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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

  • Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.

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  • WarriorsRpussiesW WarriorsRpussies

    Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.

    @warriorsrpussies said:

    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  

  • WarriorsRpussiesW WarriorsRpussies

    Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.

    @warriorsrpussies said:

    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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