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Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:26 am to genro
I'm thinking Alonzo Mourning for some reason.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:31 am to LSUAce007
ehh nvmd
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:33 am to genro
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ehh nvmd
wish I would've caught it.Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:34 am to LSUAce007
I was gonna say Mitch Richmond. But he doesn't fit the longevity part. Just the "really good, but not great" part.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:35 am to genro
Gotcha 
Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:37 am to LSUAce007
Richmond was my 2nd favorite player after MJ
Posted on 8/5/12 at 9:14 am to genro
Martin didn't stand out as a HOF to me but his numbers say yes. I think the fact that he's a stand up guy and pretty well liked, benefitted him in this case. There's always some politics involved in things like this. Imo, if you have to ask the question "is ----- a hall of famer", then no. It should be something you just know when you see it.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 9:22 am to LSUAce007
or craig biggio
Posted on 8/5/12 at 10:31 am to LSUAce007
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Martin never won it until his 10th season. How insane is that?
Shameful that in today's age first thing that comes to my mind isn't "insane;" rather, PEDS or HGH.
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Imo, if you have to ask the question "is ----- a hall of famer", then no. It should be something you just know when you see it.
I kind of fall into this group. Curtis Martin was a longevity pick, which there is some merit to, but he was never one of the greats.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 10:38 am to rmc
It's entirely up to your metric of greatness, I suppose.
Being able to pencil in a guy for 1,100 yards a year on the ground and 260 receiving for 10 years is a pretty spectacular piece. For a decade, he essentially filled one of the most injury riddled positions in the NFL that teams often scrambled to get two or three guys to do even adequately, at a very highly productive level.
Is he a dominant Hall of Famer? No. Is he a remarkable football player worthy of being in the Hall? Yes.
Being able to pencil in a guy for 1,100 yards a year on the ground and 260 receiving for 10 years is a pretty spectacular piece. For a decade, he essentially filled one of the most injury riddled positions in the NFL that teams often scrambled to get two or three guys to do even adequately, at a very highly productive level.
Is he a dominant Hall of Famer? No. Is he a remarkable football player worthy of being in the Hall? Yes.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 11:19 am to LSUAce007
I don't know why some of you are ripping him for being "simply durable"
durability is pretty friggin important, especially at that position.
durability is pretty friggin important, especially at that position.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 11:57 am to genro
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Solid analogy. I'm trying to think of a basketball one. Chauncey Billups comes to mind, except he won a Finals MVP
you can't really do one for basketball b/c its not the NBA Hall of Fame. Its the Basketball Hall of Fame. You can get in for just being a dominating high school coach or a sick college player.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:04 pm to Dr RC
We were just talking about someone who was very solid for a very long time, but never "great." Not necessarily the HOF
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:15 pm to genro
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Curtis Martin in the HOF, was he really one of the all-time greats...
Not sure bout this. Its the quietest 14,000 yds I can remember. I guess he just wasn't exciting enough for most. A very good player. Well deserved HOF player.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 1:08 pm to LSUAce007
Posted on 8/5/12 at 1:29 pm to Dr RC
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I don't know why some of you are ripping him for being "simply durable"
No one's ripping him.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 1:53 pm to Dr RC
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durability is pretty friggin important, especially at that position.
durability within each season is different than durability over a career, fwiw
Posted on 8/5/12 at 4:46 pm to SlowFlowPro
I find it amusing some people will call one guy 'merely durable', and say some other guy's injury-shortened, but brilliant career, 'wasn't long enough'.
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