2012 Pro Football HOF candidates announced...

I'd say Rod Smith has an interesting case, if he wasn't sitting behind Chris Carter, Andre Reed and Tim Brown. With those three still out there, Smith won't get a sniff.

 

Bill Cowher = No
Bill Parcells = Yes
Marty Schottenheimer = Not yet (no rings)
Keyshawn Johnson = No
Tiki Barbe = No
Drew Bledsoe = No
Stephen Davis = No
Rod Smith = No
Will Shields = Yes
Troy Vincent = No
Mike Vanderjagt = No

 

I'm guessing next year we will see a lot of people who have been close in previous years finally get the call.

 

Parcells is the only lock out of the first-timers. The backlog will be sorta taken care of this year.

 

Ditto on Shields but, hell, I thought Roaf would be first ballot.

And please hold off any Whitlock cracks. Oh, shit. Cracks.

 

Re: Shields...when is the last time a o-lineman went in first ballot? Not saying, he isn't worthy but Willie Roaf is still on the outside. I think Roaf goes in first. I think Shields is the second best lineman on the ballot this year.

 

And Jack Butler and Dick Stanfel lead the old-timers.

 

Just a guess, Bruce Matthews? Willie/Will, one will bounce the other and that shouldn't happen.

 

It looks like Matthews...

 

I wouldn't be stunned if the voters made Parcells wait another year for his two decades worth of waffling and dicking around with retirement and/or other jobs while he was still employed.

 

I can only assume that Parcells will decide the only person qualified to introduce him at the HOF will be himself.