THINGS YOU CAN NEVER LAY YOUR HANDS ON
By John Turney
As we did for
The HOF, at one point, listed First-teams, but no longer do. We don't know why. At the time they showed three ends and one other (Walston) and sometimes didn't have a Second-teamer or honorable mention. It's just an oddity we have to live with.
Lou Creekmur was chosen as both a guard and tackle and Chuck Bednarik was chosen as both a center and linebacker. Pro Football Chronicle even chose a special-teams player.
We think this exercise is helpful because once-in-a-while there are oddities on
since their was evolution in defensive strategy the outside linebacker position in the 4-3 is not only difficult to evaluate, but how do you teach players to play a position that has basically never existed? also, dale d. of the steelers spent a helluva lot more time down in a 3-point stance as a middle guard....should he have been listed with d-lineman? the most glaring omission from the outside linebackers would be matt h. of the Niners. he was consistent, and a quality player.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are ready. you should post your own 1950s All-Decade Team, no one has seen more film, both offense and defense from that decade. We can add it to the chart above.
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