Mac Speedie enters HOF, Modell OUT
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I tend to agree. He lost several AFC Title games in his own stadium.
Marty? Browns 1986, yes. What others?
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Marty? Browns 1986, yes. What others?
No Gipper, I was writing about Bill Cowher in a response to Nickers.
Cowher was 2-4 in AFC Title games, losing all 4 in his own stadium.
Was Cowher a great coach? The answer would be yes. He certainly was a great motivator for his players.
Is he a Hall of Fame coach? Well, now he is but I say NO.
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Marty? Browns 1986, yes. What others?
No Gipper, I was writing about Bill Cowher in a response to Nickers.
Cowher was 2-4 in AFC Title games, losing all 4 in his own stadium.
Was Cowher a great coach? The answer would be yes. He certainly was a great motivator for his players.
Is he a Hall of Fame coach? Well, now he is but I say NO.
No Gipper, I was writing about Bill Cowher in a response to Nickers.
Cowher was 2-4 in AFC Title games, losing all 4 in his own stadium.
Was Cowher a great coach? The answer would be yes. He certainly was a great motivator for his players.
Is he a Hall of Fame coach? Well, now he is but I say NO.
OK, but saying no is superfluous. But I think perhaps the analysis is: If Cowher is someone that belongs in the HOF, then so do X,Y, Z who are not yet in. I sort of did that above, with Flores, Reeves, Marty, others. Chuck Knox
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No Gipper, I was writing about Bill Cowher in a response to Nickers.
Cowher was 2-4 in AFC Title games, losing all 4 in his own stadium.
Was Cowher a great coach? The answer would be yes. He certainly was a great motivator for his players.
Is he a Hall of Fame coach? Well, now he is but I say NO.
OK, but saying no is superfluous. But I think perhaps the analysis is: If Cowher is someone that belongs in the HOF, then so do X,Y, Z who are not yet in. I sort of did that above, with Flores, Reeves, Marty, others. Chuck Knox
OK, but saying no is superfluous. But I think perhaps the analysis is: If Cowher is someone that belongs in the HOF, then so do X,Y, Z who are not yet in. I sort of did that above, with Flores, Reeves, Marty, others. Chuck Knox
I see. Well little folks like the fans will never have a say-so.
Admitting I have some anger issues, jealousy issues with Pittsburgh and Denver, if you compare apples-to-apples, it's pretty obvious Reeves had a far better coaching career.
There's a definite Steelers bias with the HOF. Lots of great NFL players played in Pittsburgh, but they are over represented as a whole in Canton IMHO. I use Kevin Greene and Lynn Swan as examples.
Denver....who's in? Off the top of my head it's Elway, Floyd Little, & Terrell Davis. Where's Randy Gradishar, Rick Upchurch, Steve Atwater, Carl Mecklenburg?They've had similar success as a franchise as Pittsburgh over about the same time frame (1970-present). It's plain wrong.
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Not listing Polamalu is only showing the bias of some of you. He's going in and if he doesn't it will be because he doesnt care about accolades and the hall has an ego to floss.
AKA SNATCH98 or Rorbotron. The boards glorious admins decided to get cute and change my name to "homotron" Classy group of people. (Lost a bet with Columbus king and got banned for a month) -
Not listing Polamalu is only showing the bias of some of you. He's going in and if he doesn't it will be because he doesnt care about accolades and the hall has an ego to floss.
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The rest of the list was revealed this morning. Here are the names that got in:
Jimbo Covert OT 80s Bears
Winston Hill OT Jets
Harold Carmichael WR Eagles
Duke Slater OT....several teams from the 20s
Ed Sprinkle dE/LB 40s Bears
Steve Sabol NFL Films
Alex Karras DT Lions "Mongo"
Bobby Dillon S 50s Packers (not to be confused with Bobby Dylan)
Donnie Shell DB 70s Steelers
George Young. GM for the Colts in 60s, Dolphins Dynasty, and Giants in 80s
Cliff Harris S Cowboys
Paul Tagliabue Commish
Mac Speedie WR 40s/50s Browns.
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There's a name you don't hear too often started in the defunct AAFC and with the new current NFL Browns.
Speedie will become the Browns' 17th Hall of Famer and first inducted since Gene Hickerson in 2007.
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Not listing Polamalu is only showing the bias of some of you. He's going in and if he doesn't it will be because he doesnt care about accolades and the hall has an ego to floss.
Not listing Polamalu is only showing the bias of some of you. He's going in and if he doesn't it will be because he doesnt care about accolades and the hall has an ego to floss.
Or, maybe, like in my opinion, he is up against a couple of other Safeties who have waited longer and who were likely better, in John Lynch and Steve Atwater.
But you are right....he will go in someday....maybe even this year, whether he deserves it or not.
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If you were to go by career production, the finalist for induction this year, (the regular class) should be in this order, per PFR's career production average:
1. Reggie Wayne 155
2. Zach Thomas 149
3. Alan Faneca 146
4. Isaac Bruce 137
5. Edgerrin James 136
6. Sam Mills 126
7. Tori Holt 123
8. Steve Hutchinson 119
9. Bryant Young 117
10. John Lynch 115
11. Troy Polamalu 115
Of course, those just apply to the guys that are up for finalists this year. They left off Clay Matthews, and he had a 137 CA. As for Vag's whining about Polamalu.....there are even other Steelers that had better carees who are not on this list: Hardy Nickerson had a 129. Hines Ward had a better CA. And Poly, with his paltry 115 production? The following guys have a right to complain: Jim Marshall 164 not in. Ken Anderson 161 not in.
He should/could get his Steeler representative in the form of Alan Faneca....not Polly.
