conace21 wrote:JWL wrote:The toughest time to play cornerback has arguably been the past quarter century. Nobody from that period made the cornerback list. (I'm not counting the latter stage of Green's career here). I have this as a pretty awful mistake by the panel. Yes, Sanders made it and played in the past 25 years but he had made the 75th Anniversary Team. There should have been a post-Sanders guy on this team. There were multiple quality candidates.
Just a note that it was Rod Woodson who made the 75th Anniversary Team. Deion did not. But Deion didn't make this team for anything he did in the 21st century.
I do agree that someone like Charles Woodson would have been a better pick than Green.
Did Sanders make it as a returner? Whether he did or did not, I shouldn't make posts that early in the morning. Anyway, it really hit me last night late in the SNF game when the announcers talked about the latest selections for the All-Time Team. I realized then that all the cornerback selections either played much of or all of their careers prior to the 75th year point in the league's history.
Based on the way the sport was played and the rules of the particular eras, this team needed at least one linebacker from the 1960s, one running back from the 1970s and 1980s, one cornerback from the late 2000s and/or 2010s, one wide receiver from the 1990s or later, and one tight end from the 1990s or later. There is a strong emphasis on "at least one" in the prior sentence. This team not having at least one out of Bailey, Revis, C. Woodson, Sherman, Peterson is bad.
I'm not going to be like the average 22-year old I'm seeing elsewhere online that is saying the whole thing is trash and should be invalidated because LaDainian Tomlinson or J.J. Watt or Asante Samuel (yes, I've seen multiple complaints about Samuel's omission) did not make it but I will say this panel got one cornerback slot very, very wrong.