12-16-2015, 11:01 AM
1st team All Pro for a decade straight. Four times the players voted him the offensive lineman of the year which tells you all you need to know.
I imagine it happened other times, and I was pretty young watching him, but he's the only guy I remember you could leave on an island with Bruce Smith, Lawrence Taylor, etc, and not have a care in the world.
Conditioning and preparation matched ridiculous talent. He simply didn't miss games. Probably easier then than now since now lineman are expected to carry around 75 lbs of fat.
A guy like Tony Boselli was probably as impressive to the eye. He was not nearly as durable.
Similar to JJ Watt, a fixture in the passing game on short yardage plays.
Think on it this way. He played a position wherein stats tell us nothing. He didn't play for the Cowboys, Steelers or Niners. He wasn't on a fashionable team like the 1985 Bears. He didn't play for the 60's Packers. He was a Bengal, yet widely acknowledged as the benchmark. Gotta be special in everyone's eyes for that kind of attention.
I imagine it happened other times, and I was pretty young watching him, but he's the only guy I remember you could leave on an island with Bruce Smith, Lawrence Taylor, etc, and not have a care in the world.
Conditioning and preparation matched ridiculous talent. He simply didn't miss games. Probably easier then than now since now lineman are expected to carry around 75 lbs of fat.
A guy like Tony Boselli was probably as impressive to the eye. He was not nearly as durable.
Similar to JJ Watt, a fixture in the passing game on short yardage plays.
Think on it this way. He played a position wherein stats tell us nothing. He didn't play for the Cowboys, Steelers or Niners. He wasn't on a fashionable team like the 1985 Bears. He didn't play for the 60's Packers. He was a Bengal, yet widely acknowledged as the benchmark. Gotta be special in everyone's eyes for that kind of attention.
