@@alexamerling79my comment said GOOD team or Stable QB. Palmer had 5 years in Arizona but only healthy for 3 of those.. that's not stable. Also that totals 3 out of 16 years of Fitzgerald career. Rest my case.
I love Randy Moss coming in and saying to Bill belichick "yeah, you can forget about seeing single high safety while I'm here." That's a bad mother right there
They snubbed him out of the NFL early. Now they want to pretend he never played at all. They took that money from his ratings hike & ticket sales though. He was the true “beast mode” no one wanted to cover or tackle him.
"Thorwing deep for Fitz.. far side in the.. endzone.. in DOUBLE coverag.. *IT DOESN'T MATTER!!* " That sums up Larry's inspirational career. The man is a walking Gold Jacket.
the blocking sums it up to me, he was like a 5th lineman on either side of the field and was disgusting blocking out of the backfield, who does that and catches back shoulder fades? Larry and nobody else
Megatron is the all time single season receiving leader. In fact he has the only ever 1900 yard season with 1964 in 2012. He was also the league's leading receiver in 2011 with 1681 yards. The same year he set the single season receiving record he also led the league in catches with 122. In 2008 he tied Larry Fitzgerald for the league lead in receiving touchdowns with 12. Saying he never led the league in anything is pure ignorance.
Especially when Marvin Harrison played with Peyton for 98% of his career. TO had Steve Young for a couple years, then Jeff Garcia, McNabb, Romo, Trent Edwards and Carson Palmer. Outside of Young, none could match up to Peyton!
Mike Youngblood don’t sleep on Marvin, he was hella consistent throughout his career. He carried Peyton early in his career as Peyton always panic dumped the ball off to him and he still made the catches. Peyton struggled a lot early on. Having a record back to back 4 100 catch seasons straight. Other than Wes Welker and Brady we haven’t seen that since and Wes was a slot receiver. Marvin was not. Marvin just lost his record of 143 to Michael Thomas this season by one catch too. He also has a super bowl win under his belt which sadly TO never got to win. NFL lists always take SB rings into account A big reason TO had so many QB’s is because he bounced around a lot. He doesn’t admit it, but at the time he was very much so a problem/diva like receiver who people didn’t want to have. Complained when he didnt get the ball. Donavan still dislikes TO to this day i think
@@mikeyoungblood1642 - McNabb did not have the same career, but when he was at his best, he was one of the best to ever do it. McNabb will go down as a forgotton QB and it is sad. (49ers fan who just respected the man's game)
I figured TO acts like he is the WR God of football and he refused to share the stage with Randy Moss, thus his own ceremony, which I gladly refused to watch, that prima donna.
Look, I get that he wasn't the most likeable player ever, but snubbing TO is a joke. The guy played in a Superbowl on one leg and was the best player on the field that day. He's top 5 in career stats and ranks only behind Rice in a few of them. Moss was every bit the diva TO was and he's on the list, but TO still gets left off? No wonder he wanted nothing to do with the HOF.
Yeah but you can argue that Moss 'grew up' with his career. TO was causing office lady type drama in every situation he would get into when he was 40+ years old
Imagine if Larry would have had a decent qb for those 5 years he had some of the worst qbs to ever play? He would be neck and neck with Jerry already . Possibly the greatest to ever do it that no 1 talks about
He or T.O. Should be on this list. Gale Sayers played 68 games in 7 seasons. Barry, Jim Brown also had short careers. I look at the talent and production when he played. Megaton was a legit top 5 all time talent who put up HOF numbers on terrible teams that had no other option. These lists tend to favor the old school guys.
Harry Engel no doubt they belong. Barry is my favorite player of all time, however Calvin Johnson played in 135 games, 700+ catches, over 80 TD, nearly 12,000 yards in 9 seasons, and retired at 30. He has the numbers and the talent.
