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Franchise Players: Best All-Time For Every NFL Team

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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ESPN is doing a Best All-Time For Every NFL Team. The list is below. Of course, there will be disagreements. But one player listed below gave me serious pause, e.g. are you kidding me?! Any guesses as to who it is?

/s/ JackWESQ

49ERS: Joe Montana
BEARS: Walter Payton
BENGALS: Anthony Munoz
BILLS: Jim Kelly
BRONCOS: John Elway
BROWNS: Jim Brown
BUCS: Derrick Brooks
CARDINALS: Dick Lane
CHARGERS: L. Tomlinson
CHIEFS: Derrick Thomas
COLTS: Peyton Manning
COWBOYS: Emmitt Smith
DOLPHINS: Dan Marino
EAGLES: Reggie White
FALCONS: Deion Sanders
GIANTS: Lawrence Taylor
JAGUARS: Fred Taylor
JETS: Joe Namath
LIONS: Barry Sanders
PACKERS: Brett Favre
PANTHERS: Steve Smith
PATRIOTS: Tom Brady
RAIDERS: Marcus Allen
RAMS: Marshall Faulk
RAVENS: Matt Stover
REDSKINS: Darrell Green
SAINTS: Bobby Hebert
SEAHAWKS: Steve Largent
STEELERS: Terry Bradshaw
TEXANS: Andre Johnson
TITANS: Earl Campbell
VIKINGS: Fran Tarkenton
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  • bsidegrvebsidegrve Posts: 687
    My guess it would be taking Derrick Thomas over Len Dawson for the Chiefs

    And I'm not sure how Matt Stover made that list for the Ravens
    (sorry 2 guesses...lol)
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  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Bobby Hebert, had to google him to remind myself who he was. What about Archie? The other one would be Stover, a kicker for cying out loud. Ray didn't get much respect.image
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    Butkus over Payton on the Bears

    Unitas over Manning on the Colts

    Mike Webster over Bradshaw on the Steelers

    I don't believe I see any punters or field goal kickers on the list.
    How many safties and linebackers are on that list too ?
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    Bobby Hebert for the Saints??? you mean to tell me they haven't had anyone better than him???
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭
    i would change a few

    49ERS: Joe Montana/ Jerry Rice tie
    BEARS: Walter Payton
    BENGALS: Anthony Munoz
    BILLS: OJ Simpson
    BRONCOS: John Elway
    BROWNS: Jim Brown
    BUCS: Derrick Brooks
    CARDINALS: Dick Lane
    CHARGERS: L. Tomlinson
    CHIEFS: Derrick Thomas
    COLTS: J. Unitas
    COWBOYS: Emmitt Smith
    DOLPHINS: Dan Marino
    EAGLES: Reggie White
    FALCONS: Deion Sanders
    GIANTS: Lawrence Taylor
    JAGUARS: Fred Taylor
    JETS: curtis martin
    LIONS: Barry Sanders
    PACKERS: Brett Favre
    PANTHERS: Steve Smith
    PATRIOTS: Tom Brady
    RAIDERS: Marcus Allen
    RAMS: Marshall Faulk
    RAVENS: Ray Lewis
    REDSKINS: Darrell Green
    SAINTS: Bobby Hebert
    SEAHAWKS: Steve Largent
    STEELERS: j. lambert
    TEXANS: Andre Johnson
    TITANS: Earl Campbell
    VIKINGS: Fran Tarkenton
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  • gosteelersgosteelers Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭
    Deion Sanders??? How long did he play with Atlanta?

    Mean Joe Greene over Bradshaw...
  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
    I think a reasonable argument can be made for everyone, except for Matt Stover. A kicker as a team's franchise player? Are you kidding? More so when that is the same franchise that has Ray Lewis. Even more crazy.

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny how most the players on the list played in the past 30 years. A few played in the past 40 years (Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown).

    I bet that some senior citizens (65+ in age) would have a different list that places on the list quite a few players that played in the 1960's or earlier. My father in law is almost 90 years old. He might add a few players to the list who played in the 1930's or 1940's.

    I bet most All Time Best Lists are composed primarily with players who played during the lives of people 50 years old or younger (the target audience of the sport and the media and the advertisers).
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    It would be a newsflash to Campbell that he played for the Titans. image
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    I'd had forgotten that Dick "Night Train" Lane played for the cardinals. But I see where he was ranked as their best player. I always associated him with the Lions. Its interesting to note that he was ranked second behind Sanders by Sporting News as their best player. So he was one for the cards and two for the lions. I would have guessed Ollie Matson for the cards although I wouldn't argue with Lane. Ollie was traded for 9 players in 1958. He also won two olympic medals in 1952. Showing my age eh.

    Personally I would have voted for Butkus too. It's a shame if you didn't see him play. Every game he was a hilite-real himself.
  • MorgothMorgoth Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭
    Steelers: Mark Malone



    actually I liked Mike Webster but he didn't look like Tom Sellek
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  • bdunndchibdunndchi Posts: 650
    Stover? Strange pick.

    Most of the others I like.
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