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was flicking through the channels last evening and came across this show. i'm not surprised that tom brady topped the list, but how is bart starr not even in the top ten? a 17th-round pick who won 5 championships, two super bowl mvps.

ray guy? come on!



http://www.nfl.com/draft/story...&template=with-video
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Not a very well thought out article. My only real problem the story is it is on NFL.com. The effort and research put into the story makes it only worthy of a blog on the level of the bleacher report. Amature quality stuff.
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Unitas was a 9th round pick, isn't that more of a steal than Marino as #1 or Montana as 3rd?

Ray Guy was a first round pick, he was the best at his position, but is this considered a steal?

Move on....
Lousy list here. Ray Guy as a "steal" is just silly considering he is the only NFL punter ever taken in the 1st round. Not like the Raiders found him in the 7th round.

At the time, it was probably heavily criticized to take a Punter that high.

You know just like the unfair criticism Sherman got for BJ Sander. Oh...wait..
Can't call a punter taken in the 1st round a steal. A steal indicates several teams passes up a player, repeatedly.

I do wonder if Ray Guy was the handy work of Ron Wolf or if that was 100% Al.
I remember listening to Madden talk about taking a "punter" with the Raiders 1st round pick. He said that he, Al Davis, Ron Wolf, and all of the coaches were unanimous in taking Ray Guy in the 1st. The guy was that good and was like no other.
Richard Dent - 8th round
Max Montoya - 7th round
Steve Largent - 4th round

Herschel Walker - 5th round (Only here becasue the Vikings selected Tim Meamber, Tim Long, Buster Rhymes, and Kyle Morrell before Dallas selected Herschel in 1985)
Donald Driver was more of a steal than somebody picked in the first round. Sorry.

The best football franchise in NFL history, a franchise that has had Don Hutson, James Lofton and Sterling Sharpe, and Driver has topped them all. 700 + receptions, 10,000 + yards, 60 + TD....as the 213th overall pick.

The NFL reuses a lot of the same people. Armored and I watched the NFL Network last night, and the top 10 clutch QB list had a bunch of the same guys on this list.

Dan Marino falling some 20 spots....he was still a first rounder. Joe Montana was much more of a steal.
Buster Rhymes

As a WR at Oklahoma....

"According to teammate Brian Bosworth, after a snowstorm, some players engaged in a snowball fight and Buster Rhymes was hit. He went back into his room, returned with an Uzi, and fired it into the air"

Priceless
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Originally posted by turnip blood:
The effort and research put into the story makes it only worthy of a blog on the level of the bleacher report.


An absolutely horrible list and it's not even that good.
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Originally posted by Boris:
It's still an idiotic pick. They could've gotten Ray Guy in the 2nd or 3rd most likely. He'd be more of a steal too.


Taking a punter in the 1st seems pretty crazy, but hard to argue with Al Davis and Ron Wolf as the Raiders were a model franchise in those days ....they won 3 super bowls in 8 years even after such a "idiotic" pick.

Never know if Guy would've still been available in the 2nd or 3rd.

Definitely don't think Guy was a steal though.

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