t’s a total coincidence that my NFL Hall of Fame article about punters showed up at the same time that Philadelphiaeagles.com is hosting their poll about the best punter in Eagles history.
They have been polling the fans about each position and now it’s about the punters.
You can vote here:
http://museum.philadelphiaeagles.com/punterpoll.asp
Personally, I’m a Sean Landeta fan. Yes, he punted while I was alive (sorry Joe Muha, I didn’t get to see many Eagles games in 1946.), but he’s got numbers to back him up. He didn’t punt professionally for 24 years because he stunk. No, he didn’t kick for the Eagles for all those years, and if you want to hold that against him in the vote for best Eagles punter of all time, so be it.
But let’s look at some of the others on this list. You could pick Dirk Johnson, but I wouldn’t. He’s been a nice punter for the Eagles, but hardly stellar. I seem to remember a certain game in February 2005 where he shanked a punt out of the end zone and gave Tom Brady & Co. a short path to a TD. That’s intolerable. Punters make mistakes, it happens. But Dirk did it in a Super Bowl. Do I sound bitter?
I really liked Jeff Feagles in his time in Philly, so I considered casting my vote for him. He has not only been great in this town, but he’s been great wherever he goes. He is the kind of dependable punter that you don’t mind trotting out there on 4th down from your own 45 while trying to protect a slim four-point lead with 2:35 remaining on the clock. He’ll pin them and you can hang your hat on that.
Adrian Burk also didn’t play while I was alive, but that’s ok. I know him as a QB more than anything anyway. Here is an interesting bit of trivia: Adrian Burk is one of five QB’s in league history to throw seven TD passes in one game. And if my NFL videos are accurate, he did it with one eye (cataract in one eye). Then, he was an official in the game when Vikings QB Joe Kapp threw for seven TD’s. Do you know the other three guys who have done it?
Ray Didinger likes Bill Bradley and Joe Muha, and who am I to argue with Ray Didinger? If you read this site regularly, you know that I put Didinger in a different atmosphere than any NFL historian out there. He simply does not have a bigger fan than me. I am effusive in my praise of Didinger and it goes against every fiber of my being to disagree with him. But I’m going to.
Didinger notes that Landeta popped 10 punts in Arizona at the end of 2005 and averaged over 50 yards, and that’s exactly right. Yikes. Sean was just 67 years old at the time. Ok, not really, but the fact that he was booming them like that over the age of 40 tells me what a great athlete he is. It was the first time that any punter had accomplished this in over 40 years. His career average is 43.3, which is actually better than Ray Guy’s 42.4 (and I think Guy should be in the Hall of Fame). And forget about the numbers for a second, think back to how many punts Landeta botched. Tough to think of more than a few, right? The Monday Night game against Seattle in 2005 I know there were a few – as Andy Reid would say – “that he’d like to have back.” But it my punter is going to have a bad game, I would love for it to be in a 42-0 disgrace. When my team loses by six TD’s, I’m not even going to ask the punter to look at film the next day.
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