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In 1987, the Browns traded good but grumpy linebacker Chip Banks and the 24th pick to move up to the fifth pick and select Duke linebacker Mike Junkin.

While explaining the selection that stunned the media, the league and his own scouting department — which wanted Shane Conlan — coach Marty Schottenheimer unleashed not one but two infamous last words.

First, he compared Junkin to Lawrence Taylor. Then, he told a story about how Browns scout Dom Anile had come to him and said Junkin plays "like a mad dog in a meat market."

It would come out later that Marty left out the part about Dom having a second-round grade on Junkin.