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Actually, every player usually has a representative to present the case for any player being considered. Gretz has a vote and has been the one that has been making the case for DT when voting comes up. I don't think JoPa has a vote, but I'm not all together sure.
What hasn't been mentioned and was a real big issue was the fact that in one of the prior years of DT's case being presented, one of the other voters, King, if I remember the story correctly, actually stood up and presented a case in the negative against DT. This is apparently not really the procedure that is followed when they meet to decide, and Gretz and a few other voting members were supremely pissed about this happening.
I'll look to see if I can find it, but it created quite the background shit-stir.
Someone ask John Elway if DT should be worthy of the hall. I'm pretty sure he'd know how effect and gameplanning went into making sure DT didn't come off the edge clean and forcibly remove his spinal column and the ball simultaneously!
The DT can't stop the run Bullshlt started cropping up when teams would look to take advantage of him coming up field around the tackle and then using that gap to run off. No different than any other team does with any other DE that speed rushes from the outside. They do it to Freeney et al. Hell, they do it to Jared Allen. Its not like Derrick was a poor tackler.
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