NFL topic: Greatest to ever play their position

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  1. JFizzleRaider

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    Best running back - Walter Payton

    Best Quarterback - Tom Brady (and I hate the Patriots)

    Best Wide Receiver - Jerry Rice

    Best TE - Tony Gonzalez

    Best center - Mike Webster

    Best guard - Jerry Kramer (not in Hall of Fame for some reason)

    Best tackle - Art Shell

    Best Cornerback - Deion Sanders (thought about Rod Woodson, too, but Deion was the first CB that teams refused to throw at in the modern era)

    Best Outside Linebacker - Lawrence Taylor

    Best Inside Linebacker - Jack Lambert

    Best Safety - Ronnie Lott

    Best Defensive End - Reggie White

    Best Defensive Tackle - Mean Joe Green

    Kicker - Jan Stenerud

    Punter - Ray Guy

    Coach - Vince Lombardi

    PR - Devin Hester

    KR - Gale Sayers for what he did while healthy, Josh Cribbs for his career as a KR.
     
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    Lott was a safety. Not sure where you got your info. Erick Wright and Dwight Hicks were the 49ers corners way back then. Carlton Williamson and Ronnie Lott were the safeties.
     
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    Bo Jackson is the only player jersey I have ever owned for any sport. My favorite player in any sport of all time. Chills watching Bo play back in the day. I still wear it to Raider games and even on Raider games while I'm watching on TV.

    That said, he didn't play enough to be the "greatest ever", IMO. Walter Payton was just a sick, sick man at RB.
     
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    No love for offensive linemen, PapaG?
     
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    Jim Brown is the greatest to ever play the game of football. No question.
     
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    Interesting how many different legitimate answers you can get to questions like this in football. Makes Jerry Rice that much more impressive that he is the unanimous top guy at his position.
     
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    Best running back? Barry Sanders

    Best Quarterback? Joe Montana

    Best Wide Receiver? Jerry Rice

    Best TE? Tony Gonzalez

    Best Cornerback? Deion Sanders

    Best Linebacker? Ray Lewis

    Best Safety? Ronnie Lott

    Best Defensive End? Reggie White
     
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    Rice was amazing. He didn't have the freaky athletic ability of a Calvin Johnson or Randy Moss, but he had the best preparation, work ethic, dedication, and focus of any athlete ever.
     
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    Best running back - Shaun Alexander

    Best Quarterback - Matt Hasselbeck

    Best Wide Receiver - Steve Largent

    Best TE/FB - J.L. Williams, Mack Strong

    Best Cornerback/Safety - Dave Brown, Kenny Easley, Eugene Robinson

    Best Linebacker - Lofa Tatupu, Fred Young, Chad Brown, Rufus Porter

    Best Defensive Lineman - Jacob Green, Cortez Kennedy

    Best Offensive Lineman - Walter Jones

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    Best Running Back? Walter Payton

    Best Quarterback? Joe Montana

    Best Wide Receiver? Jerry Rice

    Best TE? Kellen Winslow

    Best Cornerback? Mel Blount

    Best Linebacker? Lawrence Taylor

    Best Safety? Ronnie Lott

    Best Defensive End? Reggie White

    Best Defensive Tackle? Joe Green

    Best Punter? Ray Guy

    Go Blazers
     
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    You forgot Brian Bosworth.:lol:

    Go Blazers
     
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    and the general consenus that the players on the mid-late 80's 49ner team had some of the best at their position.
     
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    The steel curtain Steelers were more talented.
     
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    I see none of them as the all time greats voted in here. I see 3 players from that 9er team.
     
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    You must have missed Joe Green on my list. That guy was a freak'n animal.

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    Green was on my list too as the greatest DT ever.
     
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    I had added to it before I saw your post.
     
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    It's been really great reading everyone's different opinions about who was the best.

    I'm definitely biased towards Niners like Steve Young, Jerry Rice, etc.

    Dion was amazing. I really liked Barry Sanders and Terrell Davis. I think if Davis had stayed healthy he might have gone down as the best RB of all time. The guy was amazing. This would be my all-time favorite list to watch.

    Best running back - Davis/Sanders

    Best Quarterback - Steve Young/Vick (when he was young)/Elway

    Best Wide Receiver - Rice/Randy Moss (when he was young)

    Best TE/FB - Shannon Sharp/Mike Alstott was amazing when he was healthy

    Best Cornerback/Safety - Dion/Champ Bailey/Woodson/Green/I was a huge Merton Hanks fan

    Best Linebacker - Ken Norton Jr/Patrick Willis :)

    Best Defensive Lineman - Reggie White/Strahan

    Best Offensive Lineman - Can't think of any off the top of my head
     
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