When making your offseason wish lists for your favorite NFL teams, do yourself a favor and cross these names off of your list.
They are all well known names, but the big contracts that they sign will end up being regretted by the teams bringing them in.
DeSean Jackson
Nearly everything you need to know about Jackson, positives and negatives, are summed up in this one play.
He has tremendous speed and can beat nearly any defender, but too often his head gets in the way. That is what caused him to drop the ball on the 1-yard line, and it's also what kept his last season in Philadelphia from being a lot more productive.
The head issues will always be there. If he was really making progress, the 2011 season would have been a lot better. He wouldn't have made the same play as a rookie in the NFL that he made in high school.
The other problem is that while he catches a good deep ball, Jackson is not a good overall receiver. He has never had more than 62 catches in a season. So as Jackson gets older and slower, he doesn't have the other skills to fall back on. Teams looking to give him a long-term deal have to consider that.
Mario Manningham
Manningham earned himself a big contract on Super Bowl Sunday. More specifically, he earned a big contract with this one play.
Unfortunately, there are a few big negatives that come with Manningham.
One is that he's only played 16 games in a season once. In that season (2010), he did have 944 receiving yards, but only caught 60 passes.
The problem with that number is that in 2010, he was not New York's best receiver—Hakeem Nicks was. Going against the weaker defenders, Manningham managed only 60 catches, which is his career high.
Those numbers will have to improve for a big-play receiver with a history of injuries to be effective for a long time.
His new team will likely not include Nicks, Victor Cruz or the favorable matchups that come with having them as teammates. It will also be hard to imagine him finding a team with a quarterback who throws a better deep ball than Eli Manning.
Quarterbacks will always be overpaid and Orton will be no exception. But this guy will never be better than a top-20 starter in the NFL.
Fans can point out the numbers in 2009 and 2010 all they want. On the surface, they're not bad, they just don't tell the full story. Yes, 7,455 yards and 41 touchdowns over two seasons looks pretty good, but it's far from an overwhelming total.
The overwhelming totals are the 21 interceptions and 11-17 record that Orton posted. That record is even worse when you consider that Orton won the first six games in that stretch. So, since his seventh game of 2009, Orton is 5-17.
Some team will overpay because they need a veteran quarterback, it just won't take long for that decision to be regretted.
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