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Gary Fitzgerald at Redskins.com pens an insightful piece on Monk's HOF candidacy. Thankfully he includes a tidbit that Michael Irvin made the final six on the ballot last year whereas Monk (and Russ Grimm) didn't make it past the round of 10; which is rubbish. 

Here's the excerpt comparing Big Money to the Playmaker:

"Since voters tend to lean toward statistics in evaluating Monk, let's consider the numbers for a moment: Monk surpasses Irvin in virtually every statistical category. Monk caught 940 passes for 12,721 yards and 68 touchdowns while Irvin caught 750 passes for 11,904 yards and 65 touchdowns.

Here's the key difference between Irvin and Monk that seems to jump out to some Hall of Fame voters: Irvin had a 15.9 yards-per-catch average to Monk's 13.5.

There's another way of looking at those statistics, though.

"Because Art was an inside receiver, he caught a lot of balls inside," head coach Joe Gibbs said. "So almost everything he caught was inside, where he would take some hard hits. I think that should go to his credit, but what some [Hall of Fame voters] do is downplay it because his average-per-catch wasn't as high."

Pretty convincing when you take into account Monk's character and Irvin's lack thereof; although I do enjoy counting the buttons on #88's suit each and every Sunday NFL Countdown.

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• #1 Comment from dsstarsiak 
  1/26/06 12:56 AM | Permalink

  I'm a lifelong Bears fan who observed Art Monk's greatness from afar. Why he isn't in the HOF is truly baffling to me.  DSStarsiak.