Okay, to please Winston I will redo the thread. I will put in the best of the best of our Jets. Select who you would think is the greatest Jets player To further along the discussion who currently on the Jets would make this list 10 years from now and why? Can a mod or admin close or delete the other poll. Sorry about the repost.
I went for Wayne. I know he wasn't physically the best or the most impactful or whatever, but to me he most symbolizes what being a Jet means - close second to Joe Klecko.
Namath was the most important player but not the best. Klecko, Maynard and Curtis I would say are the 3 best.
I voted Gastineau. Its a really hard decision to make. Greatest Jet , how do you determine greatness? winning or being the best. Whilst Namath won us the big one , I'm not sure that hes the greatest Jet. Gastineau on the other hand was the best at his time and a long time after too. there are for me about 4 Jets that I could stick a pin and vote for.
Gastineau is my all time favorite player. I'm not saying he was the greatest JET but he was fun to watch.
I voted Cmart but would have no qualms with anyone who voted Klecko or Gastineau. To me Namath as an individual player is overrated.
How could you miss Guss Scott??? He single hadedly beat the Texans without ever leaving the bench. Guss was the best Jet player we ever had. Tsss.
The only game that I saw him play was a replay of the SB victory. Very gutsy performance - My idea that he is overrated is based solely on stats.
Joe Namath hands down. Many Jets fans today will have difficulty appreciating exactly what Namath contributed to the Jets. You would have had to have been around and been a Jets fan at the time to really understand it. First, a little history. The AFL was a non-validated league. A joke, in other words... a 1960's punchline at NY Giants' and Chicago Bears' cocktail parties. When the AFL finally merged with the NFL and you wound up with the AFC and the NFC, the AFC picked up where the AFL left off in terms of getting no respect. Joe Namath almost single-handedly changed that. After taking the Jets to the playoffs and the stage was set for Superbowl III, most of the NFL still laughed the Jets off as losers because of where they came from. They certainly weren't good enough to play with the "real" men of the NFC. I mean, those NFC guys could run the f@cking ball like a man, not pussy-foot around passing the ball the way Namath did to whimps like Don Maynard. Besides, Namath was a "playboy" quarterback who spent more time in motel rooms than on the practice field. No way would the NFC team allow them to come even close and even their RB, the guy with the funny name, Emerson Boozer could help either. The Jets were going down. And badly. So the oddsmakers in Vegas and elsewhere were licking their chops and couldn't anty up the point spread high enough. Guys were still betting on the NFC team, the Baltimore Colts. That made the odds go even higher and it got into the double digits and still people hesitated to bet on the Jets... surely those @ssholes were going to get creamed. Then Namath makes his outlandishly laughable statement that he didn't care what the point spread was because he was going to beat the Colts outright! As Paul Harvey would say... "And now you know the rest of the story." It wasn't that Joe had great stats or that he was such a great player, Joe stands out as the greatest Jet of all time for what he did for the Jets franchise and the leadership he provided to finally get this franchise some respect.
As a Jet fan it's easy to say that Namath was the greatest all time Jet but being only 20, it's tough to say that he's the best being that I never saw him. His numbers don't lie, but the best of my generation's era has to be Curtis. A classy player, a hard competitor, really nothing not to like about him. He'll be in Canton in no time.
nah. Wesley Walker and Al Toon were great make no mistake about it, but in the grand scheme of things cannot be considering among the best of the best.
Joe Namath was the American Football League Rookie of the year in 1965 and became the first pro quarterback to pass for 4,000 yards in a season (1967), a feat which remains a record for 14-game seasons. He was a four-time American Football League All-Star, although plagued with knee injuries through much of his career. In the 1968 AFL title game, Namath threw three touchdown passes to lead New York to a 27-23 win over the defending American Football League Champion Oakland Raiders. This 1968 season earned him the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. Namath was an AFL All-Star four times, in 1965, 1967, 1968, and 1969; and an AFC-NFC Pro Bowler in 1972. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Jets' all-time team and the American Football League All-Time Team
There was a tribute on the official site the other day , and I can't remember which coach it was (Denver??) but they passed on him in the draft and lived to regret it ever since , best this , best that etc.... WHO was that coach?
I have great respect for Toon, maybe the best overall talent to wear the unifom but Hill and Mawae belong ahead of them as does Marvin Powell. Chrebet doesn't belong in the conversation.
