Mean Joey Green

Joey Harrington is just one of those quarterbacks... picked third overall by the Detroit Lions in the 2002 NFL Draft out of Oregon, he showed great promise, though I think we all felt bad for him because of the team that selected him. He's not a real big interception thrower, and has steadily improved and managed his game over the years. In his third year in Detroit, he threw for 19 TDs and only 12 INTs and over 3000 yards for the first time in his career. He showed great progress, though he was fatefully let go by the Lions after a mediocre fourth season with 12 TDs and 12 INTs. After his departure he took a job in Miami as Daunte Culpepper's new backup, and after Culpepper went down with injuries for the second consecutive year, Joey was there for the below average Dolphins squad and threw for 12 TDs and 15 INTs, though he owned the Lions in a Thanksgiving Day game at Ford Field, with 3 TDs and 213 yards. After one year in Miami, Joey was let go due to salary cap issues. He was then signed by the Atlanta Falcons in the offseason for a replacement QB for the jailbroken Michael Vick. After playing with nearly zero talent around him, he was relplaced by Chris Redman with four games remaining. Just this week, the Falcons cut Joey from their roster... though just today the Falcons resigned him to a cheaper contract than the one they signed him to in the beginning of 2007, which was worth $6 million over two years. Anyways, in the end, I think that Joey really is a pretty good quarterback with alot of potential... though he has only played for terrible teams through his six year career. In my opinion, if you put him on say... Jacksonville or Clevland, he could play just as well as Anderson, and almost as well as Garrard. I mean, he wasn't picked third overall for nothing, and if he was a total bust, then he would be out of the league by now. I think teams like Arizona should definitely look into picking him up in the near future if Warner shows a decrease in prod uctivity. However, now he is stuck with the lowly Falcons. Maybe the addition of Michael Turner can open up the passing game for Joey, if he's lucky enough to get the chance to play. I by no means think that Joey is anywhere near the elite of NFL QBs like Manning (Peyton, not Eli), Brady, Romo, or used to be Favre... I'm just saying that he's still a young QB in this league, and I think that he deserves a chance to start on good team; and I'm implying that if he gets that chance, he would flourish with the opportunity. (Directly from ESPN blog)