Takk FAILED (More Times Than I Can Count)

[Ergo Proxy 25,273]

1 hour ago, Day1 said:

look at all the teams trying to get him off waivers....All 2 of them

? There have been at least 4. Do you even understand how the process works?

[Draftnut57 4,045]

Yes, Takk was the worst first rd pick in the History of the Falcons.. And I knew it the moment they called his name.. I have never been so mad at our Coach and GM for making such a blunder!!  I was ticked... Talk about a blind and dumb GM to allow this to happen..  The Wisdom of our GM took a holiday in the first round of that Draft.  

 

 

[marvinthemartian 4,599]

1 hour ago, Draftnut57 said:

Yes, Takk was the worst first rd pick in the History of the Falcons.. And I knew it the moment they called his name.. I have never been so mad at our Coach and GM for making such a blunder!!  I was ticked... Talk about a blind and dumb GM to allow this to happen..  The Wisdom of our GM took a holiday in the first round of that Draft.  

 

 

Lol worst first round pick ever???? Not even close. The Falcons have many who were worse than that. 

[THEHEADCOACH 3,310]

Not surprised.. 

[Falcons_Frenzy 3,605]

Dumbest pick of the DQ and TD regime and it isn't even close.

5 seconds into the draft interview it was obvious. 

[Lornoth 11,655]

2 hours ago, Falcons_Frenzy said:

Dumbest pick of the DQ and TD regime and it isn't even close.

5 seconds into the draft interview it was obvious. 

Vic was worse. We blew a top 10 pick on that dude and it was obvious from the get-go his heart wasn't in it. 

[Day1 85]

On 11/21/2020 at 6:10 PM, Ergo Proxy said:

? There have been at least 4. Do you even understand how the process works?

Ok, all four of them. Ha ha ha

[Sidecar Falcon 7,639]

Member when posters were saying he was better than Beasley. 

[Since1990 2,787]

 

[primetime 1,044]

On 11/21/2020 at 12:40 PM, Ergo Proxy said:

@AUTiger7222..............He was a far more effective player than Vic Beasley and Vic is netting us a comp pick. Injuries could push him to a 1 year prove it deal but even Vic basically got that because pass rushers get paid. And, we are due I believe a 5th if we are awarded for him....,,,

The difference is that Beasely at least put it together for one full season (16 sacks) to lead the NFL. Teams look st that and think they can replicate that with him on their team. Takk thru injury or attitude hasn’t managed to put 6 games together let alone 16. I agree he had talent but he was the epitome of wasted talent and not worth a big contract with his $&@“ed up attitude. 

[HotLantaFalcon 926]

On 11/22/2020 at 10:00 AM, Lornoth said:

We blew a top 10 pick

Couple of blown picks that year, that was the 2015 draft, top 2 were Jameis and Mariota. 5 years later and they're both on different teams

[Malachore 9,089]

Kept saying how it was mind blowing that people kept on VB but let this bumb off the hook.

[Day1 85]

And more times than he can count, too

[Brehus 1,029]

On 11/21/2020 at 6:55 PM, Draftnut57 said:

Yes, Takk was the worst first rd pick in the History of the Falcons.. And I knew it the moment they called his name.. I have never been so mad at our Coach and GM for making such a blunder!!  I was ticked... Talk about a blind and dumb GM to allow this to happen..  The Wisdom of our GM took a holiday in the first round of that Draft.  

 

 

I would say Jamaal Anderson 98 was a worse first Round DE draft pick

[THEHEADCOACH 3,310]

59 minutes ago, Brehus said:

I would say Jamaal Anderson 98 was a worse first Round DE draft pick

No way Anderson was worse than Takk. At least Anderson played for us and was good against the run. He just couldn't get a sack to save his life. Takk never played enough to even matter. He was a complete waste of a pick, time , and money. We got nothing out of him but headaches.

 

[k-train 8,416]

• 

  TAKK MCKINLEY
  DL, LAS VEGAS RAIDERS

  

  Raiders placed DE Takk McKinley on injured reserve. 

  After failing physicals for the Bengals and 49ers, McKinley landed on the Raiders roster, only to be placed on IR. The 2017 draft bust had just one sack in 85 snaps with Atlanta before being sidelined with a groin injury this season. McKinley has 17.5 sacks over his three-plus years in the league. 

  SOURCE: Aaron Wilson on Twitter 

  Nov 27, 2020, 4:35 PM ET

[dapanch420 420]

takk needs to grow up, hes gonna look back on this 10 years from now, when hes long out of the league and realized how bad he screwed up.

[NorthGaBoy 1,080]

36 minutes ago, dapanch420 said:

takk needs to grow up, hes gonna look back on this 10 years from now, when hes long out of the league and realized how bad he screwed up.

