News: PFT: Deion Sanders: They're letting too many players into the Hall of Fame

[StarBoyz83]

Mike Haynes was a better player. Herb Adderley and Mel Renfro as good. I'll give Deion the nod on special teams.

Did they return kicks and play wr?

 

[Blake]

You mean if it not were for Tom Coughlin.

Coughlin wasn't the one with the guts to make clutch throws late in the game when it mattered. Something Romo couldn't even do in December.

 

[ESisback]

If Patrick Mahomes wins the Super Bowl on Sunday and retires on Monday, he'd be more deserving than Eli to enter the Hall.

yeah, Mahomes is better than Eli. He doesn’t have two rings, but that’s not how you measure QBs in a team game. Hell, Romo was better than Eli, and HE doesn’t belong in the HOF!

 

[cern]

Why it should be obvious

?????

 

[Brooksey]

The hall of fame is like the pro-bowl now or better yet it's just an NFL museum for popular players, not top 5 players who re-defined their position etc

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

You people questioning Deions HOF validity are simply......

What is happening right now?!?!

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Deion would be saying the opposite if he was not in yet like Drew Pearson.

I feel the same way though. But I feel like some of these younger guys should be waiting to get in.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You people questioning Deions HOF validity are simply......

What is happening right now?!?!

Man when it comes to Deion here you will find some of the worst and mind boggling opinions. I’ve always felt that way. I don’t know why he triggers some here.

 

[Diehardblues]

Ask Drew Pearson if they let too many in. There’s still several Cowboys we all believe are worthy but left out. Which amplifies still how exclusive a fraternity it is despite some we’ll always dispute.

I suppose in the Centennial Celebration there is an abundance of inductees. 20 additional I believe.

But when you consider for the 1st 100 years there’s only about 300+ in HOF it doesn’t appear to be a gluten.

And the yearly mandate of 6 allows those who might have been overlooked in years past. Which is the beauty of the HOF is that it’s never too late.

Perhaps Deion being a 1st Ballot inductee believes it should be exclusive to that level of athletes?

Personally I applaud how the NFL conducts the process and this 100 year celebration which I plan on attending.

 

[sunalsorises]

Terrell davis shouldn't have gotten in either

I feel this way about Kurt Warner.

 

[NickZepp]

There's probably some older players that should be in that still aren't in and probably won't get in. Harvey Martin, LC Greenwood, Drew Pearson, Louis Wright, Dick Anderson, Roger Craig, and Carl Banks to name a few should be in. Not sure if any of them ever will get in.

 

[NickZepp]

I feel this way about Kurt Warner.

If Kurt Warner didn't take Arizona to the Super Bowl I would agree. That put him in the Hall IMO. Those Arizona teams weren't even that great. He won a playoff game the next year after taking them to the Super Bowl. The numbers probably were in his Rams days, but that's debatable in this day and age. But the 2 and a half years in Arizona or whatever it was put him over the top.

Terrell Davis is in for similar reasons. Look at his playoff rushing numbers. 142 yards per game in 8 playoff games. 1140 yards in the playoffs rushing. Just to give you an example. Emmitt Smith only had around 400 more rushing yards in 9 more playoff games. If he didn't have the playoffs numbers he's basically like Billy Sims who is another one that will never get in the hall of fame.

 

[CowboysRule]

6 a year seems fine to me. That 6 is largely clearing out a backlog. It's clearly more permissive than "did you change the game". I think it should be. I'm more on "were you the best for a period of time, or one of the best for a longer period of time?"

1) All Pro years
2) First Ballot Pro Bowls (gotta differentiate between alternates)
3) Season leader in relevant stats
4) Championships
5) Wild card is if you changed the game in some way, and how much.

Eli is a real test. I'd say no. Never an All Pro. Only a smattering of Pro Bowls. Never a season leader in anything but INTs.

No on Gore too. Even more so. He doesn't even have the championships.

It shouldn't be a participation trophy.

Championships are a team stat.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Deion Sanders...

A one-dimensional CB, who shamelessly leeched himself onto whichever team was trending up and who was his own biggest promoter.

Definitely one too many.

And i thought i drank too much

 

[DallasEast]

Over the years, some 'enlightened' folks have argued that Troy Aikman would not be in the Hall if not for leading the team to three championships. They have always presented Aikman's numbers without the rings as pedestrian as their Exhibit 1.

Given Deion Sanders recent comments, I would enjoy seeing he and Aikman in a one-on-one discussion on the merits of Hall enshrinement. I would think things would get interesting once talk turned to why each of them deserve being in the Hall. I say interesting because I find myself wondering what Sanders actually thinks of his former teammate's qualifications as a Hall Of Famer in comparison to some of Aikman's peers at the position.

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Deion should decline from being in the hall of fame ., he is not happy .

 

[GenoT]

If ya wanna know about a SERIOUS, do-it-all, NFL CB, please investigate Dick “Night Train” Lane.

14 INTs in a 12-game season (!!?!), which is still the record, 68 INTs career (@15 more than Sanders), during an era when, except for a handful of teams, passing the ball was as much a novelty as a weapon — meaning, much less opportunities for INTs.

The most feared tackler of his era, Lane played the run and blitzed like a mofo.

Deion Sanders couldn’t have carried Night Train’s jock.
c/s

 

[OmerV]

just wait until eli gets in...then it gets real and people will all be talking about deion’s point.

There are other QBs in with no better credentials than Eli.

 

[OmerV]

Eli before Plunkett, and I'm a no on Eli.

Plunkett was never All Pro over even Pro Bowl. The only season stats he ever led the league in was INTs, Sack Yardage, and Y/C, one year each.

He also had less than half the career yardage and TDs that Eli had, and Plunkett threw more INTs in his career than TD's

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Why didn't Neon Deion say this BEFORE he was inducted ?