I want to talk about Walter Jones

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Doltos: Dec 28, 2005; 🤌🤌🤌

This is the face of possibly the best player of all time. Not the best offensive tackle, but THE best NFL athlete to ever put on a helmet.

Some accolades:
9� Pro Bowl (1999, 2001�2008)
4� First-team All-Pro (2001, 2004, 2005, 2007)
2� Second-team All-Pro (2006, 2008)
NFL 2000s All-Decade Team

http://www.nfl.com/videos/seattle-seahawks/0ap2000000370660/Hall-of-Fame-vignette-Walter-Jones

This was a man who utterly dominated arguably one of the hardest positions in the sport.

Wikipedia posted:

Jones attended Holmes Community College for two seasons, where he was named Mississippi Junior College Player of the Year by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in 1994. Then 6′5″ and 265 pounds, Jones played both offensive tackle and tight end. He allowed one sack in two seasons.

Terry Blount posted:

Jones was on the field at left tackle for 5,703 pass attempts, but he was called for holding only nine times. That�s only once in every 633 passes or .0016 percent.

Terry Blount posted:

According to coaching statistics, Jones was beaten for a sack only 23 times. That�s less than twice a season. Some tackles get beat for a sack twice a game or more. Jones allowed his quarterback to be sacked only once in every 248 pass attempts or .004 percent of the time.

Stats are great and all but let's look at the man work (Watch #71):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-BSrVsRDs

https://imgur.com/4kle5HF - Watch him push a DT right off balance then get to the second level to block the MLB
https://imgur.com/eXYhNlt - Got to the second level faster than Alexander. #90 was just along for the ride.
https://imgur.com/bfnKGjD - Ya your speed rush ain't fuckin' getting past me.
https://imgur.com/uBu0qfH - Mr. Jones introduces the free safety to the ground.

Other players on Walter Jones:

DeMarcus Ware posted:

I�ve never played against another offensive lineman like Walter Jones.

The first time I saw Walter on film was before we played the Seahawks my rookie year. He was grabbing guys and throwing them to the sideline and dumping defensive tackles like they were nothing.

I was like, Oh Lord � who is this guy?

Usually, at the snap, an offensive tackle will kick back and cut off the pass rusher�s lane to the quarterback. But Walter Jones would turn and run with you. He could do that because he was athletic enough to do it. He was like 6-foot-5, 325 pounds, and he could run with just about anybody off the edge. I saw one report that said he ran a 4.67 in the 40-yard dash at a predraft workout. When an O-lineman runs a sub-5.00 40, people say he�s fast.

If that�s the case, Walter Jones was lightning.

Ware added: �When he punched you in the chest, you felt like your heart was going to go flying out of your body.

Robbie Tobeck posted:

I tell people that the two greatest athletes I ever played with were Deion Sanders and Walter Jones.

Howard Mudd posted:

I don't think he was ever frightened in his whole career.

He is the definition of a dancing bear.

He had this phenomenal athleticism. Walt is the kind of guy who does things so easily, it almost looks like he's playing at 75 or 80 percent. Like Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, he never really struggles to get his job done, even when he's playing against the top NFL players. I don't think he ever lined up in a game where he thought he was closely matched, athletically, to the guy across from him.

I actually had trouble finding highlights for the guy because most of the time he completely neutralized whoever he was against. Not as in pancaking or running them off the edge, but just plain making sure the person in front of him wasn't moving anywhere. When he wasn't making highlight blocks he was being a pure technician.

If I could pick any player to build around and have their career pan out the way they did, I'd pick Walter Jones first.

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