Pat Swilling in the HOF?

barcar93 said
Swilling was a product of Rickey Jackson being on the opposite side. The year after he was traded, the Saints converted Renaldo Turnbull from DE ot OLB and he had thirteen sacks. I think Peter King said it best when he said that if there was no LT, and Rickey had played in a larger market, he would have been as popular as LT was. The HOF is for the top 1% of the top 1%. Swilling fizzled in Detroit, where he was exposed as being just average, and had one decent season in Oakland. Sure, he was good for the Saints, but he'll never even be considered for Canton.

Hmm...Jackson's best year (sacks) was .5 better than a decent year for Swilling in Oakland...

I have to say, I've never seen a fanbase prop up players of their team by putting down other players of their team more than Saints fans.
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Everything about Reggie Bush is somehow related to Pierre Thomas and everything about Swilling is somehow related to Rickey Jackson. I would imagine it was the same way with Deuce vs Rickey Williams and Aaron Brooks vs Jake Delhomme (but I wasn't around here then)..

I have a feeling similar would occur if I asked about Joe Horn. The entire discussion would be about how much better Colston is/was. I'm not saying definitively Swilling should or shouldn't be in. But, some of the people in this thread seem as if they would be upset if he did get in. And I don't understand that.