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Best Safety Duo in Giants History?

BleedingBlue2 : 9/15/2016 7:05 pm
With all the talk on our current safeties, another post triggered me to think about all the Giants safeties throughout the year. So... Who do you have as the best safety duo in Giants history? Not necessarily the best player, but the best duo.
They've never had a true stud playmaker at S  
David B. : 9/15/2016 7:09 pm : link
Of the Troy Polamalu/Earl Thomas mold. Neither S. Williams nor K. Phillips turned out that way. Landon Collins won't be that. Maybe D. Thompson has a shot.
I Didn't See Pre 1970  
Trainmaster : 9/15/2016 7:13 pm : link
The 1990 season / Super Bowl XXV secondary was pretty good:

29 Myron Guyton
47 Greg Jackson

They (within 1990 rules) beat the crap out of Buffalo's receivers in the Super Bowl.
2011 Rolle/Phillips IMO  
DennyInDenville : 9/15/2016 7:14 pm : link
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In two championship years  
grizz299 : 9/15/2016 7:18 pm : link
1956 Em Tunnell, Jimmy Patton

2011 Ant. Rolle, Kenny Phillips

One of those few questions that is just about "inarguable".
Agree with Grizz  
Ivan15 : 9/15/2016 7:29 pm : link
Kinnard would get a mention but his partners weren't memorable to me
Tunnel and Patton were the best!  
idinkido : 9/15/2016 7:34 pm : link
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I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for  
Greg from LI : 9/15/2016 7:36 pm : link
Myron Guyton and Greg Jackson. Both those dudes could hit.
From 1986 SB winning team  
ChicagoMarty : 9/15/2016 7:43 pm : link
Kenny Hill and Terry Kinard!!!!
When it's all said and over with (barring good health)  
Canton : 9/15/2016 7:46 pm : link
It could be Thompson and Collins. Especially if they help us get to the big dance.
Best Ever  
Samiam : 9/15/2016 8:14 pm : link
If you're old enough to see them,Tunnell and Patton and it's not even close. It's almost like asking who was a better QB, Eli or Collins.

By the way, I think if Phillips had not gotten hurt, he would have been a star free safety
Hard not to get excited  
Eclipse77 : 9/15/2016 8:14 pm : link
About the potential of the young guys we have now. I really thought safety was going to be our strength when we had Rolle, Phillips and Brown coming off of an 8 interception season a couple of years ago. Then Phillips no longer had a working knee, Brown got hurt and then was horrible and Rolle was starting to get old.
Best Safety Duo  
bigborehunter : 9/15/2016 8:40 pm : link
Spider Lochart and Willie Willams, late 60's early 70's. Lochart had 41 int.'s in a 10 year span and Williams had 35 int.'s in 6/7yrs.
safeties  
hankb1126 : 9/15/2016 8:42 pm : link
i forgot tunnell my bas i was going to say patton and lynch
till i read other peoples comments
Another good conbo before Patton  
scouser : 9/15/2016 8:51 pm : link
was Emlen Tunnell and Otto Schnellbacher.
I liked  
GeorgeAdams33 : 9/15/2016 9:02 pm : link
Garnes & Ellsworth
Willie Williams  
Samiam : 9/15/2016 9:06 pm : link
I thought he played CB. Was the other safety Henry Carr or am I mixing up years ?
Williams  
ChicagoMarty : 9/15/2016 9:18 pm : link
was a corner

Spider was one of my all time favorite Giants.

Never really played with anyone on his level imo
Tom Flynn and Herb Welch  
sober297 : 9/15/2016 9:22 pm : link
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There is no best duo  
djstat : 9/15/2016 9:24 pm : link
and thats ok
Another Vote for Tunnell  
clatterbuck : 9/15/2016 9:25 pm : link
and Patton.
RE: Best Ever  
clatterbuck : 9/15/2016 9:26 pm : link
In comment 13124098 Samiam said:
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If you're old enough to see them,Tunnell and Patton and it's not even close. It's almost like asking who was a better QB, Eli or Collins.

