It's like you forgot that Moon played in a run - n - shoot offense with the Oilers. Didn't Cody Carlson have pretty good numbers too when Moon got injured? I'm not trying to bag on Moon here, I was a fan of his. But I see him as kind of the bottom bar for hall of fame QBs. Any worse than him and you shouldn't be considered, any better and you should probably get in.
Isn't that pretty much what we're all saying? He didn't get in due to titles or big playoff success, just a long career or prolonged very good numbers throwing the ball. Thus, similar players (Romo/Rivers) would need some more success or longer period of big numbers to be considered.
None of these guys are even borderline, except Gronk because he's still young and building the body of work. That really is a lot of can't miss HoF guys to induct.
I'm just short of saying Witten is a lock, because the voters are retarded, but when he's done he's basically going to be at least second on all the TE receiving lists and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in football who didn't respect him, his work ethic, and his ability to do EVERYTHING asked of him. A lot of TEs, especially these days, are "one or the other" types. They can be glorified receivers, or really good blockers, but rarely both. Witten is both. For non-QBs it's usually enough to be consistently good, and Witten is exactly that. Not first ballot most likely, but first five years almost certainly.
He was great, to be sure. But, he's no fucking Joe and he's certainly a tad overrated. I think a lot of him being overrated comes from the fact that he was so mobile. He had all sorts of media attention swirling around him and his inability to "win like Joe" after Joe went to the Chiefs. Most of it was deserved. Suddenly, that narrative completely disappeared after '94 (despite still having amazeballs teams even after the SB trouncing of the Chargers), but people don't realize all the teams heshouldhave won with. We all chastise Manning for being a "regular season QB", but he has records for days, rarely ever had a decent defense, and has the same amount of SB wins. The only category Young ever really "led" was QB rating, but he's now 4th on that list.
That isn't what happened at all. But, you'd know this if you had watched football prior to 2001.you mean crumbled when the salary cap era started in 1994
We all knew Brady was awesome so we started watching in 2000. Then, after one of our boston sports fan meetings where we discuss being assholes and cheating, each of us threw $5 in the pool so that Mo Lewis could destroy Bledsoe and let the golden boy start throwing his floppy, saggy ball towards the record books.
Alstott is in the Fantasy Football Hall of Fame for most TD's stolen from someone's starting RB.
If you started another Bucs RB when Alstott was playing you're a fucking idiot and deserve to lose anyway!
