Top 100 players running thread

[pbmax]

You counted Rivers twice.

Exactly, ten. Like I said in between getting it completely wrong. That total is bad enough. Twelve is lunacy and really makes this list questionable.

[bobblehead]

The quarterbacks situation is really very strange on the list. There are 12 on the list.

The bottom four is constituted by McNabb, Flacco, Freeman, and Romo.

Obvious inclusions near the top include: Brady, Peyton, Rodgers, Brees, Rivers, and Roethliberger.

That means that two of the following QBs will not make the list at all: Michael Vick, Eli Manning, Matt Ryan, Matt Schaub. I would easily put all of those guys ahead of McNabb.

Potentially rage inducing for Packer Fans, there are 14 WRs ahead of Greg Jennings on the list. That's unconscionable.

Of your list I would take each and every one of them before I would take Flacco, Romo, or McNabb.....and now I think Freeman belongs higher up the list.

[packerbacker1234]

I don't think Finley would be a snub. In the two seasons where he has seen the most playing time - he got hurt. So, hard to put a guy who has phenominal skills on a list when his two impact years were years he got hurt.

Williams and Woodson - one of them got snubbed, chances are it's williams only because his coming out party was just last year, where as Woodson has been dancing for the last 5 years or so.

It doesn't surprise me Romo made the list. Afterall McNabb made the list at #100 and he had a HORRIBLE year.

[Lurker64]

There are only three Packers left on the list. I'm almost 100% certain that they're Rodgers, Woodson, and Matthews.

[Guiness]

12 QB's are a lot. Can't say I'm surprised though, if you're naming names, I can think of 25 or more starting QB's in the league, I can't say I could do that for any other position.

2 of Vick, Manning, Ryan and Schaub will not make the list, eh? Ryan and Schaub should make it, but it might end up being Ryan and Vick, depending on when the voting took place. It might have been around the time Vick was breaking out, and he missed some votes because of that.

I don't have as big a problem with McNabb making it as some. He had a down '10 season, but that was a horrible situation. His '08 and '09 numbers were still good, and I think most voting would expect him to return to that sort of form.

[Pugger]

This is such a QB driven league that it shouldn't surprise us but the voters are the players so that is why I find 11 QBs on the list odd. Having McNabb and Romo on the list is odd too.

[Pugger]

This is such a QB driven league that it shouldn't surprise us but the voters are the players so that is why I find 11 QBs on the list questionable. But Romo and McNabb? Really? I'm wondering if they are getting votes because their peers like them personally and not for their play on the field...

[Iron Mike]

I'm wondering if they are getting votes because their peers like them personally and not for their play on the field...

Bingo.

[Patler]

Which is worse, having 11 or 12 QBs make the list of "100 Best"; or having (apparently) something like 17 WRs on the list?

[mraynrand]

First, the show has a 'lifetime achievement award' element to it; second, 'team x' has been much more successful of late.... third Player Y has had more good years, and fourth Player Z has no playoff games yet. But other players vote based on team success as well, and QBs get credit for team success, deserved or not.

The top 100 list sucks because they asked current players

Sure, it's an opinion poll of NFL players. I don't put much stock in it. Many players have already admitted they don't pay close attention to watching other teams. In many ways, they are like many fans - forming opinions based on weak and incomplete evidence!

[RashanGary]

Which is worse, having 11 or 12 QBs make the list of "100 Best"; or having (apparently) something like 17 WRs on the list?

I suppose that would depend on each person's definition of best.

[Patler]

I suppose that would depend on each person's definition of best.

As it does for the one or two centers who probably made it, the 5 or so TEs and for every other player and every other position.

[Fritz]

What about Brady Poppinga?

[swede]

What about Brady Poppinga?

#98 on the silly names list--one ahead of Warren Sapp and behind Joe Klecko.

[Brandon494]

Im guessing top ten will be...

1. Tom Brady
2. Peyton Manning
3. Adrian Peterson
4. Andre Johnson
5. Troy Polamalu
6. Darrelle Revis
7. Nnamdi Asomugha
8. Ray Lewis
9. Demarcus Ware
10. Chris Johnson

fuck it

11. Aaron Rodgers
12. Larry Fitzgerald
13. Joe Thomas
14. Patrick Willis
15. Jake Long
16. James Harrison
17. Ed Reed
18. Jon Beason
19. Drew Brees
20. Phillip Rivers