Chiefs Greats

[UK_Chief]

Been a fan since early 2000s so my Chiefs greats are fairly recent (Priest, Shields, Roaf, Gonzalez etc). So two questions:

1) Who are your all time Chiefs players that you will always remember as the best?

2) Which players from the current or last few seasons will be considered as an all time Chiefs great? (1 obvious one!!!)

[Big Poppa Payne]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

James Hasty. That guy was awesome. That INT TD against the Raiders in OT was epic.

Hasty was one of my favorites too, he was an absolute Raider killer. He always had his best games against them.

[Big Poppa Payne]

Dan Saleaumua and Joe Phillips

[Aries Walker]

Am I the only one who remembers Len Dawson?

[ThaVirus]

I became a die-hard in the early 2000s so for me it's guys like Willie Roaf, Will Shields, Tony Richardson, Jamaal Charles, and Tony Gonzalez.

Priest Holmes and Larry Johnson had their shine but you have to wonder how much of their success should be attributed to that beast of an offensive line.

I remember a bit of Derrick Thomas and I always loved Andre Rison as a kid.

[UK_Chief]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I became a die-hard in the early 2000s so for me it's guys like Willie Roaf, Will Shields, Tony Richardson, Jamaal Charles, and Tony Gonzalez.

Priest Holmes and Larry Johnson had their shine but you have to wonder how much of their success should be attributed to that beast of an offensive line.

I remember a bit of Derrick Thomas and I always loved Andre Rison as a kid.

What the frick would Jamaal do running behind that line?!

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Favorite all-time Chief is Len Dawson for me. I have a framed autographed jersey on my wall of his and an authentic 1969 Super Bowl IV jersey that my wife got me for a wedding anniversary gift that I wear. And it's an original, not a knock off that you can buy on those chinese sites lol. My other favs are Bell, Lanier, Buchanan, Shields, DT, Otis Taylor (a damn shame he isn't in the HOF) to name a few. Also love me some Jamaal Charles, Eric Berry, DJ, Poe, etc. All-time though is Lenny.

[rockymtnchief]

Jim Lynch was my first favorite, followed by Art Still, Joe Delaney, Deron Cherry, DT, Priest Holmes and JC.

[BossChief]

Okoye
Hasty
Dale carter
Hali
Priest
Charles
Gonzalez
NS/DT
Shields
Jared Allen
Derrick Johnson
Roaf
Flowers
Houston
Poe

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Am I the only one who remembers Len Dawson?

I didnt think you were all that much older than me based on the pic I seen of you somewhere around here, you totally looked like "Subotai" lol... Lenny Cool and this teams heyday was over atleast a full year before I was born.

So yeah, for my age range you're the only one... renting Montana was the closest I came to feeling that glory.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The older the more I feel that we really tend to overrate Derrick Thomas. He was a great football player and he did the most important thing a defender can do, but he was legitimately bad at every other aspect of playing defense. He couldn't cover worth a damn and he was a terrible, terrible run defender.

Looking back at the 1994 AFCCG, watching the Bills run the same counter trey at him over and over and watching him **** up every time to the point where Marty had to bench him in the biggest game of his life just makes it hard for me view him as positively as many others do.

I still think the best Chief I ever saw put on the uniform is Gonzalez. Yes, he was somewhat one dimensional, but he eventually became a passable blocker. There also hasn't yet been a human being who could adequately defend him on a football field. In true Chiefs fashion, though, if they have a definitive GOAT at a position, it's TE.

I'm also perturbed by the national love that Ogden received over Roaf, who was a superior football player on far worse teams. The two played in the same era, so you can't use time as an excuse. Ogden got his ass legitimately whipped by Dwight Freeney. Roaf ate him for lunch. I don't know of anyone who ever gave him trouble.

If you have two great players and the first struggles mightily against their matchup and the second never struggled against anyone while dominating the one guy that gave the other great player fits, how can you say that the first is better than the second (as the HOF vote and others have suggested)?

Great post.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Great post.

agree

What the frick would Jamaal do running behind that line?!

2500 yards

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by UK_Chief

What the frick would Jamaal do running behind that line?!

that would not be legal in today's NFl,

got an idiot at work, boss's kid, tell me how great the cards line is
the ****er has never seen shields and roalf pull and lead a sweep,
caterpillar is still trying to copy that bulldozing teknology

[Psyko Tek]

k I loved Neil smith, yeah I know he sold out( forced out) but that ****ing flinch he would do to pull offenses of the line I loved
that whole D is one of my all time fave
smith, DT, salemua, hasty, tongue, warfield, even albert lewis ( also a sellout)
marty kept it within 7 those ****ers would win it in the 4th somehow

that's how I remember the 90's
and I always will, true or not

[milkman]

OK, the usual suspects have already been named.

Willie Lanier was, and still is, my favorite player ever.
Bobby Bell is almost certainly the greatest ever, though.

The one guy who might not get mentioned, however, is Jim Tyrer.

He was widely considered the best LT to have ever played the game when he retired, but his murder/suicide killed any chance that he would get into the HOF where he belongs.

Given what we've learned about concussions and CTE over the last few years, they should reconsider his canidacy.

[MatriculatingHank]

Originally Posted by Mojo Jojo

Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier, Buck Buchanan...Three of the greatest if not the greatest players at their positions in the history of Pro Football (not just Chiefs, all of Pro Football)

My thoughts exactly. I think these 3 players in their prime would be able to succeed in today's NFL. Bobby Bell for sure.