Let's name an all-time team

by ETVal on Mar 21, 2008 7:27 AM EDT in News

Here's a little off-season activity that should be fun. Let's name the Big Blue View All-Time Giants' Team.

With the help of George Cronin and 'potroast,' two veteran members of Big Blue View Nation, I have compiled lists of what we believe to be the best players at each position throughout Giants' history.

Occasionally throughout the off-season I will give you a position, and the candidates we have chosen, and ask you to vote for the player you feel belongs on our All-Time Team.

I will place a poll at the bottom of each entry in the series. You will have at least four players, sometimes more, to choose from. I will leave each poll open for a few days. Obviously, the player who gets the highest percentage of the vote at each position will be named to the team. In the case of positions like defensive end, the top two vote-getters will make the squad.

I don't want to start with a glamour position, so I will start with the kickers. Let's go with the punters first.

All-Time Punting Nominees

• Jeff Feagles
• Sean Landeta
• Don Chandler
• Dave Jennings

I don't have a schedule yet for when these will appear. I will let you know as we go along.

One request. Please don't skew the results by voting over and over. Nobody wins anything here, so that doesn't help anything. I just want to have a little fun and see what we come up with.

NOTE: If you don't see the poll here at the bottom, click "Entry Link" and you will be taken to a page that includes the poll.

Poll

Who is the best punter in New York Giants' history?

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I voted Landeta

Soft spot for Feagles and Jennings notwithstanding, I always liked Landeta, I never understood why the Giants cut him way back when, he could have punted for them for 20 years

by jrs1940 on Mar 21, 2008 8:35 AM EDT 0 recs

Landeta

Amazingly, this is a really tough call. Agreed that cutting Landeta was silly.

by ETVal on Mar 21, 2008 9:07 AM EDT up 0 recs

Imagine

how hard the other positions are going to be

by jrs1940 on Mar 21, 2008 1:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

Feagles got my vote

No one has pinned more opponents inside the 10. Landeta and Jennings are personal favorites also.Wasn't it ex cowboy Dan Reeves who cut Landeta because he was unable to directionaly kick after a knee injury? The same ex cowboy who told Ed McCaffrey to take a hike. Same ex cow who installed a read and react defense..........ugh.........happy thoughts , happy thoughts ....it's the off season

by big blue wrecking crew on Mar 21, 2008 9:49 AM EDT 0 recs

Landeta

is on the NFL 1980s All-Decade Team and the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team, which was selected by the voters of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Although Feagles has more records, Landeta had more meaningful seasons while still with the Giants, while Feagles' best seasons were before joining the team. Landeta also won two Super Bowls while with the Giants.

I vote Landeta.

by rzor on Mar 21, 2008 10:12 AM EDT 0 recs

don't forget

Jeff Feagles ALSO won a Super Bowl with the Giants and has the chance to win more...

...man it feels good to say that

by cjmulrain on Mar 21, 2008 4:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

No Question

While Feagles is still performing well, we never had him in his prime..
Landeta may Be the Greatest punter ever, and he was the deciding factor in the 1986 NFC championship game

by Hoyadestroya85 on Mar 21, 2008 11:28 AM EDT 0 recs

He made the most memorable play

of the 85 NFC Championship game too. In all fairness he, Ray Guy and Feagles are all up there as far as the elite punters during the last 30 years.

by big blue wrecking crew on Mar 21, 2008 11:35 AM EDT up 0 recs

I voted Landeta too

I think its mostly because I'm still "too close" to the Feagles era. Perhaps with more time I'll come to see Feagles as better than Landeta... just not right now.

"We're only going to score 17 points?" ~ Tom Brady

by mwilli on Mar 21, 2008 12:14 PM EDT 0 recs

Landeta

feagles may be better overall but he spent too much time on the Beagles for my tastes.

btw - not i want to make anyones lives more difficult, but for those of us who grew up with the giants of the 80's, it would definitively help if our 'elder statesmen' could provide some backup info on some of the great giants of the past. i'd never heard of chandler or jennings before.

awesome idea for the off season tho. looking forward to voting for the rest.

by DieEaglesDie on Mar 21, 2008 1:36 PM EDT 0 recs

Jennings..

may have been the most popular player on the Giants in the mid to late 70's. Very good punter, perennial All Pro. Parcells cut him in 1985 to make way for Landeta. One of the toughest cuts he had to make, he would say later.

www.billkohut.com

by bk0831 on Mar 21, 2008 1:44 PM EDT up 0 recs

Not a bad thought

I went back and looked up Chandler. He had a long career as a very good punter. Also spent half his career placekicking, though not as successfully. Overall, when you consider he did both, he may be the best kicker in Giants' history.

by ETVal on Mar 21, 2008 1:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

Chandler was the punter selected to the NFL's

1960s All-Decade team. As Ed points out, he kicked FGs as well. He was Sam Huff's roommate as a rookie. They were both so discouraged about their chances of making the team they packed their bags and grabbed a ride to the train station, where Vinny Lombardi intercepted them and dragged them back. That's the story, anyway. He was traded away to Green Bay by Allie Sherman a year after Sherman traded Huff to the Redskins. Huff played eight years for the Giants; Chandler, nine.

by george cronin on Mar 21, 2008 6:50 PM EDT up 0 recs

awesome story

youre the man george. you should seriously be the giants official historian.

by DieEaglesDie on Mar 22, 2008 11:50 AM EDT up 0 recs

Landeta

...gets my vote. Although I will say that Jennings, along with the Giant linebackers, were the face of the franchise in the mid to late 70's. We didn't have much else.

Landeta was cut in Dan Reeve's first year, and it was two fold. First, Landeta was coming off a pretty serious leg injury and probably wasn't punting that great in '93. Second, I think the cut came after a mid year loss to Dallas, and like any coach in a place for his first year, was trying to make a statement (same way Reeves did my cutting Pepper Johnson in training camp).

www.billkohut.com

by bk0831 on Mar 21, 2008 1:41 PM EDT 0 recs

I'll thank you

Not to mention Dan Reeves in here again

by jrs1940 on Mar 21, 2008 2:31 PM EDT 0 recs

Two great nuggetts about Landeta

The first most everyone knows, the second is for us 80's gamers

Landeta was the last active NFL player who played in the United States Football League of the 1980s.

Landeta was also the last active player who appeared in the popular 1988 NES video game Tecmo Bowl.

by jrs1940 on Mar 21, 2008 2:33 PM EDT 0 recs

man this is going to be fun

I love Feagles, but I'm curious as to how clutch he is. I seem to have a lot of memories of him shanking a LOT of punts in clutch, end-of-game/half situations. He did in once in the playoffs (Green Bay I think), there was the infamous Westbrook punt return for a TD in one of the worst games I've ever seen.

by queler on Mar 21, 2008 5:26 PM EDT 0 recs

Clutch?

I think Feagles is great. You do remember Landeta whiffing that punt in the playoff game against the Bears, I hope.

by ETVal on Mar 21, 2008 6:18 PM EDT up 0 recs

just wondering

Just wondering if anyone else had noticed anything. I actually voted for Feagles. There were too many seasons recently where it seemed like he was the most consistent guy out there.
Actually one of the reasons I bring it up is because in big situations I always seem to be telling my non-Giant's fan buddies, "If we had any one other then Feagles we'd be in trouble... Feagles should be the Hall of Fame..." and then he winds up shanking it and makes me look like an idiot.
I was a little young for the whiff, most of my Landeta memories are unfortunately Tecmo Bowl.

by queler on Mar 21, 2008 6:35 PM EDT up 0 recs