After four seasons with New England, where we won a Super Bowl and went to a Pro Bowl, Chandler Jones was dealt to the Arizona Cardinals, where he had greater individual success.

In his first year in Arizona (2016), the pass rusher had an 11 Sack/15 Tackle for Loss year, continuing his run as a top Edge performer, but he took his skills to another level in 2017.  That year, Jones led the NFL in Sacks (17.0) and Tackles for Loss (28) and added a First Team All-Pro, a Pro Bowl, and was third in Defensive Player of the Year voting.  After a year at Defensive End when the Cardinals changed their defensive scheme, Jones had his second monster campaign, with a career-high 19.0 Sacks and a league-leading 8 Forced Fumbles.  This yielded his second First Team All-Pro and Pro Bowl as a Cardinal.  He was inured for most of 2020 but was a Pro Bowler again in 2021 with another double-digit Sack year (10.5).

Jones signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2022, leaving the club after 71.5 Sacks, 80 Tackles for Loss and 131 Quarterback Hits.

Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 1962, Jim Bakken did not make the Rams roster out of training camp but was scooped up by the St. Louis Cardinals, a team he would play 15 years for.

Special Teams advanced considerably during Bakken's time, and he was one of an emerging group of specialty Kickers.  Chosen for four Pro Bowls and two First Team All-Pros, Bakken is one of the few players to be selected for two All-Decade Teams (60s and 70s), and at one time was the single-game record holder for Field Goals in a Game (7). 

His 1,380 Points is by far the most in franchise history.

Bob DeMarco centered the Cardinals throughout the 1960s, debuting in 1961 and becoming a starter the year after.  DeMarco was solid throughout the decade, netting three Pro Bowls (1963, 1965 & 1967), with the last of the three also seeing him with a First Team All-Pro. 

DeMarco left St. Louis after the 1969 season, playing five more years in the NFL.  DeMarco started all but five of his 107 Games with the Cardinals, and the franchise never had to worry about Center for eight strong years. 

1949 PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

Thank you for all of you who have participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, and if you are unaware of what that is, simply, we acted as if the PFHOF had their first class in January of 1946?

We have completed the first two years, where a Preliminary, Semi-Final and Final vote for the 1946 Class, which inducted two full classes

For “1949” a Preliminary Vote with 130 players whose playing career ended by 1943. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Last week, each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, with the top 25 vote getters named as Semi-Finalists.

This week, the voters were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next week, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

29 Votes took place

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Next Saturday, we will be posting the results of the 1949 Class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project.

Thank you to all who contributed, and if you want to be a part of this project, please let us know!