Mike Alstott, Jeff Garcia Join List Of 122 Hall Of Fame Nominees
September 12th, 2019
The last Buccaneers quarterback to lead the team to a playoff appearance is among the 122 modern era names for this year’s Pro Football Hall of Fame class.
Jeff Garcia, 14-10 as a Bucs starter through the 2007 and 2008 seasons, is joined by Mike Alstott, Ronde Barber, John Lynch, Simeon Rice and Dallas Clark, among other names familiar to Tampa Bay faithful. You can see the whole list by clicking here.
It takes little to be a nominee (you just have to get nominated). What takes a lot is to get the final-15, so you can officially be presented and the panelists can vote. Barber and Rice have yet to get there despite their excellent credentials.
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September 12th, 2019 at 2:32 pm
JG was good but not HOF good imo….
GO BUCS!!!!
September 12th, 2019 at 2:37 pm
A-train was a wrecking ball!
September 12th, 2019 at 2:40 pm
They wont get it….but I’d love to be wrong and see A-Train get in!
September 12th, 2019 at 2:42 pm
Jeff Garcia LOL
Mike Alstott has a prayer
Ronde Barber – Yes
John Lynch – Yes
Simeon Rice – Yes
Dallas Clark – ?????
September 12th, 2019 at 2:43 pm
Garcia did marry a babe. That should get him in.
September 12th, 2019 at 2:50 pm
Alstott up the gut!!
September 12th, 2019 at 2:51 pm
Gene is the best!
September 12th, 2019 at 2:54 pm
Lynch and Barber…it’s a sin neither one is in yet…
September 12th, 2019 at 2:57 pm
Jeff Garcia?
I smell a rat.
September 12th, 2019 at 3:02 pm
There’s a channel on YouTube called NFL Throwback, I think it’s an NFL production, and they did a piece on Alstott and it’s just fantastic. So many insane runs – even if you lived through that time I think we got so used to it that we forget how incredibly great Alstott was.
If Gruden wasn’t such a moron as to have Pittman running into the back of his o-line on every play, and had Gruden continued to use Alstott as a featured back, his case for the HOF would be a lot more solid. But ultimately it’s dummy Gruden that will keep him out of the HOF as he ruined the 2nd half of Alstott’s career.
September 12th, 2019 at 3:08 pm
“Gruden that will keep him out of the HOF as he ruined the 2nd half of Alstott’s career.”
I think Gruden kept him away from spending the rest of his life in a wheel chair. Some things are more important than football and the Hall of Fame!
September 12th, 2019 at 3:11 pm
Yeah, because being a blocking FB is a lot easier work than running the ball.
Great observation there….
September 12th, 2019 at 3:16 pm
Garcia was the last great QB the Bucs have had
September 12th, 2019 at 3:22 pm
Garcia was never a great QB, that’s a ridiculous comment.
September 12th, 2019 at 3:23 pm
But at least Gruden got him a Super Bowl ring.
September 12th, 2019 at 3:38 pm
If I had to pick 1 Bucs QB to win 1 game for me, I would pick Garcia.
The fall of the Bucs began when they cut him and signed Byron Leftwich who promptly went 0-8, got benched for Josh Freeman.
September 12th, 2019 at 3:39 pm
@ Rod
If Jameis ever had a 32 TD 12 INT season like Garcia Buc fans would lose their minds
September 12th, 2019 at 3:42 pm
I’m sure Alstott would take Gruden and a ring vs some stat padding.
September 12th, 2019 at 3:46 pm
Lynch was part of the trio that got the team turned around.
Ronde made the biggest play in Bucs history and closed out Veterans Stadium in style.
Alstott was the Bucs offense for year and years.
All three have enough stats to warrant a gold jacket.
Rhonde IMHO has the best stats, he defined the nickle corner in his era.
Only NFL player with 45+ picks and 25+ sacks.
Most consecutive starts by a DB
Lynch, love the guy but with the NFL becoming wusses, his style of play is frowned at.
Alstott, he is a legend here in Tampa, but loathed outside of the Bay Area. For some reason many people think he got to all of those Pro Bowls on a technicality.
September 12th, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Ronde not in.
Lynch not in.
Garcia? LOL, cmon man. Look I love how much fkn heart he played with as a Buc, but a hall of famer he is not.
Alstott I could maybe see after Ronde and Lynch
September 12th, 2019 at 6:03 pm
I loved watching Jeff Garcia play.
Oh, and the wifely babe…
September 12th, 2019 at 6:12 pm
Alstott is the best FB I’ve ever been lucky enough to see play football with my own eyes.
I was able to see him play a lot, and he always stood out.
Dude was awesome.
Totally awesome.
I’m not sure how many FBs are in the Hall (or how often one gets in), but I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unrealistic for him to be considered.
I mean, EVERYONE knew who you were talking about when you talked about the A-TRAIN back then, and I think it’s not too different now.
So if it’s a Hall of FAME, he should be considered.
Dude made his fame the hard way.
September 12th, 2019 at 7:14 pm
Alstott had like 6 different offensive coordinators . Was never the feature back . Only twice in 10 years did he carry the ball over 200 times. Yall act like he was Jim Brown. Fun to watch but his head coach didn’t even know his damn name Because to the rest of the league and everyone out of Tampa he was just an average back.
September 12th, 2019 at 7:18 pm
Alstott was a FB under Dungy. Dunn was the RB. So wtf are you blaming Gruden for…
Yes Gruden could have utilities him differently but there’s not much utility in the West Coast offense for FB play. That and Alstott started losing his first step speed didn’t help.
September 12th, 2019 at 7:19 pm
Our current long snapper is wearing #97. I didn’t see anything that said Rice was butt hurt like Ms McCoy was.
September 12th, 2019 at 7:42 pm
Lynch, Barber, Rice and Alstott should all be in the Hall of Fame.
As usual there is “bias” against Buccaneers among HOF ‘voters’.
September 12th, 2019 at 7:54 pm
Alstott in hall of fame is a joke… only bias is the pewter glasses this fan base has. Had he been listed as a HB he would have never sniffed a pro bowl because he was avg at best. If you compare him to Lorenzo Neal at true hall of fame worthy FB he is below avg at best as at “true” FB. Take off the pewter glasses!! AVERAGE at both positions if you made him a RB or a true FB!!
September 12th, 2019 at 9:24 pm
Mike might make it as one of the senior members since a lot of the future hall of fame voters grew up watching him smash people and used him on Madden and what not. If there was a “having a gorgeous wife” hall of fame, Garcia would be a shoo in. No chance for him making the real thing.