Who are the Ten Greatest Football Players in history
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Jim Brown
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Emmitt Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Tom Brady
JJ Watt
Joe Green
Reggie White
John Hannah
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Jim Brown
Jerry Rice
Dick "Nighttrain" Lane
Anthony Munoz
John Hannah
Lawrence Taylor
Reggie White
Ronnie Lott
John Mackey
Joe Montana
I gave Lane, Lott and White serious consideration ... couldn't bring myself to include an offensive lineman.
Hard enough to determine who is best at their position over the different eras ... throw them all in one bowl and you are going to get hundreds of combos ... but I think Brown and Rice make everyone's list.
Zombo
Zombo said:
I gave Lane, Lott and White serious consideration ... couldn't bring myself to include an offensive lineman.
Hard enough to determine who is best at their position over the different eras ... throw them all in one bowl and you are going to get hundreds of combos ... but I think Brown and Rice make everyone's list.
Zombo
LT too probably
Munoz was my only OL....but I considered Hannah, but he didn't make the cut. Yea, my group is QB heavy.....but as we know...it is a quarterback's league.
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Prominently left off is the old Browns nemesis, 4 time Superbowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Yeah he had great defenses, but he was also a clutch player. Put him on both QB list and all-time list.
PS-I like the Night Train pick Tour-one of my favorites off the streets of Austin.
Prominently left off is the old Browns nemesis, 4 time Superbowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Yeah he had great defenses, but he was also a clutch player. Put him on both QB list and all-time list.
PS-I like the Night Train pick Tour-one of my favorites off the streets of Austin.
I would not put him on Top Ten All positions list.....but I highly considered him for my QB list. The question is if you put him on....who do you take off. I know people want to dismiss the old timers like Baugh/Luckman.....but those guys were the Manning and Brady of their day.....and likely were every bit as good.
There are some real similarities there: Luckman won 4 titles...and was considered a bit more cerebral. Baugh won just one I believe but was considered better at certain aspects.
So....if you leave them off, then perhaps leave of Brady an Peyton? Which I didn't want to do.
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Zombo said:
I gave Lane, Lott and White serious consideration ... couldn't bring myself to include an offensive lineman.
Hard enough to determine who is best at their position over the different eras ... throw them all in one bowl and you are going to get hundreds of combos ... but I think Brown and Rice make everyone's list.
Besides my O-line bias, I'm reluctant to load up on a "glamor" position. Once I pick Joe, why do I need another QB? I know it's not really the question, but how can you have more than one "greatest" at a given position?
When you have prototypical players like Munoz and Hannah, just makes no sense to me to leave them off a list.
Ditto for players who redefined a position like Mackey and Lane.
Besides my O-line bias, I'm reluctant to load up on a "glamor" position. Once I pick Joe, why do I need another QB? I know it's not really the question, but how can you have more than one "greatest" at a given position?
When you have prototypical players like Munoz and Hannah, just makes no sense to me to leave them off a list.
Ditto for players who redefined a position like Mackey and Lane.
The thing is.....this is the greatest of all time regardless of position. I mean, you wouldn't just put one outfielder in the Top Ten Baseball Player list
(and hey....feel free to put that on here as well)
I mean choose one single outfielder to put on your all time MLB list: Ruth, Dimaggio, Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Griffey Jr. etc. etc.
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Prominently left off is the old Browns nemesis, 4 time Superbowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Yeah he had great defenses, but he was also a clutch player. Put him on both QB list and all-time list.
PS-I like the Night Train pick Tour-one of my favorites off the streets of Austin.
I just threw up in my mouth after reading this post. Bradshaw is NOWHERE close to being one of the greatest QBs, let alone players of all time.Prominently left off is the old Browns nemesis, 4 time Superbowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Yeah he had great defenses, but he was also a clutch player. Put him on both QB list and all-time list.
PS-I like the Night Train pick Tour-one of my favorites off the streets of Austin.
No love for Butkus anybody?
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Besides my O-line bias, I'm reluctant to load up on a "glamor" position. Once I pick Joe, why do I need another QB? I know it's not really the question, but how can you have more than one "greatest" at a given position?
When you have prototypical players like Munoz and Hannah, just makes no sense to me to leave them off a list.
Ditto for players who redefined a position like Mackey and Lane.
That's why I prefer the "All-Time Team" format.
Zombo
Zombo said:
That's why I prefer the "All-Time Team" format.
Zombo
See the College Football Forum for where I posted SB Nations 1st/2d/3rd All time teams.
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Jim Brown
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Emmitt Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Tom Brady
JJ Watt
Joe Green
Reggie White
John Hannah
Jim Brown
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Emmitt Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Tom Brady
JJ Watt
Joe Green
Reggie White
John Hannah
To me, it is premature to put Watt in there......maybe by the time he is done though he may fit.
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I just threw up in my mouth after reading this post. Bradshaw is NOWHERE close to being one of the greatest QBs, let alone players of all time.Prominently left off is the old Browns nemesis, 4 time Superbowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Yeah he had great defenses, but he was also a clutch player. Put him on both QB list and all-time list.
