Best Player in Team History

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000 ... hard-calls

Hi fellow 12's

So Steve Largent gets the nod from Elliott Harrsion of NFL.com as the best player in our team history. Thoughts?! I would have gone for Walt.

Kev

Peppers over Steve Smith for Carolina is a joke.

Hard to argue with the Largent choice though.

Yeah, tough to go against Largent. Walt would be my choice, but both are great choices.

Well, if you only go by dominance at his position, Easley would be in the mix. But if you take dominance at position plus longevity, Walt wins, hands down.

I love Largent as every Seahawk fan should, but IMHO he was never truly a dominant player.

Trouble is, that NFL history is forever clouded with the stigma which states players who scored all the points are better-remembered over those that either cleared the way for the score, or those that prevented it.

Pity, but what can we mere sheep in the fields to do about it?

Walt is the greatest left tackle of all time. That makes him the greatest Seahawk.

Anthony Munoz is the greatest left tackle ever.

Walter Jones is the best player in Seahawk history, but he won't get the credit because his great performance does not show up on a stat sheet.

Holmgren who as a coordinator for the 49ers, coached Rice, Montana, Young, and as a head coach, Favre, said that the best offensive player he has ever coached is Walter Jones

bmorepunk":2ogkjgaf said:

Anthony Munoz is the greatest left tackle ever.

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Debatable, I would give Walt the nod over Munoz

Big Walter Jones is easily the Best Hawk of all times as he had something like FIVE holding calls his entire career.

FIVE!

Most likely the best left tackle of the entire NFL history, Munoz was a holding SOB if memory serves me right, Big Walt just threw you around like a rag doll.

GO HAWKS!!!

In terms of a player that contributed the most on the scoreboard for a relatively long period of time, HOF'er Steve Largent gets my vote.

When I think of short to medium term success, that translated into a super bowl appearance and an NFL MVP award, I think of Shaun Alexander.

I just think it's too hard to compare players from different eras and different eras.

Largent is my favorite player of all time. Walt May be the best LT of all time and Cortez and Kenny Easley were monsters. I can't choose between any of them.

sutz":21f2207n said:

Well, if you only go by dominance at his position, Easley would be in the mix. But if you take dominance at position plus longevity, Walt wins, hands down.

I love Largent as every Seahawk fan should, but IMHO he was never truly a dominant player.

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He wasn't?

? Largent owned defenders throughout his career.

It has to be either Largent or Jones, because Jones is the greatest LT of all-time, and Largent was the greatest of all-time at the time of his retirement. You have to figure that if Largent had either began his career in 1986 and retired after 1999 (instead of 1976-89) that the evolution of the passing game would have naturally inflated his numbers to be more competitive with the modern WRs who surpassed his numbers.

I like Largent, but it would be neat to add #71 to the display of #80 and #12.

I'd have to go with Largent.

Walter Jones was amazing but slight edge goes to Largent, mainly because without him what would the Seahawks have become? For decades he was basically one of the bright spots. Without him I don't know if the hawks keep a strong enough presence to survive. Even with his legacy this team almost moved to LA, how much sooner would that have happened had we not had one of the greatest receivers of all time here?

Russell Wilson. End of story.

Largent played for an expansion franchise. He did what he did, which was DOMINATE at an unheard of level for his generation, with absolutely no one around him but Jim Zorn.

Walter was awesome, but he just can't be said to be better than Largent, IMO.

Without Largent,the Hawks would not have won nearly as much as they did ..He made some of toughest catches ..He was the first Hawk Hof and he is class act..