[CBFF] Best #4 pick of all time

[Steve Behrens]

I obviously was responding off the cuff.  Still I believe Payton had
plenty less to work with that Montana for the length of their respective
careers, and Vic's comments about number of touches is also valid.

Hey, if you got more, throw 'em out...  Don't let my apparently misguided
attempt to defend Sweetness's honor stop you....

-Behr





On 4/26/07, Jim Ferolie <ferolie at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Behr, there are plenty of arguments for Payton, but you're not making any
> of
> them.
>
> Montana won two Super Bowls before Rice was drafted. His team was
> consistently elite, always because of its offense. Nobody, nobody was more
> dangerous in the clutch. He never threw an interception or a fumble in
> four
> Super Bowl wins. And his team was downright AWFUL when he was drafted
> (2-14
> while he sat behind DeBerg as a rookie).
>
> Third round, by the way.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Behrens" <steve.behrens at gmail.com>
>
>
> > Montana had Rice for his whole career, plus a decent RB and line for
> much
> > of
> > it.  Payton had nobody for most of his.  The score would not have been
> 46
> > to
> > 10 in the SB had the Pats decided that the one guy they had to stop to
> > have
> > any kind of a chance to win the game was Payton.  They threw everything
> at
> > Payton and neglected the rest of the Bears offense.
> >
> > Let Montana wallow with a team as thin on talent as Payton did and then
> > let's see if he puts up HOF numbers....
> >
> > -Behr
> >
> >
> > On 4/25/07, Jason Cetina <jason at cetinas.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Joe Montana?
> >>
> >> Being a fan, I'd always pick Payton for my team, but my head tells me
> >> that
> >> Montana did just a bit more for his team.
> >>
> >> Please don't hurt me.
> >>
> >> On 4/24/07, Victor Waldron <victor19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Can you seriously think of a #1 that would have been better??
> >> >
> >> > V
> >> >
> >> > On 4/24/07, Jason Cetina <jason at cetinas.org> wrote:
> >> > > #34. Love it.
> >> > >
> >> > > http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft07/news/story?id=2847606
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