Crouch should have been moved to TB first if they weren't going to give him a shot at QB. He was simply a great college runner against top competition. But if you mentioned that possibility back in '02 when he was a rookie on the Rams you would have been hooted down by almost all of the fans. They couldn't conceive of him being a tailback. And after St. Louis drafted him as a WR, no one thought it possible that he could be a quarterback. "He has no arm strength," they all sneered in unison, just as they do now about Matt Jones' arm. They read Mel Kiper or some other "scouting report" and instantly internalize whatever theparty lineis.
Crouch was despised by almost all the fans and still is. When he quit because he couldn't play QB, the position where he had distinguished as the best in the nation, it was the opposite reaction as when Ricky Williams suddenly quit on his team. With Crouch it was "good riddance loser," with Williams it was" I so respect him for wanting to go smoke weed on the world's beaches and find himself."
Even now, mention Crouch on a message board and the first and only response you're likely to get is "he sucked." A Heisman Trophy winner who never played in the NFL, but he proved that "he sucked." I've seen threads about Caste Football that attacked us as "racist" and "ridiculous" based on our support for the proposition that Crouch could and can play quarterback in the NFL if he was given even a fraction of the opportunity that Michael Vick has been given.
