Hof - best players or a popularity contest.

[Nicomo Cosca]

(01-23-2020, 01:04 AM)Mobster Wrote: Honestly, they haven't had HOF caliber players. It's no accident they've been around for 50+ years and have zero championships. They're averaging less than one playoff victory per decade for for their entire existence.

Munoz is the only no brainier. After him, there's a few borderline guys. Riley has the numbers, but I don't recall anyone ever considering him to be one of the elite at his position. Isaac Curtis probably was among the elite, but was overshadowed, and played in the deadball era of unimpressive passing stats. Ken Anderson will make it eventually, but even he is borderline.

Dillon was an elite level player but played on awful teams with awful O-Lines so doesn't have the stats. Chad was elite for a while but didn't sustain it long enough. Same with AJ Green and Geno Atkins. Both were on HOF paces for a while, but have slipped too much in recent years.

Willie Anderson is probably the most HOF worthy bengal ever after Munoz. Absolutely dominant in his era and sustained it for a long time. RTs don't get the respect though, for some stupid reason.

Bengals have a long history of passing on special HOF level talents in the draft to pick lesser players at the same position.

Since when does a player have to be truly “elite” to get into the HoF? There’s plenty of guys I’d say were merely just very good already in.