Nominate the 2nd Best Atlanta Falcons LB of All Time

by Adam Schultz on Aug 3, 2009 11:03 AM EDT

Alright Falcoholics, Jessie Tuggle, the Greatest Falcon of All Time (as voted by you), needs some company behind the line. Let's find him a partner. Start nominating the second best Falcons LB of all time. The rules are:

You do not talk about Jessie Tuggle.
You DO NOT talk about Jessie Tuggle.
If someone says stop, or goes limp, or taps out, they've probably been hit by Jessie Tuggle.
Only twenty two guys a ball.
One ball at a time.
Helmets, pads recommended.
Fights will go on for sixty minutes.
If this is your first time, you have to make two nominations.
Four years of service or more are required.

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I am Jack's 5 time Pro Bowler

1. Tommy Nobis
2. Keith Brooking

Also, especially if we’re going to do MLBs and OLBs, Greg Brezina, John Rade, Fulton Kuykendall, and Buddy Curry.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

That works pretty good for ‘07-’08, huh?

by orang3b on Aug 3, 2009 11:16 AM EDT reply actions

I absolutely agree...

Has to be Nobis followed by Brooking. Hands down.

by Jeff S on Aug 3, 2009 11:22 AM EDT reply actions

2 nd linebacker

joel williams was a beast

by gbmahoney on Aug 3, 2009 11:24 AM EDT reply actions

theres a name I haven't heard in a while

A worthy nominee…still its Nobis and Brooking

by zooker on Aug 3, 2009 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Gotta agree with Nobis and Brooking

by Dave Choate on Aug 3, 2009 11:33 AM EDT reply actions

Can I get some love for Ed Hartwell...

No linebacker in our history did a better job not delivering then him…

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Elayne Boosler

by NaGaNole on Aug 3, 2009 11:54 AM EDT reply actions

Yeah, about that...

When we signed him, I remarked how his legs looked like tree trunks.

Little did I realize…

by BigManChili on Aug 3, 2009 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Immobility was one of his strong suits

As were his leafy arms.

by Dave Choate on Aug 3, 2009 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Yep.

Nobis. Followed at a respectful distance by Kuykendall and Brooking. And I’d bet Tuggle would fall in line as well.

I revere Mr. Falcon, can’t you tell?

by johnnybacardi on Aug 3, 2009 1:05 PM EDT reply actions

be careful johnny

i hear he who we dare not name roams this site much terry tate roams offiices

by gritzblitz on Aug 3, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Nobis and Brooking for sure, but

like some of the others I have to give honorable mentions to Kuykendall (captain krazy), Curry, Brezina, and Joel Williams. all of whom I have met and are all really cool in person and will stop and talk to you about football.

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 3, 2009 1:31 PM EDT reply actions

Our only Pro Bowl LBs were Nobis, Brooking, Brezina, Chris Doleman and that guy that shall go nameless.

by Jon Cushman on Aug 3, 2009 1:47 PM EDT reply actions

So, I have to nominate two?`

Can it really be anyone besides Nobis and Brooking? What, there isn’t anybody else? Okay then, Nobis and Brooking.

by BigManChili on Aug 3, 2009 7:09 PM EDT reply actions

Greatest?

Hands down, Tuggle.

Southern Dirt.

by falconvick on Aug 3, 2009 10:27 PM EDT reply actions

Welcome to the site!

Apparently, everyone agreed with you…we voted Tuggle as the greatest Falcon ever a couple of months ago.

by Dave Choate on Aug 3, 2009 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions

and why did we vote for this

how is it not nobis and brookings ok on to dbs chop chop

by mistab50 on Aug 4, 2009 10:02 AM EDT reply actions

Nobis

Obviously this poll was taken by the younger fans. No way Nobis is NOT the all time best linebacker in Falcon history. Hands down. Unequivocal. Mr. Nameless was good, but Nobis was the prototype middle linebacker in the Butkus mold. Through all those 2-12 and 3-11 seasons, we watched the Falcons just to see Tommy put running backs on the DL.

by Mooq on Aug 4, 2009 11:48 AM EDT reply actions

I don't dispute that

There is a significant contingent of younger fans here, myself included, who remember Tuggle much more vividly than Nobis. It’s hard to believe how underrated Nobis still is.

by Dave Choate on Aug 4, 2009 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Underrated to some

but not to those of us who saw the guy play. I mentioned this in another post before. Most people are going to go by the player they remember seeing the most. I am fotunate enough to have seen Nobis play in person when I was a kid. He was a bad MF. I would still choose the nameless one as the number 1 LB though.

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 5, 2009 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions