<![CDATA[NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs]]> This week, the NFL will  reveal those Defensive Linemen and the Linebackers that will make their All Time Top 100 players in  NFL History.

What I don't know, because I could not find it in the NFL.com website, is how many of each of these   they are going to put on the team. 

But, I say that they have to have  at least 10 of each.....and I think it would be very, very tough to limit it to that few. 

So, in subsequent posts on here, I will list whom I think should go on the list:  10 DL,  10 LBs.

Do your own if you wish.  

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/55033/nfl-top-100-defensive-linemen-and-lbsRSS for NodeSat, 03 Oct 2026 00:33:39 GMTMon, 25 Nov 2019 20:15:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:58:45 GMT]]> Mike Curtis was a beast at linebacker. It's a crying shame he isn't in the HOF.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904765https://brownsboard.com/post/904765Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:58:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:09:57 GMT]]>

@dutch-oven said:

Sadly, he should have spent the majority of his career with the Browns, but Paul Brown at that point of his Browns tenure was busy getting rid of defensive HOF talent at a break-neck pace. 

Sorry to say, Paul bucked that one up in a big way.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904761https://brownsboard.com/post/904761Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:09:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:21:36 GMT]]>

@ballpeen said:

Doug Atkins better be on the team.  That guy was a beast.

Sadly, he should have spent the majority of his career with the Browns, but Paul Brown at that point of his Browns tenure was busy getting rid of defensive HOF talent at a break-neck pace. 

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904663https://brownsboard.com/post/904663Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:21:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:54:18 GMT]]> Doug Atkins better be on the team.  That guy was a beast.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904657https://brownsboard.com/post/904657Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:54:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:25:06 GMT]]>

Zombo said:

Reggie White was a DE, Gip, not sure why you had him at DT.

Zombo

He was one of those guys that played all up and down the line, inside and out.  He was built more like a DT with his girth...so I guess that is why I had him at DT.

Let's just call him a "Defensive Lineman".  JJ Watt has basically done the same thing. 

Plus, I am again noticing that they are  giving due to the "old timers"  with guys like Doug Atkins and Bill Hewitt being on the team, over more recent performers....like Strahan

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904170https://brownsboard.com/post/904170Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:25:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:24:09 GMT]]>

@richiswhere said:

You will see Jack Ham in the OLB and Randy White in the DT

You were right....both made it.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904137https://brownsboard.com/post/904137Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:24:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:22:52 GMT]]>

@the-gipper said:

And with this change,  here are the predictions for the LB position:

Middle LBs:  Ray Lewis, Chuck Bednarik, Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke,   Junior Seau,   Jack Lambert

OLBs:   Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Derrick Brooks,  Ted Hendricks, Bobby Bell,  Chris Doleman

On MLBs I got:  Butkus, Lewis, Seau, and Lambert.   They included Joe Schmidt and Willie Lanier  (they left of Nitschke).  Also...they had Bednarik as an OLB where I had him at ILB

On OLB, I got:    Taylor,  Thomas, Brooks, Hendricks, Bell.    They put Jack Ham in instead of  Doleman...and I am OK with that. 

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904136https://brownsboard.com/post/904136Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:22:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:23:46 GMT]]>

@the-gipper said:

With this Change in the numbers,   here is my prediction for those who will be on the team along the DL;

Defensive Ends:  (7)  Deacon Jones, Howie Long, Bruce Smith, Michael Strahan,  Gino Marchetti....and  now add:   Len Ford**  and Leroy Selmon

Defensive tackles (7):   Bob Lilley,  Mean Joe Greene, Merlin Olsen, Alan Page, Reggie White.....plus add:  Warren Sapp and Art Donovan

The Results were released tonight:

On DEs  I got:  Deacon, Smith, Marchetti, and Selmon.....but the committee put on Doug Atkins, Bill Hewitt....and they put Reggie White at DE, not DT??

(no Long, Ford, Strahan)

On DTs I got:   Lilley,  Greene, Olsen,  Page.....and I got Reggie White, but they had him at DE.   They also included Randy White, John Randle, and Buck Buchanan

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904135https://brownsboard.com/post/904135Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:23:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:23:50 GMT]]>

@richiswhere said:

You will see Jack Ham in the OLB and Randy White in the DT

Could very well be.  So...who do you take out?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904035https://brownsboard.com/post/904035Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:23:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:19:41 GMT]]> You will see Jack Ham in the OLB and Randy White in the DT

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/904023https://brownsboard.com/post/904023Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:19:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:22:35 GMT]]> And with this change,  here are the predictions for the LB position:

Middle LBs:  Ray Lewis, Chuck Bednarik, Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke,   Junior Seau,   Jack Lambert

OLBs:   Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Derrick Brooks,  Ted Hendricks, Bobby Bell,  Chris Doleman

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/903990https://brownsboard.com/post/903990Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:22:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:15:51 GMT]]> With this Change in the numbers,   here is my prediction for those who will be on the team along the DL;

Defensive Ends:  (7)  Deacon Jones, Howie Long, Bruce Smith, Michael Strahan,  Gino Marchetti....and  now add:   Len Ford**  and Leroy Selmon

Defensive tackles (7):   Bob Lilley,  Mean Joe Greene, Merlin Olsen, Alan Page, Reggie White.....plus add:  Warren Sapp and Art Donovan

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/903989https://brownsboard.com/post/903989Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:15:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:05:49 GMT]]> I have learned now what the breakdown will be on the numbers of each position that will be selected for the All Time 100 team:

Running backs:   12

Quarterbacks:   10

Wide Receivers:  10

Tight Ends:  5

 Offensive Tackles:  7

Offensive Guards:  7

Centers:   4

Defensive Ends:    7

Defensive Tackles:   7

Middle/Inside Linebackers:   6

Outside Linebackers:   7 

Cornerbacks:   7

Safeties:   6

Kickers:   2

Punters:   2

Returners:  2

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/903987https://brownsboard.com/post/903987Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:05:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:35:14 GMT]]> One factor about my above choices for both DL and  LB.....except for  2-3 exceptions, all my choices were from the post-merger era. (1970)  But we saw that the selectors in the last round...the RBs,   went almost half and half pre and post merger.    I think these positions were harder to do....(with as I say exceptions like Bednarik,  Bill George, Marchetti)

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/903755https://brownsboard.com/post/903755Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:35:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:31:57 GMT]]> Linebackers:

Lawrence Taylor

Ray Lewis

Chuck Bednarik

Dick Butkus

Derrick Thomas

Junior Seau

Ray Nitschke

Jack Lambert

Bill George

Derrick Brooks

Top alternates:   Sam Huff,  Mike Singletary

Who, if anyone, would you put on, again knowing that you have to take one of these off.  

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/903753https://brownsboard.com/post/903753Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:31:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to NFL Top 100 Defensive Linemen and LBs on Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:24:59 GMT]]> Here is my guess on the DL :

Reggie White

Deacon Jones

Bob Lilley

Alan Page

Merlin Olsen

Mean Joe Greene

Howie Long

Gino Marchetti

Bruce Smith

Michael Strahan

(possible alternate:  Warren Sapp)

A couple that I have in the back of my mind that are active, who could be alternates:   Aaron Donald,   JJ Watt

Am I missing anyone?    If you would replace one of mine....say who you would drop off.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/903752https://brownsboard.com/post/903752Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:24:59 GMT