Darrell Green had uncanny longevity, playing a
position premised on speed and quickness well beyond his 40th birthday.
In
2002, he appeared in every game, at the ripe old football age of 42. (Which still sounds really old, even though I’m 44.)
Green was part of two Super Bowl teams. A punt return
for a touchdown in 1987 against the Bears, during which he injured a
rib and finished the play holding his side, helping to propel the team
to an unexpected NFL title.
Also, Green was one of the fastest players in the
league for most if not all of his career. He made it
into the Hall of Fame on the first try.
We could go on and on. But do we need to? He was a
once-in-a-century player, and we hope that every guy who receives the
award named for Green will do justice to his NFL legacy.
This year’s winner already is well on his way, only three years into his career. Darrelle Revis, the overwhelming choice of the PFT staff not named “Florio”; even Rosenthal put down the black-and-gold pom-poms for a minute and recognized that Revis deserved it over Tracy Porter. So given that I asked for their opinion, I probably should heed it.
Despite Packers cornerback Charles Woodson winning the NFL defensive player of the year award and giving $2 million to the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Revis has emerged as the best corner in the game, with or without over-the-top help when facing Randy Moss.
And so as the 32 teams prepare to select a new slate of incoming rookies, more than a few of the 13 who passed on Revis, such as the Raiders, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Redskins, Falcons, Dolphins, Texans, Bills, and Rams, have to be wondering what in the hell they were thinking — and hoping that they’re not thinking the same thing when they pick again this year.
Sounds like you need to re-think the parameters of this “award”, Florio.
Concur on the Green comments, the guy was and is amazing.
You don’t need “help over the top” when your front seven can pressure the QB like the Jets. Woodson had no help from anywhere else on the field and still had a monster year. He deserved the player of the year award that he won and, being the oldest of the nominees for the Darrell Green Award, he probably deserved that one, too.
Woodson is better.
I guess at age 4 you are technically more than 3 years removed from high school…
Revis deserves it, but I hope for the rest of his career we don’t have to hear “Probably the best cover corner in the game” every single time his name is mentioned.
That’s going to get old.
The pick verses the Bears was during the Divisional Round what Title did that propel them to?
I thought Green appeared in 3 Super Bowls…lost in 83 and won in 87 and 91.
I’ve met Green a couple times personally and although I hate the Redskins, he is a great guy. Great player too.
I wholeheartedly agree with Revis for the award. I think he derserved the NFL defensive player of the year award, too. And he’s only going to get better!
Lemmee guess. Darelle Revis is the greatest of all time.
Green was on 3 Super Bowl teams (’84, ’88, ’92) and 2 Super Bowl champs.
Hilarious that Florio would call someone else out on their fandom. Pot, kettle, black.
im surprised he hasnt demanded a $100 million contract
It’s so funny to me to watch you all get bent out of shape over some award that Florio decided to make up. It’s not like Revis wins anything, so who cares? LOL
New York hype. Fuhgetaboudit.
Being a diehard Boys fan it isn’t easy to like any Redskin, but Green is one of my favorite players of all time. The man could flat out play football and he was a good person and leader besides. What a great player he was.
I hope Darrell Revis isn’t like Courtland Finnegan or Antonio Bryant.
Show up one year, disappear the next
Florio, remember when you KILLED, basiclly until the next 14th pick signed their contract the Jets for their contract to Darrelle?
How’s that looking now?
“Packers cornerback Charles Woodson gave $2 million to the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital”
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^Woodson is The Man…
Dear Florio
By your thinking Clay Matthews should be defensive Rookie of the year. Moron, Charles Woodson should have won But your East Coast bias shows through again.Hey how do you like the “change” Obama has brought you weenie liberal I bet you think Keith Olbermann tastes good
and he seems like a good guy….what a defensive weapon to have on your team….i told my buddies that fateful draft day the bills should take him and got abused for saying it.
get out the knee pads…three years in the league and he is the best, and the Jets are going to win the super bowl next year, and new england is rumoured to get every free agent this year, and the giants will win the nfc , etc….east coast bs
“obama has been in office for one year….fixing the mess that bush made will take much longer than a year.”
Obama’s got 2.5 years left to prove that he’s anything but the Buffalo Bills of presidential administrations.