The Top 100 Greatest NFL Players.

[jeffx]

Its becoming a tight squeeze.
Only Brown , Payton look to be ahead of him.

Have to put O.J. above Barry, IMO.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Have to put O.J. above Barry, IMO.

I meant on this particular list.
OJ was already listed.

 

[Bmore]

Final list is up... http://top100.nfl.com/

Top 10

1. Jerry Rice
2. Jim Brown
3. L.T.
4. Joe Montana
5. Walter Payton
6. Johnny Unitas
7. Reggie White
8. Peyton Manning
9. Don Huston
10. Dick Butkus

 

[PEYMAN18]

P-P-P-P-P-P-PEYTON MANNING.


Fan's list top 10
1) Rice
2) Montana
3) Payton
4) Sanders
5) Manning
6) Favre
7) Marino
8) Elway
9) Brown
10) Smith

I found it interesting to see how different that list was compared to the official list..

Top 100 had no love for the Defense.

 

[inthecards21]

lol@ Ray Lewis ahead of Jack Lambert

homer ftw

 

[ram29jackson]

LOL at putting Rice number 1

what a cheap, trendy, sexy, pointless list, pick.

number 1 should be a QB or running back, someone involved in more contact in the sport of football. not a pansy WR

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

P-P-P-P-P-P-PEYTON MANNING.


Fan's list top 10
1) Rice
2) Montana
3) Payton
4) Sanders
5) Manning
6) Favre
7) Marino
8) Elway
9) Brown
10) Smith

I found it interesting to see how different that list was compared to the official list..

Top 100 had no love for the Defense.

Thank goodness fans don't have much say in these things outside if the ProBowl. Clueless.

 

[StealthShot]

Final update.

 

[Houston]

LOL at putting Rice number 1

what a cheap, trendy, sexy, pointless list, pick.

number 1 should be a QB or running back, someone involved in more contact in the sport of football. not a pansy WR

Hey.....












Shutup

 

[trojan49er]

LOL at putting Rice number 1

what a cheap, trendy, sexy, pointless list, pick.

number 1 should be a QB or running back, someone involved in more contact in the sport of football. not a pansy WR

Name any other position where you can definitively say Player X is the best of all time and virtually nobody with half a brain will argue. QB? No, people constantly debate the rankings of Montana, Marino, Elway, Unitas, etc. RB? Its really a three man race with Barry, Payton, and Jim Brown, but you could make a case for any of them. How are you going to definitively call someone the greatest NFL player of all time when you cant even 100% say theyre the best at their own position ever. Rice is, hands down, without a shadow of a doubt, the best WR to ever play the game.

 

[BigBucs]

Shitty list. Freeman didnt make it but Manning did? SMH

 

[jeffx]

No Jim Brown at #1????? Epic F-A-I-L.

 

[Aso]

No Jim Brown at #1????? Epic F-A-I-L.

He's #2...

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Name any other position where you can definitively say Player X is the best of all time and virtually nobody with half a brain will argue. QB? No, people constantly debate the rankings of Montana, Marino, Elway, Unitas, etc. RB? Its really a three man race with Barry, Payton, and Jim Brown, but you could make a case for any of them. How are you going to definitively call someone the greatest NFL player of all time when you cant even 100% say theyre the best at their own position ever. Rice is, hands down, without a shadow of a doubt, the best WR to ever play the game.

I think you must have not watched this series.

1. The longer youve been watching the less the RB position is a "3 man race" OJ,Dickerson,Sayers,Bronko and others were all in the conversation.

Its Jim Brown and everyone else.

Ernie Acorsi said "In all my years Ive never come across anyone that didnt acknowledge Jim Brown as the greatest RB ever.
Only* person I can name that has credibility is John Madden who picks Walter Payton. The only RB in the same breath as Brown every single convo.

*FirstTimer also picks Payton but that guy has no credibility :lolwut:

Barry/Emmit backers need to realize this league didnt start in 1989.
While I personally feel there resumes put them in the top 4. Theres a handful of guys that are in the convo and can easily replace them in a top 5 list.
The gaps between 2-8 in this group are as small as any position.


2. Anthony Munoz is the greatest player at his position ever. The gap between him and no2 is the greatest there is.

Ronnie Lott is also synonymous with GOAT at S. Considering the total lack of respect Safeties get you can argue his gap is as big as anyones to no.2


3. Two Words....DON HUTSON.
Many still feel hes the greatest WR ever. The numbers he put up in comparison were astronomical. The time it took for others to match him is bordering on retarded. At the time of retirement no player in league history was as dominant at a position. No player has ever matched that level of dominance since.

No Jim Brown at #1????? Epic F-A-I-L.

Agreed. I will say once I saw how they ranked and decided guys I understood it. Im pretty sure a couple of guys held early retirement against him and gave him a 9.

 

[FirstTimer]

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*FirstTimer also picks Payton .

Not entirely true

I have Brown as my 1a and Payton as my 1b.

I think Payton was the best all around RB of all time and perhaps the bestall around player post merger. If someone has Brown as #1 I don't argue too much as there really isn't much of an argument to not put him there.
You can make a really solid case for either.

 

[bucky]

3. Two Words....DON HUTSON.
Many still feel hes the greatest WR ever. The numbers he put up in comparison were astronomical. The time it took for others to match him is bordering on retarded. At the time of retirement no player in league history was as dominant at a position. No player has ever matched that level of dominance since.

Doesn't get nearly enough love.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Not entirely true

I have Brown as my 1a and Payton as my 1b.

Yeah but I already used the Eggplant gif so too bad.

BTW if there was an all time team battle...

Who has the better backfield than the Bears ??

Sayers/Payton/Nagurski ... love to see them against an all time Steeler D.


Faulk/Dickerson, Smith/Dorsett are neat...but damn..that 3 headed Monster of the bears.

 

[FirstTimer]

Yeah but I already used the Eggplant gif so too bad.

BTW if there was an all time team battle...

Who has the better backfield than the Bears ??

Sayers/Payton/Nagurski ... love to see them against an all time Steeler D.


Faulk/Dickerson, Smith/Dorsett are neat...but damn..that 3 headed Monster of the bears.

True. Hell don't forget they could slot in guys like Anderson, Galimore, Grange, Caseras, Bull, McAfee, too.

:lolwut:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

AHEM

Faulk/Dickerson/Jackson

Jackson is the Rams all time (anonymous) leading rusher.

 

[bucky]

?
Taylor/Hornung/Green
?

Not arguing for or against any group, just mentioning them.