Put Monk in the Hall NOW!!!!!

If not then the Hall of Fame should close.

Few players achieve the type of greatness that Art Monk did in his career without the accolades to go with it. But that was the type of man #80 was. He quietly produced one of the best careers a Wide Receiver has ever had, but he never publicized himself. In fact he ignored the media entirely, which also ignored him. And now he is a longshot to make the hall of Fame and Michael "cokehead" Irvin a over hyped self promoted lesser receiver might make the Hall ahead of him. Do we really need to recap the statistics? Apparently we do.

Art Monk was the man of Wide Receivers. He played 16 NFL seasons and amassed 940 catches for 12,721 yards and 68 touchdowns. In 1984 he set an NFL record with 108 Catches. This record stood for nearly 8 years. Even though his whole career he had to share receptions with team mates (rise was the only receiver open his team, same with Largent and Irvin). With the smurfs earlier in his career and the posse later in his career he still managed to finish his career second in all time receptions (and briefly held the top spot in 1994 before being passed by Rice). He also finished in the top ten of receiving yards. 4 Superbowl appearances, 3 rings. Enough said.

Monk's detractors will point to the low number of Yards per catch or low td catches. However that is not the role Monk played. In the high octane offenses of the first Gibbs era Monk was the spark plug that made the whole thing possible. He went over the middle and got tough yards. He excelled on tough 3rd down catches that would put the dagger in opposing defenses. He even ran the occasional reverse (averaging over 5 yards per rush).

This year's class is even tougher then last year's and Monk never made it to the final elimination. Monk never was one for the media....and it's the sports writers that vote on the hall. Now Marino and Young are first vote sure fire inductees. One of the veterans will get in, but then....it should be Monk.

Playoff Prediction recap.

Well 2-2 again. New England really showed me something...and I got to say they could repeat. Everyone was talking about Indianapolis and Pittsburgh and once again the champs quietly just won. I did get one right, Big Ben looked every bit the rookie he is but the Pitt D stepped it up and pulled it out. Philly rose up to get to the fourth straight conference championship. But Vick looked pretty good killing St. Louis. My record stays at 8-8.