Best Packer DT of the last 30 years

[bobblehead]

https://stathead.com/football/versus...tm_id=ClarKe01

https://stathead.com/football/versus-finder.cgi?player_id2=ClarKe01&player_id1=DotsSa20&request=1&utm_campaign=2023_01_wdgt_player_comparison&utm_source=pfr&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_id=DotsSa20

Am I forgetting someone? Dotson got to play with Reggie and Jones so he saw a lot of singles. He averaged 5 sacks per season with Green Bay.

Is Cletidus the best DT we’ve had in recent memory??

How about Ryan Pickett? He was more of a run stuffer, but I would like 3 of him right about now.

[RashanGary]

Gilbert and Dotson

Or

Pickett and Clark


Would be the best combos. DTs are just rare. There are maybe, and that’s a big maybe, 10 good ones in the whole league at any given time.

[texaspackerbacker]

It's hard to compare 4-3 with 3-4. Did ya'all see a couple weeks ago Clark was called for holding - like an O Lineman, because his job on the play was to basically act like an O Lineman and clear out to benefit the ILBs. I see THAT as a large part of the overall problem. Joe Barry is basically an old LB coach. It seems like he sees his scheme too much from an ILB persepective, and the Packers' ILBs haven't been up to the task. I'd rather see the D Line make tackles and do some pass rush - like in a 4-3 - with one MLB rather than two ILBs.

[Sparkey]

Going back a bit farther in time, Mike McCoy was really good on some really crappy teams in the 70's.

[NewsBruin]

When I was starting to understand football, I read an SI article that the 3-4 was gaining popularity in the NFL again (I think it cited the Jets and brand-new Ravens). I couldn't understand why you'd want three jacked-up guys to absorb blocks and get no stat-line credit while sacrificing an undersized player to injury by running him into the offensive line on every snap. Even the hype article said that 3-4 teams are more worn down by the end of the regular season than their 4-3 counterparts.

I know there are some advantages, and you play to your roster's strengths, but being a 3-4 DLineman seems like a miserable way to spend a career.

[texaspackerbacker]

+1 to that, NewBruin.

[Patler]

You can only judge a player within the context of the game as it was played when he was playing. From that perspective, the best I have seen was Henry Jordan; but obviously that wasn't in the last 30 years. The best d line? Jordan, Willie Davis, Ron Kostelnik and Lionel Aldredge.

[texaspackerbacker]

I go back all the way to Henry Jordan too, and yeah, he was really good even though the game was different then - seemingly way better than those mentioned in the last 30 years. If we're gonna go beyond the 30 year mark, though, the obvious name that stands out is Reggie White.

[Patler]

If we're gonna go beyond the 30 year mark, though, the obvious name that stands out is Reggie White.

White's Packer career fits in the 30 year window ('93-'98), but he was a DE not a DT, so I didn't even consider him for this topic.

[sharpe1027]

Dotson was really good, but so we're others in different ways. I don't know how to compare them.