Jack Silverstein talks Hall of Fame candidacies for Charles Tillman, Olin Kreutz, Lance Briggs
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Devin Hester, the call courtesy of CBS. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And the Pro Football Hall of Fame class was introduced, as it tends to be during the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl festivities. And for more on that, we decided to bring in our Chicago sports historian, Jack Silverstein. You can check out Jack's work at readjack.com. He also is joining us via the Circa Sports Illinois hotline. Download the Circa Sports app today. Hey, Jack, how are you?
Hi, everybody. I'm doing well. How are you all?
Good. I think we're still trying to figure out, you know, the process. It got front and center in the news when it came to the discussion surrounding whether or not Bill Belichick should be in it. The process overall, which has gotten a lot of scrutiny, rightfully so. You know, how would you describe the selection process and the results we're seeing as far as these Hall of Fame classes being put together?
Well, first of all, This is a great class. The controversy about Belichick and Robert Kraft aside, this is a really wonderful quintet of players. I mean, the whole purpose of a Hall of Fame is to honor the very best. And here you've got Drew Brees, one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, one of the most accurate quarterbacks. A player who at one point, we all look at the 70% completion percentage as a good metric now for who's doing well. Drew Brees retired, he had more than half of all of the 70% seasons in NFL history. You've got Larry Fitzgerald, who is one of the very, very greatest wide receivers ever. I ranked him last summer with a group of historians as the second best wide receiver ever after Jerry Rice.
You've got Adam Vinatieri, who's probably the greatest kicker ever, has some of the greatest kicks in NFL history, arguably the greatest in the snow and two Super Bowl winning kicks, all-time leading scorer. You've got Luke Kuechly, who was dominant And then you've got Roger Craig, who's really the purpose of having a senior committee, which is to say some players have fallen out of favor for some reason. They didn't get elected, but now with fresh eyes, let's look again. There's something essential about someone. They stand the test of time. And that's Roger Craig. The first ever thousand thousand season. He had the 1988 NEA MVP award, which is the one that's voted on by players. So he didn't win what's considered the actual MVP, but he won an MVP that's voted by players.
And it is a phenomenal class. I'm happy for all five of them. The controversy has overshadowed the fact that this is a great, great group.
And we look at that, and the first thing that I've been trying to kind of work through is how do they fix the process? Because I think Bill Belichick's omission is more about what voters were faced with and tasked with than it is about whether or not Bill Belichick is a deserving Hall of Famer. He is, but like you just said, so are the people who got into the Hall of Fame, Roger Craig being the one that came out of that. I don't believe we know if he even got the 40 votes because they just give it away. to the person with the highest number of votes if no one gets to 40 out of 50 votes.
That is correct. So we don't know. All we know is that he had the highest and that no one else was at 40. How do you fix the process?
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