FrankRizzo
Cheesehead
Narrowing it down, and I am not old enough to have watched and grown to love those old time 60's teams. It starts with the Lynn ****ey Era, and then almost 20 horrible years.
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I loved Robert Brooks. That guy was a faster version of Donald Driver. But he suffered a horrible knee injury in the 1996 season, against, the 49ers in Lambeau (like Kampman and Al Harris did too). Had he had the good luck with health that Donald did, he would have set a record that Donald couldn't have caught.... but Sterling Sharpe would have set numbers neither of them would have sniffed had he not suffered the neck BS injury. Sterling doesn't make my list now even though I loved him then, because he wasn't a good dude, wasn't very fan-friendly like Donald and Robert were.
Ryan Pickett edges Gilbert Brown for me as a tie-5th as the better longer-lasting fat guy.
Pickett is an A+ great PERSON, and his work in the trenches has been fantastic and almost-always goes unnoticed and un-recognized by the fans and the idiot national broadcasters who only notice DL if they make sacks or get called for penalties.
Nick Collins was so great and nobody realized it.
He's a better tackler than any other safety we have had in a decade, now especially.
AND he's a better free safety, cover guy, ballhawk than anyone else we have now, by far.
He would be the best safety in the NFL right now, right there with Earl Thomas.
And he also, like Pickett, Brooks, Driver, are great people and great family men. All great men of faith, not coincidentally, as was Al Harris and Aaron Kampman, two more who just missed my list.
Woodson was so great when we had him. He was the NFL DPOY rightly-so. And could have won it another year.
In that Super Bowl win, for 29 minutes, the Steelers couldn't pass. Big Ben's passer rating was like 60 and the Packers led 21-3.
From the moment Woodson broke his collar bone, Ben's rating was well over 100. He was such a key cog, and he made so many huge plays that changed or sealed games. We were lucky to get him, and lucky he had worn out his Oakland welcome so bad that nobody else wanted him as a cornerback! Teddy never would have landed him had just one team wanted him as a CB. Woodson did not want to come to the Village.
But clear #1 for me is Reggie White.
The internet was just in its infancy during that spring that Ron Wolf was courting Reggie as THE BIG free agent of all-time.
We were a longshot, with the 49ers and Redskins considered the 2 heavy favorites.
I checked the internet all the time during that period of time..... and when he shocked everyone and came to Green Bay, it was HUGE NEWS. Wolf won the battle for THE marquee superstar that everyone wanted.
Can you imagine that happening nowadays?
Reggie, in the late 80's-90's, was the BEST player on defense in the NFL, and we got him.
He immediately made our defense great or good-great.
He came up big in a game I was at in I think 1994 vs Denver where we almost blew a big lead, but Reggie finished the game with back-to-back sacks on Elway.
And then in the Super Bowl, he got Bledsoe I think 3 times.
I just wish the defense would have stopped Terrell Davis and gotten that 2nd Super Bowl with a repeat.
They sing "Only the good die young". With him, Walter Payton, and Payne Stewart, it seems true.
RIP Reggie.
And thank you.
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I loved Robert Brooks. That guy was a faster version of Donald Driver. But he suffered a horrible knee injury in the 1996 season, against, the 49ers in Lambeau (like Kampman and Al Harris did too). Had he had the good luck with health that Donald did, he would have set a record that Donald couldn't have caught.... but Sterling Sharpe would have set numbers neither of them would have sniffed had he not suffered the neck BS injury. Sterling doesn't make my list now even though I loved him then, because he wasn't a good dude, wasn't very fan-friendly like Donald and Robert were.
Ryan Pickett edges Gilbert Brown for me as a tie-5th as the better longer-lasting fat guy.
Pickett is an A+ great PERSON, and his work in the trenches has been fantastic and almost-always goes unnoticed and un-recognized by the fans and the idiot national broadcasters who only notice DL if they make sacks or get called for penalties.
Nick Collins was so great and nobody realized it.
He's a better tackler than any other safety we have had in a decade, now especially.
AND he's a better free safety, cover guy, ballhawk than anyone else we have now, by far.
He would be the best safety in the NFL right now, right there with Earl Thomas.
And he also, like Pickett, Brooks, Driver, are great people and great family men. All great men of faith, not coincidentally, as was Al Harris and Aaron Kampman, two more who just missed my list.
Woodson was so great when we had him. He was the NFL DPOY rightly-so. And could have won it another year.
In that Super Bowl win, for 29 minutes, the Steelers couldn't pass. Big Ben's passer rating was like 60 and the Packers led 21-3.
From the moment Woodson broke his collar bone, Ben's rating was well over 100. He was such a key cog, and he made so many huge plays that changed or sealed games. We were lucky to get him, and lucky he had worn out his Oakland welcome so bad that nobody else wanted him as a cornerback! Teddy never would have landed him had just one team wanted him as a CB. Woodson did not want to come to the Village.
But clear #1 for me is Reggie White.
The internet was just in its infancy during that spring that Ron Wolf was courting Reggie as THE BIG free agent of all-time.
We were a longshot, with the 49ers and Redskins considered the 2 heavy favorites.
I checked the internet all the time during that period of time..... and when he shocked everyone and came to Green Bay, it was HUGE NEWS. Wolf won the battle for THE marquee superstar that everyone wanted.
Can you imagine that happening nowadays?
Reggie, in the late 80's-90's, was the BEST player on defense in the NFL, and we got him.
He immediately made our defense great or good-great.
He came up big in a game I was at in I think 1994 vs Denver where we almost blew a big lead, but Reggie finished the game with back-to-back sacks on Elway.
And then in the Super Bowl, he got Bledsoe I think 3 times.
I just wish the defense would have stopped Terrell Davis and gotten that 2nd Super Bowl with a repeat.
They sing "Only the good die young". With him, Walter Payton, and Payne Stewart, it seems true.
RIP Reggie.
And thank you.