You have taken a mature and rational thought process and predicted it will be Takk's one day.  Do you see where you went wrong?

[k-train 8,416]

4 minutes ago, dapanch420 said:

takk needs to grow up, hes gonna look back on this 10 years from now, when hes long out of the league and realized how bad he screwed up.

Possibly, but you are looking at the situation through your own eyes, and with your own idea of how to act "properly" in this world. He may not be able to do that, even in 10 years.

Given everything we've seen from him, plus the breakdowns he apparently had not too long ago, I think it's quite possible he suffers from a serious mental condition that causes him to be like this. Maybe he's bipolar, or has some sort of underlying schizophrenia going on. I dunno. But something definitely seems out of the ordinary with his behavior, and any time I've dealt with people like that, it always came back to a mental health issue... either undiagnosed or untreated.

I lost my best friend from high school to that kind of thing. He was one of the smartest, giving people I knew. He was always a little different growing up, but we always just thought he was quirky. He was one of those people who could figure anything out & could do anything they set their mind to, so he was always great to have around. He was a self-taught sound engineer & quickly went from a small 100 capacity venue to a 650 cap room to being inconstant demand by bands playing stadiums & spending several years on the road in tour busses all over the world. He seemed to have it made, reached a high level in his profession, and appeared to be living the life he wanted, but then things quickly started coming apart.

Something snapped in him & he suddenly didn't want to work as an engineer anymore. Over a short span of time, he changed from a dude who would do anything to help someone into one of the most self-isolated, selfish people I've seen. It was unsettling. He sold his apartment & most of his belongings, and started sleeping in a van in friends' yards. He refused to get a job, saying that working a job was for suckers, and that owning a home was, too. To me it just seemed like he suddenly had some major issues with committing to anything, but I now know it was probably much deeper than that.

He was convinced he had the entire world figured out and that all the rest of us were idiots. He radiated negative energy & caused an uncomfortable anxiety any time he was around. Things got very bad between us for a while, and we went about 3 years without speaking to each other.

After a long silence, I met up with him a few years ago and there was a brief period where he still wouldn't get his own place, but he did start going to school again. While he still seemed like whatever was going on with his mental health was still bubbling just below the surface, there was a good bit of the old version of him shining through. I assumed maybe he was getting help via medication or therapy, but I didn't want to pry... especially since it had been ages since we had been in touch. I was just happy at the thought of having something closer to the dude I knew when I was younger back in my life.

Unfortunately, that was short-lived. Despite efforts on my part to stay connected, he built up a wall. Eventually the odd behavior came back in full force & his physical & mental self-isolation became more extreme. The distance between us seemed farther than ever, and I became fully ware there was absolutely nothing I could ever do to change that.

As unclear as a sane person would view his perspective, that fact was he had made up his mind. No matter what I felt, he believed in his delusions 100%.

There was no coming back for our friendship at that point. It's been another 3 years since we last spoke & I don't think he'll ever be capable of looking back on this stuff in 10 year, or ever, and truly feel like he was in the wrong. His mental state just won't allow that to happen, not with any consistency anyhow.

So when I see the way Takk behaves, I'm reminded of all this. And thus, I don't think he'll ever be able to look at it in any other way than he does now... no matter how obviously immature, irresponsible, etc. it seems to everyone else.

[marvinthemartian 4,599]

