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  • Turns out Dom Capers never wanted to draft David Carr. His recommendation going into the '02 Draft was to pick either Julius Peppers or Albert Haynesworth. Disagreeing with him; Bob McNair and Charley Casserley decided that a high-profile QB would bring more media exposure to the team.

    Four years later; McNair now runs the business end of the Texans franchise and Casserley was run out of football altogether. Capers however, went on to build playoff contending defenses for 2 separate teams.

  • As a Texans fan, I can agree that our O-Line was pretty bad, BUT, there was no reason for him to have been as bad as he did from 2003 onward. With AJ at his side, he should have been making completions left and right.

  • I hate when people say Carr wasn't a bust because of the sack totals. He held on to the ball too long look at difference between him and Schaub in sacks. He had Andre Johnson yet still put up those shit numbers. As the #1 overall pick you should be making pro bowls annually

  • Carr never had a chance...dude had so much potential but they threw him to the sharks..damn shame

  • And he was a bust!

  • Little did anyone that Matt Schaub came to save the day.

  • 8:50 think that guy ate his own words literally lol

  • omg this draft sucked lol

  • for those of you who think harrington stunk

    EVERYONE WHO PLAYED UNDER MATT MILLEN GETS A PASS

  • every1 of these guys is a bust besides peppers

  • @lzebed and Freeney.

  • You have to remember, The Texans were fucked over by the Jaguars when they took Gary Walker and Seth Payne...they were forced to take Boselli.....dumbasses

  • @Htown75: could you please explain how the Texans were forced to take Boselli? Because from what I remember they took Boselli first overall in the expansion draft out of all of the players who were eligible that year. The Texans wanted someone to protect whomever there quarterback was going to be.

  • @dbatista4 The Jaguars were going to pull off Walker/Payne the expansion draft list if they did not take Boselli.......

  • @Htown75: Interesting. good to know. thanks.

  • worst draft ever

    point blank!

  • carr had no chance to do anything in houston. he had NO ONE around him

  • @Ducksrule123 he had andre johnson

  • @Ducksrule123 how about his o-line? pretty much non existant. it doesnt matter if a top 3 QB played with a top 3 WR, if he doesnt have a decent o-line to give him time to throw, he will not succeed

  • this was the first draft i watched in its entirety..i was 12 at the time. i agree with most of you on carr, he was put on a pitiful expansion team right off the bat with no o-line whatsoever. it was just a recipe for disaster. i really liked harrington out of college, but he was truly a bust. he was given the weapons and countless chances and just never delivered.

  • David Carr really wasn't that bad. Just no help.

  • David "You can drive my" Carr???? Can Berman just kill himself with donuts already???? DAMN!!!

  • U know what of been better Getting Peppers and going with a veteran QB our first year LOL

  • david carr could have been a great qb if he had some o line and talent around him.

  • worst bust in nfl history

  • I can't believe the Raiders had a chance to draft Ed Reed

    if only.....

  • Thank You Texans for not taking Peppers.

  • "when you look at carr and harrington in 3 or 4 years, you will not call either of them a bust"

  • @SmileyJetson WRONG!

  • It's been said already, but Carr with a better, more solid offensive line would have produced better results. I don't blame this on the Texans either though really.

    They were an expansion team. Although a healthy Tony Boselli would have helped.

  • David Carr was a bust because of his O-Line he was a tremendous athlete I live in a town about 20 min from Fresno and I got his autograph and Bernard Berrians they were good Carrs bro is a QB at Fresno St now and hopefully he will be a good player and hopefully Tylar Bray is too I played against him last year when my school played Kingsburg High and he was a beast he has an arm and is hella tall so hopefully they both become great athletes

  • WOW!!!! How wrong was Mel Kiper? He doesn't know anything!!!!!

  • worst quarterback draft.

    8:55 "In four or five years, you will never call one of these players a bust."

    Harrington stopped starting in 2005 and Carr stopped in 2006. BUST! silly mel.

  • this DE class was straight BEAST MODE!!!

  • I guess the Panthers made the right choice. I remember saying Harrington was a better option cause we were 1-15 the year before and needed a QB. Good thing I wasn't GM.

