Greg Robinson Gets Busted
157 pounds of weed! 157 pounds! I have many adult friends who weigh less than what Greg Robinson was transporting in those duffel bags. Hell, that’s actually 75% of my own weight, in weed. Damn son, where were you going with that? According to what I read, they were trying to get to Louisiana. Robinson grew up in Thibodaux, a tiny town outside New Orleans which for reasons that will go unspecified, I have beef with. Maybe Robinson is the entire town’s hookup.
He could end up with 20 years in prison, which is kinda yikes. Even as a guy in favor of total legalization this was a bit beyond regular weed enjoyment. 20 years seems a bit much and I hope it doesn’t come to that.
Robinson is kinda weird to me as a player because he feels like the lowest profile major bust in recent history. Nobody ever really brings him up in recent draft bust conversations. He was taken 2nd overall by the Rams in 2014 and I don’t recall anyone having any problems with the pick. He seemed like the highest rated OT in the draft and a safe choice by any measure. While the Jeff Fisher Rams are a bad situation for anyone to be drafted into, he never panned out. He played for the Rams for 4 seasons, switching around the line at various positions, never really finding his footing.
He ended up being traded to the Lions for a 6th round pick. From the 2nd overall choice to being worth a 6th to a team basically just wanting to kick the tires. Detroit let him walk and he became a Brown for the last two seasons. He was a backup for most of 2018 but played a part in the second half resurgence under Freddie. He got another 1-year deal out of it and got ejected in week 1 against the Titans. You may also remember the Browns offensive line was notably terrible this season. He was not expected to return to the Browns. After this I doubt he finds a team.
It just seems to signal the end to an unremarkable career that honestly probably deserves to be discussed as the bust it is. When we think of the biggest draft busts of the past decade, who comes to mind? 2011 had Trent Richardson, but at least Trent seemed to have one good season before he fell off a cliff. 2012 had Dion Jordan, a guy who I forgot even existed until I looked up past drafts (maybe he should also be up there with Robinson as a major forgotten bust). Bortles was the pick after Robinson in 2014 but honestly, he was a reach to begin with so it feels hard to call him a bust. A bust should be judged on expectation compared to career performance, and Bortles didn’t have much expectations at the time as we were too busy laughing.
Robinson was the safest pick in the draft at #2 and now he’s a drug smuggler on his 3rd team. Maybe he doesn’t get the bust label because he plays an unsexy position that people forget to consider. There’s something somehow more tragic about a guy who was so highly rated, never discussed, and promptly forgotten until years later when he did a crime. Is it better to shine bright and explode into flames than to never really shine at all?
“2011 had Trent Richardson, but at least Trent seemed to have one good season before he fell off a cliff.”
Nah, Dave, T Rich was the 2012 draft class, not 2011.
2011 was the class where every 1st round QB not named Cam Newton flamed out to horrible careers and the Titans, Jags and Vikings chose them while names like J.J. Watt and Ryan Kerrigan were still on the board.
“2012 had Dion Jordan, a guy who I forgot even existed until I looked up past drafts (maybe he should also be up there with Robinson as a major forgotten bust).”
Again, here, Dion Jordan was drafted in 2013.
For the 2012 class, the most notable busts besides Richardson would be RG3, whose story a lot of your regular readers would be familiar by now, and WR Justin Blackmon, who drank himself out of the league but somehow, bizarrely, still remains on the Jaguars roster to this day. (Hey, maybe his story might be something worth drawing in the offseason, huh, Dave?) Old man Weeden is also a notable case, but peculiar because nobody outside of the Browns thought that was a good pick at all, and they turned out to be right after all. Does he qualify as a bust?
For the actual 2013 class, that was the draft with almost no sexy players coming out so everyone was pitying the Chiefs who had the #1 pick, I believe. The only notably bad 1st rounder I remember from that year was Dee Milliner, but he was picked by the Jets so I think everyone just went ‘eh, same old, same old’ and just forgot about him.
And for 2014… well, besides Robinson and good old Bort, we do have Johnny Football…
“Is it better to shine bright and explode into flames than to never really shine at all?”
Huh. That’s kind of a philosophical question.
But I think that sports stars might generally agree with that, because I think that deep down, to some degree, they chose their occupation because of the fame and glory that accompanies the top talent, and for that very brief time before it all came horribly crashing down, they were shining bright and living out their life’s wish.
