Best NFL Safeties from 1950 to 1970

[pbmax]

Two Packers on the list. Make a guess in the thread before you read. Many will get one, I will be impressed if anyone gets the second. I had never heard of the guy.

This grew out of a discussion about the best safety of the last decade now that Reed and Polamalu have retired.

http://www.footballperspective.com/the-safety-championship-belt-part-i/

[hoosier]

Bobby Dillon is one, who is the other? :-)

[hoosier]

You could add Emlen Tunnell (NYG), who played out the end of his career w/ GB, as the third Packer.

[Patler]

Bobby Dillon is one, who is the other? :-)

...and we've talked about Wood on here often, you would think pbmax would have been paying attention!

Seriously, though, Dillon was an easy guess for me. He is the Packers all-time leader in interceptions (despite playing with vision in just one eye, I should add.)

[pbmax]

Bobby Dillon is one, who is the other? :-)

That's enough out of you.

Showoff.

[pbmax]

He is the Packers all-time leader in interceptions (despite playing with vision in just one eye, I should add.)

That would make great heckling fodder.

[smuggler]

Bob Jeter just missed the Hall.

[texaspackerbacker]

Yeah, I was gonna say Bobby Dillon too - which just proves some of us are old. Willie Wood should be the other, but apparently isn't from what I see posted. Jeter was a Corner, BTW - played opposite Herb Adderley.

[smuggler]

I knew he was a corner. I was just lamenting his exclusion from Canton.

[pbmax]

Yeah, I was gonna say Bobby Dillon too - which just proves some of us are old. Willie Wood should be the other, but apparently isn't from what I see posted. Jeter was a Corner, BTW - played opposite Herb Adderley.

No, it was Dillon and Wood. Wood got a nod as probably best safety for a 3 year run during Packers 3 year run of NFL Titles.

[hoosier]

Would the Packers also place three players in a 1990 to 2010 best nfl safeties list? I'm thinking they would.

[smuggler]

Sharper, Collins, Butler. Yeah, pretty close.

[red]

good ole "drug em and fuck em" should be stricken from any lists from now on

i'd rather not admit he was ever a packer.

i'm fine remembering him as a lifelong viking

[hoosier]

good ole "drug em and fuck em" should be stricken from any lists from now on

i'd rather not admit he was ever a packer.

i'm fine remembering him as a lifelong viking

Hey, Mossy Cade and James Lofton were Packers too. You gotta take the bad with the good.

[smuggler]

Was Lofton convicted? Based on his post-football life, it seems like he learned his lesson, even if he never served his debt to society... Mossy Cade was just a special kind of janked up...

[hoosier]

Nope, he was implicated twice but wasn't charged in the first and was acquitted in the second.

[pbmax]

OK, one safety challenged Ronnie Lott's stranglehold on the best safety in the game in the 1980s. Can you name him without reading?

There are no Packer winners on the list, but you should know him.

1970-1990: http://www.footballperspective.com/the-safety-championship-belt-part-ii/

[pbmax]

1991 to 2001, Back to the Packers

A nice argument for LeRoy Butler's HOF candidacy.

http://www.footballperspective.com/the-safety-championship-belt-part-iii/