Chad & Orlando Brown

[Shake n Blake]

(10-17-2023, 03:02 PM)TheFan Wrote: Okay. But he was a TE who played TE his entire career. Not WR. He still lined up and blocked a lot throughout his career and assisted in having top run games on most teams he played on. Being only 1000 yards less than Chad is really freaking good when you're playing TE and not WR. That's like saying Gronk wasn't a good TE because he has less yards than Chad. 

When you're in the HOF and around top 5 at your position in history you can kinda do what you want. Sharpe is a douche but he can back it up.

Yeah I get all that, but here's the thing. Shannon was never known as a blocker and to credit him for the success of the Broncos run game or Jamal Lewis is ridiculous.

So we have to judge them as receivers. Shannon was a great receiver...for a TE. Chad was just a great receiver, period. Shannon wouldn't even be a HOF'er if he didn't luck out to play with the Broncos and Ravens at their absolute peaks.

I remember Shannon with the Ravens. He was a good player, but not the focus. Maybe I'd be too harsh saying he was an afterthought, but nobody went into Ravens week thinking "man, what can we do with Shannon?".

He had some great seasons with John Elway. If you think there is some huge gap between Shannon and Chad as players, then we just disagree. Strongly. 

I don't think there was a gap at all, and if anything, I'd take prime Chad over Shannon any day of the week. No homer with that take at all.