I feel like Brick and Nick should each get half a statue. Or Brick can have Revis's place while Revis is holding out for more granite.
Kevin Mawae definitely needs to go there. Wearing a Jets cap in the HoF. I'd go Martin, Mawae, Revis for sure. Mangold and D'Brick are both deserving but by that standard so are Shaun Ellis and David Harris. Chrebet, Chad and Vinny are basically all in the same conversation: good but not great players who contributed to a decent number of winning seasons.
Tough not to go with this one mainly because they all played their entire careers with the Jets, except Martin's short stint with NEP, but he's the cream of the crop. Revis signing with the Patriots and winning a ring with them invalidates him for me even though in 09 and 10 he may have been the best Jet I've ever seen play. Tough call.
Eh, I mean Mangold is a Hall of Famer (likely) and DBrick will live on the ballot for a bit even though I doubt he ever gets in. Ellis was one of my guys back in the day and Harris was awesome but I don't think they're in the same conversation at all. Same thing with Vinny and to a lesser extent Chad. One great season for Vinny T. We can't be talking Mount Rushmore for that.
Not sure Hill comes close to Mt Bustmore. Not with Coples and Pryor screaming out for inclusion anyway.
Hackenberg was mentioned already. The other 3 are not busts, maybe they never became what we - as Jets fans - hoped they would be but all were NFL starters, had their moments and had careers post Jets. I don't think they even come close to inclusion.
You may be right on Mangold. 7 Pro Bowls and 2 All-Pros will get him HoF consideration. The other guys are all in the same category as each other. Mawae, BTW, was a better center than Mangold. He was the best in the game for a few years there. You may not remember due to age but Mawae was the best pulling OL in the game in his prime and other than him historically that guy is always a LG. Just realized as I was thinking about it that nobody pulls their interior linemen any more. Something about how the game has changed and it is no longer necessary to get your HB outside with big guys in front of him.
Of course I remember. I may have been young but I was a football nut since I was miniscule. When Curtis Martin won the rushing title in 04' they were killing teams on the edge. I believe that famous opening week when Martin dove for the pylon against the Bengals was a Mawae pulling play. I think the evolution of the modern day NFL athlete on both sides of the ball has slowed the pulling of teams guard/center. Tackles are expected to be extremely agile and teams can run wide zone schemes behind them. The Steelers have still made a living running the ball with DeCastro trap blocking or X-blocking the defensive end, but that's pulling internally or kicking out the end/sealing them, not digging out the linebacker or safety/nickel.
These would be my picks. I would also put Keyshawn, Coles, Moss and Cotchery ahead of Chrebet on any list.
My four: Martin - One of the greatest RBs in NFL history. Mawae - A center who could pull and lead blocking downfield. To paraphrase the Car Shield commercial "who does that?" Revis - A shutdown corner who came along at a time when people said there was no such thing anymore. Pennington - A QB I didn't particularly like, but was the face of the franchise for a six year period period between 2000-2008. Had 3 winning seasons making the NY Jets a respectable franchise during that run.
