Exactly, I was just going to mention that. He raved and raved about that Todd Lowber guy because he was a Jersey kid he'd helped train. "This is a magnificent athlete, you'd be crazy not to have him on your team!!!" Blah blah blah. And the guy couldn't play a lick. I thought it was so funny that they showed Old Man Garrett going on about him so long and at the end when they cut him, Phillips almost laughingly said, "Eh, yes, Todd was a good athlete, but he just wasn't a football player." And of course the guy never played for anyone.
And then there was that old 2002 Peter King predraft meeting room story Booze once posted when they were debating the corners. Garrett went on about how great Buchanon was: "If you watch the tape and don't think this guy is better than Jammer, you don't know football!!" And Zimmer says, "Uh, I think I know football." Of course Buchanon turned out to be pretty much a bust.
I mean, what did the old man ever do to make Jerry such a fan of his for literally decades? He was a spare old assistant coach and scout who bounced around and never did anything of note. There have been hundreds of guys like him over the last 30 years but for some reason Jerry thought he was some genius.
Dammit I'm getting like Dodger and getting pissed off just thinking about what a football dumbass Jerry is.
