The NFL's history is littered with ‘busts' , players drafted with great expectations who fail to live up to them, sometimes in spectacularly disastrous ways. But when it comes to quarterbacks, in particular, Troy Aikman , who very well may have landed in the bust category had things gone a little differently, is placing the bulk of the blame on the men who own the teams.

Aikman, the No. 1 overall pick by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1989 draft, threw twice as many interceptions as he did touchdowns as a rookie. His second year, he improved — he only threw nearly twice as many interceptions as touchdowns. He lost all 11 starts of his first season in the NFL, and he missed the final few games of his second season due to injury as Dallas missed the playoffs for the fifth year in a row.

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