[SC Skins Fan]

Well, according to the website, the voters included: Dan Dierdorf, Mike Ditka, Art Donovan, Bob Griese, Dan Hampton, Ted Hendricks, Paul Horning, Sam Huff, Stan Jones, Leroy Kelly, Paul Krause, Jim Langer, Steve Largent, Larry Little, Mike McCormack, Randall McDaniel, Hugh McElhenny, Lenny Moore, Anthony Munoz, Alan Page, Mel Renfro, Gale Sayers, Lee Roy Selmon, Jackie Slater, Lynn Swann, Fran Tarkenton and Jack Youngblood. Great players, obviously, but not NFL talent evaluators. So you have guys on the list who are living entirely on reputation and past success (Walter Jones) while young dynamic players rank low on the list (Calvin Johnson). So don't take it so hard.

As to your incredulity at Cooley and Landry being left off the list, well even taking into account the fact that the voters were retired Hall of Famers, if you just look at who did make the list at those positions I think it is easy enough to see why those players were left out. The four tight ends were Gonzalez, Gates, Witten, and Dallas Clark (#100). You could perhaps argue that Cooley is a similar player to Clark, though the former plays in a much different offensive scheme, but it is not like Visante Shiancoe is on the list over Chris Cooley. And while Landry is an athletic player he has yet to prove that he is one of the best safeties in the game. He has shown flashes at times but certainly is not so clearly among the five best safeties in the game that he unquestionably belongs on the list.

Having said all of that, given the criteria for the list seems to be more past productivity rather than current value, the real snub is London Fletcher. But seriously, the breathless outrage is a bit overdone.