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The most intimidating Steelers of all time

slashsteel said:
Because nobody was messing with Mean Joe, one bad mofo.
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Every time I think of Mean Joe, I get chills just thinking how good he was and how good he could have been if he had full use of both arms for his entire career. It was pretty early on when he suffered an injury that caused the use of one of his arms to diminish each year yet no one knew about it.
 
How do you go wrong with either Joe Green or Jack Lambert? I don't think any QB felt safe knowing they had to look across the line of scrimmage at a Steel Curtain defense that could dominate games before the league changed the rules to favor offenses.

Lloyd was great in a shorter amount of time than Greene or Lambert.

Troy P was the play maker on the back side of a championship team.
 
Hines57 said:
How do you go wrong with either Joe Green or Jack Lambert? I don't think any QB felt safe knowing they had to look across the line of scrimmage at a Steel Curtain defense that could dominate games before the league changed the rules to favor offenses.

Lloyd was great in a shorter amount of time than Greene or Lambert.

Troy P was the play maker on the back side of a championship team.
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I'd put Mel Blount up there too, guy was rumored to have killed a man on the field. He was the catalyst behind all the rule changes as far as how you can defend a wide receiver. I believe he was something like 6'4", and one mean, physical, mofo. Dude just ate receivers alive.

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Hines57 said:
How do you go wrong with either Joe Green or Jack Lambert? I don't think any QB felt safe knowing they had to look across the line of scrimmage at a Steel Curtain defense that could dominate games before the league changed the rules to favor offenses.

Lloyd was great in a shorter amount of time than Greene or Lambert.

Troy P was the play maker on the back side of a championship team.
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Hold a sec Hines. I feel I need to pump the breaks on the Lloyd comment. Joe was DROY in 69, DPOY in 72 and 74. Lloyd had no accolades of such throughout his career. Additionally, Joe made the Pro-Bowl 8 consecutive times beginning in his rookie year and was a 4 time All Pro, with 3 consecutive AP years (beginning in year 4) at one time. Lloyd’s first Pro Bowl nod was in year 4. However, Lloyd did make All Pro three times in a row as well (his first in year 6).


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Steelworth said:
Hell, Cowher was afraid of him. And thinking about Cowher, remember when Deebo got a holding call (or something) on STs and came to the sidelines and Cowher says "They got you Silverback" and he just snarled "**** happens". Cowher didn't say a word after that.
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There was a pretty good clip that is showed often of Cowher hitting Lloyd on the shoulder pad, saying, "just rush the passer" or something to that extent.

The Deebo thing was 2005, it's on the beginning of the Super Bowl DVD year in review thing, it is pretty funny.
 
Ike Kelly said:
Hold a sec Hines. I feel I need to pump the breaks on the Lloyd comment. Joe was DROY in 69, DPOY in 72 and 74. Lloyd had no accolades of such throughout his career. Additionally, Joe made the Pro-Bowl 8 consecutive times beginning in his rookie year and was a 4 time All Pro, with 3 consecutive AP years (beginning in year 4) at one time. Lloyd’s first Pro Bowl nod was in year 4. However, Lloyd did make All Pro three times in a row as well (his first in year 6).


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Joe Greene is a top player in NFL history, the cornerstone of 4 Super Bowl teams. Greg Lloyd had a small window where he was very good but not hall of fame worthy. There's a huge difference between the two.
 
Ike Kelly said:
Hold a sec Hines. I feel I need to pump the breaks on the Lloyd comment. Joe was DROY in 69, DPOY in 72 and 74. Lloyd had no accolades of such throughout his career. Additionally, Joe made the Pro-Bowl 8 consecutive times beginning in his rookie year and was a 4 time All Pro, with 3 consecutive AP years (beginning in year 4) at one time. Lloyd’s first Pro Bowl nod was in year 4. However, Lloyd did make All Pro three times in a row as well (his first in year 6).
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And Lloyd was voted, by his peers, as the most feared player in the NFL. I'd take that little whoopty and stick it in a granny shoe and shake it.
 
