Tony Romo
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Hall would be disruptive, but his salary would not be...
2007: $3.11 million, 2008: $570,000, 2009: $957,500, 2010: Free Agent
It's bogus. Started on a board by a guy with two bad links, now it's spreading to other boards.
"you're the one deifying the burger king"
im not completely sure exactly what that means... but if not knowing makes me one of the NFL-illiterate.. i guess i am.. who is the burger king that im trying to make a god? is deion the burger king?
and who do you think is better then primetime? do you know who primetime is?
if you do what team did you support when he was playing? i figure it wasn't the pats since that was before 2002, and before 95% of the pats fans were on the bandwagon..
Not THE Kenton Keith? Isn't that like if Kyle Eckle ran for over 100 yards a Patriot homer could call for trading him for a number one.
primetime!! there you are! tell this guy how it is. lol, what are the odds that tony romo and deion sanders both have time to be on a patriots forum at 6am?!
yeah it did, i need to go though or ill be late. catch ya later prime.. im gunna call you that from now on.. lol
and who was the last cover corner you didn't want to aim a run at?
As for his cover skills, they were good, but it's not like he never gave up a reception as some people are suggesting.
Calling Deion's cover skills "good" is the understatement of the year, IMO. And I don't like Deion because of his tendency to dislike tackling. Deion was the greatest cover corner of all-time. He shutdown his entire side of the field, and when the ball did come his way, his ballhawking skills were second to none.
Champ Bailey says hi.
That list is meaningless. Does that make Eugene Robinson one of the top 5 safeties of all time? I don't see Mike Haynes on that list.
The fact is, Deion didn't have that many picks every year because teams simply did not throw to his side of the field.
Charles "Peanut" Tillman is waving emphatically
And isn't it interesting that the very name you pick--Eugene Robinson--has BETTER stats than the burger king? Thanks for proving my argument for me.
How am I proving your argument for you? I just said you can't measure Deion's contributions in terms of statistics, as teams rarely threw to his side of the field anyways. It's not like he's that far off the list, either; he has 53 INTs, which would put him in the top 15.
What about Mike Haynes? Would you call him one of the greatest corners of all-time? I sure would, but he doesn't appear on your top-10 list there either. Were Emlen Tunnell and Paul Krause better than Night Train Lane? Interceptions don't always measure a cornerback's worth. Samuel and Bailey had an equal number of interceptions last year; Bailey is a better corner and I know the Broncos wouldn't trade him one-for-one for Samuel.
you are proving my argument because you called Deion the GREATEST--and you are now comparing him to DBs to support your argument. if Deion was the GREATEST, then he would stand out beyond comparison from his peers--and he doesn't.
that is all
Deion is not the greatest CB ever, and he is not the greatest shutdown CB ever. He was a very talented and athletically gifted athlete that avoided tackling and being tackled as much as possible. He was exciting and electric at times, but not entirely consistent. He had a stetch of a few years in which QBs avoided his side of the field, but it is not as if he was, from rookie through retirement a complete player.
I didn't compare him to anyone. I said that statistics such as interceptions are a bad way to measure a CB's contributions when the whole point of being a shutdown corner is to take away an entire side of the field. Deion did that, and it was for almost a decade, not just "a few years." He was better than Rod Woodson, a guy on that list, and played at the same time as Woodson. He is the greatest corner of all time because he was a shutdown corner for the longest and at the height was the best (find me the "greatest" at any position who was great for his entire career... Montana may be the closest you can get, leading the Chiefs to the playoffs, but even he slowed down at the end); the fact that he avoided tackling is an oft-quoted but more or less a moot argument. Deion did tackle, too, it wasn't like he missed or jumped away from every tackle he ever was supposed to make.