Post your top 5 all-time players on your favorite NFL team
 

Thought it might be fun to see how much overlap there is within teams.

My team is the Dolphins. My top 5 are:

1. Dan Marino
2. O.J. McDuffie
3. Zach Thomas
4. Jason Taylor
5. Wes Welker

Rams:
1) Kurt Warner
2) Eric Dickerson
3) Isaac Bruce
4) Jack Youngblood
5) Marshall Faulk

Patriots:

1. Steve Grogan
2. Stanley Morgan (this would have been Irving Fryar until I grew up and learned more about him)
3. Ben Coates
4. Tom Brady
5. Kevin Faulk

1. Tony Bosselli
2. Marc Brunell
3. Fred Taylor
4. Ernest Wilford
5. Aaron Beasley

1. Leroy Butler
2. Ray Nitschke
3. Bart Starr
4. Donald Driver
5. Tom Flynn / Chester Marcoal (coin flip)

Current Favorite Packer? Clay Matthews does what he did this year for several years, I could see him on this list.

No. No Brent Farve.

49ers:
1a. Joe Montana
1b. Jerry Rice
3. Bryant Young
4. Steve Young
5. Merton Hanks

John Elway
Terrell Davis
Floyd Little
Karl Mecklenburg

Could also make a case for Shannon Sharpe, Steve Atwater, Gary Zimmerman and a bunch of others.

Was Favre ever on your list? Did he fall from grace?

New Orleans Saints:

Sam Mills
Drew Brees
Rickey Jackson
Joe Horn
Deuce McCalister

Random Side Note: When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a favorite player. Instead of taking the time to pick a player that was good, or quirky, or even notable, I must have decided to just pick the first player that I saw on screen after having decided that I wanted a favorite. Hence, I ended up for a brief time with the very forgettable Johnnie Poe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia as my favorite player.

Yes. He would have easily been #1 up until the entire Vikings thing. (And no, I'm not going to go into a rehash of everything that happened). He might go back on my list at some point in the future, but guess we will see what the future holds.

1. Dan Marino
2. Jason Taylor
3. Zach Thomas
4. Ronnie Brown
5. Orande Gadsden

Chris Spielman
Barry Sanders
Benny Blades
Lomas Brown
Robert Porche

To be honest, it's all kind of a toss-up after the first two.

Cowboys:

Roger Staubach
Emmitt Smith
Bill Bates
Jay Novacek
Randy White

My 5th slot was tough. Welker was only in Miami for a short time, but during that time, he was pretty much the only player I liked. Duper was in the running too. I'm fond of Pete Stoyanovich because he was an IU grad. I thought about Larry Izzo a bit too.

Roger Staubach
Randy White
Troy Aikman
Emmitt Smith
Quincy Carter

Chargers:

Dan Fouts
LaDainian Tomlinson
Kellen Winslow
Junior Seau
Rodney Harrison

Giants

1. Lawrence Taylor
2. Michael Strahan
3. Tiki Barber
4. Phil Simms
5. Jeremy Shockey

So what did Irving Fryar do to get knocked off the list.

1. Tedy Bruschi
2. Tom Brady
3. Ben Coates
4. Troy Brown
5. Vince Wilfork

special mention goes to Corey Dillon, who was only there a brief time but I absolutely loved.

Lots of domestic stuff. I remember mentioning on here how much I had liked him, and some others pointed out the news articles.

I wish I had room to move them on. Troy Brown probably should be anyway.

(no particular order)

Tom Brady
Drew Bledsoe
Ben Coates
Troy Brown
Kevin Faulk

Patriots:

Tom Brady
Richard Seymour
Tedy Bruschi
Troy Brown
Steve Grogan

Honorable mention:
Wes Welker, John Hannah, Drew Bledsoe

Man, no love for Horace Ivory from the Patriot fans. :D

This might be hard. I'll limit it to the players I was alive to see play:

Hines Ward
Kordell Stewart
Jerome Bettis
Rod Woodson
Troy Polamalu

1. Dan Marino
2. Mark Clayton
3. Mark Duper
4. Zach Thomas
5. Jason Taylor

I really feel like I need to have Csonka and Warfield on the list, but we'll just call them a close 6 and 7.

