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Thread: Projecting Future Hall of Famers
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08-03-2016, 07:02 PM #13Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Projecting Future Hall of Famers
I don't think Doom will make it, because rushing the passer is what he did well. However, I still hope Suggs will make it as the combination of a very good pass rusher and the first great edge setter to be inducted. The remarkable success of the Ravens against the run is a great highlighter for his individual performance. The team has still never allowed as much as 4 yards per carry in a single season.
Like them or not, PFF has changed the way DL and OL performance is viewed and both Suggs and Yanda stand to be beneficiaries.
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Re: Projecting Future Hall of Famers
I've heard a lot of interviews with voters ever since SiriusXM started. It's such a political system. I really don't think most of these writers read things like PFF. The younger ones absolutely do but there is still a lot of the old guard voters with a ton of influence. 20 years from now it will be very different. Now we still have Jerome Bettis getting in.
Go through the Suggs type players who have gotten in recently, Charles Haley, Richard Dent, Chris Doleman, Bruce Smith, Kevin Greene and maybe Derrick Thomas. All but Haley have 130+ sacks. Haley has 100 and 5 Super Bowl rings. For Suggs position they are completely focused on sacks.
Maybe Suggs comes back strong this year and gets 12 sacks on his way to that 130+ number but I just don't know. I see Jason Taylor and Demarcus Ware and Dwight Freeney and Jared Allen and Julius Peppers all being ahead of Suggs with the voters. I completely agree that Suggs does something most of those don't. He's a complete linebacker and not just a pass rusher. He used to be really good in coverage as well as setting the edge but will enough voters notice? I doubt it.
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08-03-2016, 09:55 PM #15Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Projecting Future Hall of Famers
Fuck that. Joe Flacco will make the hall of fame. He is going to win at least 4 super bowls with the Ravens. He'd already have three if it wasn't for his piece of shit receivers. He'll retire as the best or second best postseason performer of all-time.
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08-03-2016, 10:03 PM #16Veteran Poster
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08-04-2016, 12:10 AM #18Four-eyed Raven
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08-04-2016, 05:57 AM #19Regular 1st Stringer
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SSSr has a great resume, the problem is that he doesn't stand out from a lot of others. Isaac Bruce, Tory Holt, Hines Ward, Reggie Wayne, Andre Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald. They're all very similar and have great numbers - however those numbers won't look that good once the next generation reach their mid-30's.
The story is the same for Suggs. You have Jason Taylor, John Abraham, Jared Allen, Dwight Freeney, Julius Peppers and DeMarcus Ware. His DPOY will keep him in the conversation, but it's still going to be tough.
When it's all said and done, I think Yanda may have the best chance and I find it ridiculous that his chances are being put that low. The thing that Yanda has, that neither SSSr or Suggs has, is that he is THE best of his time. He gets less recognition right now because he's an offensive lineman, but once his career is over I think people will realize just how much better he was than his peers, while SSSr and Suggs will get lost between a lot of others.
Think about this: four years from now, the 2010's All-Decade team will be announced. Two guards are going to make it. The way it looks right now, Yanda is an easy choice, while there could be a lot of debate about who should be the other. Try and go to Wikipedia and look through the previous All-Decade teams. Almost everyone who made 1st team All-Decade has gone on to make the Hall of Fame, except for those with very brief careers (shorter than 10 years).
The All-Decade team is one of the most surefire ways into the Hall of Fame. SSSr and Suggs never have and never will make it. Yanda looks like a slamdunk for 1st team selection.
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Re: Projecting Future Hall of Famers
Flacco's career is realistically only halfway over. I think he can and likely will easily play another 8+ years. If that second half is as good as the first half, I think he's in contention. Say it's a 20-10 postseason record, another SB win, potentially another SB MVP, and what should be improved regular season numbers as well. Does that put him in consideration? Or does his lack of big numbers in the regular season hold him back?
Additionally, I think Suggs is a HOF player, but I don't know if the voters will. I don't compare him to a guy like Jason Taylor or Dwight Freeney because early in his career he was very much a do it all linebacker, he was good pass rusher, great run defender, could get out in the flats and whatnot and cover too, whereas those guys are 4-3 DEs. I guess the voters might, but in my eyes he's a different breed of player, didn't the Ravens basically kind of create some sort of franchise tag designation of a hybrid DE/OLB because that's really what he was?
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08-04-2016, 11:09 AM #21
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I think that by winning two more SBs, will Joe get in.
Piece of cake, right?
The vast majority of QBs that Flacco will most likely face on his way to getting his 2nd or 3rd trophy will be QBs that haven't won any--among them are Dalton, Luck and Bortles(?) in the AFC; Newton, Palmer, and ??? in the NFC. Flacco will need to beat them all, so as to separate himself from all of his contemporaries, but specifically, to win more SBs than Aaron Rodgers.
If he finishes his career with +2 SB trophies over Rodgers (who is today clearly in better standing than Flacco) then that could go a long way in diffusing the "But He Was Barely Average During The Regular Season" argument.
A similar perspective applies comparing Joe to Eli; and assuming that Eli wins no more trophies then Joe finishing +1 to Eli (both his comp% and Rating are lower than Joe's) would also helps Joe's cause a great deal.
IMO, Suggs needs another trophy and/or a strong finish to his career to get in. He's far out of the top-5 of the active sacks list, and far down the all-time sack lists. We all know that he's an excellent edge-setter, but I don't think that the voters (will) care all that much about that.
Yanda just needs to keep truckin' for another 3-4 seasons and he's a lock IMO. Also, maybe by the time he's up for a vote (2024?), analytics will have become very much mainstream*. If that happens, he's an easy lock.
*On the flip side, this would work against Flacco (i.e., the version of Flacco that we have known to-date) if he "only" grabs 2 SB winsLast edited by BigPlayReceiver; 08-04-2016 at 12:17 PM.
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08-04-2016, 12:26 PM #23Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Projecting Future Hall of Famers
Simply put, I do not think Flacco makes the HOF. He won't have the stats or the reputation some other QBs have. That being said, if he guides the Ravens to one more Super Bowl victory before he retires then I will be one Ravens fan... Bc
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08-08-2016, 04:14 AM #24
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Getting into the HoF is more about who you are classed with for voting, rather than you individual performance. The HoF requires, 5 each year to be selected - some years there may be 10 deserving individuals, other years nobody is worthy - but the required number must be selected.
Additionally Front Office personnel and Coaches should be in their own group - not with the players.Last edited by mmi16; 08-08-2016 at 04:19 AM.
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