The Five Best You've Ever Seen (WR, RB, QB) (Don't Include Redskins)

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Quarterbacks:

Johnny Unitas
Bart Starr
Otto Graham
Dan Marino
Joe Montana

Running Backs:

Jim Brown
Emmitt Smith
Walter Payton
Gale Sayers
O J Simpson

Wide Receivers:

Lance Alworth
Jerry Rice
Lynn Swann
Drew Pearson
Paul Warfield

SS it's not fair you limited me to just five. There's more. j/k

Finally someone else has the great Unitas. If he lived in this era he would be seriously tearing it up.

[VTSKINS61]

My bad, Never seen him play in real life, just clips. I guess I would have to substitute him with Steve Young or Roger Staubach.

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Quarterbacks:

Johnny Unitas
Bart Starr
Otto Graham
Dan Marino
Joe Montana

Running Backs:

Jim Brown
Emmitt Smith
Walter Payton
Gale Sayers
O J Simpson

Wide Receivers:

Lance Alworth
Jerry Rice
Lynn Swann
Drew Pearson
Paul Warfield

SS it's not fair you limited me to just five. There's more. j/k

I'll have to agree on your list, with the exception of having Franco Harris instead Gale Sayers and that is only due to Gale's amount of year's played. I would also rank Payton ahead of Smith. Payton has to be my favorite running back, the guy played defense on offense (he was like a LB, he hit you and made a hole). I hated Drew Pearson cause that bastard killed us many times.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Finally someone else has the great Unitas. If he lived in this era he would be seriously tearing it up.

A vast majority here never saw him play.

[VTSKINS61]

I didn't put Brady on my list because of the cheating. I always wonder (before they got caught) how much of his success had to do with the cheating.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

I'll have to agree on your list, with the exception of having Franco Harris instead Gale Sayers and that is only due to Gale's amount of year's played. I would also rank Payton ahead of Smith. Payton has to be my favorite running back, the guy played defense on offense (he was like a LB, he hit you and made a hole). I hated Drew Pearson cause that bastard killed us many times.

I wanted to include Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell and Franco Harris, being limited to five I couldn't. I just listed my five r/b's in no particular order. Funny you mention Drew Pearson, that's why I included him because he was truly a thorn im my side for a long time.

I'll also agree with you on Sayers because his career was so short, but what an electrifying runner he was for the short time he played.

[GusFrerotte]

Originally Posted by SouperMeister

QB:
1. Montana
2. Peyton Manning
3. Marino
4. Brady
5. Favre / Elway (tie)

RB:
1. Payton
2. Emmitt
3. Earl Campbell
4. Sanders
5. Simpson

WR:
1. Rice
2. Moss
3. Harrison
4. Tim Brown
5. T.O.

Cool thread. I believe Montana was the greatest football player of all time, and clearly my top QB. In the Emmitt / Barry debate, I'm probably in the minority, but I would take Emmitt every time since Barry often put his offense in a lot of 3-and-outs by losing 5 yards on first down dancing for the home run, whereas Emmitt would turn a 1 yard play into 3-4 yards by running much more decisively. Payton was probably a better blocker and receiver than both, so I give him the nod as the best RB that I saw. Rice is peerless at WR.

Since I am from the Detroit area I love Barry, but you are right. IF I was a GM or HC, I would pick Emmitt. Barry would get those 20 yard runs, but only after 2-3 runs that netted negative yardage. Guy tap danced too often and back then the Lions' line wasn't so bad.

[Longtimefan]

I have always been reluctant to try and deal with the GOAT. There has been so many different era's of the game it's virtually impossible to try and make any kind of determination as to who is the GOAT at any position. Since it became an American game, there has been many great players and I'm just content to leave it at that.

[Warren85Ellard]

QB
1. Peyton Manning
2. John Elway
3. Joe Montana
4. Brett Favre
5. Randall Cunningham

RB
1. Walter Payton
2. Bo Jackson
3. Barry Sanders
4. Eric Dickerson
5. William Andrews

WR
1. Jerry Rice
2. Randy Moss
3. Art Monk
4. Michael Irvin
5. Gary Clark

[dmek25]

QB
1 Unitas
2 Montana
3 Favre
4 Jurgensen
5 Young

RB
1 Sanders
2 Campbell
3 Payton
4 Smith
5 Sayres

WR
1 Rice
2 Warfield
3 C Taylor
4 Moss
5 Monk

[SmootSmack]

Figured it wouldn't be fair to you longtime fan

Reminder thar redskins don't count on this list. So no monk or clark

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

I wanted to include Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell and Franco Harris, being limited to five I couldn't. I just listed my five r/b's in no particular order. Funny you mention Drew Pearson, that's why I included him because he was truly a thorn im my side for a long time.

I'll also agree with you on Sayers because his career was so short, but what an electrifying runner he was for the short time he played.

The saddest name on that list is the "juice", what a talent that guy was. I loved him as a kid and hate him as a grown up. Too bad he turned out to be a murderer.

[tryfuhl]

we should do top 5 for Redskins only that we've seen

even the youngest of fans can remember 5 diff starting quarterbacks

[Number44]

Quarterbacks:

Johnny Unitas
Bart Starr
John Elway
Brett Favre
Joe Montana

Running Backs:

Jim Brown
Barry Sanders
Walter Payton
Gale Sayers
Larry Csonka

Wide Receivers:

Jerry Rice
Raymond Berry
Randy Moss
Paul Warfield
Fred Biletnikoff

[GTripp0012]

Quarterbacks

Peyton Manning
Tony Romo
Rich Gannon
Steve McNair
Chad Pennington/Philip Rivers/Kurt Warner

Running Backs

Marshall Faulk
LaDainian Tomlinson
Priest Holmes
Brian Westbrook
Larry Johnson/Curtis Martin

Wide Receivers

Marvin Harrison
Terrell Owens
Derrick Mason
Randy Moss
(late career) Jerry Rice/Rod Smith