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Watched the first half and a little of the 3rd Q of the Steelers/Eagles Week #4 game from 1991; a game I actually attended, Chuck Noll’s final year. Eagles just acquired Roy Green. He played a real good game (6 catches for 114) from the moment he got in; first play in, McMahon connected with him for a big gain. Bill Parcells, announcing the game with Marv Albert, said in his time with Giants that Tony Dorsett and Roy Green were the two players he feared the most.

He had a great career with the Cardinals; great kick-returner and also played some defense. You think he would have been a Belichick kind of guy due to his all-purpose capabilities. However, it was the Browns (Hoodie) who cut him in the ’91 pre-season thus bringng him to Philly. It was either Marv or Tuna in the booth, that Pitt/Phi game, who mentioned him along with Willie Gault.

74_75_78_79_ wrote:Watched the first half and a little of the 3rd Q of the Steelers/Eagles Week #4 game from 1991; a game I actually attended, Chuck Noll’s final year. Eagles just acquired Roy Green. He played a real good game (6 catches for 114) from the moment he got in; first play in, McMahon connected with him for a big gain. Bill Parcells, announcing the game with Marv Albert, said in his time with Giants that Tony Dorsett and Roy Green were the two players he feared the most.

He had a great career with the Cardinals; great kick-returner and also played some defense. You think he would have been a Belichick kind of guy due to his all-purpose capabilities. However, it was the Browns (Hoodie) who cut him in the ’91 pre-season thus bringng him to Philly. It was either Marv or Tuna in the booth, that Pitt/Phi game, who mentioned him along with Willie Gault.

Green was noteworthy because he was a two-way player early in his Cardinals career. Started out wearing #25 as a DB, then changed to #81. Tremendous player, but many younger fans probably don't remember him today.

And, as I recall, he was fast.
Really, really fast. Like 4.3 in the 40 fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Green

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... eeRo01.htm

From : http://nflfilms.nfl.com/2012/06/30/this ... roy-green/

In 1981, he had three different games with both an interception and reception (Wk 3 vs Redskins, Wk 11 vs Bills, Wk 14 vs Saints).... But perhaps his most remarkable accomplishment was (the) Week 3 game in 1979, where he caught 4 passes for 115 yards and a touchdown to go along with his interception.*

*This is obviously wrong as PFR has Green with one total catch in 1979.
The correct year for the mentioned game is 1981.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... 200crd.htm

I was at the game in which Art Monk broke the record for most receptions in a single season and certainly came away with the impression that Roy Green was the best wideout on the field that day in RFK.

NWebster wrote:I was at the game in which Art Monk broke the record for most receptions in a single season and certainly came away with the impression that Roy Green was the best wideout on the field that day in RFK.

Yeah, I remember Monk's record was the most minor of footnotes that year. I think Marino breaking the passing records was the biggest story, then you had Payton breaking Brown's record, Dickerson breaking OJ's record, Charlie Joiner setting the all-time reception record...then you had Monk breaking the season reception record which I'm guessing was held by someone like Lionel Taylor or Charley Hennigan at the time.

Roy Green's 1984 season was huge. The Cardinals weren't really any good, but Lomax-Green-Tilley was a lethal combination. OJ Anderson still had some explosion. Tilley was my idol, but Green was the best WR in the NFL that year. So many big plays. I remember Lynn Dickey set the "NFC passing record" in 1983 by throwing for 4400+ yards, and Lomax broke it the next year with 4614. I'm not sure how long Lomax's mark lasted, I think it was a surprisingly long amount of time.

Green had a weird career in that he had a somewhat meteoric rise and fall, yet he played for 14 years. He was still productive post-1984, but he almost immediately lost his big play ability in 1985. I remember watching him in 1985 & 1986, and he was just "a guy".