Hines57 said:
Joe Greene is a top player in NFL history, the cornerstone of 4 Super Bowl teams. Greg Lloyd had a small window where he was very good but not hall of fame worthy. There's a huge difference between the two.
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I don’t disagree there.....I was talking about your comment that Lloyd was great in a shorter amount of time than Joe.


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Bobby Bufford said:
And Lloyd was voted, by his peers, as the most feared player in the NFL. I'd take that little whoopty and stick it in a granny shoe and shake it.
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Link please.

I don’t doubt he was one at a time when he was playing, but for the history of the franchise or even the NFL, ridiculous. Your “whoopty” was DOA before you keyed it. Youthful Joe and Lambert are the consensus. In the NFL, there are dozens ahead of Lloyd....Deacon Jones, Bednarik, just to name a couple.


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Ike Kelly said:
Link please.

I don’t doubt he was one at a time when he was playing, but for the history of the franchise or even the NFL, ridiculous. Your “whoopty” was DOA before you keyed it. Youthful Joe and Lambert are the consensus. In the NFL, there are dozens ahead of Lloyd....Deacon Jones, Bednarik, just to name a couple.


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I could be wrong but I think that was just the media at one time pumping him up as one of the most feared payers, yadda yadda.. Not sure there was a team vote thrown out...
 
Bobby Bufford said:
And Lloyd was voted, by his peers, as the most feared player in the NFL. I'd take that little whoopty and stick it in a granny shoe and shake it.
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the league didn't have anyone like Greene and Lambert with Lloyd won that vote...
 
Ike Kelly said:
Link please.

I don’t doubt he was one at a time when he was playing, but for the history of the franchise or even the NFL, ridiculous. Your “whoopty” was DOA before you keyed it. Youthful Joe and Lambert are the consensus. In the NFL, there are dozens ahead of Lloyd....Deacon Jones, Bednarik, just to name a couple.


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Butkus, Tatem, we could go on for a while...

Lloyd would have been calling Greene and Lambert "sir" all day
 
Hines57 said:
Joe Greene is a top player in NFL history, the cornerstone of 4 Super Bowl teams. Greg Lloyd had a small window where he was very good but not hall of fame worthy. There's a huge difference between the two.
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Remember his career was cut short by injury and he wasn't as effective his last year or two. I can relate, I had the same sort of post-surgery infection and it laid me up at home for 5 months. Giving myself IV's, home care nurse, ****-ton of pain, it's how I got to 10,000 posts on the old board, I was stuck at home and couldn't do anything.
 
CoolieMan said:
Butkus, Tatem, we could go on for a while...

Lloyd would have been calling Greene and Lambert "sir" all day
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Yeah, they were a different breed. Jack Lambert is my all-time favorite Steeler got a home and away jersey of his my closet. But the one who started the whole culture change in Pittsburgh was no doubt Joe Greene. All you have to do is watch the 69 film( and they sucked that year by the way) but he dominated EVERYONE. After that season the change started and we have him to thank for it along with Coach Chuck Noll and Dan and Art Rooney. RIP

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Ron Burgundy said:
Remember his career was cut short by injury and he wasn't as effective his last year or two. I can relate, I had the same sort of post-surgery infection and it laid me up at home for 5 months. Giving myself IV's, home care nurse, ****-ton of pain, it's how I got to 10,000 posts on the old board, I was stuck at home and couldn't do anything.
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Staff infections ain't no joke, for sure. Sorry you had to go through that. 95 was never the same afterwards.
 
CoolieMan said:
Butkus, Tatem, we could go on for a while...

Lloyd would have been calling Greene and Lambert "sir" all day
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Let's stay on topic. I never asserted 95 was best ever, just said he was in top 4 of most intimidating Steeler, in his prime, not life career longevity.

If Lloyd played on that 70's team, he'd be in the Hall.
 
Hines57 said:
Joe Greene is a top player in NFL history, the cornerstone of 4 Super Bowl teams. Greg Lloyd had a small window where he was very good but not hall of fame worthy. There's a huge difference between the two.
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But BOTH made the list, so it's not a debate between those 2.
 
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