While we're on cloud 9..let's talk HoF

[gorillamilitia13]

13 hours ago, Inimicus said:

Pep yes.  No question.

Olsen is a strong maybe.  Dude has just owned the position prior to the last 2 years. 3 consecutive 1k seasons is damned hard to argue against.

Luke and Cam are TBDs.  They are both playing top notch football and a ring or two would make them locks but they are on the edge of being HOF players atm

 

Cam and Luke are locks right now. 

[AggieLean]

Peppers is a lock.

I would like to say Cam and Luke are in now, but both just need a few more years of atleast average play and they’re undeniably in.

I think Smith is in, but he’s not first ballot. 

Olsen needs one or two more great years, but I don’t know if his body will hold up. A super bowl ring helps him tremendously.

I don’t know about Kalil. A ring also helps him tremendously.

TD, nope.

[FugAllY'all]

The moment Cam breaks the career QB rushing yards record, he can retire a first ballot Hall of Famer. The line,

Newton, Cam - CAR

is going to be all over the NFL record books for eternity. Guys like Mahomes and Wentz are going to annihilate whatever fleeting passing records Brees and Brady set. Cam's rushing QB records will probably never be broken. 

[joemac]

Cam is going to end his career with somewhere around 100 rushing TDs. As a freaking QB.  That stat alone will get him into the Hall of Fame.  Not to mention all the other records and huge numbers he will have by then.  And I'm predicting at least one ring for him before its all said and done.

[Dunn]

Always thought this graph said it best about Newton...he is all alone on top of the Mountain.  He is a 1st ballot HoF player no doubt.  

 

(the blue dot is Cam, obviously)

[t96]

89 is a lock, but maybe not first ballot.

Peppers is a lock first ballot.

Cam is a lock first ballot.

Luke is a lock first ballot.

Greg is 50/50 unless he plays at least 2-3 more years after this year and continues to produce, then he'd be a lock.

TD is pretty unlikely but not impossible. Would have to get in on coming back from 3 ACL tears basically. He hasn't gotten the respect he deserves outside of our fan base. And for some reason outsiders think he's a dirty player, and the PED suspension certainly didn't help his case.

Kalil has been a great consistent top 5-10 center throughout his career here but he's gonna get hurt by our market and a relatively short career (for the position) hindered by injuries at the end. If he played past this year I could see it but pretty sure he's true to his initial word and is retiring unlike TD.

 

No one else should even have HoF mentioned with their name at this point, it's way too early for them.

[OriginalPantherDan]

1 hour ago, rippadonn said:

I'm gonna go ahead and pencil TD in, Walter Payton Award winner, stats are up there career wise. I see him and Luke on that stage together. Especially if they win a SB.

TD is very good, but he just hasn’t gotten enough press or acclaim outside of Pantherdom to get in. Needs more than a Pro Bowl nod or two, I’m afraid. I wish I didn’t believe that, but I do.