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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Anyone with half a brain would take Drew Brees for 15 years over Terry Bradshaw for 15 years if you were starting a team now and had a choice of either as 22 year olds
There's inevitably a bias towards players who have been retired for a while but still played in living memory and against players who are currently playing. Anyone with half a brain would take Drew Brees for 15 years over Terry Bradshaw for 15 years if you were starting a team now and had a choice of either as 22 year olds, but Bradshaw may still make the all-time team over Brees because of that bias. Similarly, Lenny Moore over Adrian Peterson or Ladainain Tomlinson is pretty much nuts but it will definitely happen because of that anti-recency bias.
I'll even be surprised if Gronk makes it even though he absolutely should.
Patriots who will make it are Brady, Belichick, Moss, Hannah, Vinatieri, and probably Haynes. Gronk and Revis probably should be there as well but both are iffy.
Offense
There are probably some ancient guys I'm missing.
- » Quarterbacks: 10 (Brady, Manning, Unitas, Montana, Marino, Elway, Starr, Graham, Baugh, Brees)
» Running Backs: 12 (seen)
» Wide Receivers: 10 (Rice, Moss, Hutson, Berry, Allworth, C.Johnson, Largent, Harrison, Fitzgerald, Carter. Would put Antonio Brown over Carter but lol not happening now)
» Tight Ends: 5 (Gronk, Ditka, Newsome, Sharpe, Winslow)
» Tackles: 7 (Munoz, Gregg, Brown, Roaf, Ogden, Pace, Thomas)
» Guards: 7 (Hannah, Parker, Upshaw, Allen, McDaniel, Martin, Munchak)
» Centers: 4 (Hein, Webster, Otto, Dawson)
Defense
» Defensive Ends: 7 (White, Jones, Marchetti, Smith, Watt, Strahan, Atkins)
» Defensive Tackles: 7 (Greene, Lilly, Olsen, White, Sapp, Donald, Randle)
» Linebackers: 12 (6 MLB/ILB; 6 OLB) (Lewis, Butkus, Lanier, Nitschke, Hendricks, Ham, Lambert, Taylor, Nitschke, Miller, Willis, Ware)- » Cornerbacks: 7 (Sanders, Lane, Haynes, Blount, Woodson, Woodson, Revis)
» Safeties: 6 (Lott, Reed, Wilson, Houston, Tunnell, Easley)
» Kickers: 2 (Stanerud, Vinatieri)
» Punters: 2 (Guy, Lechler)
» Kick Returners: 2 (Hester, Johnson)
Missing Gonzalez for TE’s who is absolutely going to make it.
Not many would considering the rules. If OL'm can't use their hands/extend arms then pass pro will probably suffer.Who you'd choose would depend on when you were choosing. It's a different game now, and Bradshaw's game was tailor made for the deep ball era and not today's version of dink/dunk, while Brees wouldn't survive a single season in the 70s or early 70s.
Who you'd choose would depend on when you were choosing. It's a different game now, and Bradshaw's game was tailor made for the deep ball era and not today's version of dink/dunk, while Brees wouldn't survive a single season in the 70s or early 70s.
Yes boomer, Drew Brees, a guy who could throw the ball from one end zone to the other in his prime, would have been a terrible fit in "the deep ball era."
Oh, and I'm sorry to disappoint you in your snark, but I'm not a boomer.
Dude. Mike Haynes is easily a top 5 all-time cb. Many, many people have him as #1. There's not a cb playing right now who even sniffs the top 5.Mike Haynes won’t be in the top 7 corners of all time IMO.
Brady
Montana
Unitas
Graham
Bradshaw
Staubach
Starr
Manning
Elway
Marino
no Mahomes and Lamar???
My thoughts off the cuff.Tier 1
Brady, Montana, Young, Marino, Manning, Johnny U, Jergenson, Luckman, Van Brocklin, Rodgers.
Tier 2 ... Captain America, Moon, Fran, Favre, Y.A. , Sammy, Brees, Warner, Starr, Otto,
Tier 3 ... Elway, Bradshaw, Cunningham, Wilson, Ben, Mcnair, Kelly, Rivers, Romo, Vinny, Bledsoe