Tommy Nobis*	Linebacker	Texas
1966	15	Randy Johnson	Quarterback	Texas A&M–Kingsville
1967	—	No pick	—	—	[a]
1968	3	Claude Humphrey	Defensive end	Tennessee State
1969	2	George Kunz	Offensive tackle	Notre Dame
1970	12	John Small	Linebacker	The Citadel
1971	7	Joe Profit	Running back	Louisiana–Monroe
1972	15	Clarence Ellis	Safety	Notre Dame
1973	—	No pick	—	—	[b]
1974	—	No pick	—	—	[c]
1975	1	Steve Bartkowski *	Quarterback	California	[d]
1976	9	Bubba Bean	Running back	Texas A&M
1977	6	Warren Bryant	Offensive tackle	Kentucky
1977	20	Wilson Faumuina	Defensive tackle	San Jose State	[e]
1978	13	Mike Kenn	Offensive tackle	Michigan
1979	17	Don Smith	Defensive end	Miami (FL)
1980	7	Junior Miller	Tight end	Nebraska
1981	25	Bobby Butler	Cornerback	Florida State
1982	9	Gerald Riggs	Running back	Arizona State
1983	16	Mike Pitts	Defensive end	Alabama
1984	9	Rick Bryan	Defensive tackle	Oklahoma
1985	2	Bill Fralic	Offensive tackle	Pittsburgh	[f]
1986	2	Tony Casillas	Defensive tackle	Oklahoma
1986	17	Tim Green	Linebacker	Syracuse	[g]
1987	12	Chris Miller	Quarterback	Oregon
1988	1	Aundray Bruce *	Linebacker	Auburn
1989	5	Deion Sanders	Cornerback	Florida State
1989	27	Shawn Collins	Wide receiver	Northern Arizona	[h]
1990	20	Steve Broussard	Running back	Washington State	[i][j]
1991	3	Bruce Pickens	Cornerback	Nebraska
1991	13	Mike Pritchard	Wide receiver	Colorado	[i]
1992	8	Bob Whitfield	Offensive tackle	Stanford	[k]
1992	19	Tony Smith	Running back	Southern Miss
1993	9	Lincoln Kennedy	Offensive tackle	Washington
1994	—	No pick	—	—	[l]
1995	26	Devin Bush Sr.	Safety	Florida State	[m]
1996	—	No pick	—	—	[l]
1997	11	Michael Booker	Cornerback	Nebraska	[n]
1998	12	Keith Brooking	Linebacker	Georgia Tech
1999	30	Patrick Kerney	Defensive end	Virginia
2000	—	No pick	—	—	[o]
2001	1	Michael Vick *	Quarterback	Virginia Tech	[p]
2002	18	T. J. Duckett	Running back	Michigan State	[q]
2003	—	No pick	—	—	[r]
2004	8	DeAngelo Hall	Cornerback	Virginia Tech
2004	29	Michael Jenkins	Wide receiver	Ohio State	[s]
2005	27	Roddy White	Wide receiver	UAB
2006	—	No pick	—	—	[t]
2007	8	Jamaal Anderson	Defensive end	Arkansas	[u]
2008	3	Matt Ryan	Quarterback	Boston College
2008	21	Sam Baker	Offensive tackle	USC	[v]
2009	24	Peria Jerry	Defensive tackle	Ole Miss
2010	19	Sean Weatherspoon	Linebacker	Missouri
2011	6	Julio Jones	Wide receiver	Alabama	[w]
2012	—	No pick	—	—	[w]
2013	22	Desmond Trufant	Cornerback	Washington	[x]
2014	6	Jake Matthews	Offensive tackle	Texas A&M
2015	8	Vic Beasley	Outside Linebacker	Clemson
2016	17	Keanu Neal	Strong Safety	Florida
2017	26	Takkarist McKinley	Defensive End	UCLA	[y]
2018	26	Calvin Ridley	Wide Receiver	Alabama
2019	14	Chris Lindstrom	Offensive Guard	Boston College
2019	31	Kaleb McGary	Offensive Tackle	Washington	[z]
2020	16	A.J. Terrell	Cornerback	Clemson

Lots of bad first round picks here 

[Aluminafalcon 25]

On 11/21/2020 at 8:56 PM, marvinthemartian said:

Lol worst first round pick ever???? Not even close. The Falcons have many who were worse than that. 

I remember when we thought we got a steal in jimmy Williams in the second round ( we had traded our first but Mora claimed he would have taken in the first if we had the pick)

[AUTiger7222 6,361]

51 minutes ago, Aluminafalcon said:

I remember when we thought we got a steal in jimmy Williams in the second round ( we had traded our first but Mora claimed he would have taken in the first if we had the pick)

I still can't get over taking Michael Booker in 1997. Dan Reeves was obsessed with tight ends so naturally he passed on Tony Gonzalez to pick Booker. Then he traded countless draft picks over the years for guys like O.J. Santiago and Reggie Kelly. Ugh!!  That 1997 draft was downright brutal.

 

[ki46dinah 1,946]

6 hours ago, THEHEADCOACH said:

No way Anderson was worse than Takk. At least Anderson played for us and was good against the run. He just couldn't get a sack to save his life. Takk never played enough to even matter. He was a complete waste of a pick, time , and money. We got nothing out of him but headaches.

 

Anderson was worse by far....he was he was usually banged up, and game by game comparison is not even close;

Jam in 60 games;

- 4.5 sacks

- 12 TFL’s

- 19 Qb hits

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Tak in 49;

- 17 sacks

- 22 TFL’s

- 45 QB hits

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[RoddyWhite84 3,377]

9 hours ago, Brehus said:

I would say Jamaal Anderson 98 was a worse first Round DE draft pick

We could have had Calvin Johnson that year potentially just awful.

[ki46dinah 1,946]

3 minutes ago, RoddyWhite84 said:

We could have had Calvin Johnson that year potentially just awful.

Or Patrick Willis, Greg Olsen, Joe Staley, Revis, Weddle, Yanda just to name a few....argggh