PS-I like the Night Train pick Tour-one of my favorites off the streets of Austin.
No love for Butkus anybody?
I just threw up in my mouth after reading this post. Bradshaw is NOWHERE close to being one of the greatest QBs, let alone players of all time.
No love for Butkus anybody?
If I hadn't decided to put 4 QBs on, Butkus would have been like next.
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Rice
Brown
White
LT
Watt (no doubt will be on everyone's shortly)
Lane
Montana
Manning
Munoz
Butkus
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Jim Brown
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Emmitt Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Tom Brady
JJ Watt
Joe Green
Reggie White
John Hannah
To me, it is premature to put Watt in there......maybe by the time he is done though he may fit.
Thats fair, but I think the only thing that would stop him would be an injury in the next five years or soTo me, it is premature to put Watt in there......maybe by the time he is done though he may fit.
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Jim Brown
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Emmitt Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Tom Brady
JJ Watt
Joe Green
Reggie White
John Hannah
To me, it is premature to put Watt in there......maybe by the time he is done though he may fit.
To me, it is premature to put Watt in there......maybe by the time he is done though he may fit.
Yeah, Watt is more a projection, but barring injury, there's no way he doesn't end up on this list.
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This will be a very hard task for you. Name the 10 Greatest players in NFL/pro football history. You could name just 10 QBs. But, here is my list, no order:
Jim Brown
Jerry Rice
Anthony Munoz
Lawrence Taylor
Don Hutson
Reggie White
Otto Graham
John Unitas
Joe Montana
Tom Brady
see how tough that was....and consider the names left off.
Jim Brown
Jerry Rice
Lawrence Taylor
Don Hutson
Otto Graham
Joe Montana
Peyton Manning
Tom Brady
Sammy Baugh
Walter Payton
Deacon Jones
Zombo said:
Jim Brown
Jerry Rice
Lawrence Taylor
Don Hutson
Otto Graham
Joe Montana
Peyton Manning
Tom Brady
Sammy Baugh
Walter Payton
Deacon Jones
I agree with Deacon Jones
I would take Deacon Jones over Reggie White all day long
"And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve." -
Jim Brown
Otto Graham
Earl Campbell
Fred Biletnikoff
Alan Page
Jack Lambert
Jerry Rice
John Elway
Barry Sanders
Lawrence Taylor
Jim Brown
Otto Graham
Earl Campbell
Fred Biletnikoff
Alan Page
Jack Lambert
Jerry Rice
John Elway
Barry Sanders
Lawrence Taylor
Biletnikoff must be a favorite of yours.....as good as he was, no one would really consider him 10 best of all time.
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Zombo said:
Jim Brown
Jerry Rice
Lawrence Taylor
Don Hutson
Otto Graham
Joe Montana
Peyton Manning
Tom Brady
Sammy Baugh
Walter Payton
Deacon Jones
I agree with Deacon Jones
I would take Deacon Jones over Reggie White all day long
I agree with Deacon Jones
I would take Deacon Jones over Reggie White all day long
I thought about that too. I also considered Bruce Smith, Bob Lilly and Joe Greene along the defensive line.
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Biletnikoff must be a favorite of yours.....as good as he was, no one would really consider him 10 best of all time.
Only guy that may have had better hands IMHO is Steve Largent.
I also thought about Mean Joe Green, Ronnie Lott, and Brett Favre. Like you wrote, a real tough job to narrow down 10.
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Roethlisberger
Bradshaw
Kordell Stewart
Neil o Donnell
Bubby Brister
Tommy Maddox
Mark Malone
Dick Shiner
Kent Nix
Bill Nelson
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Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
Everyone should have Butkis on their list...he was like the JB of linebackers.
Anyone who has Graham on their list is just being a homer.
Graham wouldn't crack the top 10 in anyone's list outside of Cleveland.
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-25-greatest-nfl-players-of-all-time/hardtack?page=3
http://www.cheatsheet.com/sports/10-greatest-nfl-players-of-all-time.html/?a=viewall
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Everyone should have Butkis on their list...he was like the JB of linebackers.
Anyone who has Graham on their list is just being a homer.
Graham wouldn't crack the top 10 in anyone's list outside of Cleveland.
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-25-greatest-nfl-players-of-all-time/hardtack?page=3
http://www.cheatsheet.com/sports/10-greatest-nfl-players-of-all-time.html/?a=viewall
Everyone should have Butkis on their list...he was like the JB of linebackers.Anyone who has Graham on their list is just being a homer.Graham wouldn't crack the top 10 in anyone's list outside of Cleveland.http://www.ranker.com/list/top-25-greatest-nfl-players-of-all-time/hardtack?page=3http://www.cheatsheet.com/sports/10-greatest-nfl-players-of-all-time.html/?a=viewallhttp://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nfl-top-50-nos-1-10-jim-brown-greatest-time-article-1.2031278
Good God, you cant be serious.
Compare him statiscally to other QBs of his era.
You can even pretend he didnt lead his team to a championship game 10 times in ten years if that helps.
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