By the way, I think if Phillips had not gotten hurt, he would have been a star free safety


Agree on Tunnell and Patton.
Dick Nolan and Jimmy Patton  
Rick in Dallas : 9/15/2016 9:33 pm : link
I didn't see em Tunnell play.
CC Brown and  
McNally's_Nuts : 9/15/2016 10:05 pm : link
Michael Johnson
You'll have to take the word of us old-timers - - - -  
Phil in Joisey : 9/15/2016 10:36 pm : link
Emlen Tunnell and Jimmy Patton were indeed the best.
In my lifetime i would have to go with  
Scuzzlebutt : 9/15/2016 11:02 pm : link
Guyton/Jackson. Both could hit like a truck.
McNally  
DennyInDenville : 9/15/2016 11:23 pm : link
You mean cc brown and Aaron rouse? Gosh those 2009 safety's sucked
Best Safety Duo  
jmdvm : 9/16/2016 1:23 am : link
Tunnell and Patton. Tunnell is the only Giants safety in the Hall of Fame. Dick Lynch, Willie Williams and Henry Carr were all CBs. Allen Webb was the safety opposite Patton in the early 60's
Spider played with a lot of crap at SS  
PatersonPlank : 9/16/2016 2:35 am : link
He was out best FS ever.
of course it is! 1 game is all the proof we need!  
Victor in CT : 9/16/2016 6:50 am : link
JFC. Let these kids play afull season first
If we can separate eras  
joeinpa : 9/16/2016 7:41 am : link
Tunnel and Spider
Emlen Tunnell & Otto Schnellbacher  
truebluelarry : 9/16/2016 7:54 am : link
and its not even close for second place.

RE: Best Safety Duo  
truebluelarry : 9/16/2016 7:57 am : link
In comment 13124528 jmdvm said:
Quote:
Tunnell and Patton. Tunnell is the only Giants safety in the Hall of Fame. Dick Lynch, Willie Williams and Henry Carr were all CBs. Allen Webb was the safety opposite Patton in the early 60's


Patton was great, for the life of me I still doj't understand how he is not in the giants ring of Honor, and he certainly would be worthy of a bust in Canton as well. But he came along as Tunnell was slowing down and missed his prime. Patton's heyday I think was probably playing alongside Dick Nolan.
The Umbrella Defense's secondary in 1950  
truebluelarry : 9/16/2016 8:07 am : link

Harmon Rowe, Otto Schnellbacher, Emlen Tunnell, Tom Landry

Jimmy Patton in 1957  
truebluelarry : 9/16/2016 8:11 am : link


He was also an excellent kick returner.
Terry Kinard & Kenny Hill  
Beer Man : 9/16/2016 8:30 am : link
made up a good duo. Probably not the best all-time for the G-men, but they were very effect
Most underrated duo was  
jlukes : 9/16/2016 8:31 am : link
Tito Wooten and Jesse Campbell
Lockhart and Tunnell  
njm : 9/16/2016 8:41 am : link
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Oops, they weren't a duo  
njm : 9/16/2016 8:42 am : link
Tunnell and Patton
Before my time  
David B. : 9/16/2016 9:08 am : link
But from what I've heard/read over the years, yeah, Tunnel and whoever was the best guy he played with, were likely the best.
Lockhart started out as CB. I don't remember what year he switched  
Ivan15 : 9/16/2016 9:21 am : link
I was in foreign countries then (Florida and Wyoming).
Tunnell and Patton  
PaulN : 9/16/2016 9:24 am : link
Everyone should start by listening to the people who have seen a few to know. They were the best, by far.
Since 2000  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 9/16/2016 9:55 am : link
it's gotta be that one season of Rolle/Hill. The rest of the team stunk but those two were unbelievable.
Funny , I don't remember  
grizz299 : 9/17/2016 7:53 am : link
Lockhart playing safety. I thought he was a corner.

Another mind trip....no matter how often I read that Katcavage with the left def.end and Robestelli the right, in my mind I have it reversed. The picture of Andy R. rushing from the bottom of the b&w tv screen (when the defense was facing left) is so vivid that I can't erase it.
I am prepared to trust my memory and say the entire world is wrong...I can even see the swim move and in a beautiful b&w drawing that a gasoline company gave away for free I can see that front four lined up and waiting for the huddle to break and A.R. is in the left end position and Kat in the right.
the other mind bender....  
grizz299 : 9/17/2016 8:04 am : link
It's as if I missed Joe Morrison. When I saw him in the Giant Ring of honor "what do they mean Joe Morris?" I remember him as a indistinquishable journeyman, only able to make the team as versatile who wasn't good enough to have a full time position but could fill in when a regular went down. Obviously he was more than that, but I lived and breathed with that team, and it's scary. If I'm that wrong on football things, are there ohter things my mind has remembered incorrectly.?
I have to say Kenny Hill  
Vin R : 9/17/2016 8:42 am : link
Since I see him every week lol
Jackson and Guyton played together at the highest level...  
Torrag : 9/17/2016 1:45 pm : link
...as a Giants safety tandem. Individually they weren't the best, though they were quite good. Together they are #1 as a team that I've watched back there.
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