Charles Romes Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I'm not sure anyone has ever played the position as well as Julio is playing it right now. Has the physicality matched only by megaton and better hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsbackto81 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 (edited) I like Rice but jeez, he did have Montana and Young throwing the ball. Â Sharpe was amazing! A freight train with stickem! Great commercial for those that remember. Neck injury cost him a HOF career. Â Surprised C. Carter not getting any love. Made some of the best catches I've ever seen. Â Marvin Harrison was pretty amazing too. His route running and ability to get open were the best. But he also had Peyton. Â For me it's Megatron. Rice had Montana/Young. Sharpe had Favre. Harrison had Peyton and Moss showed what he was really capable of once Brady came into the picture. Â Megatron had......Stafford! Really? Edited August 14, 2017 by billsbackto81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffAlone Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Unless you are younger than 35, it should be Jerry Rice and it's not even close.Absolutely. He did it all.every play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I'm not sure anyone has ever played the position as well as Julio is playing it right now. Has the physicality matched only by megaton and better hands. Â Julio was 4th on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machine gun kelly Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Moss by his own admission too plays off, and TO had a lot of drops. Â For me it's Megatron, even though he only played til 30 he was so amazing to watch. Great hands, reach, caught everything even when double covered. Â I also love Fitz. I watched Riceas a kid and was impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kemp Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Rice Moss Alworth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMF2006 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Rice,he was a workout warrior. Â Not the biggest,not the fastest, but the best ever. I like Rice but jeez, he did have Montana and Young throwing the ball.Sharpe was amazing! A freight train with stickem! Great commercial for those that remember. Neck injury cost him a HOF career.Surprised C. Carter not getting any love. Made some of the best catches I've ever seen.Marvin Harrison was pretty amazing too. His route running and ability to get open were the best. But he also had Peyton.For me it's Megatron. Rice had Montana/Young. Sharpe had Favre. Harrison had Peyton and Moss showed what he was really capable of once Brady came into the picture.Megatron had......Stafford! Really? Â Its not Staffords fault his line sucked or the running game sucked or the D couldn't stop a nose bleed.most seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsbackto81 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Rice,he was a workout warrior. Â Not the biggest,not the fastest, but the best ever. Â Its not Staffords fault his line sucked or the running game sucked or the D couldn't stop a nose bleed.most seasons. Â The post wasn't meant to poo-poo on Stafford though he's nowhere near the level of the QB's mentioned. It's to point out what Johnson could've done with a Brady/ Rodgers or Young type QB. If you like Stafford that's ok I guess. Blaming the O-Line? Never stopped Barry in his day from being an all time great and though the D cant stop a nose bleed its still the other side of the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMF2006 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Â The post wasn't meant to poo-poo on Stafford though he's nowhere near the level of the QB's mentioned. It's to point out what Johnson could've done with a Brady/ Rodgers or Young type QB. If you like Stafford that's ok I guess. Blaming the O-Line? Never stopped Barry in his day from being an all time great and though the D cant stop a nose bleed its still the other side of the ball. Â Yes but when the D sucks your playing from behind and need to throw a lot. Â Barry Sanders despite his explosive abilities led the league a few times in most negative yard rushing plays they never made the highlight reel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincec Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Moss played with Brady for 4 seasons. And he averaged about as many touchdowns as he did in his seven seasons with Culpepper. Oh and Rice averaged more touchdowns per game in his record-setting TD season.True enough. I guess I only remembered to 16-0 season. But even so, he didn't have the same QB play over his career so I'll stay with him. Rice was great and I was a big 49er fan and you can definitely argue that he was a better all around WR, but it's tough to get the frequent highlight reel catches that Moss made out of my mind. He was at least the greatest downfield receiver of his era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BisonMan Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Rice is the easy pick here. Never "took plays off" and never divided a locker room. Consumate team player and example for every other player in the league. He lifted the players around him unlike TO and Moss. Rice did have some great QBs throwing him the ball but they are great QBs in part, because they got to throw to Jerry Rice. It's a two-way street. Yards, TDs, SuperBowls, longevity...Rice dominates them all. Â I give Megatron props for similar reasons. Consumate professsional and a dominant player. Oddly, Stanford had a better season after Johnson retired because he relied on Johnson too much. I also like him because he's a fellow Georgia Tech alum. Â Somebody else mentioned Fred Biletnikoff. Nobody had hands like him that I've ever seen. He was slow but still got open all the time with great moves. He practice catching balls by standing in facing a wall in a gym and having Stabler throw balls off the wall. The balls took all sorts of bounces and FB had to react without seeing them coming and catch them. I never heard of anyone else doing that. People remember the stickem' he used later in his career but he always had the best hands in the game. Â EdW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Randy Moss, and it really isn't close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah John Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I saw ONE mention of Lance Alworth in this. You can't look at records from different eras and compare numbers since the game changed so much, but Alworth in the 60s and early 70s was just as dominant as any of the others. Â Jerry Rice is the best WR I ever saw. Rice, Megatron, Julio -- all great too. I'd put Alworth second. Probably most of the people on this board have never even heard of him which is a shame. Â As to the best player of all time, it's Jim Brown forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Call_Of_Ktulu Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 If Eric Moulds got to play with Steve Young I think he would easily be in the conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2o Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Jerry Rice. The guy couldn't be covered and if he dropped a pass you were looking for an asteroid to hit the planet or something. Not only was he the best, he trained like the best. Many of the NFL stars who played with him fell by the wayside on "The Hill" where he trained  http://m.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201308/hill-san-francisco-49ers-dan-brown-roger-craig-jerry-rice-nfl-running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Calvin Johnson Larry Fitzgerald Julio Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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H2o Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 david boston On or off of steroids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 No mention of Jordan Matthews yet? Had to get that off my chest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPappy Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Has to be Jerry Rice. They guy was an absolute beast on the field. Showed up every game, never took a rep off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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