Straight Cash Homey Dot Net (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Tim Couch, Green Bay Packers: “I hope Akili Smith comes in for the Monday night game. He always makes me feel better about myself.” (Found by Nick.)
Football news from a chick™ (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... wanted to know? Indeed, being released and joining a long lists of busts such as Ryan Leaf and Akili Smith seemed his fate only two months ago. Now, Young has led the Titans to five straight wins after that woeful start, the only team in NFL history to go from 0-6 to 5-6. The 2006 Offensive Rookie of the Year always called his legs his best weapon even though he can toss balls 60...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Couch flubbed in Cleveland. Beyond the top picks, there's quarterbacks Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Akili Smith and Andre Ware, all of whom still have general managers shaking their heads. Then is the draft busts of all draft busts: offensive tackle Tony Mandarich and linebacker Brian Bosworth. All draft busts are measured by them. But that brings us back to Russell, who seems to have...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... pick of a quarterback-rich 1999 draft. He committed to building his team around McNabb instead of Akili Smith or Daunte Culpepper or Cade McNown or some retread veteran. Along with Rod Dowhower and Brad Childress, he brought McNabb along carefully and deliberately. It is one of the great unanswerable questions whether one of those other Class of '99 QBs would have thrived in this...
Edged in Blue (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... period. I wasn’t counting on Dave Shula. Or David Klingler (Who?). Or Ki-Jana Carter. (Who?) Or Akili Smith. (You have got to be kidding!) So, in 2007, when Marvin Lewis managed to pull together the Bengals’ third .500 season since 1991 , I said, “OK, they’re for real.” I had suffered long enough. I rooted for the Steelers (!?) for four years when Cleveland had no team. And then…...
