2012 Mea Culpas

[tagryn]

With the regular season over and the postseason progressing, it seems like a good time to take stock of how things have turned out, compared to how we expected them to. I can think of at least two guys who I was wrong about in a major way:

QB Peyton Manning - After he missed all of 2011, I figured the Broncos were just grasping at any straw to move on from Tebow, even if it meant handing the keys to a broken-down QB who was at the end of the road. All Manning did was start every game, throw for over 4,500 yards, and win the division.

LB Vontaze Burfict - Had perhaps the worse predraft collapse of stock in history, couldn't seem to do anything right, whether it was running a subpar combine, blowing his interviews, or talking poorly about his college coaches. I didn't want the Eagles to draft him, and it seems the entire NFL agreed as he was passed on in the draft, and signed with the Bengals as an UDFA. Then when the regular season commenced, he started 14 games at OLB and had 127 tackles and a sack.

On the Eagles, I kept hoping the light would go back on for Nate Allen, that a lot of his problems were due to recovering from his injury. Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to end up like Jarrett.

Anyone else want to own up?

[Funktronic]

I thought RG3 was way overrated coming out of college and thought he'd flop. Oops lol.

[ForWhoForWhat?]

I listened to my fellow posters and thought we could win a SB this year

[NNNNNN]

What did the Eagles see in Nick Foles that they didn't see in Colin Kapernack?????

[Deano]

I had high expectations of Coach Washburn.

[dilbert719]

What did the Eagles see in Nick Foles that they didn't see in Colin Kapernack?????

Nothing, at the time they were in a position to see Colin Kaepernick on the board. CK was drafted in 2011, when Foles wasn't even a gleam on their draft board.

The better question, and the only one that could be asked at a time when Kaepernick was an option, was what they saw in Danny Watkins that they didn't see in Kaepernick, and honestly, the correct QB to take at that point in the draft was Andy Dalton, not Kaepernick.