Jake Locker is Retiring

Yeah- I'm just still passed we ever picked him regardless if how nice a guy he was. I was screaming for Watt on draft day and turned my TV off after the Locker pick was announced. It was the start of a very bitter period for me as a fan.

 

Jake actually tore his hamstring playing baseball in college. So....that is totally possible.

 

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I figured he'd go be Russell Wilsons backup.

 

I think many wanted Jake to fail from the start, pretty obvious with some of these comments.

 

I know Jake Locker ended up being injury prone and a case of bad luck, but it is kind of sad that his biggest injuries came from a tackle from a int from a helmet to helmet hit in the Pats game. A late hit in the Jets game and a hit going into the end zone in the Browns game. Plays that if it happened to Brady or Manning, Roger Goodell would have had a actual public beheading live on the NFL network to the defensive players that made the hits

 

I don't think anyone wanted him to fail.

All he had to do was be better than Vince Young, couldn't even do that.

 

And we could've had Watt.......

 

It's really hard to fault a guy for injuries. When healthy he did manage to play well, so even looking back, I'd consider him less damaging to this franchise than young.