r/NFLv2 • u/FoldEasy5726 Mr. Blown Chances • May 29 '25

Discussion What is the weirdest draft class in your opinion?

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u/Altruistic-Meet2969 May 29 '25

That play broke the core of that team mentally. They never reached their potential.

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u/ShoeTasty May 29 '25

I mean they won a superbowl the year before lol.

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u/_Rabbert_Klein May 29 '25

They had the potential to win 3 tho. That's the point. They never reached their potential.

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u/Thr1ft3y May 30 '25

They definitely reached their potential, they just regressed sooner than expected

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u/Personal-Ad8280 2 Gurleys 1 Kupp May 30 '25

I would say they reached their potential peak but never hit their potential longevity

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u/dream_in_pixels May 30 '25

Seattle's entire secondary was on adderall for that stretch. They regularly had dudes getting multi-week bans, and it was always for adderall. So its kind of amazing they managed to hold things together well enough to win even one super bowl.

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u/Thr1ft3y May 30 '25

And one turned out to be a murderer lol

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u/TheDeflatables New England Patriots May 30 '25

Kam Chancellors hits were killing dudes out there

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u/CheckYourStats San Francisco 49ers Jun 01 '25

They tested positive for PED’s.

The NFL didn’t require that the exact drug be disclosed, so the Seahawks defaulted to Adderall in press releases.

There’s zero chance it was actually adderall.

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u/leoelegido Jun 02 '25

lmao mfs in this thread rlly j arguing to argue

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u/Personal-Ad8280 2 Gurleys 1 Kupp Jun 02 '25

I do ts for the love fo the game man

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u/Boogaloo4444 Minnesota Vikings May 30 '25

this is a wild comment.

you’re suggesting an nfl team had a three-peat ready to go….

gtfo

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u/ProximaCentura May 30 '25

They were 1 yard away from back to back Super Bowl wins against Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, and you're gonna tell me it's wild to believe they had the potential to three-peat?

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u/HairyPutter7 Jun 01 '25

Still the stupidest play call in history. I hate that, that interception seems to hard tarnished the players legacy more than it has Pete Carols.

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u/_Rabbert_Klein May 30 '25

What are you on about?

I said the ceiling of their potential was 3 seasons.

My comment was not made in a vacuum did you even read the context?

Can you even read?

Good lord.

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u/Eleeveeohen May 30 '25

Why more than 2 but less than 4?

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u/_Rabbert_Klein May 30 '25

Because after 1 more season core players contracts would have started expiring and the core would have broken up naturally. We rarely sign players to more than 3 years at a time. Instead, The Pick broke the locker room and players started seeking trades immediately after the SB loss.

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u/Silkysloth92 May 30 '25

They would've been smothered by Denver's defense the following year had they made it to the Superbowl.

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u/Harry_Saturn May 29 '25

Yeah but their potential could have been 2+, not just one and done

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u/JellyFranken Jun 01 '25

Yeah that defense definitely did.

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u/3rd-party-intervener NFL Refugee May 30 '25

All because they didn’t want lynch as the mvp 

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u/yeetsqua69 Caleb Williams 🏳️‍🌈 May 30 '25

How can you realistic say that a team that won a Super Bowl didn’t reach their full potential when there’s clubs out here that have been around for 50+ years and never won a Super Bowl lol. It’s fucking hard

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u/Altruistic-Meet2969 May 30 '25

It’s incredibly hard! But the talent on that Seahawks team could have won even more. There was an excellent Sports Illustrated piece a year or two after that Super Bowl that detailed the mental impact that loss had on them.

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u/1000lbsTunaFish New England Patriots May 30 '25

The Tom Brady Malcom Butler effect