forums

Tom Brady reveals the DB he hated playing against the most

Advertisement
SWFLHurricane said:
I can overlook Lott....he wasn't even a Safety his 1st 6-7yrs....he was a CB.....Ed's the best Safety to ever lace em up....
Click to expand...
Lott was a CB for his first four seasons. And Lott also told Ed he (Ed) was the best FS ever.

No doubt Reed was #1 post 2000, and I’d put Troy Polamalu #2.

Before that you just get into the whole ‘different era’ chatter.
 
TemplarCane said:
Lott was a CB for his first four seasons. And Lott also told Ed he (Ed) was the best FS ever.

No doubt Reed was #1 post 2000, and I’d put Troy Polamalu #2.

Before that you just get into the whole ‘different era’ chatter.
Click to expand...
Eras is the best way of doing any of this stuff. The goat talk is just that….talk. But the things I saw Ed do in the deep middle ( pause ) was incredible. He manipulated the manipulators ( qb’s).
 
Advertisement
skyman said:
You watched with your eyes closed?!

Dream Sleeping GIF by BAILEN
Click to expand...
So you knew Ed Reed would be HOF in 97?
 
Cribby said:
Eras is the best way of doing any of this stuff. The goat talk is just that….talk. But the things I saw Ed do in the deep middle ( pause ) was incredible. He manipulated the manipulators ( qb’s).
Click to expand...
My point was arguing reasons for greatness might not be comparing apples to apples when comparing a player from the 60s, 70s, or 80s to a current player or one from last 10 or 20 years.

For example, Kellen Winslow Sr is one of the GOAT tight ends. He changed the position. As the game has changed he’s falling in career receptions, yards, and TDS. A career-ending knee-injury didn’t help. You’re not going to convince me any of his predecessors with more receptions, yards, and TDS are better at the position.

Put another way, if you drew a time line from the start of the NFL though today, and put a dot for the best players at a position of a given era, Winslow would be a huge dot for his era, early-mid-80s. Then you have a dot for Tony Gonzalez 10-15 years later, late 90s through 2000s. And so on.

Historical perspective.

Ronnie Lott and Ed Reed are both that caliber of player as a FS.
 
SWFLHurricane said:
Tatum, and Atkinson was no slouch....Add Willie Davis and Lester Hayes and you've got one ridiculous secondary...
Click to expand...
Willie Brown, I think you mean. Skip Thomas was the other CB. At least on the 1976 Raiders Super Bowl team.

Lester emerged a few years later, just in time to ban stickum. He and Mike Haynes were one of the greatest pairs of bookend CBs ever. Haynes was an easy HOF choice, surprised Hester hasn’t been inducted. Might be the glue he coated himself with. :)
 
Advertisement
We the Boss said:
Ed is a coaches player. Elite tools, but on field general who knows what he’s supposed to do every play and has the tools to do it
Click to expand...
Look man. Watching that guy play his position was special, from the time I 1st saw him play in college, and into his pro career

There are some guys that just absolutely comsume themselves in this game, Ed Reed was one of those guys, just strived to be the best and drove his teammates to want more.

When he was paired with Ray Lewis in the Pros, they fed off of each other.

There are lots of great players, we've all seen, but guys like ER, are few and far between.

I think Reggie White was one of those guys for his respective position. I loved Sapp at his best and Tez for sure..those guys were ridiculous.

...and I know Ray was mentioned, but I have to put LT and the best LB I've ever seen. I was a young guy watching him, but I've rewatched some good film from him...just a master of his craft..and Lewis IMO wasn't far behind. On that note I'd put Seau, D. Thomas and Singletary up there too
 
Back
Top