Most Underrated or Overrated Arizona Cardinals of All-Time

David Boston was overrated, and so was tommy knight ! rob fredrickson was a great player and so was ronald mckinnon…. for underrated, whatever happend to Raynoch Thompson????

Larry Centers, best all round cards player ever.

Jake Plumber….ironically one of the few cards to be totally overrated and go on to be totally overrated somewhere else.In fact having a long successful career of being overrated.

David Boston……less overrated and more underachieving and possibly street rat crazy.

Emmit Smith……neither overrated or underrated…and at that time of his career was only actually rated at all by the Cards.

 Shaq…..not a card, but the worst deal in Arizona sports history.

Travis Laboy….very underrated…has injury issues, but when he is in the game it is a much better defense all around.

Niel Rackers….do erratic kickers even get rated?

Dennis Green…..underrated….not a player but really pulled the heavy lifting to help make this a serviceable organization and built much of the infrastructure that makes this team work today.Also had best line in NFL history ………THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE………

Matt Leinart …..another overated USC quarterback…..I hope the coaching staff sees this and tries to deal him sometime while he still has some trade value.

Pago Togafu …best name in Cards history…my name is Pago dammit!!!!

Mike Gandy ….overrated just because he gives up like 7 sacks a year. 7 sacks may not seem like much, but when your starting QB fumbles every time the defense breaths on him, he may as well take the ball and give it to the defense himself.How many holding calls does he get in critical moments?

Todd Haley………Changed the whole definition of WEST COAST OFFENSE…It was sooooo…. west coast…..he could not win a game on the east coast……now with Kansas City we may see the KANSAS city offense ….an offense that can only win in Missouri.

He was invisible after week 4. He is more a system player if you ask me. Don’t believe me, where is Antwan Peek. Both he and Laboy were huge FAs coming out of Tennessee. Now they were both cut this year. I think they could both be good but their technique is severly lacking.

Dale Meinert MLB
Jerry Norton P/S
Bobby Joe Conrad P
Bob DeMarco C
John David Crow RB (not underrated as a Cardinal but league-wide)
Ollie Matson RB (not underrated as a Cardinal but league-wide)
Irv Goode G
Bob Reynolds T
Johnny Roland RB
Willis Crenshaw FB
Cid Edwards FB
McArthur Lane RB
Jerry Stovall S
Tom Banks G-C
Bob Young G
Tim Kearney LB (for his one memorable close-line hit on return coverage)
Wayne Morris RB
Joe Bostic G
Pat Tilley WR
Carl Birdsong P
Lee Nelson S
Benny Perrin S
Tootie Robbins T
Niko Noga MLB
Stump Mitchell RB
Ken Harvey LB
Ricky Proehl WR
Larry Centers FB (not underrated as a Cardinal but league-wide)
Kwamie Lassiter (KLass) S
Ronald McKinnon MLB
Mark Smith DT

I’d be reluctant to rate any player “underrated” after that date because of what to me seems to be the increased emphasis on role-playing and each player meshing with the other guys on his unit. For example, you could make the case that Antonio Smith, Clark Haggans, Monte Beisel or Calais Campbell were underrated, but in a very real sense, they were “just doing their jobs.”

I tend to think he was over rated during his time here but I know he’s got tons of people who think he was practically a savior during his first two seasons. Maybe I’m jaded by how much money he made but I’ve never thought he was that great while he was here.

i see No body put his name up there, THANK GOD WE DRAFTED Q in the 2nd round. if only the cards didnt trade the pick and we drafted terrell suggs and then Q!!