TanksAndSpartans wrote:
Finally, why do you have Pihos in your top 20? What makes him different? Wasn't he an end like the others? He played from '47 to '55.
Yes, he was just an end. I wanted to put him somewhere, his was super productive, so he didn't fait anywhere. It's just a list---you sometimes
have to put a square peg into a round hole, and I just thought Pihos was just that.
Fears, later in his career, became a split end as the game evolved. With Pihos, he retired before the Eagles went to a more modern
positioning so we don't know what he would have played then
But his size and build, to me, put him outside the realm of a wideout. Technically, the division between modern ends and the guys like
Pihos happened later than the Pre, and Post-WWII divide. So, it created an anomaly.
Pihos was kind of a throwback to pre-WWII times more similar to Bill Hewitt than the 1950s receivers but he played post-WWII. So, I
grouped him with TE to honor him.
Others may disagree, but the main point is Fears was really the same in terms of lining up not that different that Hirsh and therefore
I always thought the Fears as a "tight end" was questionable.