2020 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class

Zach Thomas played 12 full seasons. He was first-team All-Pro in five of them and second-team All-Pro in two others. He is a second-team all-decade 2000s pick behind Lewis, Brooks and Urlacher.

 

Seeing that he's been on the ballot four years and had two other offensive lineman go in before him, it's seems to be a majority opinion.

There are special cases for the short-career guys who have made it.

Otherwise, how do you explain Sam Mills being a finalist over Patrick Willis? How do you explain that the short-career guys in have special cases surrounding them?

 

Now that is a decent argument in his favor. My issue wasn't so much with the idea that Thomas is worth considering. The other guy provided no support for his argument other than Thomas being the heart of the Dolphins' defense, which really doesn't mean much.

 

Name 1.

 

So? He didn't play in Miami pro or college, he isn't from there and no one in Miami gives a fuck about him or the Buccaneers. So why do they need to parade him around there?

 

Short career hall of famers should be reserved for positions that tend to have shorter careers. That is not offensive lineman.

 

My point in the original post was that when finalists had their teams playing in the Super Bowl, they would be the ones to get selected as part of a celebration of the weekend. That was typically the case until Strahan, when it was assumed he would be picked because the game was being held in New York. Since then that connection hasn't held true for those chosen

 

The only thing that might, might have kept Polamalu out on the first ballot is the position he played, not where he played it.

The turnaround on safeties in the past five-10 years has been amazing to see.

 

One more year?