  • Both are Busts and Dissappointments lol

  • you must be gay if you like this sport

  • @chuckthedeer I thought it was if you don't like this sport like yourself

  • somebody put andre johnsons up

  • DUUUUUDE MORT is FIIIIINE

  • david carr isnt a bust...yet. he never had all the right tools in houston. sure he had andre johnson, and him alone is a difference maker, but his line didnt help carr out. and when ur line lets u down, then that pro bowl WR is a nobody because he cant stay upright. he has a good opportunity to revive his career in sf. if alex smith flops this sunday night, he could and should get the start. he has a pro bowl running back, a damn good TE, and some WR's who will help out. and most of all, an OL

  • @usafbro90

    Carr is a bust, BUT i think alot of the blame has to go on the fact that he was sacked over 100 times in his first two years, that's not good for any young passer. he likely still sees defensive ends in his sleep.

  • I laughed at 5:57 when i saw the poll who will be the better pro?

  • poor David Carr, he's a bust, BUT that offensive line didnt help him.

  • @mwcarolina I wouldn't call him a bust. After looking at some highlights of him, it looks like he can make all of those tough, out of position, throws. The Texans just could never really use him correctly... And his receivers were mediocre.

    Fun Fact: In 75 starts with Houston, David Carr was sacked 249 times.

  • @Darkscott626

    Well, he had Andre Johnson, the reason i say Carr busted though is because after he left Houston, he never improved, the sacks in his career really hurt his career badly.

  • Dang... looking back on the draft, so many thing could have been different if they didn't get Carr. Ed Reed, Freeney, Fat Albert,

  • Pretty funny to look back at Kiper's scouting report and realize how inaccurate it proved to be. Pro: Maturity/Leadership? It's no secret that Carr didn't put in the time in the film room. It's been mentioned by former teammates. Maturity? Always throwing his offensive line under the bus when he had problems getting rid of the football or feeling the pressure. Just goes to show that there is no such thing as a so-called "Draft Expert"...and I am referring to one Melvin Kiper.

  • mel kiper so ugly

  • Carr isn't a bust he just played for a real real REAL bad Houston team he got sacked so Many times he couldn't prove him self

  • well u cant blame houston they were a expansion team no star players took 8 years but we have a decent squad so get ready

  • You can tell from his hair and how he gelled it he was gonna be a bust...trust me I'm a barber.

  • @shoothelpmeany1 haha funny thing is he shaved that hair off like in the middle of the 02' season

  • hahahaha nice call Kiper at 8:51 he says your not going to call Harrington or Carr a bust or dissapointment! hahaha

  • @jeterwitzki2

    hahaha, he got that wrong.

  • I never understood the hype around David Carr. The guy led a mediocre Fresno State team. Why was Mike Williams such a bust? Did he just not care about playing in the NFL?

  • lol Chris Berman is hilarious

  • How I miss that little notification sound at 7:30. BRING IT BACK!!

  • Chris Berman is an ass

  • did that guy say that none of these QBs would be a bust 3 or 4 years later. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

  • Carr's misfortune in life was being drafted by the early Texan team!

  • @blldgs101 yeah man being expected to do good things when you are drafted by a brand new expansion team is wayyy too much with like no talent around him and a bad o line meant a lot of sacks

  • At the bottom they listed Ed Reed as Edward Reed. haha

  • sacrificial lamb

  • I feel bad for David Carr, he wasn't joey harrington bad, but he never had a team to play with.

  • @klgaminguidez Joey harrington wasnt terrible, HE NEVER HAD A TEAM TO PLAY WITH.

  • they never gave carr that supporting cast....

  • really? we wouldn't call carr or harrington a bust or a disappointment in 3 or 4 years? really?

  • I remember watching Harrington play in his final bowl game in college. He was all over the place, hitting receivers in stride, threading the needle, pumping up the team, just looked amazing. I thought, wow, be great if the Lions would get him (lol), but im sure he won't fall to #3 (lol again).

    He got to the NFL and just couldnt do it. Throws in the dirt, afraid to get hit, couldnt throw deep, hard, anything. Wow...that sucked.