In that short Career he finished with all kinds of records ....what are u talking about. Was the most dominant receiver for at least 3 seasons. TO has never been the best WR in the league in any season
1. Jerry Rice- Could not be covered in any type of coverage you put on him. Something else that he was greater at above all receivers was turning short 5-15 yard routes into 60-70-80+ yards. Their was not one weakness to Rice's game. Not one. What makes Jerry Rice still special, is that his single game former records of most TDs and most yards in a season are still the greatest receiving performances of all time in those respective categories/seasons. Let me explain. First: The most td's in a season: Moss broke the record yes. But Rice set the record while only having 12 games played due to the strike season that year. Experts predicted if that year was an actual full season, and the averages Rice was having that year, Rice could have very well finished that season reaching between 28-30 TDS before playoffs. Moss didn't even tie Rice's record in his record breaking season with the Patriots until after the 12th game. It took more games for him to actually tie Rice before eventually breaking the record. Second: The most yards in a season: Rice did have a full season played when he held this record unlike his TD record. However, what made Rice's record breaking season more greater than Megatron's record breaking season was simply the yards/td ratio. Rice finished with 1,848 yards, 15 touchdowns, and 1 rushing touchdown. (A total of 16 TDs) Also averaging 15.1 yards per catch w/ 122 catches with no fumbles. For Megatron? 1,964 yards, 5 Tds, 0 rushing touchdowns, and 3 fumbles. (All turnovers) With 16.1 yards per catch while catching a total of 122 footballs. Since this generation is all about NFL Fantasy and it's accumulating of points, if these two performed these two seasons at the same time, Jerry Rice would finish 1st in NFL Fantasy. For a good decade+ , the league has done everything they can to make the QB look as good as possible and be protected. Basically over a decade since the defense has been hampered down and crippled compared to what they were able to do and get away with in the 80s and 90s. And through this past decade and a half, their is not one receiver that is even sniffing to reaching career numbers that Rice got. 2. TO: One of the top greatest athletic wide receivers to ever play. Chemistry with QBs was great despite personal problems off the field. T.O.'s best performance was his losing effort in the Super Bowl as an Eagles player. 3. Randy Moss. Perhaps the most gifted athlete in the Wide Receiver position. However, his play to not get hurt, taking plays off, deciding when to go 100% in games, and the fact that Moss was mostly a one-trick pony in seemingly only being a deep threat receiver. (Greatest deep threat receiver). Was not one of the greatest blockers in the game as a receiver by a long shot, QB could never trust him on short/cross slant routes unless they knew he'd have a wide window of space or else he'd be getting ghost feet fearing he was going to get hammered. 4. Larry Fitzgerald: If only he was around with Kurt Warner during Warner's prime years. If only Larry had better overall teams with Arizona Cardinals. Despite that, Larry is one of the greatest consummate wide receiver teammates you could ever have. One of the most gifted and reliable hands a receiver has ever possessed. Throw the ball high, chances are, Larry is the one that is going to jump and reach the highest altitude in order to get the ball in his hands outside of Randy Moss. A true all around great receiver and a phenomenal team player. 5. Calvin Johnson- Megatron is in my opinion the only receiver that has had a shot of dethroning the GOAT, Jerry Rice. Due to his short career, he will always be a what if type of receiver. Definitely had the tools to usurp Rice and break every record. Sadly, he followed the footsteps of the former Lion legend, Barry Sanders. However, unlike Sanders, Calvin's total career stats don't give enough evidence that suggest he'd have reached Rice's records, because his career was just that short in regards to numbers that Rice simply has. Another thing that dodges him from being any higher than 5 is the fact that Calvin was great at accumulating a lot of yards and catches, but for whatever reason, when it came time to actually turn those yards and catches into td's, their was too much absences of that.
@@chasewilley4648 should reread what i wrote about how he managed to beat Rice's single season record and how Rice reached his record ;) You will know just how much Rice's season was actually better ;)
@@1NumeroUno To be perfectly honest Randy should have played better. 5 rec for 61 yards was unacceptable for an all-time great in his first Super Bowl . Rice, Owens and Fitzgerald all performed MUCH better when they got their first shot and Owens had a broken leg.
