What did you say Mornhinweg?

[Philly_Crew]

I do remember complaints when Reid first came that there were too many short passes and not enough big plays.  Of course, if your WR's are Charles Johnson and Torrance Small, good luck with the big pass plays.

Will Brown and Stallworth be the best Eagle combo ever?  Or does Arkansas Fred and Calvin still rank at the tops?

[Rome]

I'd say Tommy McDonald & Pete Retzlaff were the best receiving tandem ever.

[ice grillin you]

get the hell outta here

tommy mcdonald wouldnt even make a division one college team today

[SunMo]

how the farg could you even know that?

[Rome]

get the hell outta here

tommy mcdonald wouldnt even make a division one college team today

McDonald is in the Hall of Fame, IGY.  And Retzlaff was a great, great football player in his day.

Besides, comparing era's is impossible because we have no idea what those players would be like if they had the same training facilities and nutritional information that the players have today.

[ice grillin you]

tommy mcdonald was like 5-8 170 and slower than dirt

jim brown can crossover
lance allworth crossover
elroy hirsch crossover

tommy mcdonald would be a good ivy leaguer

[Quasimoto]

Pinkston and Thrash.  Holla.

[shorebird]

get the hell outta here

tommy mcdonald wouldnt even make a division one college team today

Thats farging unbeleedable. McDonald would probably be the best receiver on this team. The man could flat out get open.  Just ask '64'.

I'm a little confused with the Mornhinweg comment though. I hope he's being sarcastic, because if playing the 30th ranked D in the league dictates we run more............well, I guess the weather was the real dictating factor.

[Rome]

I always get a laugh out of people dismissing athletes from other era's because their measureables then aren't the same as the players today.

McDonald dominated against the competition he played against then.  If he didn't, he wouldn't be enshrined in Canton.

Oh, and as your lady-friends likely tell you, size ain't everything, dook.   

[ice grillin you]

sorry not everyone from back then could make the move to this era...tommy regardless of the fact that hes in the hall and is an eagle is one of the guys that couldnt make that crossover

it would be interesting to see what hed do at say a place like william and mary tho...probably set some records

[shorebird]

Link

"If I had 11 Tommy McDonald's onmy team, I'd win a championship every year," Vince Lombardi once said. The 5-9, 176 pounder dazzled fans with acrobatic receptions for 12 seasons and finished his career ranked 6th alltime in receptions (495), 4th in yards (8410), and 2nd in TDs (84). In 1960, he registered 13 TDs for theNFL Champion Eagles. A 3rd round selection in1957, he became. Born July 26, 1934, in Roy, NM, he starred at Oklahoma. As a senior, he won the Maxwell Award as the nation's top collegian.

I don't remember, but wasn't the Maxwell the then equivelant of the Heisman? A good ivy leaguer.......

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

sorry not everyone from back then could make the move to this era...tommy regardless of the fact that hes in the hall and is an eagle is one of the guys that couldnt make that crossover

I'd have to agree.  He might make an OK #3 WR at best.  I think people underestimate the ridiculous increase in the overall athleticism in the league from 30+ years ago.

[Wingspan]

well mcdonald would have joined the roid rage too...so that should be factored into it.

[Rome]

The guy is a Hall of Famer and that's all that needs to be said about him.

We can go back and forth all day about his measureables but the bottom line is he produced on the field against the best competition at the time.

[ice grillin you]

no one is questioning that and he derserves to be a hof

but he is nowhere close to being the best wr the eagles have ever had