Reggie White aka the minister of defense appreciation thread, Goat status

[FAH1223]

Sheesh that nikka was a unit



first thought yeah, but a lot of these linemen are a lot more athletic then back then, I’d love to see it



put that nikka on skates






What’s crazy is think if Jerome never dies could you imagine that duo


And when he got to the packers he was older

Jerome Brown yeah that duo was something

With Reggie, I remember as a kid in 1998 watching that Packers team that was coming off the loss to Elway in the SB preventing the back-to-back championship and Reggie had arguably his best season at 37 years old!

 

[The_Hillsta]

Reggie White was the muthafukkin truth, no joke.

 

[NYC Rebel]

He probably get like 26-28 sacks a season in this soft era

Who is soft? Players???

 

[NYC Rebel]

I"m old enough to remember Reggie in the USFL. Old enough to remember how he used to TORTURE Phil Simms.

He's the greatest DE ever, over Bruce Smith because he was stout against the run as well as a prolific pass rusher.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Who is soft? Players???

I feel like he would get a shyt load of those gimmie sacks in the era QBs just dropping before he got close

 

[315]

This link is chock full of Reggie White dominance. Great compilation of him just doing whatever to whoever at any given time

Spoiler: OMG AT 2ND VID

Lord

 

[Da_Eggman]

I can’t find the clip but it was Doug Williams saying after Reggie would sack him he pick him up and go “you ok, ok God Bless you”

Doug was like “he would make sure he blessed you 6 or 7 more times in a game”

 

[viktordoomsecretwars]

The reason they don't talk about Reggie is because he was a very conservative guy off the field. He was very religious, an ordained minister and reserved.

He also had some controversial takes he made when he retired so the liberal media tried to cancel him and which is why they like to pretend he doesn't exist even today. He also wasn't super flashy like Deion or playing coked out like LT.

From the late 80's and early 90's, there was no defensive player better than White and that was arguably the golden age of defensive players.

Reggie White had 124 sacks in 121 games in Philly. And his game was far more than sacks. He was pretty much unstoppable.

 

[315]

It was him, Bruce Smith and Charles Haley as a kid for me

 

[DropTopDoc]

I can’t find the clip but it was Doug Williams saying after Reggie would sack him he pick him up and go “you ok, ok God Bless you”

Doug was like “he would make sure he blessed you 6 or 7 more times in a game”

At a nikka kicking your ass and then telling you god bless you as he picks you up

 

[HabitualChiller]

Saw a crazy stat about him yesterday or the day before....

Over a 16 game span he had 31 sacks

Can't even do that in video games

You must fukking suck if you can't get 2 sacks per game over the course of 16 games.

 

[DropTopDoc]

You must fukking suck if you can't get 2 sacks per game over the course of 16 games.

do you know how hard that is

 

[dtownreppin214]

That was Larry Allen's rookie year and he was playing tackle that game for the first time due to an injury. White is still GOAT status, just adding some perspective to that clip everyone brings up.

 

[HabitualChiller]

do you know how hard that is

I'm talking about in Madden or NCAA.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

It still trips me out that Reggie is remembered more as a Packer it seems than the leader of those all-time great Eagles defenses. I'll always say that the '91 Eagles defense was the greatest defense of all time. What coulda been if Randall didn't get injured the first game of the season.




One of my favorite Eagles memories was this play. Reggie sacking Bobby Hebert for a safety in the Wild Card round to seal their first playoff victory.




And this used to be one of my favorite commercials. Youtube link is down, this is the only copy I could find.