@@xaviervega468 Not really, it wasn't Randy's fault, Tom had a high ankle sprain (suffered in the AFC championship) on his planting leg the same injury that TO had. He was in a boot up until game time. Tom was under and over throwing him all game which had never happened that season up to that point. Additionally because the O-line couldn't protect Brady the timing that Randy and Tom had developed all year was also disrupted all of this equals poor statistics and an L.
The NFL started in 1920. Don Hutson retired in 1945 and at that time he had three times as many touchdowns as anyone else in those first 25 years of football. It's a record that stood for 44 years until Steve Largent broke it in 1989. Hutson only played 10-11 games a year. Mind boggling. I'd call him the greatest football player ever, regardless of position. Too smart. Too fast. Too creative. Too tough. For anyone in his time. He dominated his era more than football player ever dominated their own time.
And when did Candy Moss play? Had to change the rules so he could catch passes. Playing in a dome. Private jets. Hotels. Playing with better nutrition, better training and soft zones and rules.
They left a lot on the table with the Hutson conversation. I know it’s easy to overlook the old school era with how much more advanced the game and athletes are, but when he retired he had TRIPLE the amount of touchdown catches as the next guy all time. Pretty wild
Thatcher Hoyt Hutson is the reason I have developed a certain fascination with the WHITE WR with reputation as a speed merchant. In the words of MLK JR I HAVE DREAM THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE A BLACK QB TEAM UP WITH A WHITE WR WITH SIZE AND SPEED IN THE NFL.ALL OF THE GREAT QB/WR COMBOS THE QB WAS WHITE.
@@dwightlove3704 haha I was a little worried where the first part of this going ethically but that would definitely be a fun first time combo. I guess mahomes to kelce are giving us a version 1.0, but we need more speed!
Has to be the toughest category to limit it to just 10. People knew of the greats, but I always appreciated watching those underrated guys that just were always reliable...Hines Ward, Jimmy Smith, Herman Moore, Wayne Chrebet, Flipper Anderson, Stanley Morgan, Wesley Walker, Sammy White to name a few. You just couldn't help but to like those guys and root for them even though you knew they'd never be in any realistic top 10 or 20 all-time list.
Jerry Rice laughing at the mere thought of Randy Moss being mentioned in the same sentence as a single high safety before Belichick even gets to the point, is hilarious at 6:02.
I'm starting to hear some people penalize Jerry Rice for GOAT WR status because he catches balls in stride and don't have to go up to make catches like Randy Moss and Megatron did but that's like penalizing Michael Jordan for having the smoothest fadeaway. Jerry constantly tirelessly worked on his routerunning like a maniac.
The problem is that casuals confuse athleticism with skill. Moss and Megatron were better athletes, but Rice was easily more skilled than either one. Rice's route running and ability to pick up yards after the catch was second to none. Rice was also an ace blocker and ran the reverse better than any other receiver I've ever seen.
@@xaviervega468 I can't argue with anything you said it's all true. I'm glad you touched on Jerry's blocking ability he doesn't get enough credit for that.👍🏽
So many kids in the comments don’t know a thing about the games history then complain about snubs. To them the best receivers of all time are they guys who are good in Madden.
I feel like largent does not get enough credit. He had no gloves he wasn’t the biggest or the fastest but he had the best hands ever. Also he didn’t even have a good QB. He changed the game and he should 100% be in this list over T.O and Calvin
I remember Fitzgerald being a very charitable guy and even receiving the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. I had no idea that his generosity was sparked by kindness and generosity shown to him by Randy Moss when he was the ball boy. That is a great story and it shows that Moss was a good guy despite the press trying to smear his name nearly every season.
Cause Belichick hates stupid question. If u ask him a good question, he will give u a good and long answer on how his team performed, what probably went wrong and what made the opponent great! But if u ask him dumb questions he'll just ignore u and skip as fast as possible to the end of the press conference. Here they're talking with football legends about the best players in history, so he's obviously interested in talking about stuff he knows!
