Super Bowl Analysis. Since we can find that anywhere, we thought we would give our brief Hall of Fame related (and what we plan to be annual) look at three Super Bowl participants who saw their Hall of Fame stock go up, and three who we think saw enshrinement take a step back.....
Canton Stock (on the rise)
1. Eli Manning
Obvious choice, isn't it. Two Super Bowl rings in which he defeated Tom Brady, defeated playoff teams on the road and got better when the lights got brighter. His ticket may be punched already.
2. Tom Coughlin
Now why isn't this being talked about more? In both Super Bowl wins, he hoisted the Lombardi Trophy two months after many New York sportswriters were ready to catapult him out of time. Basically, he had his team respond when he needed it the most; and how many NFL coaches have failed to do that?
3. Michael Strahan
Serious. Strahan is eligible next year and as a former Giant in good standing with New York; and with his role on NFL on FOX, don't be surprised that this New York Giant win, doesn't eleveate someone as likable as the former sackmaster.
Canton Stock (On the Decline)
1. Chad Ochocinco
One Super Bowl Catch, with fifteen in the regular season. This has been an awful year for Chad, where he has been upstaged by two Tight Ends, been called out by former Patriots for not understanding the system and has been reduced to irrelevency. It happens to them all, but at the age of 33, we thought he had more years left. He may not.
2. Tiki Barber
How does trashing Eli Manning look now? The year after he retires and writes a book trashing Eli, he watched his former quarterback win a Super Bowl without him. The year he asks to come back to the League, nobody signs him, and again the Giants win a Super Bowl. Tiki wasn't looking good before, he looks even worse now.
3. Wes Welker
122 league leading reeptions don't mean much when you drop one that likely would have won New England the Super Bowl.
Thoughts?
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