And don't forget, Donnie Shell got in with the Centennial Class
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Modern players -- 5 is the max, I can't support anyone other than these
Atwater
Boselli
Seymour
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They did put in 3 OTs with the Centennial Class......but not Dick Shafrath who was better than all of them likely.
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OK, but saying no is superfluous. But I think perhaps the analysis is: If Cowher is someone that belongs in the HOF, then so do X,Y, Z who are not yet in. I sort of did that above, with Flores, Reeves, Marty, others. Chuck Knox
I see. Well little folks like the fans will never have a say-so.
Admitting I have some anger issues, jealousy issues with Pittsburgh and Denver, if you compare apples-to-apples, it's pretty obvious Reeves had a far better coaching career.
There's a definite Steelers bias with the HOF. Lots of great NFL players played in Pittsburgh, but they are over represented as a whole in Canton IMHO. I use Kevin Greene and Lynn Swan as examples.
Denver....who's in? Off the top of my head it's Elway, Floyd Little, & Terrell Davis. Where's Randy Gradishar, Rick Upchurch, Steve Atwater, Carl Mecklenburg?They've had similar success as a franchise as Pittsburgh over about the same time frame (1970-present). It's plain wrong.
I see. Well little folks like the fans will never have a say-so.
Admitting I have some anger issues, jealousy issues with Pittsburgh and Denver, if you compare apples-to-apples, it's pretty obvious Reeves had a far better coaching career.
There's a definite Steelers bias with the HOF. Lots of great NFL players played in Pittsburgh, but they are over represented as a whole in Canton IMHO. I use Kevin Greene and Lynn Swan as examples.
Denver....who's in? Off the top of my head it's Elway, Floyd Little, & Terrell Davis. Where's Randy Gradishar, Rick Upchurch, Steve Atwater, Carl Mecklenburg?They've had similar success as a franchise as Pittsburgh over about the same time frame (1970-present). It's plain wrong.
Shannon Sharpe
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Props to CBS on that moment..that was a very cool way of doing it right.. Congrats Coach Cowher & the thanks to Marty gave me those old day chills..Well Done all around ?
I guess we should ask: why isn't Marty on that list? Every other one of the Top Ten winningest coaches are in the HOF or are on that list, except Belichick and Reid, who are still active and not eligible:
Rk Coach Yrs Yr-Yr G W L T W-L% G > .500 Yr plyf G plyf W plyf L plyf W-L% AvRk BstRk Chmp SBwl Conf 1 Don Shula+ 33 1963-1995 490 328 156 6 .677 172 19 36 19 17 .528 1.8 1 2 2 6 2 George Halas+ 40 1920-1967 497 318 148 31 .682 170 8 9 6 3 .667 2.7 1 6 0 0 3 Bill Belichick 25 1991-2019 400 273 127 0 .683 146 18 43 31 12 .721 1.6 1 6 6 9 4 Tom Landry+ 29 1960-1988 418 250 162 6 .607 88 18 36 20 16 .556 2.4 1 2 2 5 5 Curly Lambeau+ 33 1921-1953 380 226 132 22 .631 94 5 5 3 2 .600 3.2 1 6 0 0 6 Paul Brown+ 25 1946-1975 326 213 104 9 .672 109 15 17 9 8 .529 2.0 1 7 0 0 7 Andy Reid 21 1999-2019 336 207 128 1 .618 79 14 26 12 14 .462 2.0 1 0 0 1 8 Marty Schottenheimer 21 1984-2006 327 200 126 1 .613 74 13 18 5 13 .278 2.0 1 0 0 0 9 9 Chuck Noll+ 23 1969-1991 342 193 148 1 .566 45 12 24 16 8 .667 2.1 1 4 4 4 10 Dan Reeves 23 1981-2003 357 190 165 2 .535 25 9 23 1969 I guess we should ask: why isn't Marty on that list? Every other one of the Top Ten winningest coaches are in the HOF or are on that list, except Belichick and Reid, who are still active and not eligible:
Rk Coach Yrs Yr-Yr G W L T W-L% G > .500 Yr plyf G plyf W plyf L plyf W-L% AvRk BstRk Chmp SBwl Conf 1 Don Shula+ 33 1963-1995 490 328 156 6 .677 172 19 36 19 17 .528 1.8 1 2 2 6 2 George Halas+ 40 1920-1967 497 318 148 31 .682 170 8 9 6 3 .667 2.7 1 6 0 0 3 Bill Belichick 25 1991-2019 400 273 127 0 .683 146 18 43 31 12 .721 1.6 1 6 6 9 4 Tom Landry+ 29 1960-1988 418 250 162 6 .607 88 18 36 20 16 .556 2.4 1 2 2 5 5 Curly Lambeau+ 33 1921-1953 380 226 132 22 .631 94 5 5 3 2 .600 3.2 1 6 0 0 6 Paul Brown+ 25 1946-1975 326 213 104 9 .672 109 15 17 9 8 .529 2.0 1 7 0 0 7 Andy Reid 21 1999-2019 336 207 128 1 .618 79 14 26 12 14 .462 2.0 1 0 0 1 8 Marty Schottenheimer 21 1984-2006 327 200 126 1 .613 74 13 18 5 13 .278 2.0 1 0 0 0 9 9 Chuck Noll+ 23 1969-1991 342 193 148 1 .566 45 12 24 16 8 .667 2.1 1 4 4 4 10 Dan Reeves 23 1981-2003 357 190 165 2 .535 25 9 23 1969 For the same reason 1\2 the Steel Curtain got in, and Marty and Clay Matthews aren't- the Steelers won Super Bowls, the Browns didn't. They'd both be in if they had won rings. I still feel Matthews was every bit as good as Jack Ham- who got in a long time ago.
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I tend to agree. He lost several AFC Title games in his own stadium.
He got it for the publicity.
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