  • 0:44 the only true star outta them was freeney and peppers (mayb),david car i think woulda been a starter still if he ended up in a matt ryan type situation, instead of that expansion o-line, the williams were both playin like pro bowlers in the 1st 5 yrs of their careers but then fell off and peppers is gud but hes playin like shyt right now, he obviously doesnt wanna play for carolina anymore. and Quentin isnt as gud as a #5 pick but hes a solid starter.hed start on a third of the nfl teams

  • the qb class was horrible

  • these "experts" are never right. Charley Casserly was the GM for the texans, now he doesn't work for the nfl, not counting the nfl network. trust me im from sf, where we were duped by everyone who loved alex smith.

  • @iforgotbob - Charlie Casserlie did draft Mario Williams over Reggie Bust and Pussy Vince Young. GO TEXANS

  • Good year to draft defense. Pretty horrible QB class. Garrard is the best one drafted that year.

  • We all talk about David Carr. Mike Williams is an underrated bust.

  • Damn, so many talented players in this draft

  • ....seven years later he is a back up struggling to make a one year deal for 2 million with the NY Giants. Total bust.

  • he actually did pretty good on the texans. i wouldnt call him a bust cuz it more his lines fault he never had time to make a play. not saying his like great but he couldnt play to his potential with that line

  • @VapoRx09

    Not with those O-line.

  • nah he just played for a bad team man

  • If you take the time to look back at the 05 draft, the Texans really had nobody else to draft. The needed to draft a franchise QB to build their new team. No matter how good Peppers or Jammer would end up to be, David Carr, at the time, was the consensus number one pick, but sadly for the Texans the pick ultimately did not pan out.

  • Carr is a good Quarterback, but you cant be a good Quarterback and win games when your Offensive line is constantly

    getting you sacked year in and year out. During the

    time Carr was with the Texans he had the worst line

    of any team getting sacked 40-50 times per year its not his fault. Carr lead the leage in Quarterback Ratings stat in 2004 and 2006

    which prooved even with a sorry line he could manage something. Carr needs

    a restart fresh somewhere

    give em another shot yo.

  • Mel kiper is stupid. David Carr and Harrington Are busts lol Fire that guy!!! 8:45 - 8:56

  • a good point on mel kiper ! lol

  • this is why i love youtube. you can see all of the stupid predictions people make

  • lol 8:45 - 8:56

  • How did David Carr get 1st overall must have been a slow year

  • Compared to 2000, the '02 draft sucked!

  • dont ever disrespect 2002 bitch

  • Carr never did get a fair shot, but a lot of that was on him. He wasnt able to grasp the offense and at times, looked very lost. He also wasnt much of a leader, was quiet and distant. He got shell shocked, and it gave him terrible habits. I dont think he was every able to really read a defense.

  • He's little bro is a qb at Fresno State, they say he already is going to be better than David. Will see how it pans out

  • You think you'd learn from Akili Smith. Oregon Quarterbacks = FAIL

  • kellen clemens

  • Carr and the Texans both suck

  • Carr didn't have an O-line

    if he had a descent line, he would've done soooo much more.

  • He held the ball too long - he would have taken sacks no matter where he went. But yea, unfortunately, Houston's lack of pass blocking made it very apparent

  • 0:25 the guy wearing the eagles jersey look like Demarcus Ware...lol

  • watching this makes me so anxious for the draft...cannot wait

  • They should put the draft on Network TV instead of just cable.

    I am 100% sure the ratings will still be really good.

  • i wish there was a video peppers announced

  • this seem like just yesterday my first big draft i watched every pick

  • damn that was a stacked draft, too bad conventional thinking for a expansion team is to get a QB first... man julius peppers, albert haynesworth, ed reed, john henderson, bryant mckinnie/ levi jones.... disaster from the start for the texans, should of solidified the o-line first with bryant mckinnie or the d-line with peppers or haynesworth.

  • Mel Kiper @ 8:45 LMFAO

    so its been more than 4 years down the road and these guys are bust man....you were wrong

  • Lol I started laughing when I heard that again.

  • seeing this makes me so damn excited.....WHY MUST WE SUFFER AND WAIT OVER A MONTH FOR THE DRAFT!!!

