Where does Edelman rank for your as your favorite Pats WR?

1. T. Brown
2. S. Morgan
3. R. Moss
4. J. Edelman
5. W. Welker

Edelman is moving up the list though. He may rank #1 in a few years.

I'm not going to rank him, but I'll say the same thing I've been saying for years. It was true of Welker, but it's even more true of Edelman.

If the Patriots had 53 players as hard-working and as determined as Edelman, not only would they go undefeated, they'd make the Snow Bowl 59–0 game look like a squeaker.

He's my favorite. He should have been co-MVP at least. He's a warrior. People say he's Welker 2.0. I DISAGREE! Welker on his best day doesn't compare. Edelman is Troy Brown 2.0. He does everything for this team, literally. He has caught passes, run the ball on quick reverses, returned punts, thrown TD passes (okay just one LOL). But you get the point.

My # 1's, mostly for subjective/personal feelings reasons:

1. JE
2. TB
3. KF (I know, he's a running back)
4. WW

I like JE, much like Wes Welker, because they seem to be forces of will, like their place here was not just gifted to them by their genes. Danny Woodhead, and to an extent, Danny Amendola, has this quality as well.

Also, it's common practice here at PatsFans to bemoan that JE is not a true #1, despite the fact that he put up like 100+ yards and a TD against the best defense in the league in the biggest game of the year. From behind. In the rain. Uphill. Both ways.

If you just read that statement alone, without knowing whom I was referring to, you'd guess that I was describing the best WR in the NFL.

Plus the dude is a killer return guy, can play defense, can throw a touch down pass, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if he could fill in for gunner or placekicker or punter or long snapper or even preserve a game as third string QB if it came to it.

Put his at RB. Have him do an end around. Buy him Iron Man's Hulk Crusher suit and have him play nose tackle.

All said, Troy Brown is pretty awesome too.

Loved Welker, loved Moss. Not going to say anything against either of them. But I watched Edelman get better and better before his injury in 2012 and I was fully on the band-wagon. Since then there's just been no stopping him, whatever he does. His work with the ball in his hand, as runner, receiver or PR is amazing.

And I love his emotions -- his love for Brady and BB. His love for his "trailer trash" Dad. Even being completely out of his gourd on the Superbowl duck boat.

Rest up, Minitron. The team is going to need you next season!

He doesn't vault Brown (yet), but he's #1B and closing fast. Another season like this last one, hopefully more playoff heroics, and he's #1 without question.

Amazing what a few seasons can do. I was cautiously optimistic in him taking over for Welker but worried, and many on here were apoplectic at the idea he could replace WW. Now it looks like a stroke of genius...a less-concussed, younger, cheaper version of the guy they let walk. And unlike Welker (who I still love for what he did here) he's fully on board with the Belichick approach, never missteps in the media and I think he'd run through a brick wall and say 'what next?' if Belichick or Brady asked him to.

deters said:

1. Troy Brown
2. Julian Edelman
3. Deion Branch

Was too young to see legends like Gino, Morgan and Fryar.

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I have seen them all. Stanley Morgan, Darryl Stingley, Irving Fryer, Randy Vataha and my top three is the same as yours.

Troy serving as nickel back to the detriment of his WR role will never be forgotten. We have bingo again, Troy!

I love the guy; he battles hard and never gives up. Plus, opponents can't stop him.

Great player. He's in my top 5.

Don't know if I'm surprised or not with all the love for Wes Welker on this thread.

He's vaulted up to #1 for me. Never has there been a more resourceful player who will do anything for that extra yard. Premier elusiveness, YAC, hands, toughness, football smarts, clutch-ness. He doesn't have premier straightaway speed, but who needs it when you can move the chains like he does? He's Troy Brown and Wes Welker, but slightly better in every category than either of them.

As for as other WRs in Pats history:
- loved Moss but he was a 1 trick pony (though what a 1 trick that was)
- Terry Glenn was maybe the most talented overall receiver we've ever had, a DeSean Jackson clone. But he wasn't right emotionally
- Stanley Morgan was right up there too. Comparable to Moss on the deep ball but he didn't have Moss's size. Grogan could throw it a mile and would just heave it, and Morgan would always catch up to it.
- Daryl Stingley RIP was extremely good and probably would've been on the all time list if his career had lasted
- David Givens was as physical as any receiver we've ever had
- Gino Cappelletti and Jim Colclough from the 1960's were really good.

tasmlab said:

Don't know if I'm surprised or not with all the love for Wes Welker on this thread.

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Why would you be, they are very similar, and while I was as big a Welker fan as there was on this board I now have to acknowledge that despite the numbers Edelman is the better player. Props to those who said it at the time. It's hard to be tougher than Seller but Edelman may well be the toughest receiver I have ever seen.

Pure talent:

Randy Moss
Stanley Morgan
Irving Fryar
Darryl Stingley
Randy Vataha

Put any of them on the 2014 team and they are breaking records.

Likability, toughness and productiveness:

1a Troy Brown
1b Julian
1c Deion Branch

neali said:

I have seen them all. Stanley Morgan, Darryl Stingley, Irving Fryer, Randy Vataha and my top three is the same as yours.

Troy serving as nickel back to the detriment of his WR role will never be forgotten. We have bingo again, Troy!

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Nickleback? He was a shutdown #1 CB the way they used him at one point. They diddnt just throw him out there to cover some stiff.

40yrpatsfan said:

He's Troy Brown and Wes Welker, but slightly better in every category than either of them.

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I dont agree at all. Jules is great and I love the guy (since the day he set foot in the locker room) but some of the comments are really going overboard here.

Being everyone's number 1 favorite all time is fine and cant be disputed though. He has earned the right to have that happen, especially to the younger guys

Welker's career as a Patriot didn't end all that well but do people forget his SB performance in 07? I thought he was our MVP. Or how much punishment that little dude took for this team? Jules has been doing it for only 2 seasons and i find it kind of odd that they would rank Edelman higher than Welker.

randomk1 said:

Welker's career as a Patriot didn't end all that well but do people forget his SB performance in 07? I thought he was our MVP. Or how much punishment that little dude took for this team? Jules has been doing it for only 2 seasons and i find it kind of odd that they would rank Edelman higher than Welker.

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This is about who is your favorite, so I suppose people can say Ocho Cinco. This was never about who was the best.

However, to your particular point people do have short memories. And whether you love or hate WW he was an absolute machine for years taking beating after beating. Ya he dropped the SB game winner...but for someone to say that JE is better in every measurable way than WW is comical. Same with Brown.

WW could be considered the best slot receiver to ever play. Nobody would ever even consider JE in that conversation.

side note: JE has a great career in front of him and I hope he stays here forever.

Stanley Morgan is still my favorite Patriot receiver. He did it all and no one was better at taking a slant route to the house.

After seeing Edleman tearing it up at the parade, stealing a flag and waving it from atop the duck boat and shouting "I love you, guys!" to the crowd, rolling around, and then hitting the traffic cam below a traffic light and giving it the "4" sign, I can legit say that he is far and away my favorite receiver.

...on the way to surpassing that guy they got from Miami and left for Denver. Gee, I guess Edelman has already surpassed him. (Welker hasn't won a Super Bowl.)

Rhodey said:

...on the way to surpassing that guy they got from Miami and left for Denver. Gee, I guess Edelman has already surpassed him. (Welker hasn't won a Super Bowl.)

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Neither did Dan Marino. But Joe Flacco did.