Jets History: Best Linebacker

I voted for the 60s NYJs which 99% of you NEVER saw play

 

I went with #60 Larry Grantham. Because he's a skinny b*stard and he kicked ass.

 

It has to be Larry Grantham or Mo Lewis.

The Sporting News Pro Football '08 annual includes the top 3 linebackers for each team's history.
For the Jets the selections were-
1. Lewis
2. Grantham
3. Greg Buttle

 

Go, Larry, go Larry, go Larry!

 

I went with Grantham here, but would also like to give a shout out to Kyle Clifton. I loved Clifton!

 

Larry Grantham, and it's not close. For details, see my sig. (I will also add that he is on the second team All-AFL team.)

 

I think it's btw Mo and Grantham, if Mehl could have stayed healthy I think it would have been him but I give the nod to MO. Unfortunately the 1st 6 years of his career were wasted when we were horrible but he finally got the recognition he deserved after the turnaround in '97.

 

The problem is with these silly polls/surveys is most of the board never saw the NYJs of the 60s ever play making this whatever totally worthless since they vote for players they did see play

 

champ, give them reasons to vote for players of the 60s. Like why do you think they were the best?

 

You rarely saw Mo play since you only watch wins, right?:smile:

 

So Atkinson is the best in your opinion.

I think you have a lot to bring to the table if you were less one-dimensional.

 

Mo is one of the best players in New York Jets history, of course he is our best linebacker!!!

 

Vilma was the best at making tackles five yards downfield. Champ has the stats to prove it. No wait. Nevermind.

 

Just go root for JV & the Saints if you have such man love for JV

 

fill us in on the essence of man-love and what it means to one of your generation, champ. You aren't creepy enough.

 

Man love is somebody like you who idolizes a non productive player like you do with JV

 

Not me. My people worship Stan Blinka.

I am aware some have a pretty unhealthy obsession with Vilma, to the point of making up stories about him, though.

 

Really for someone not obessed with JV you repeatly bring up his name & he is no longer even a NYJ & big kudos to the FO for getting rid of him

 

Well, technically, none of those guys is a NYJ any longer. But you know I'm just busting your balls. He probably is overrated, but, you know, some of us can't help but root for our Jets, tragically flawed though they may be.

I have a question for you and the oldtimers. I can't speak about Grantham, having never seen him play, but I'd agree, he should win this poll based on accomplishments. My question is, what happened to that '68 team? It looks like they were really only good for that season and the next, and then it all fell apart, never to come back. Maybe you could say the '67 season as well, but, just from looking at the records, it doesn't look like they were dominant that year.

Age, injuries, locusts? How'd these guys fall?