and glitz of the gridiron.
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To me, my career was a huge success. Not so much because of what I achieved or didn’t achieve, but in how it set me up for the rest of my life. In my mind, the only time you can view someone’s football career as a failure is if they didn’t use their success as a platform to better the world around them.

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In 2003, I launched the Harrington Family Foundation. The goal of the organization is to find young leaders and give them the tools they need to develop that leadership. We give out “Community Quarterback” scholarships — four years, and to any four-year school in Oregon — to kids we view as future leaders of the state. We network on their behalf, introducing them to the people who can help further their dreams. The typical kid we work with isn’t a 4.0 student. The students I want? Maybe they get a C in their English class, because it’s not their passion. But they have ideas. They have the ability to think critically. They can gather, and lead, in ways other kids can’t.

This is my passion, and it’s where I truly believe my NFL career was supposed to lead me to. As much as I love the game of football, if I’m truly living by the definition of what I view success to be, then I want to be — and need to be — involved with my kids’ lives in a way being in the media doesn’t allow.

My next goal? To raise a family that’s cohesive. To be present in the lives of my wife and kids, so when they look back 20 years from now, they have fond memories of their dad and husband.
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Joey get's it. Good for him. No. Great for him.
 
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They guy made millions of dollars playing a children's game. Yeah I would day it was a success.
 
Perfect23 said:
They guy made millions of dollars playing a children's game. Yeah I would day it was a success.
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Children play tag and red rover. Football is a man's game.

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Excellent read. Loved how critical he was of Detroit and Atlanta. All he wanted was honesty and those clowns there didn't give him any. It's crazy how Steve Mariucci ignored him like that.

Nick Saban may be a weasel, but at least he isn't a ****ing coward like Bobby Petrino.
 
Good read. Joey was a success, playing NFL is truly the pinnacle and you can't fault that he left for more important things. But if you read between the lines, he throws his team under the bus in the article and seems to blame a lot of his lack of success on others. An adult takes responsibility, even if acknowledging things weren't ideal in Detroit. With his own words, it sounds like his team and coaches didn't care for him much and there is only one common denominator.

That being said, I do believe going to a bad team can ruin a young qb. I think that if you are in constant fear of getting hammered in the pocket, it will ruin your performance and pocket presence. Can that pocket awareness be taught? If not, we're screwed because Ryan's pocket presence is atrocious.
 
People like to hate on Miami's organization, but it's nowhere near as bad as Cleveland's right now, and nowhere near as bad as Detroit used to be. Granted it's not much better, but I feel like there's still plenty of hope in South Florida, whereas Cleveland is just an incessant black hole. Detroit built a foundation after their rock bottom 2008 season (0-16) and has a solid team, despite their down year this year.
 
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