Is John Lynch A Hall of Famer??? NO WAY!!!
As you may have already heard from ESPN reports, 15-year veteran safety John Lynch will announce his retirement on Monday. Lynch wants to retire as a Buccaneer and Bronco. With every retirement of a long time veteran comes Hall of Fame talk. Well Hall of Fame and John Lynch should not even come up in the same sentence unless you are saying he will be attending the ceremonies of former teammates Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks and Ronde Barber. I understand that he went to 9 Pro Bowls in his career but everyone knows the Pro Bowl is popularity contest. From my research in how Hall of Famers are picked, statistics are #1 and Super Bowl rings are #2. His statistics are horrible and he only has one Super Bowl ring.
ESPN has his statistics down as 1,277 tackles, 100 pass breakups and 26 interceptions in a 15-year span, this is absolutely terrible. No one makes the Hall of Fame based off tackles and pass breakups so we can exclude those two. So we are down to 26 interceptions in 15 years. Are you kidding me? 26 interceptions in 15 years? *shaking head* I didn’t know how sucky John Lynch was until I saw his statistics. How did he make 9 Pro Bowls? Ridiculous. With these stats his name should not even be on the ballot in 2013. There are 9 true safeties in the Hall of Fame as we speak and there is no way John Lynch is a top 10 safety of all-time.
On defense the cornerbacks are expected to get the most interceptions, then the safeties and last the linebackers. Now check this out: Actively there are five safeties and two linebackers that have more interceptions than Lynch. The most amazing is middle linebacker Ray Lewis with 27. For those who don’t know, middle linebackers main job is to tackle and Ray Lewis has more interceptions than the safety John Lynch. One argument that may come up is the fact that he was a strong safety and you get less interceptions at that position. WRONG!!! Strong safety Sammy Knight has 42 interceptions in his 11 years in the league. Knight has 16 more interceptions in 4 less years. Strong safety LeRoy Butler has 38 interceptions in 12 years and has a Super Bowl ring but will LeRoy Butler get in to the Hall. NO!!! Lynch will not get in.
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Yeah those stats do suck and I have to agree with you. He was an overrated safety on a great defense in Tampa. When you play in a defensive system designed for the safety to clean up things, you tend to get more credit than you deserve because you don’t have to worry about covering offensive players 1-on-1 and you don’t have to be a great athlete to excel in these kind of defensive schemes. All you have to be is an opportunist, just be in the right place at the right time.
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