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Most Devastating Defensive PLayer

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There are so many in NFL history to choose from. Dick Butkis, Lawrence Taylor, Jack Lambert, Alan Paige, Ray Nitzske, Chuck Bednerick, Ronnie Lott just to name a few. Who do you think it is?
 
Dick Butkus. Film on him show some of the most devastating hits ever seen.
 
Butkus counts in the top 5 if not the best ever. He delivered tackles that were designed to do nothing less than take someone's head off.

Here are some others of note that I've liked or noticed over the years:

Lawrence Taylor - Redefined the position of linebacker, plain and simple.

Micheal Strahan - Holds the single-season record for sacks at 22.5. Always a dominant force on a less-than-stellar team.

Mike Singletary - Those eyes, man! Always scouring the field and zeroing in on whomever was carrying the ball.

Jack Del Rio - Now head coach of the Jags, Jack was a dominant force on a Minnesota team not known for its defense. Same crazy eyes as Singletary...never skunked and always right on the ball carrier.

Ray Lewis - Love him or hate him, he has made middle linebacker a position to be feared. He hits like he wants to kill someone...wait a minute....oh, never mind. 🙄

Bobby Taylor - A little-recognized DB who hits hard and often.

Corey Chavous - Very few interceptions, but when a play comes his way it STOPS upon his first hit.

Oh, I could go on and on...the modern NFL has some great players.
 
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/athletes.html OR
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/100/

LT was the first player that teams designed there schemes around, offensive co-ordinators threw out there game plan when it came to LT, the guy was consistently double and triple team, yet he still managed incredible number.
He was big, incredibly fast, strong, agile and mean, he is the standard by which all linebackers will be measured.
No disrespect to Butkus, or any other LB, but Taylor revoloutionized the position and the game, end of story.

Jack Lambert is up there also.
 
Wrong..

Armpit_licker said:
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/athletes.html OR
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/100/

LT was the first player that teams designed there schemes around, offensive co-ordinators threw out there game plan when it came to LT, the guy was consistently double and triple team, yet he still managed incredible number.
He was big, incredibly fast, strong, agile and mean, he is the standard by which all linebackers will be measured.
No disrespect to Butkus, or any other LB, but Taylor revoloutionized the position and the game, end of story.

Jack Lambert is up there also.
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Bill Willis was the first NFL player teams designed their scheme around. Then Butkus, then Bobby Bell. Also Lem Barney and David Robinson.

LT wasn't a linebacker. Sorry to pop your bubble, he was a very quick defensive end with poor pass covering skills. Teams found they could go right at him and negate his speed. Great pass rusher, but not much else.

Tron
 
Re: Wrong..

Neutron said:
Bill Willis was the first NFL player teams designed their scheme around. Then Butkus, then Bobby Bell. Also Lem Barney and David Robinson.

LT wasn't a linebacker. Sorry to pop your bubble, he was a very quick defensive end with poor pass covering skills. Teams found they could go right at him and negate his speed. Great pass rusher, but not much else.

Tron
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From what I have read in a few articles LB was the first guy they designed their scheme around. I have a few articles to back that up. Do you?

The topic is the best defensive player of all time. LB get's my vote.. Going by the two links I provided I'm not the only person to think such a thing.
 
Lawrence Taylor

"The most dominant defensive player I've ever seen." - John Madden on LT

BTW, when Ray Lewis retires IMO he will go down as a top 3-5 all- time linebacker.
 
I used to have the privlege of watching LT every week and he was by far the best defensive player I have ever seen. Tron, you were saying he had poor pass coverage skills, I don't remember him called on that much to cover a TE. His bread and butter was pass rushing. the best performance I have ever seen was in the 80's against Washington. He was lined up against Joe Jacoby in that game and he took him to school. Jacoby was an established All Pro. Theisman was unable to remember his name at the end of that game. Offenses used to design plays away from him and he would come from nowhere to make plays. He did all this w/o a defensive tackle to draw away double teams and raise havoc.

Honorable mention goes to Mean Joe Green, Ray Lewis, Michael Strahan

The toughest was Dick Butkus, bar none. Although I remember Taylor played on a broken leg, Butkus just plain refused to come out of a game.
 
Good points and good post GiantsFan. Tron seems to have pulled a turtle.:devil:
 
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