Inspired by this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=30722773#post30722773
There are a lot of ways to evaluate players, but I've chosen to go by how much a given player changed the game and made the other players on the field adapt to him, mixed with how much success he had. My version of Most Valuable. Make your own top ten list!
Don't bother telling me my list is stupid...it's a first draft and may not be perfect, but it's pretty good. If you can't see at least half of my players belonging on this list, you don't know anything about football, and I won't take you seriously anyway.
1. Lawrence Taylor (an unstoppable thunderbeast who shredded both quarterbacks and playbooks)
2. Sammy Baugh (triple threat who helped to create the modern passing game)
3. Deion Sanders (shutdown doesn't quite get it...his side of the field almost did not exist)
4. Deacon Jones (had to outlaw his headslap...coined the term "sack" and got over 220 by his own reckoning before they kept track...made pass rushing an art)
5. Dick Butkus (brutal, deadly, monstrous, terrifying)
6. Jim Brown (the offensive Lawrence Taylor...there was just no real way to stop him)
7. John Mackey (helped make tight end a real position)
8. Anthony Munoz (the first superstar of the offensive line, the most overlooked and undervalued guys on the field)
9. Peyton Manning (a magician, he can do what nobody else can...in the regular season...if he doesn't have to scramble)
10. Bob Hayes (the world's fastest man in a helmet, helped popularize the zone defense, since nobody on the planet could man him)
Honorable mention: Barry Sanders, John Elway, Marshall Faulk, Reggie White.
If you say Joe Montana, you lose a testicle.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=30722773#post30722773
There are a lot of ways to evaluate players, but I've chosen to go by how much a given player changed the game and made the other players on the field adapt to him, mixed with how much success he had. My version of Most Valuable. Make your own top ten list!
Don't bother telling me my list is stupid...it's a first draft and may not be perfect, but it's pretty good. If you can't see at least half of my players belonging on this list, you don't know anything about football, and I won't take you seriously anyway.
1. Lawrence Taylor (an unstoppable thunderbeast who shredded both quarterbacks and playbooks)
2. Sammy Baugh (triple threat who helped to create the modern passing game)
3. Deion Sanders (shutdown doesn't quite get it...his side of the field almost did not exist)
4. Deacon Jones (had to outlaw his headslap...coined the term "sack" and got over 220 by his own reckoning before they kept track...made pass rushing an art)
5. Dick Butkus (brutal, deadly, monstrous, terrifying)
6. Jim Brown (the offensive Lawrence Taylor...there was just no real way to stop him)
7. John Mackey (helped make tight end a real position)
8. Anthony Munoz (the first superstar of the offensive line, the most overlooked and undervalued guys on the field)
9. Peyton Manning (a magician, he can do what nobody else can...in the regular season...if he doesn't have to scramble)
10. Bob Hayes (the world's fastest man in a helmet, helped popularize the zone defense, since nobody on the planet could man him)
Honorable mention: Barry Sanders, John Elway, Marshall Faulk, Reggie White.
If you say Joe Montana, you lose a testicle.