Talk:Ryan Leaf
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Smoking pole for crack? Where's the citation of that incident? We all know he's a failure - but that may be pushing it a bit.
"He has been known to show up uninvited on the field at Washington State football games, often inebriated." Do we have any actual evidence of this? Unklelemmy 19:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] NFL Network
Apparently, the NFL Network wants to hire him as a draft analyst. Should we include that? --D-Day My fan mail. Click to view my evil userboxes 13:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- If they actually do hire him, yes. If they just want to hire him, no. --rogerd 15:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
- Do you have a link on that, because I could use a laugh. Quadzilla99 15:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Errors I've Seen
There are a few errors I see. It says "hello" inside Manning's passing yards for his NFL rookie season (3,739), and it says Leaf was signed to four years for "$1.00" (one dollar) and a signing bonus of "$0.25" (twenty five cents). I know he was bad, but that seems a little low, considering the standard for 1st-rounders would be in the millions. As I have no wish to mess up this article, could someone who knows this site make the appropriate corrections? Thanks. --Visitor —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.224.160.159 (talk • contribs) 18:22, May 23, 2006 (UTC)
- it was vandalism. now fixed --rogerd 23:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Passed Good Article
I passed Ryan Leaf for Good Article Status because I feel that overall the article is a well written & referenced piece on a controversial subject. I would recommend the following minor improvemens though.
- You have a photo of Leaf in the NFL, you may want to consider additional photos from his college/high school days and maybe a picture from the NFL draft. If you can by chance find a copyright-safe image under fair use, the Sporting News had a very interested draft issue cover with Leaf and Manning over who should the Colt's choose as #1.
- While overall I was impressed with the NPOV tone, there are slight cases where the POV slip in that I recommend be fixed.
- That year, Leaf was a finalist in balloting for the prestigious Heisman Trophy, which is given annually to the best college football player.
- There was actually significant debate over whether Leaf or Manning should be selected first.
- In one embarrassing locker room incident during Leaf's rookie year, he was caught on camera screaming at a reporter ("Don't...talk to me alright! Knock it off! Leaf said).
::And this comment would be best served with a cited source
- the Cougars team was, in a sense, set up for Leaf to leave.
But other than that, Congrats to the editors for putting together Good Article. Agne 04:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] First round bust
Leaf qualifies as one of these. He compiled a passer rating of 50.0 and was out of the league within 5 years. 216.165.236.141 22:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Agreed, but...
The term 'first-round bust' tends to be subjective rather than objective. There are better ways to state that in an encyclopedic entry, such as 'leaf's career was generally considered to be a failure.' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrshooter (talk • contribs) 19:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)