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Matthieu is 3x first team all pro and 1x second team, 3x pro bowl.

Budda is 2x first team all pro, 2x second team and 7x pro bowl. Budda is 4 years younger. He probably belongs on the list.

Lawyer was 1x first team and 1x second all pro, with 4 pro bowls.

Because Sean was killed, my safeties start with Lott and Reed. I’m not sure I put Dawkins or Troy P there.

Am I seeing this correctly that the Seahawks have more on the list than any other franchise? Who knew?

Tatum is too low.

McCourty and Weddle being on the list is laughable, and them being above Milloy is a joke.

Harrison Smith at Tier 3 is also a bit of an overreach, IMO. I could be wrong about that, but I don't recall seeing him make impact plays like Earl Thomas did. Probably a local tv market thing.

I also think Lynch is a little high, but maybe just by one tier.

I think I just shit on basically all of the white guys on this list.

Saw this on the 'Gram and immediately thought of this place.

My changes would be:

1. If you can't put Easley on Tier 1 because of Advil-gate (fuck you Seahawks), then at least admit this is a joke. Because nobody ever lined up against Easley and didn't know where he was. Could be my favorite player of all-tim. It's between him, Marino and Montana.
2. I would move Jack Tatum up a couple levels. When you get a nickname like 'Assassin' and it sticks, even if you gave it to yourself, you are feared.
3. I might move the Honey Badger up a level too.
4. I would move Milloy up at least to Tier 4, preferably Tier 3. Bump Meador, Scott, or Christensen for room at T4 or Lary (who?) at T3 (anti-white and recency bias clearly at play). I think Milloy has suffered some anonymity since retiring. Not sure why. He was a very good NFL safety. I've seen him up close. He could have been an NFL linebacker had he wanted to be. Would not want him hitting me.

Other observations:

Of course, I think Taylor would have eclipsed them all but; he dead so that's that. That he's even on this stack of players says something. @Whlinder

Another guy who is as good as many of these guys is Bennie Blades. Also a guy I saw up close and also a guy who could easily have played linebacker and was invited to the Olympic 400 meter trials. With all the great Miami DBs over the years, he's their only Thorpe. He was again that combination of ball hawk and thunderdome hitter … many guys are way better at one than the other. The elites are great at both. Blades only got one pro bowl, which made no sense, but he played in Detroit back when you tended to get lost if you played for perennial losers. He elevated that defense immediately and was a stalwart there. One of the OG bad-boy Canes who you needed to account for pre-snap. He was also a Notre Dame bully and for that he gets my love and admiration. He's easily as good as several guys on this pyramid but not mentioned.