Hmmmm weird list. Missing T.O and the Playmaker... I've only been watching since the 80s so i don't haven't seen the players in the 60s and 70s... but those two guys were bloody amazing.
For context on Don Hutson as one of those guys before your time, when he retired noone was even close in the league receiving wise. When Hutson retired for the third and final time after the 1945 season, he had nearly double the receptions Chicago’s Jim Benton had when he retired two years later as the No. 2 all-time leading receiver (488 to 288) twice the touchdowns (99 vs 45) named first team All-Pro eight times, leading the league in receptions eight times, receiving yardage seven times and touchdowns nine times in a 10 year career. He also lead the league in interceptions in 1940. It took till Steve Largent to get past that touchdown milestone. He's arguably the Jim Brown of receivers. He retired because they wouldn't give him money consummate with basically MVP/top tier QB play. And so he left for good, not because he couldnt play but because they wouldn't pay him to. There was nothing left to prove for him otherwise. And that era of Packers, who he helped win 4 titles for basically went to crap until the 60's when Lombardi arrived.
Shame on you NFL. Yall know damn well TERRELL OWENS belongs on this list l, I'm sorry I love some of these players but only one reciever I've seen perform better that T.O. consistently!!
only if megaton wasn’t drafted by the lions oh my god he would literally be the best receiver all time accolades and all even without accolades he still beat all time
Just gonna be waiting a long time to see team success. I think team obliterator-the most fitting name ever-only played in 1 SB,& (albeit a special performance)has no rings...a clear cut HOFer though, no doubt. But only off production..Hall of piss as a team mate,& leader.
@@63Baggies How? Largent was the all-time leader in catches, yard,and TD;s when he retired. Rice patterned his game after him. Cliff was just a better deep threat.
@@xaviervega468 I was about to say, Branch is a deep threat. Largent could win anywhere and often did with his mental game. How he got open so often, and how open he got, is mind boggling at times on film. Definitely felt like the Larry Fitzgerald of his generation and certainly of that franchise.
@@popej611 Reggie gets dinged in the eyes of some was because of who he was playing alongside of. Also Andre Reed & Isaac Bruce have arguments as well.
@@trainwithrhettkind1165 Bullshit. Eight straight years of a thousand yards, with MULTIPLE QBs throwing to him, lead the league in TDs in 3 of those years as well. He had as good of hands as ANY WR in NFL history, and had a football IQ that was off the charts. You clearly dont know football history.
His career was too short - 9 seasons - and he also got hurt because Detroit failed to get him the ball in the end zone (he had less than 10 TDS in 5 of his 9 seasons, including lows of 4 , 5 and 5)
James Rawlins he has so many records it don’t matter how many season he played he has 80 tds in 9 seasons how should he not be on here he is top five reciver of all time
@@andrewmatheny7939 While I admire Johnson, most of his records come for single season marks (2012). Other than his fastest to get to 10,000 yards, most of his other stats career wise don't compare. Johnson is 22nd in career TDs (83), 31st in Receiving Yards (11,619) - numbers that don't compare to the receivers at the top of the list. His most impressive stat - receiving yards per game - has lost a little of its luster because teams throw so much more in the current era. Also remember that it isn't that easy for Wide Receivers (other than Jerry Rice) to get into the HOF - and since Johnson is competing against Receivers with more TDS and Yards, longevity becomes a factor. Lynn Swann is the only wide receiver in the Hall of Fame with less than 11 seasons (he played 9) - and he has four rings and a Super Bowl MVP that got him into the Hall. Not saying Calvin Johnson isn't immensely talented - but only playing 8 seasons will keep him out of the HoF, fair or not
Jerry Rice and Randy Moss sitting next to each other, the 2 greatest WR to ever play football. Honestly you could make a case for Randy Moss being #1 but its trivial to me because greatness is greatness regardless of what number you place before it. Everyone will have their own opinions regardless of how "official" this list is.
