NFL All Time 100 Offensive Linemen and TEs
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Tonight, the NFL will reveal which OL and TEs will make the All Time 100 team. Here is the breakdown as I understand it:
7 OTs
7 OGs
4 OCs
4-5 TEs
Make your prediction. (I will do mine is a subsequent post)
Possible Browns candidates: Lou Groza/Joe Thomas/Gene Hickerson/ Ozzie Newsome/Frank Gatskie/Mike MacCormack/Joe Delamelleure. Dick Shafrath should be (but won't because even though he is fully worth, he is not even in the HOF
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Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.
Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.
Not in the Top 100:
OTs named:
Anthony Munoz; Forrest Gregg; Art Shell; Roosevelt Brown; Jonathan Ogden; Cal Hubbard; Walter Jones
OGs named:
Jim Parker; John Hannah; Larry Allen; Gene Upshaw; Dan Fortman; Randall McDaniel; Bruce Mathews
OCs name:
Mike Webster; Dwight Stephenson; Jim Otto; Mell Hein
Coaches:
Halas, Lambeau; Landry; Lombardi (they had previously named some others in this category)
Tight Ends named:
Mike Ditka; Tony Gonzales; Gronkowski; John Mackey; Kellen Winslow
So: No Groza or JT; no Hickerson; no Gatski; no Shafrath; no Ozzie.......no Browns at ALL
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Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.
Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.
I thought Joe had a shot, but I really can't argue him in place of any of the OTs selected... even the geezers like Shell and Brown.
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Zombo said:
Lou Groza is Tricky. He may not be a Top 7 Tackle, and he may not be a Top 2 kicker ... but I think is a Top 100 Player.
4-time NFL Champion, 9 Pro Bowls, 4 All-Pros, 1 League MVP.
Kickers weren't as accurate then, be he was as dependable as they came at the time, and as a Tackle he was a Mauler.
A real throwback football player and a champion ... best of the best.
Z
Maybe the committee thought they had met the Browns quota of "old timers" when they gave us Marion Motley on the RB list. And, like you said, Groza was a more all round player, and they wanted to deal in specialists . (though they did put Bednarik in at LB...and he was a 2 way player.
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