Jesus, SI.com had a slow news week. You'd think with the draft coming up, they could find a better story than talking about Steve McNair's chances of making it into the Hall of Fame. What? The Hall of Fame? You have to be elite for the better part of your career to be in the Hall. If not, then it's not The Hall. It would be The Hall of the better than average with one to three really good years sprinkled in. Come on! McNair? The Hall of Hearts.....maybe. Fame? No way. Not even close. Not even if he won a Super Bowl.....or two. All I remember is the Steelers killing him for years on end. When he came to Baltimore I was giddy. The Hall of Fame? Bradshaw, Unitas, Marino, Elway...McNair? McNo. What a waste of space. I vote that if the writers don't have anything to report about, go home and save the white space. It's pleasing to the eye.
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Fan, you must have forgotten the Titans game we went to back in 2003. McNair sliced up the Stillers like ze swiss cheese. Of course that was Scott and Washington in the defensive backfield in those days. But nonetheless, he personally whipped our ass that day.
But you're right about the HOF. He was a tough SOB and a darn good QB in his time. But not Hall of Fame quality. If they had won that one SB where they came up 1 yard shy vs. St. Louis, maybe. But you got to have big numbers if you don't have a SB ring (see Dan Marino) and McNair don't have 'em.
I figure you get in the HOF two ways...either you are consistently good over a long period of time (example:Steve Largent) or you win Super Bowls and make big plays in big games ala Terry Bradshaw & Joe Namath. McNair was tough as nails but he didn't do it long enough to be in the Hall IMO nor did he do it in spectacular fashion as someone like Swanny, Barry Sanders, or Gale Sayers did. I'd put McNair in the same category as Terrell Davis. Great for a brief time but not enough to make the HOF. JMO.
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