Lawyer Milloy - Respect or No Respect?
Saw this on the 'Gram and immediately thought of this place.
My changes would be:
- 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.
- 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.
- I might move the Honey Badger up a level too.
- 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.
Comments
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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.
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I did too. I mean, if I care about any NFL franchise it's the Dolphins and their annual celebration of the '72 team that annoys everyone so much, and Scott was a part of that. But that No Name defense was the D line and Scott could not have played today IMO.
I agree about Lynch too. I think he was an enforcer but I don't remember him make the plays in the passing game the way the great ones do. He was a poor man's Atwater IMO.
Agree, Earl too low, but nobody likes him so he gets jobbed. -
Where’s Tripper Johnson?
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At your Mom’s house?
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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.
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I'm a big Lawyer fan, but I will say that guys on the '91 defense did scoff at me when I suggested how good they would have been with Lawyer added in. They said Pahukoa was 50% better as a safety and yet Lawyer had the much bigger reputation. Probably from being a ferocious hitter.
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How many of them actually played with milloy in his prime though? Of course they'd defend teammates first
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Yeah….no.
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No way in fucking hell is John Lynch on a higher tier than Kenny Easley.







