Aug 25, 2010

8/25/2010 07:26:00 PM
Scout's INC. came out with a list of the top 200 NFL players and their ratings. 100 is the best rating on down to an overall grade of 77 being the lowest. The top 10 are: Peyton Manning 95 Andre Johnson 94 Darrelle Revis 93 DeMarcus Ware 93 Drew Brees 93 Joe Thomas 93 (WTF! Browns player in top 10 in what) Larry Fitzgerald 93 Nnamdi Asomugha 93 Patrick Willis 93 and Tom Brady 93. Interesting is that one interior lineman is on this list and he plays for the MISTAKE ON THE LAKE Cleveland Browns. Not that Joe Thomas isn't a great player, but I would like to see if his peers would vote him that high. The top 3 QB, top 2 WR, top 2 CB, and top 2 LB are on this list and that's how I would rate them for the exception of probably these 5 guys joining that top tier. The 5 players are in the second 10 in :Adrian Peterson 92 Troy Polalmalu 92 Ed Reed 91 James Harrison 91 and Mario Williams 91.

I LEFT OUT CHRIS JOHNSON 92 because of his time in the league and I think the book is still out on him but very deserving of a 92.
The last 4 of the second 10 are Nick Mangold 91 Phillip Rivers 91 Antonio Gates 90 and Ben Roethlisberger 90. The second 10 has impact players on the defense with the 2 best back end players in the NFL in Reed and Polamalu. The 2 best RB's in Johnson and Peterson the real "THUNDER AND LIGHTNING" (sorry Lendale White your Patron diet and your career is looking more like you and Matt Leinart are taking the same career path i.e. put them game checks up in a safe place).

The top 20 players on this list are pretty solid and I would agree on almost all of them except for the one defensive interior guy not in the top 20 is Baltimore Raven and QUACK ATTACK ALUM Haloti Ngata 89, who in my estimation is a top 5 player in the league surely based on impact on ones team and every game. The guy controls the line of scrimmage so that LB Ray Lewis and the rest of those playmaking raven LB's can do what it do.

To summarize the list you have arguably the 2 best QB's of the decade and top 5 QB's of all-time in Manning and Brady, two of the best safeties ever, two of the best lockdown corners since Champ Bailey, some old school linebackers, two big-time running backs, and some nice young guys coming into their own.

The rest of the list is on point for the most part. But like always the cream eventually rises to the top and in this case Scout's Inc. got it right at least from the BLUEDUDE'S PERSPECTIVE. GREAT WORK and next year I would love to be part of the process really I am a student of the game.

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