Even a great lineman like Jerry Kramer, who was the right guard along with left guard Fuzzy Thurston in the legendary Vince Lombardi Green Bay Power Sweep that won five NFL titles from 1961-1967, only made it to Canton this August at the age of 82! Who’d a thunk it that a poor kid who was raised by his mother, Pattie Cooper, in Spring Valley, Rockland County, N. Y., would become a golf junkie? Didinger, Rendell and Joyner are the three wise men, while Michael Barkann is the carnival barker and Barrett Brooks offers I don’t know what. “He was the most dominant player I have ever seen. Joyner had 10 tackles in the game against the Giants and he was a starter for the next seven years. On Wednesday, the NFL announced 130 modern-era nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2021 and the University of Alabama was well-represented. Taylor is considered one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history, by virtue of his menacing presence on two Giants Super Bowl teams and his other-worldly sack total. He was cat quick and strong as an ox, and he could take on a double team. Google “Great Eagles Linebackers” and three names pop up: Chuck Bednarik, Bill Bergey and Seth Joyner. Herb Lusk, who was an Eagles special teamer in the 1970s and is still the team’s chaplain in addition to his ministry at Greater Exodus Baptist Church on N. Broad Street. Clyde’s explosive and aggressive style of play resonated with our fans and also allowed him to become a dominant defensive lineman over the course of his career.". That’s what happens when you go from 1960 to 2017 without a championship. “Success is sometimes not predicated on how you’re positioned,” Joyner says. When he red-eyes it in from Phoenix for “EPGL” he bunks with his pal, Rev. We have a great defense and offense and we’ve been the best team in the NFL all year. The goat of that game was QB Ron Jaworski, who tossed three picks that made Oakland the winner 27-10. “Then one day he called me by my name and it hit me. And off. EAGLES BRANDON GRAHAM SACKING HIS WAY INTO HISTORY! “For two years he only called me 59, for my number. PHILS: NO BUCKS FOR JT, SO CHARLIE MORTON’S LOOKING GOOD? Joyner and Simmons were both chosen by Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie into the Hall of Fame for 2018. Joyner, who was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 1991, played linebacker for eight seasons in Philadelphia (1986-93), where he was a three-time All-Pro selection (1991, 1992, 1993) and two-time Pro Bowler (1991, 1993). He made All-State, and that’s where he found a strong, male influence. He could run as fast as most linebackers.”. A dalliance with Dick Vermeil, the ex-Eagles coach who had surfaced with the St. Louis Rams, was a non-starter, literally. I studied hard. And I knew it. Joyner played in all 16 games that year, starting only one, and played mostly on special teams. © 2005-2020 CBS INTERACTIVE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I guarantee you that Kramer’s Hall of Fame entry would have been sooner if Schaap had lived. The dream vanishes. Bowman really didn’t like that, and he did everything he could to keep me from being drafted into the NFL. “”When I left I couldn’t play another year under Kotite. Seth Joyner - Few athletes in Rockland County have staked out a niche in the sporting firmament like Seth Joyner. When she left, she said: ‘Don’t come home.’ That meant finish school at UTEP. I would sit in his basement and we would talk football and life till 2 in the morning. Everyone knows how good Concrete Charlie Bednarik was for the Eagles from 1949 through 1962. In January, Washington beat the Eagles 20-6 in a wild-card game at the Vet. “Guys were mad, pissed and crying. “When Buddy got fired in 1991, there was straight anarchy on the team,” Joyner says. He poured a lot into me. And both excelled on the 1991 team, which is considered the greatest defensive unit in Eagles history. “But the city ate it up — Philly is a fighting town.”. “Jimmy Pinkston was my running backs and linebacker coach. Joyner was tickled to show up at Eagles training camp in West Chester. “The 49ers were the only team that had won more than us.”