Remember that it took Moss 16 games to break Rice's TD reception record. Rice had 22 TDs in 12 games. He only had one game where he had "only" one TD reception.
Not to mention the Patriots ran up scores that season specifically seeking records. Going for it on 4th down in blowout games in the 4th quarter just to get Brady and moss more tds
Rice had one of the greatest QBS Joe Montana throwing him the football. When Randy Moss broke Jerry Rice's record was his first year with Tom Brady as his Quarterback. Jerry Rice had played 3 years with Joe Montana as his Quarterback.
Bias against him is awful. Just because he celebrated and had an ego. Should’ve been a first ballot hall of famer. Every qb he played with had there best season throwing to him. Could run every route. Slant, over the top. Get yards after the catch
If he played more than nine seasons I think he would have - also too many seasons they didn't get him the ball in the end zone - he had less than 10 TDs in 5 of his 9 seasons (including lows of 4, 5 and 5)
I find it funny how most fans talk about a WR speed to take the top of a defense but the best WR of all time wasn't fast but still will take the too of a defense and would beat a faster man in coverage lol
Andrew Matheny what do you mean it doesn’t matter how long you played? If longevity doesn’t matter we would have a completely different top 100 list comprised of a bunch of 1 season wonders who ended up getting hurt and getting out after a year or two but had amazing single seasons or something of that nature
I'm relieved at least someone else appreciates the greatness of Warfield. It was so much fun to watch him use his skill as a hurdler to produce YAC like few others. Passing the ball is the fastest way to gain yards and score points. No other receiver in the HoF averaged 20+ yds. per catch, and only Don Hutson (and his WWII-inflated rec. TDs) averaged fewer catches per touchdown than Warfield. As Collinsworth noted, teams in Warfield's didn't throw the ball much. In fact, from 1964-74, the league average for team pass attempts was around than 26 per game (2020 average was 35.2). The 1971 and 1972 Dolphins only averaged 18 pass attempts per game! If the most productive receiver of that era played with Manning or Brady, and worn the gloves favored by so many players in today's NFL, Warfield would be just as accomplished as, let's say, Marvin Harrison. The standard set by Jerry Rice is tough to match due to his longevity. That makes no. 42 second only to the GOAT, IMO.
Jacob Miles there definitely are not a lot of wr above Calvin. Tell me a more gifted receiver physically and talented wise. Maybe randy and that’s it. He broke the single receiving yardage record along with many other records. He’s a top 5 receiver all time if not top 3 with moss and rice and to. It’s those 4 then everybody else
Here is my list, feel free to put your input. Jerry Rice (speaks for itself) Randy Moss (speaks for itself) Lance Alworth (I actually agree with this one, I feel he does not get the credit he deserves because he played in the AFL) Terrell Owens (how do you not include him? You are leaving out a guy who is top 3 in receiving TDs and yards, also is first team all-pro on 3 different teams. That is absurd!) Calvin Johnson (this may seem absurd to some, but look at Calvin’s time in the league, to go along with his other accolades, he has the record for most receiving yards in a season, most receiving yards in a game (without OT). His biggest weakness was his loyalty to the Lions. You can’t tell me Crazy legs Hirsch was better than Megatron) Don Hutson (another one I agree with big time, dude had triple the receiving TDS of second place when he retired with 99, that is dominance if I’ve ever seen it) Larry Fitzgerald (Look at this guys career and the qbs he has been stuck with and he manages to be a great receiver every year and now is 2nd all time in yards and receptions, also has more tackles than drops) Steve Largent (very underrated and a guy who I think should speak for himself) Marvin Harrison (I struggled with Marvin the most, but despite the fact he had Peyton Manning, you can’t deny his consistently great play and the receptions record that was seen as unbreakable until Michael Thomas broke it) Paul Warfield (I originally had Isaac Bruce here, but after learning more about both Warfield and Berry, I ended up replacing Bruce with Warfield, but Berry could also go here. I ended up picking Warfield because of his incredible numbers despite the lack of receptions. Honourable mentions: Isaac Bruce, Raymond Berry, Cris Carter and Michael Irvin (honestly, place any one of these guys in place of Marvin Harrison and it is still a good list to me. Let me know what you think. Edit: I replaced Isaac Bruce with Paul Warfield.
