Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

[Reed the Raven]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

I would say reciever is one of if not the most dependant positions in all of sports. It wouldntve mattered if Moss dogged it or not he was never going to put up numbers in Oakland with such an awful team. For all we know he came in with the mindset of contributing but found himself on a dead end team.

I will say this for Randy Moss back when Mike Tice was head coach in Minnesota and established the Moss rule, essentially Randy Moss gets targeted in 40% of the offenses plays. The team went 5-11 that year but when Randy was targeted 40% of the time they were 4-1 when they failed to target Randy they didnt win a single game.

Every player has their flaws T.O. has his divisive personality, Manning struggles in winable playoff games, Polomalu gets burned deep, Brady's inconsistent season to season play. Randy doesnt give full effort but he did what he did on the field and I think its incredibly evident that inspite of personal shortcomings he is one of the greatest recievers of all time and one of the top five players of the 21st century.

My list would be:

Offense: Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Randy Moss, Walter Jones, LaDanian Tomlinson or Tony Gonzalez

Defense: Ray Lews, Troy Polomalu, Derrick Brooks, Darelle Revis, Ed Reed but Suh will knock him or Brooks off this spot.

Weve still got 89 seasons to go

Darelle Revis shouldn't be here yet and Ndamukong Suh shouldn't be mentioned yet. This is now, not 2010s - 2020s.

[ZM Punk]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

Manning
Brady
Lewis
Reed
Tomlinson

[The Trooper 458]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

Would have been better if the OP had asked this but told us to exclude Brady, Manning, LT, and Lewis just to see what the responses were like.

Everyone mentioning the same 5 guys is boring.

I'll try for an atlernate list without mentioning these guys.

Brian Dawkins
Brett Favre - he played in the decade for a couple of years before he turned into the bitchy prima donna we all hate.
Terrell Owens
Brian Urlacher
Darren Sharper/Ronde Barber

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

Would have been better if the OP had asked this but told us to exclude Brady, Manning, LT, and Lewis just to see what the responses were like.

Everyone mentioning the same 5 guys is boring.

I'll try for an atlernate list without mentioning these guys.

Brian Dawkins
Brett Favre - he played in the decade for a couple of years before he turned into the bitchy prima donna we all hate.
Terrell Owens
Brian Urlacher
Darren Sharper/Ronde Barber

Good idea. I'd say Derrick Brooks and Warren Sapp probably deserve some consideration, but I'll leave them out because I don't want to be called a homer lol.

Terrell Owens
Marvin Harrison
Darren Sharper
Brian Urlacher
Maybe Zach Thomas or Dwight Freeney?

Totally forgot Tony Gonzo, but he should definitely be in there too.

[untrugby]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

Would have been better if the OP had asked this but told us to exclude Brady, Manning, LT, and Lewis just to see what the responses were like.

are these the only 4 youre excluding? if so everyones list would still look about the same

Moss
Gonzo
Reed
TO
Polamalu

[ex carrabba fan]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

Why don't we just scrap this topic and talk about how you can put TO on and leave Moss off.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

Don't know what that guy is talking about but nobody said he had to have the same 5 as everyone else LOL.

[USCstreets]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

the 21st century is from 2000-2099 we'll see when its all over but there are players right now that kick guys like LT and Ed Reed off, really Peyton Manning would probably be the only one to still make the top 5 in 2099

[Dog]

Re: Who Are Your Top 5 Players of the 21st Century?

the 21st century is from 2000-2099 we'll see when its all over

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