2014 Pro Football Hall of Fame Finalists

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NFL Network to have limited access to voting

http://www.shermanreport.com/nfl-network-to-show-footage-of-hall-of-fame-presentations-at-selection-meeting-many-electors-not-pleased/#

 

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I can't wait to watch that. The voters should be held accountable, if they don't like it, tough shit.

 

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I've heard great stories about presentations for certain players. I heard one about a writer who was so incensed that the player he was speaking for kept getting passed over that he started screaming obscenities at the other voters. I've heard of guys standing up and saying things like "Player fucking X, enough said..." and another voter who has said if a certain person (who has been a finalist a few times) ever gets in, that it will be his last year as a voter. This is a very well-respected writer.

I wish they would show the entire process. I would watch every second of it.

It sounds like they're recording basically just the beginning of the presentations for a few key players. I don't see what the big deal is.

 

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/31/pro-football-hall-of-fame-2014-voting/?eref=sihp

I loved this part from Jason Cole:

Should players of the same position be compared to one another, or to the finalist group at large? Which counts more: production or wins? How do you compare a Super Bowl-winning running back to a founder of NFL Films? Each of the writers who spoke with The MMQB agreed that the slots for players and non-players ought to be separate. Team owners Ed DeBartolo, Jr. and Art Modell and coach 
Bill Parcells were among the preliminary candidates in 2013, but many voters refuse to use a spot on a contributor over a player.

“I believe that one of those guys should go in,” Cole says. (Parcells made it in last year; DeBartolo is among the final 15 this year.) “But I wasn’t going to vote for one of them because I think players should go first.”

If you did that every year, then non-players would never get voted in. You are already putting in at least four players. A non-player once every other year doesn't hurt a player's chances any more than normal.

 

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Hall-of-Fame-predictions.html

Joel Corry of national football post is predicting Brooks, Jones, Harrison, Haley and Strahan with both Guy and Humphrey getting in as well.

 

I'd be a little surprised if Haley and Strahan go in together, but anything is possible.

 

Peter King tweeted the meeting took just short of nine hours. Might be a surprise or two in store.

 

Just saw on Twitter that Andre Reed is apparently in.

 

Derrick Brooks has tweeted that he's in.

https://twitter.com/DBrooks55/status/429751905389387776

Also appears Ray Guy made it, based on Twitter buzz.

 

Man, I was off by one. I had Harrison over Reed.

That's the only really shocking one compared to the other four.

I would assume that Harrison moves to the front of the line alongside Junior Seau. But there are going to be some interesting first-time cases — Isaac Bruce, Ty Law, Kevin Mawae, Orlando Pace and Kurt Warner

 

No Will Shields? Twelve Pro Bowls(8 All-Pro) and the All-Decade team aren't enough? Figure he's a lock to get in at some point. Along with Tim Brown (9x Pro Bowl, Al-Decade team).