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Not to early to talk 2026 Hall of Fame nominees

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3 hours ago, WUnderhill said:

You are selling Smith short by not acknowledging his numbers. Go check all time receiving yards and all purpose yards for receivers. If I remember correctly he’s I think #3 all time behind only Jerry Rice and Tim Brown for all purpose yards. It’s crazy how everybody acts like he’s some fringe guy that needs to wait his turn. The HOF should have been publicly shamed for putting Andre Johnson in ahead of him.

Smitty’s career numbers to me are the 2nd most bonkers in NFL history among wideouts behind only Rice. He put up what he did on run-first offenses his entire career with mostly below average QBing. Most the other guys in the top 10 had elite QBs and all of them were in several pass-first offenses

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3 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

Depends what you mean by "better than Fitzgerald"

At each of their peaks, sure, Smitty was the far more dangerous player and would absolutely strike more fear into opposing DC's than Fitz did.  But Fitzgerald definitely had a better career and is a clear cut 1st ballot HOFer, something as much as I love Smitty, never was going to be of course.

Smith is clear cut HOF if you judge what he did by reception. Fitzgerald was a stat padder. 
 

The most Steve Smith was ever targeted in his career was in 2005 (150 targets). The same year he wins the triple crown. 
 

Larry Fitzgerald was targeted more than 150 times over 9 separate seasons. Not once eclipsing 1500 yards in a season. 
 

The over glazing of Larry Fitzgerald going around is way over blown. ARZ was top 10 in passing attempts nearly his entire prime. Steve Smith and Andre Johnson had it far worse and would have surpassed his #s in the same situation.

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These are great posts with the comparisons and the numbers.  
I haven’t lookyat Smity’s numbers since probably the first time he was on the ballot. 
But if you watched every week you know what he is. Whatever his yardage or targets numbers were.  He was fuging dominant. I have watched since the AFL days and seen who there is to see. There are many great WRs over the years. GREAT WRs. Smitty is up there in the game of football. 

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6 hours ago, strato said:

These are great posts with the comparisons and the numbers.  
I haven’t lookyat Smity’s numbers since probably the first time he was on the ballot. 
But if you watched every week you know what he is. Whatever his yardage or targets numbers were.  He was fuging dominant. I have watched since the AFL days and seen who there is to see. There are many great WRs over the years. GREAT WRs. Smitty is up there in the game of football. 

100% agree. The eye test alone shows how great he was. 

And his prime years were with average to well below average QB play.

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15 hours ago, strato said:

Jake is in my Hall of Fame and he’ll have to settle for that. 

Smitty deserves it on talent and what he did for his team (not to his teammates). I am not feeling Smitty making it this year. 

Luke should be a first ballot IMO.

 

Luke should have been but was snubbed last year because Meion "fug face" Sanders cried that too many people were getting in and making him feel insecure so they changed the voting requirements 

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Steve Smith should absolutely be in the HOF. He's not because of his personality, not his accomplishments on the field.

Luke Kuechly should be first ballot, everyone knows that he was a HOF level player. 

Olsen, Kalil, TD, are all probably going to wait for a down year opportunity. 

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41 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Steve Smith should absolutely be in the HOF. He's not because of his personality, not his accomplishments on the field.

Luke Kuechly should be first ballot, everyone knows that he was a HOF level player. 

Olsen, Kalil, TD, are all probably going to wait for a down year opportunity. 

Pretty sure Luke gets in this year 

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18 hours ago, strato said:

Jake is in my Hall of Fame and he’ll have to settle for that. 

Smitty deserves it on talent and what he did for his team (not to his teammates). I am not feeling Smitty making it this year. 

Luke should be a first ballot IMO.

 

Luke’s shorter career is the only knock. If he played like 3 more years he would have been in first tear

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11 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

No. They have cracked down on the first ballot stuff recently because of complaints from the old guys.

Who that compares to Luke was denied the 1st ballot honor? Maybe I should look. 
I am biased I guess but I don’t think with an extra 3 years with no decline, how could they legitimately deny him? 
 

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