  • David was'nt the problem....try being a brand new team....that is the problem....had they stuck with Carr they would probably have won a super bowl by know, or contended.....just look at Al Davis and the Raiders.....you can give up...and by another player....try sticking it out and winning ....it takes patience....that is it.

  • 7:36 someone should have been assassinated

  • Yup, they should have taken Peppers!

  • at 8 53 Mel Kiper says David and Joey wont be a bust. What the hell is he doing still with a job! He made ESPN look stupid

  • He is the first of his kind and it looks like they are replacing him with McShay.

  • hahahahah

    WAS JOEY HARRINTON ACUALLY THAT GOOD AT ORAGON?????????

  • Yeah he was the shit in college. Top 3 for the Heisman his last year, led Oregon to a 11-1 record, and was a GREAT QB.

  • wow. julius peppers was the only good player in the green room

  • you can't blame David Carr and Joey Harrington,they went to bad teams,they had complex offenses,almost every qb that is a rookie has to know a entire playbook and they had no talent around them,Carr's O-line was terrible,he set the record for most qb sacked in a season then broke it the following year,before you draft a qb,invest in some o-linemen and some quality recievers like what Atlanta did with Matt Ryan.

  • actually it was carrs fault he got sacked so many times, he held the ball too long. he had the same problem in carolina when delhome was out for the year. schaub didn't have this problem in houston when he became the starter.

  • yES AND NO. Any QB starting for an expansion team would of gotten killed. Carr was a rookie and he was killed. Carr's and the O-line's fault. Carr did improve from year 1 to year 3 but then, it all hit the fan. Just saying

  • so much for mel kiper being a great draft analyst

  • were there any good qb's in that draft

  • David Garrard-Round Four

    The only other current starter from that year was the undrafted Shaun Hill.

  • Are you stupid?

    Reed?

    Peppers?

    Freeney?

    Any of those names ring bells?

  • Well....Carr was a total fuck up

  • Lol my panthers got a steal.

    Kiper sounds like a moron now. I kicked his ass in fantasy football last year.

  • wow... The guy at the draft said nether of these quaterbacks will became busts or dissipointments...

    David Carr=back up NYG

    Joey harrington third string SAINTs

    WTF? But i do think these QBS could of done better with a team that had offenceive line that knew what they were doing...

  • i odnt itnhk david carr is that bad of a quaterbac

  • Looking back (of course), it is hilarious they were comparing Carr and Harrington. What awful QB's they were in the NFL.

  • Now there were a few good superstars in this one.....Quentin Jammer, Roy Williams, Julius Peppers, Dwight Freeney.

  • if only they new just 6 years later theyre both struggling to keep a job

  • Mike Mayock > Mel Kiper.

  • David "You Can Drive My" Car? Who came up with that BS?

  • david carrs a stud

  • lol, franchise quarterback. dudes slow brain couldn't adjust to the nfl. also he was ruined after being sacked every play in the first season.

  • julis pepper should have been the number1 pick

  • xmenfan01 i agree with you 300% mel looks stupid now for all his comments

  • This years draft will be just as bad.

  • wow carr being compared to troy. its fun watching these things a couple years later. its actually funny how much time they wasted comparing carr and harrington. mel was all over them. espn should go back and look at this tape and fire him for it lol

  • only 1 good qb came from that draft and the was david garrard

  • lol mel kiper was so wrong in his inalysis

  • mel kiper is wrong every year it an annual thing. i don't know how he keeps a job i guess it's because he's white

  • their wasn't really a quarterback in that draft i really thought would help the texans

  • Dwight Freeney was the best pick

  • this video makes me sad. it was never anything physical with carr, it was all in his mind. after he got beat so badly the first couple years, when it did get to where he had better protection, i think he was just too gun shy. I kept hopeing he'd pull out of it and be the QB I knew he could, but alas. here's hopeing schaub can do it!

  • carr was a huge bust

  • I love how Mels #19 and 20 are Ed Reed and Dwight Freeney

  • i wanna see julius peppers being drafted....

  • The Houston Texans worst draft pick ever

  • damn, david carr was such a badass

  • David Carr??? We don't deserve a football team. HOW 'BOUT DEM COWBOYS?!?!?!

