LT's most memorable play?

as some are making it sound. Teams repeat every decade. Giants won 2 in a 5 year span. Pitt won 2 in a 4 year span. The Pats won 3 in 4 years.

The Giants are a pretty grounded and humble group and they have the prime QB in place. Why the hell not? Just get to mid-late deccember 2 games over 500 and healthy.

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he has the skills to be the top DE in the league. It'd be awesome if he could be a force for the defense like LT was.

I will say that when you watched the Giants defense in the 1980s, you became conditioned to simply follow #56... It was inevitable that he would have a significant impact on the play in one way or another...

Last year was that first time since around the 1988 or 1989 season that for the most part I was just watching one guy...

Qb's were looking for him instead of looking downfield....they knew he was coming....

We're talking about the most dominating defensive player ever to stalk an NFL field.

is etched in my mind but the Saints game was an unbelievable effort. Crazed dogs!

Can be a point of reference in case any modern list maker gets confused when it comes to ranking players.

Thanks for the links. Seeing LT spy Cunningham and pound Jaws brings back some memories. It's interesting how LT sack highlight videos could be used to train officials on the definition of roughing the QB.

Haven't seen him play since he retired and haven't seen the videos (Thanks Matt G) in a long time. At the mention of his name I always associate greatness to describe his game but, I almost forgot how truly dominating he was was. He was in a classification/league of his own. Imagine if he didn't party on Saturday night? Some of the games he was in he was hung over. Superman title for sure - if anyone deserved it.

But, I can't imagine any defensive player having a better season than LT had in '86. One for the record books.

did what LT used to do often. A defensive player who could will his team to a victory. It's really still hard to comprehend how great LT was

He was a bad man.

the Saints didn't take LT with the #1 pick. According to Wiki, before the draft LT hoped to go to the Cowboys. Noooo!

You are on point there... It would be very difficult for a defensive player to match LT's 1986 season... Just re-watching the play against the Redskins in week 14, which was in DC and basically for the division and to see three OLshift toward LT and then a jailbreak created from Marshall etc... Just amazing...

but watching those links I'm again thrilled an amazed at how he comes in like a bullet. Just incredible. Those of us who saw him regularly must realize how lucky we've been.

and ran down Randle Cunningham from behind....

and seeing QBs take the same 7-step drop into the same target zone with the same crushing result time after time. What's that definition of insanity?

It's a testament to the game-changing nature of LT that such a thing even stands out twenty years later.

and i still cant decide what saint play LT made was better than the 2 offered up in the topic.

i realize when you think of LT, you think of interceptions and the luck of the draw of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and breaking an overrated qbs leg with Harry, but i just dont.

im sorry, thats not LT to me. i dont remember him that way.

to pick 1.....the backside run down, pop up, gunslinger shoot em up.

thats LT to me.

so thats the most memorable.

but recovering Roger Craig's fumble, caused by Howard...has to be the biggest.

But for me, it's probably a stop he made in SB 21 on an Elway scramble near the Giants' goal line. It wasn't as obviously spectacular as any number of LT's greatest plays, but I recall swearing at the moment on the 1st instant replay of it that LT broke to where he knew he needed to be to tackle Elway before Elway started his scramble/run and he had to sift through all sorts of garbage to get there because it was across the field from him.

LT's "sixth sense" of how to play the game was on a par with Sayers', Sanders', Rice's, Unitas' and other great offensive players. I can't think of another defender who had that 6th sense of how a play will unfold. Maybe Ed Reed or Polamalu at their best? Ronnie Lott?

Although changing his rush tactic against the Cowboys to block their last second FG was pretty close to thinkng like LT's sixth sense.

it evolved into a thread comparing LT and Julius Peppers when some guy came in to basically say Peppers beats LT and it isn't even close.

In my mind LT is the 2nd greatest NFL player ever, only topped by Jerry Rice.