Noah Rocca sub in Raymond Berry for Isaac Bruce and you got it. Also I really hate when people bring up the QB’s a wide receiver had or vice versa. Their accomplishments speak for themselves. This isn’t a what if game, where we can switch around the players they had with them. I’m not trying to pick on you but I see this so often and especially against Marvin Harrison. Marvin is underrated because he was the quiet guy in the era of diva WR’s. And I hate when people disrespect him. Not saying you were, but I see it too often. You can’t judge people by what they had with then you can only judge them for what they did.
1950's Rams are the father's of the modern day passing offense. They still hold the record for the most points per game in a season. That's why Hirsch is on the list. If Raymond Berry is on than Don Maynard deserves to be on it too. Same goes for Charley Taylor, Taylor was not as dynamic as Warfield, but he was as physical and as productive of any WR during his time. Taylor and Warfield were the TO and Moss of their era
I wish you would speak for Largent, because he never would. Pretty selfless guy, one who I think the younger fans take for granted. Few players can set up a player a route or two in advance. That guy could set you up mid route. Film was a lie and so were his eyes as they gave away nothing. I still don't understand what Houston didn't see to let him go to Seattle. Maybe I don't ever want to understand as a fan of football, Steve was a football player and that's what mattered. Warfield was what you'd call the missing piece, the player that takes you over the top from being a potentially good team to a great team. When teams evaluate what an acquisition can do for a team, a franchise, Warfield is arguably a standard you should set. And that sounds weird when you consider his numbers don't seem like that next to todays game. But you have to remember the era he was in, and how Shula ran that Miami team. They ran the ball masterfully with a 3 deep backfield, so when they needed the pass they needed a winning one. Warfield gave them that dimension.
Another a$$hole list. How many times did these guys run a deep pattern, and be on the field for the next play? Easier to run a deep pattern and take a play or two off than to run the deep pattern and then line up for the next play. RE: 40's, 50's, 60's, or 70's wide receivers. They had to stay on the field, not get some rest.
10= TERRRELL OWENS 9= MICHAEL IRVIN 8= MARVIN HARRISON 7= LARRY FITZGERALD 6= CRIS CARTER 5= CALVIN JHONSON 4= JULIO JONES 3= ANTONIO BROWN 2= RANDY MOSS 1= JERRY RICE
Good segment. But wow, they really said not one word about Terrell Owens. Wow. More first team all pros than any in that booth other than Jerry. And also he was just Fkn incredible. Cmon !
Megatron is the all time single season record holder, career ypg record holder, and had the most receiving yards through his first 9 seasons of any player ever. He is also the all time leader for consecutive 100 yard games. He had 329 receiving yards in a GAME, well more than anybody else here was able to achieve. He had a faster 40 and stronger bench than anybody on this list, while also being taller than them. He should be considered the GOAT, but since he retired early he isn’t even on the list smh.
Randy ran a much faster 40 yard dash and was basically the same height. He just didn’t quit early like Calvin did. The numbers are ultimately against him. Great player but you can’t retire at 30 and be the greatest anything, no matter how good you are.
I believe Jim brown is not the greatest running back ever. Again, his stats just don’t add up anymore. Even in the modern game where running isn’t prevalent his numbers aren’t that great. Walter Payton was much better. Even Jim himself admitted that.
You absolutely cannot leave Terrell Owens off this list. Third in career touchdowns and yards and eighth in receptions. As an Eagles fan, I’m very familiar with his off the field issues. But that’s no excuse. It wouldn’t shock me at all if Goodell vetoed his selection.
@White Oak Grove Church You can make that argument and I wouldn't argue with you if you felt that way. So many great players have played in the NFL. I'm sure a few of them have a case to be the best. Jim Brown is a damn great player.