  • I just noticed something on the video - at 8:45 Mel says that in 3 to 4 years he doesn't see either Joey Harrington or David Carr as a bust.

    Hahahahaha - he really called that one. *chokes* As much as i love Mel, he really blew that comment.

  • Yeah, i'm sure even Mel thought that was a hell of a limb to go out on when he said that. Fans here in Houston though just bought in to it. We were so giddy over having football back, he could've convinced us we were meat popsicles and we would've bought it. When Mel Kiper put that much stock into David Carr we were all like.. You know maybe he is the guy after all.. Until it's 6 years later and he's on his 3rd team :/

  • Same here PhillyEagles. I'm an eagles fan too and i can't wait for draft day. It's like a national holiday for me. I know we're gonna get a real playmaker this year.

  • dirk im with ya a day when u can chill and watch ur team put the future on the line ( Im anEagles fan sometimes im throwing beerbottles At the TV)

  • Man, I love the draft.

  • well when your with 2 teams as bad as the texans and lions were its hard not to be a bust.only now are them 2 teams making progress

  • They should of got chalie batch in the expantion draft and drafted someone else

  • Bryant Mckinnie is a great OT

  • There was 3 bust at quarterback in the 1st round in the 2002 nfl draft, david carr texans, joey harrington lions, and Patrick Ramsey with the redskins

  • Wow, 2 QB busts in one draft, Harrington and Carr?! If you like the NFL Draft, check out the DurtyBirdz and add us.

  • Mike Wlliams at tackle(4th overall) was also a bust. Only played 4 seasons with the team before being released.

  • To this day, I can't understand what the Vikings saw in Bryant McKinnie. HE SUCKS!

    He not only held out for half of his rookie year, he is also overrated and way overpaid. I wish the Vikings would get rid of him one way or another.

  • they liked his boating skills...

  • Thanks For This.

    Do you have the Full Show on DVD?

  • "I think when you look at Carr and Harrington 3, 4 years down the road, you are not going to call any one of these two players a bust or a disappointment."

    Owned.

  • of course Mel Kiper isn't going to call the top 2 rated quarterbacks of the draft busts.

  • ok guys we didnt know that Carr would suck so just shut up saying that We shouldve taken Peppers or Freeny over Carr becasue we didnt know so shut up guys

  • I don't think Freeney was looked into that much. Indianapolis took a gamble, and it payed off.

  • Boy, this draft was sure lopsided as far as offense/defense goes. While Julius Peppers, Dwight Freeney, Roy Williams and Quentin Jammer have all been studs, David Carr, Joey Harrington and Mike Williams were all monumental busts. Too bad the Texans couldn't hold off expansion for another year and draft Carson Palmer.

  • Remember, David Carr was thrown to the wolves to start his rookie season without any time to develop, while Carson spent his rookie season behind Jon Kitna, and this is why he is such a successful QB now. I know Peyton Manning was a starter as a rookie but, 1: It's Peyton Manning, and 2: He was'nt that great in his rook season.

  • David Carr. BUST. Just look at Schaub and Rozenfels. Carr can't blame the Texans for his failures anymore. Delhomme was doing fine until he got hurt and Carr gets his golden opportunity and what does he do, he blows it. Again, David Carr:BUST

  • Why the hell did Mel Kiper compare Carr to Aikman?? just because they both wear number 8?? other than that I see no comparisons between these two, obviously we all know who had the better career.

  • That side-arm throwing son of a bitch should pay us for letting him stay here. Get rid of the freaking ball David.

  • Lol and 8:50 is funny to just because of wat happened

  • I think 1997 was weakest top 15 in my mind I mean courtney brown,chris leaf many more...

  • umm well first off courtney brown was 2000 and I don't belive a chris leaf ever existed..? Their was a Ryan Leaf who was drafted #2 in 1998 the manning draft and their was a Chris Leak who was taken in the 7th round last year...yeah..

  • Chris Leak wasn't drafted he signed a rookie free agent contract with the Bears for the offseason

  • I think you're referring to Troy Smith who was taken in the 7th round.

  • Actually Troy Smith Was Taken In The 5th Round 174th Overall

  • at the bottom it says who will be a better pro harrington or Carr LOL ummm.... neither

  • lito shepered was a good choice too