Assuming the 2011 Vikings QB you’re referring to is Christian Ponder, what happened with him? Didn’t he get the Vikings to the playoffs early in his career?
I don’t know what happened to him other than Gendo made one of the greatest gifs ever out of one of his plays.
That was more on Adrian Peterson and his 2k yards season
You right, I had the years offset in my head for some reason
What’s your beef with Thibodaux? Is it because you really hate Fletch Lives?
Maybe he doesn’t like the song “Amos Moses” by Jerry Reed.
Tony Mandrich, the offensive tackle selected before Barry Sanders in the 1989 draft at #2 overall, is still considered one of the greatest busts of all time.
Tony Mandrich, the offensive tackle selected before Barry Sanders in the 1989 draft at #2 overall, is still considered one of the greatest busts of all time
I was about to correct you and say it was Deion Sanders that was passed over for Tony Mandarich… but I discount double checked it first. OMG it was BOTH!
He got busted by border patrol with weed when he wasn’t crossing the border. I mean, I understand how it happened – there’s interior checkpoints all over I-10 in the Valley – but it reminds me of the line from Friday about getting fired on your day off.
Yes, he’s eligible for 20, but he’ll most likely get 3-5 years. Not exactly the 3-5 year contract he was hoping for.
“Not exactly the 3-5 year contract he was hoping for.”
Even the Greg in this comic would laugh his facial scruff off at that lol
Also, dude, you’re in Texas. Ask to go to Taco Cabana, or if you’re really high, Jack in the Box.
He was so high that his beard stopped existing for one panel
I wasn’t sure if I was seeing that right or if I was just really fucking high.
“He” as in Robinson or “he” as in Dave?
Robinson. 9th panel
The reason Greg Robinson has been largely ignored by national media is that he was drafted by the St. Louis Rams, a mediocre team the national media had no reason to peddle. Same reason as Dion Jordan, only his mediocre team was the Dolphins
As noted above, Tony Mandarich was drafted by the pre-Favre Packers. And while you could argue that Dion Jordan doesn’t look like as big of a miss since the first round of the 2013 draft in general was pretty weak and the Dolphins passed on guys like Barkevious Mingo and Jonathan Cooper for him, the Rams passed on Khalil Mack, Jake Matthews, Mike Evans, Anthony Barr, OBJ, and Aaron Donald.
That’s probably not quite as top heavy as the 1989 draft (the next three picks are all in the Hall, as well as Aikman and Atwater from the first round), but it’s a glaring error.
Ok?
So saying him being drafted by the Rams is the reason he’s ignored as a bust doesn’t really work, given the direct historical parallel of Tony Mandarich, who was drafted #2 overall in a stacked draft by a team that was generally considered easy to ignore at the time, and is considered one of the five biggest busts in the history of the draft.
That was about two decades before. The media landscape and NFL coverage are miles apart now than in the early 90s.
And because the landscape is soo much different and the media is more of a monster now than ever….shouldn’t Greg be considered an ever bigger bust? The real reason he’s not even looked at as that is because QB is a “glamour” position. Bigger spotlight with bigger expectations. Even “about two decades before”.
I love the thought of him driving around with a bunch of weed, getting arrested and taken to jail, all while wearing his Browns jersey.
Also, we gotta hear the Thibodaux story.
I love the thought of him driving around with a bunch of weed, getting arrested and taken to jail, all while wearing his Browns jersey.
Also, we gotta hear the Thibodaux story.
Never
Thibodaux knows what it did
Thibodaux knows the troubles I’ve seen.
Ackshewally, Robinson was considered raw and somewhat of a riskier pick than Jake Matthews, the other top tackle of the class. Robinson had better size and athleticism, despite having more wrestling background than football. He and Matthews were headed out as 1A/1B by most draft pundits. So his busting–not exactly as much a surprise as you remember.
Honestly, of all the guys Dave listed, Blackmon is probably the most surprising bust, at least given the way he busted and his squeaky clean reputation in college.
I first thought “the lowest profile major bust in recent history” was referring to his arrest.
A very quick google search says that Greg Robinson has played in more NFL games than any one else from Thibodaux. Not a total bust after all….maybe.
I still think that if the Rams had stuck him at guard and left him there he’d have been a solid player. Was a bulldozer in college and is like 335 pounds. I think the #2 pick status made them try to fit a square peg n a round hole.
Hey, looks like you forgot to color the cop’s eyelids in the last panel.