re: Best defensive football player ever

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Well considering teams drafted people to beat him and conceived offenses just to stop him, there is your answer.

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The NFL created the Mel Blount Rule to neutralize Mel Blount because of how dominating he was as a pass defender, the NFL created the facemask and clothesline rules to neutralize Dick "Night Train" Lane because of all the stuff he pulled in dominating defensive football, the prohibition of the headslap to stop Deacon Jones, if the reasons people hype up LT as this inarguable greatest defensive football player above all others is because he was dominant during the cable TV era, played for a New York team and influenced the game then I'd buy that argument but you can't solely argue the influential component for LT when there's these other legends that literally have rules named after them which basically created the modern NFL context in terms of offensive production and the like. It just represents inconsistency in logic.

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Lott was a Safety, you could go away from him and when he was a Corner teams went after him, which is why the Niners moved him to Safety.

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Ronnie Lott was a first-team all-pro TWICE when he played CB, one of those all-pros was achieved WHEN HE WAS A ROOKIE, the dude was a defensive Swiss Army knife, first-team all pro as corner, free safety and strong safety