. As Ray Didinger, a Hall of Famer himself, has written: “If there is a better linebacker in the NFL than Seth Joyner, I haven’t seen him,’” ABC Monday Night Football analyst Dan Dierdorf, a former great offensive lineman for Michigan and the Cards, said as Joyner had eight solo tackles, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, and two sacks in a 13-6 Eagles victory over the Houston Oilers in 1991. He is also one of just two players in team history with 20 forced fumbles, joining Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Brian Dawkins (32, 1996-2008). Joyner and Simmons were vital cogs on the best Eagles defense in memory — that overseen by Buddy Ryan in the mid-1980s and into the early ‘90s which also included Jerome Brown and Reggie White. “He’s the one guy I wish I could have seen play for a full career. To reach the editor or advertising director, please fill out our contact box. And it’s a great organization. EAGLES FULGHAM ‘YOUNGER, MORE ATHLETIC JEFFERY,’ BALDY SAYS! As good as he was, Joyner wasn’t heavily recruited, though Syracuse head coach Don McPherson made a visit. They had just won the Super Bowl, beat the Packers, but I hate the Cowboys.”, “I go to Green Bay, and we beat the Cowboys badly in the regular season — 45-17 on Thanksgiving — but we lost to Denver in the Super Bowl.”, “And I didn’t think I would,” he admits. Seth Joyner and Clyde Simmons will be inducted as the newest members of the Eagles' Hall of Fame on September 23, when the Birds host the Indianapolis Colts. “She flew to UTEP with me because she wanted to talk to the head coach and look him in the eye. It was the most physically difficult thing I have ever endured. And after three straight years of first-round playoffs bounce-outs Buddy was gone. After the 1996 season, the then-32-year-old Joyner was at a career crossroads. Philly is a plenty big market, but it has been regarded as an NFL backwater by the HOF voters and national media. 1 SEED IN 2021 MARCH MADNESS, ANDY KATZ SAYS! Their team didn’t fit my skill set.”, “Mike Shanahan is a great coach,” Joyner says, high praise coming from someone who worshipped at the altar of Buddy Ryan. Amid the hustle and bustle of the busy restaurant, Joyner is the quintessence of cool: soft-spoken, decisive and self-assured. But as John Adams, no sports fan he, said: And here are the facts of Seth Joyner’s career: Sports Illustrated NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1991). In September the Eagles corrected a massive oversight by inducting Joyner and defensive end Clyde Simmons into the team’s Hall of Fame. “We played the 46 [eight men in the box, six along the line and two linebackers] like they did in Chicago, and a lot of options. Check his twitter feed. “It’s what’s in your heart. I’ll always remember that.”. He’s very important to me to this day.”. The show opens with an important message from C Jason Kelce. It took us two years to get our footing.”, “The key to our defense was the line,” Joyner says. The team needed a revival, and he was brash. The spring of my freshman year I started dating a blonde, green-eyed Dutch girl. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Joyner, who was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year by, Simmons, who played defensive end for the Eagles, was a two-time All-Pro selection (1991, 1992) and was named to two Pro Bowls (1991, 1992) during his time in Philadelphia (1986-93). And, finally, most Hall of Famers have a media rabbi who beats the drum the way Ray Didinger beat it for Tommy McDonald for 30 years. Of the 333 players chosen in the 1986 draft, Joyner was the 208th, in the 8th round (which doesn’t even exist today) by the Eagles, whose new head coach, Buddy Ryan, had just guided the Chicago Bears defense to shutouts of the Rams and Giants in the NFL playoffs and a 46-10 smackdown of the Patriots in Super Bowl 20. His 13-season career stats compare favorably with HOF linebackers like Sam Huff and Ray Lewis, and if there is any justice he will make it to Canton before too long. Oh, and because he played in New York, which was then and is still the media capital of this sports-crazy world. Ryan had been carried off the field by the Bears’ defensive team in late January in New Orleans after they had beaten the Pats. By … But I asked to be released. It’s loaded with posts from Pine Valley, the secretive and world class New Jersey track only 20 miles from Philly that is on every duffer’s bucket list; and Oakmont, the great Pittsburgh club that has hosted numerous United States Opens. “Love the weather, you can play golf every day. Mike Singletary and Otis Wilson came.
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