NFL to name a team of the 100 greatest players of all time
 

Rich Eisen announced today, as part of the NFL 100th year.
Eisen, Chris Collinsworth and (wait for it) Hoodie will be hosting the 6-week series.

Thoughts?

There's about 300 Hall of Fame inductees, so roughly 2/3 won't make it to the all time team, and that doesn't include Mahomes, etc. who are still playing.

Over/under on how many Chiefs?


https://twitter.com/richeisen/status...467344386?s=12

If Mahomes isn’t #1 the list is shit.

YEP

Realistically, we're looking at Tony G, DT, and Will Shields is probably a long shot.

I dunno... sounds like a mess of an idea.

Lanier, Buchanan, and Bobby Bell have a really good shot. They often show up in top 100 lists from what I remember.

Montana, DT, Lanier, Bell, Tony, you know thou they bringing out the butt boy brady and elway.

Belichick is a student of the game. I could see him including one of them, but likely no more.

I just think they're going to have some stiff competition from bigger, more recent LB names like Ray Lewis, Lawrence Taylor, Urlacher, DT, Singletary, Butkus, etc.

montana doesn't count if only a chief :D

I remember the 75 year team. I wonder how many of those guys get bumped off this new list?

http://www.nfl.com/history/legends/75th

You don't think Brady should be on the top 100 players all-time list?

Alot. If nothing else, recency bias is a real thing.

Butkus was a contemporary of Lanier. Urlacher and Singletary couldn't hold Mr. Lanier's jock.

WRs then were Alworth, Berry, Hutson, Rice.

Rice definitely stays, and Hutson probably does too. He was the Rice of his era -- completely rewrote everything. Berry and Alworth are out in favor of Moss and someone -- could be a few different guys -- Julio, Megatron, TO, Larry Fitz.


TE -- Ditka and Kellen Winslow both replaced -- TonyG and Gronk.

Chiefs on the 75th anniversary team were Montana, Lanier, Mike Webster- -- who I didn't even know ended his career with the Chiefs, and Jan Stenerud.

That doesn't bode well for Bell or Buchanan being on the 100 year team.