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Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:50 pm
by JeffreyMiller
BTW, one of my favorite presidents in Grover Cleveland … a much underappreciated first executive!

Just sayin' ...

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:55 pm
by JohnH19
Rice
Hutson
Alworth
Moss
Berry

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:16 pm
by Jeremy Crowhurst
I'm not sure exactly what "top" means, but....

1. Rice
2. Owens
3. Sharpe
4. Berry
5. Hutson

Hutson for me is really hard to rate for multiple reasons - to borrow from Chris Rock, all those affirmative action-yards and TDs, the weakened talent pool during the war, and the Bill Walsh effect - getting the benefit of being the first to play in a new scheme. It may be that Hutson should be second, maybe lower down in the top ten. But man, 30+ interceptions on top of his receiving numbers?

Anyway....

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:41 pm
by paulksandiego
1. Jerry Rice
2. Don Hutson
3. Lance Alworth
4. Paul Warfield
5. Randy Moss
6. Raymond Berry
7. Marvin Harrison
8. Steve Largent
9. Terrell Owens
10. Antonio Brown :o

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:17 am
by bachslunch
JeffreyMiller wrote:BTW, one of my favorite presidents in Grover Cleveland … a much underappreciated first executive!

Just sayin' ...
Agreed, though for me, James K. Polk tops the underappreciated presidents list, with Harry S Truman in hot pursuit. Top overrated would be Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson.

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:29 am
by ChrisBabcock
Agreed, though for me, James K. Polk tops the underappreciated presidents list
They Might Be Giants also have a high opinion of him. ;)

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:12 pm
by 7DnBrnc53
1. Paul Warfield
2. Larry Fitzgerald
3. Sterling Sharpe
4. Steve Smith
5. Lynn Swann
6. John Stallworth
7. Jerry Rice
8. Randy Moss
9. Don Hutson
10. Cris Carter

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 11:03 am
by Gary Najman
7DnBrnc53 wrote:1. Paul Warfield
2. Larry Fitzgerald
3. Sterling Sharpe
4. Steve Smith
5. Lynn Swann
6. John Stallworth
7. Jerry Rice
8. Randy Moss
9. Don Hutson
10. Cris Carter
Although I didn't include him in my top 5, I regard Stallworth as one of the greatest and most talented WR ever (not for the stats, but for the film). I'm no expert on film study, but I think that if you watched him on live TV or in the NFL Films highlights, you agree: I don't remember a bad or even mediocre game of him, every play he could go for a long TD or make the crucial catch over the middle. It's sad that he missed nearly three full seasons due to injury.

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:01 pm
by BD Sullivan
Teo wrote: Although I didn't include him in my top 5, I regard Stallworth as one of the greatest and most talented WR ever (not for the stats, but for the film). I'm no expert on film study, but I think that if you watched him on live TV or in the NFL Films highlights, you agree: I don't remember a bad or even mediocre game of him, every play he could go for a long TD or make the crucial catch over the middle. It's sad that he missed nearly three full seasons due to injury.
The Bradshaw to Stallworth fourth quarter TD pass in the Super Bowl win over the Rams is arguably the most perfect clutch pass in NFL history since the Rams DB really couldn't have done much more to defend the pass and it gave the Steelers the lead for good in what had been a tight, back-and-forth game.

Re: Top wide receivers in history

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:56 pm
by Ronfitch
Hutson
Alworth
Rice