Who’s the best Left Tackle you have ever watched?

[boyst]

57 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:

 

Blocking rules have changed, too.  

I remember being taught to block in high school.  Our coaches instructed us to hold onto our own jersey's with our hands to avoid illegally using hands on the defender. 

 

In the mid 1970s and before, NFL lineman had to keep their hands to their chest in closed fists when blocking.  In 1978, the NFL began allowing blockers to extend their arms and use open hands.  While this was a huge win for offensive linemen in general, it was especially helpful for pass pro and contributed to the NFL becoming a "passing league."  

 

 

And with the Open hands you can cleverly have your hands come up to get leverage underneath the pads of the defender. You could essentially hold them by their shorter pads or grip their jersey. As long as you weren't talking or pulling and constantly had pressure pushing you could hide the hold. 

[Sojourner]

48 minutes ago, Rigotz said:

Jonathan Ogden

 

6'9" 345 and moved like a Tight End.

 

He would completely erase elite pass rushers and was a battering ram in the run game.

 

Despite being humungous, was nearly always healthy as well. 9-time All Pro. First ballot hall of famer. 😳

Yeah. I think it’s Ogden for me. While I remember Munoz, I only watched football attentively as a child at the end of the 80’s and caught the last 4 seasons of his. 
 

There’s been quite a few dominantly elite LTs in the league the last 35 years…

 

Orlando Pace

Walter Jones

Tony Boselli

Joe Thomas

Jason Peters

Tyron Smith

Trent Williams

 

 

 
Different bread, different butter. Still makes a sandwich. All preference. A lot of excellent players named in this thread. 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Sojourner

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

Anthony Munoz was at the tail end of his career when I watched so Walter Jones and Jonathan Ogden were the 2 most dominant that I’ve ever seen. You couldn’t go wrong with either imo.

[NoName]

I pains me to say this but Tony Boselli owned Bruce Smith. For that reason alone, I have to put him #1.  I didn't see Munoz enough. 

[DrBob806]

3 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

he was the anchor of what was one of the worst O-lines every year he was playing.   A career of futility, zero impact.

Zero impact?

 

Ask the defensive linemen he blocked against.

[Mr. WEO]

20 minutes ago, DrBob806 said:

Zero impact?

 

Ask the defensive linemen he blocked against.

 

Those D linemen were running wild on the other O-linemen and lighting up the all the Browns crappy QBs. 

 

From 2008-2017, that team won 38 games.  Other than one season at 24th, their Offense ranked 27th to 32nd in scoring.  In facgt, in his rookie year, they were ranked 8th in points scored.  For the rest of Thomas's career, they went straight to the basement on Offense.  He did not have a positive impact on their outcomes.  Drafting AP probably would have been far more important as far as impact, as he was a dominant RB for years and the Browns had a bunch of bums/flashes in the pan.  AP certainly would have helped that Offense a far more than any single O-line HOFer.  This is intuitively true.... 

[HamSandwhich]

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