He Was Traded for the Dumbest Reason Imaginable
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Imagine a player in the NFL getting traded because of advanced analytics like... decibel level? How loud the crowd gets whenever he touches the football? Well, in 1973, that's exactly what happened with Baltimore Colts running back Don Nottingham, when he was traded to the Miami Dolphins, in essence, on vibes
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Ironically, Nottingham would end up joining a former Colts RB teammate in Miami named Norm Bulaich, who was a first round pick in the '70 draft. They ended up playing longer together with the Dolphins than the Colts.
I swear there's a witch doctor in the back of the Colts' facility throwing chicken bones and crow feathers to determine organizational policy.
He must have a second job with my team, then.
JG9,
As I've often joked, Robert Irsay had blood in his alcohol stream when making these decisions 😂
Completely-Unquestionably, outflanked, Maryland, however.
I was waiting for the part where OJG9 pointed out that Ginn ended up right back with the Dolphins the next season, since I already knew that and was going to say it if he didn't.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how the 49ers decision to hire Joe Thomas as their general manager before the 1977 caused their trade for Bob Griese to fall through.
It was also the reason why Delvin Williams was traded to the Dolphins instead of the Colts. They wanted him to replace Mitchell, but since the Colts were the team that fired Thomas last he decided to screw them by giving Williams to the Dolphins instead.
Don McAuley was a fine player, but he was only 205 lbs. He would have been (and was later) better served as a third down back than a fullback
Sucked to be him. Gets traded by a crappy team right into a Super Bowl ring.
Unfortunately, Joe Robbie's cheapness, meant, that it was very, short-lived.
Human bowling ball
Consider Mitchell was the feature back at Penn State. The “other” back during that time, his blocking back was a guy by the name of Franco Harris. How’s that for a tandem?
Additionally, Jack Ham presented.
Don Nottingham Was Traded From The Baltimore Colts To The Miami Dolphins In 1973 It Makes No Sense This Was A Dumb Trade
To replace Czonka who signed with the WFL
It must have been like trying to tackle a fire hydrant with legs.
Actually, Joe Thomas was a very good GM. He built that Dolphin dynasty of the early 70s. And, the fact was, the Colts were an aging team when he got there (it was long past time for Johnny U to hang it up) and Thomas turned them into a contender in the mid-90s. He engineered the Sack Pack defenses with Fred Cook and John Dutton. He drafted Bert Jones at QB.
mid-70s
Baltimore Colts didn't get a quality backup running back until they drafted Roosevelt Leaks in 1975. The biggest problem with general manager Joe Thomas was he was driven by his monstrous ego.
Back then, NFL teams relied on ticket sales to make their money. The big TV deals didn't exist yet. So I *guess* the idea of using fan reaction to decide which running backs to keep was that the louder the crowd cheered for a player, the more likely they were to buy tickets to see him?
That still doesn't make sense, since building a better team that wins more games would have a much larger effect on ticket sales than how much the fans like your second or third player in your running back rotation. And that (the SECOND player) should have been Nottingham. Nottingham was clearly a better player than Olds and McCauley. Trading Nottingham instead of either of those two was a mistake.
Gonna stop it right here at 5:32
Lydell Mitchell wasn't considered one of the best RB's in the 1970's at all.
Most people, Colts' fans at least, considered him a wide open BUST of a player.
Steelers were criticized for NOT drafting Mitchell and taking Franco Harris instead.
At the time the Steelers said they wanted a bigger guy who could last (years).
Mitchell was considered too "flashy" and injury prone.
When looking at their stats, the Steelers were correct.
Lydell went from 1971 to 1980 (three teams) for a total of 9 seasons.
Harris went from 1971 to 1984.
Harris had twice the yards Mitchell had in the end and three times the scoring touchdowns as well as Super Bowl rings.
Had the Steelers taken Mitchell, most likely the IR never would have happened and Lydell would have been out of the league even sooner considering just how many times Pittsburgh fed RB's the ball a year.
Had the Colts taken Harris, they may very well have hit the SB once maybe twice around the time they added Bert Jones to the roster to balance the team out.
Mitchell was far far down the list of "good running backs" in the 1970's only having a run of three straight 1,000 yard seasons. 1,200 was his best season followed by 1,193 and then 1,159 yards.
He had two injury related seasons where he missed games.
Other smaller nagging injuries limited his carries.
He was good in College but a mere "flash" when he did play well in the NFL.
By comparison, Harris, had eight 1,000 yard seasons, nearly another in 1981, and was on track in '82 if not for the strike.
Finishing with 91 touchdowns on the ground vs Lydell's 30...
9 receiving vs Mitchell's 4.
Production stats says it all.
I heard that the Steelers measured the 40 times of both Harris and Mitchell, and when both had the same performance they figured that if Harris was just as fast but 30 pounds heavier, then he'd be the better player.
Unfortunately, would retire elsewhere.
@DolFan316 Totally, great survival Instinct.
The Colts were awful most of Mitchell’s career. Stats are rarely a fair comparison in football. The Colts used him hard his first couple years. After some injuries his career was over.
@marksieber4626 Additionally, 1975-1977, wretched, Playoffs.
Well, I guess I know where to trace those Colts' decline from. No wonder they were so bad when I was a baby!
To be fair, their best stretch, 1975-1977, were, against, the, Eventual-Champions, a, dominant-if-unsuccessful-defense, and, a Raiders team that were a quality opponent away from being done, the Colts had, big skills, and, wretched luck.
Didn't he run for Sheriff of Baltimore County?
This is taking the concept of Fan Controlled Football to an extreme!
The Colts were a sad organization for a long time and theyre still mediocre only Peyton Manning was their shining light
You forgot about Andrew Luck huh
Wrong
@@jessiewyatt526and Bert Jones, albeit a short time
Joe Thomas was a lousy general manager for the colts! 😮😮😮😅😅
If a General Manager would do this now they would be fired immediately and never to be hired again
🏈 That was a pretty good video. Don Nottingham was one of my favorite players when he was with the Dolphins. I was too young to remember him with the Colts. I just liked the highlights of his runs on this video because he wasn't really a starting Fullback for most of his time with the Dolphins, but he was still my favorite player during most of his time there 🏈.
To be fair the colts of the Thomas era were a transition team from great old players at the end of their careers to the next generation. Remember Shula coached the colts and knew Nottingham, Bulloch, and don’t forget Earl Morral. Pretty important depth players on the Dolphins Super Bowl teams. Those were all Colts. Can’t remember if there was more.
In that same vein, Ted Hendricks, who got traded to the Packers before the 1974 season, before getting traded again to the Raiders before the 1975 season, without him, the Raiders, likely, never win the SB.
When I hear these types of reasons, I usually think it's about drugs and the team refuses to disclose it. But if this guy is on coke, sending him to Miami is probably not going to help him become sober.
That was the, "logic," behind the Steelers going with the corpse of Terry Bradshaw over Dan Marino, and, 100% vindication would result, oh, wait.
@@matthewdaley746 People say Shula had a sad end, but Chuck Noll made the playoffs just once in the final seven years of his career.
@@DolFan316Nasty drafting proved, horrendous.
@@matthewdaley746 Shula allegedly told Marino that he would go out of his way to bury him if he made him regret the pick.
@@matthewdaley746 And Marino was from Pitt college also, a local kid. That pick would have fit like a glove.