Around The NFL - 2015

[General_Failure]

He's a lock for the hall of fame, right?

[Eagaholic]

It was difficult to part.
That team has lost a lot of good players. Definitely could use samoan defense like him.

[SD]

He's a lock for the hall of fame, right?

I know safety's don't make the hall often but him, Reed and Dawk should be locks in my opinion

[ice grillin you]

Reed and polamalu are mortal locks....no way dawk gets in...not a ton of safeties in and he was at best the 3rd best safety of his era and no ring

[phattymatty]

Reed and polamalu are mortal locks....no way dawk gets in...not a ton of safeties in and he was at best the 3rd best safety of his era and no ring

i agree with this. i love dawk but no way he's a hall of famer.

[ice grillin you]

I wasn't really making a comment of whether he should or shouldn't get in just that I'd be really surprised if he did

As far as if he should....I'd say no....great player but not all time transcendent hof great...and I know it's an individual honor and team accomplishments shouldn't matter but I still think no title really hurts him

[PhillyPhreak54]

If Polamalu is a HOF then Dawkins is.

Similar numbers.

How can you say Troy is and not BDawk?

[General_Failure]

You obtuse sons of bitches.

[PhillyPhreak54]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtiF_n_R9sA

[ice grillin you]

If Polamalu is a HOF then Dawkins is.

Similar numbers.

How can you say Troy is and not BDawk?

Simply a better player...better playmaker...you said it yourself...basically same numbers but dawk started 80 more games

Plus polamalu was a champion

I don't think he was way better than dawk but other than some eagle fans I can't imagine anyone thinks dawk was as good as polamalu

[PhillyPhreak54]

I texted three people to gauge what they'd say;

One Texans fan, one Cowboys fan and one Steelers fan

They all said that if one makes it then the other should. And they're pretty astute football people - not some slappy's who causally watch.

I don't think the champion can be taken into consideration for a safety. If we're talking QBs then it holds a ton more weight than a secondary guy.

Polamalu was fantastic but so was Dawkins. I think they should both be in without a doubt

[ice grillin you]

You just said numbers were the same totally ignoring the incredible discrepancy in games played and now he should get in because you texted someone and don't count championships?

sorry if you didn't convince me

[Don Ho]

Safties inducted into Hall:

Jack Christiansen (S) 1951-1958
Ken Houston (S) 1967-1980
Paul Krause (S) 1964-1979
Yale Lary (S) 1952-1953, 1956-1964
Ronnie Lott (CB-S) 1981-1994
Mel Renfro (S-CB) 1964-1977
Emlen Tunnell (S) 1948-1961
Aeneas Williams (CB/S) 1991-2004
Larry Wilson (S) 1960-1972
Willie Wood (S) 1960-1971
Rod Woodson 1987-2003

Not a whole lot.

Maybe Aeneas Williams' hold of Freddie in the 2001 NFCCG got him in.

[PhillyPhreak54]

You just said numbers were the same totally ignoring the incredible discrepancy in games played and now he should get in because you texted someone and don't count championships?

sorry if you didn't convince me

I mean I realize that Dawk played more years but he still put up outstanding numbers. I'm not doing an either or here. Im saying both should be in and I used non-Eagle fan opinions to show that I think you're in the minority of saying Dawk isn't a HOf

[Munson]

FWIW, Dawkins was also playing a bunch of years where the league ran more often, and also seems to be that the tackles from his first 5 years in the league aren't recorded for whatever reason on nfl.com. Other websites have his total tackles at 895 to Polamalu's 581.

Also has Dawk at 36 forced fumbles vs. 14 for Polamalu, and 19 recoveries vs. 7. Polamalu had a couple of big INT years though, where as Dawkins was slow and steady with the INTs.

I agree with the stance that if one of them gets in, the other should get in as well.