Rod Woodson
Jerome Bettis
Troy Polamalu
Ben Roethlisberger
Franco Harris

John Elway
Terrell Davis
Shannon Sharpe
Steve Atwater
Champ Bailey

Peyton Manning
Marvin Harrison
Dwight Freeney
Dallas Clark
Johnny Unitas

NY Giants:

1) Phil Simms
2) Michael Strahan
3) Lawrence Taylor

There is nobody even close to the top 3, so I'll stop there.

Bengals:

1. James Brooks
2. Boomer Esiason
3. Carson Palmer
4. David Fulcher
5. Anthony Munoz

Bears:
I am only going to include the players have been alive during my time so no dick butkis for me.

1. Walter Payton
2. Mike Singletary
3. Tom Waddle--made a career out of being open because he was the only white wr on the field.
4. Donnell Woolford
5. Devin Hester (for his first two years anyway)

1. Joe Montana
2. Jerry Rice
3. Ronnie Lott
4. Merton Hanks
5. Dwight Clark

So many players that just don't make the cut...Steve Young, Patrick Willis, Garrison Hearst, Ricky Watters, Roger Craig, Terrell Owens (gotta admit, I loved the hell out of that guy while he was here), Jeremy Newberry, Freddie Solomon...

Dick Butkus is dead?

Oh, and


That's what she said.

i knew i was going to get one of those. it does sound vaguely dirty

Oilers:
Warren Moon
Earl Campbell
Ernest Givins
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson
Bruce Matthews

Titans:
Eddie George
Steve McNair
Derrick Mason
Chris Johnson
Cortland Finnegan

Chad Ochocinco
Chris Henry
Icky Woods
Boomer Esiason
Justin Smith

Raidahs -

1. Fred Biletnikoff
2. Marcus Allen
3. Howie Long
4. Otis Sistrunk
5. Double-ought

Bills
Thurman Thomas
Darryl Talley
Jim Kelly
Bruce Smith
Sam Cowart

Niners

Roger Craig
Joe Montana
Frank Gore
Bryant Young
Steve Young

We're enjoying him in SF. He's really easy to root for, and he finally got a very well deserved and long overdue Pro Bowl invite this last year.

Tony Dorsett
Emmitt Smith
Roy Williams ( He sidelined TO)
Ed too tall Jones
Larry Allen

Tampa Bay Bucs

1. Warren Sapp
2. Errict Rhett
3. James Wilder
4. Lawrence Dawsey
5. Trent Dilfer

Carolina Panthers

Julius Peppers
Steve Smith
Wesley Walls
Mushin Muhammad
DeAngelo Williams and Jon Beason are currently fighting it out for the 5th spot, Beason is ahead so far.

Miami Dolphins

Bob Griese
David Woodley (R.I.P.)
Dwight Stephenson
Nat Moore
Zach Thomas

Here is my list off the top of my head. Im only listing players who I actually saw play, so unfortunately most of the Raider greats will not be included.

Rich Gannon
Steve Wisniewski
Napoleon Kaufman
Tim Brown
Swervin Mervin

Actual top 5 on any team

Joe Montana
Jim Harbaugh
Rich Gannon
Terrell Davis
Peyton Manning

Dolphins

Dan Marino
Zach Thomas
Jason Taylor
OJ McDuffie
Ronnie Brown

Walter Payton
Mike Singletary
Richard Dent
Matt Suhey (From Penn State and blocked for Payton...can't beat that)
Gayle Sayers

Ravens:
Ed Reed
Michael McCrary
Jermaine Lewis
Trent Dilfer
Ray Rice

Though I've enjoyed watching Ray Lewis from the time the ball is snapped until the whistle is blown...everything else about him agitates the hell out of me (the preening and celebrating, anytime he opens his mouth in an interview, etc).

Baltimore Colts:
Johnny U
Raymond Berry
Bert Jones
Mike Pagel
Lenny Moore
Lydell Mitchell