Jonathan Ogden: Greatest ever?

You can certainly make the case, because Ogden was simply one of the most dominant left tackles in the game's history.

He retired this week after a long and illustrious career with the Ravens. I put him right up there with Anthony Munoz at the top of the class.

I plan on visiting with him during the festivities for the 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame, where he will join Michael Strahan, Brett Favre, Warren Sapp, Larry Allen and Junior Seau (if he retires this year).

Don't have any particular Ogden moments that stick out - other than his regularly crushing opponents with more pancake blocks than an IHOP - but I do have one of Munoz.

Late in his career with the Bengals, he was playing in a game against the Bruce Coslet-coached Jets at Giants Stadium. Toward the end of the game, he had suffered the latest in a string of knee injuries.

Knowing that his team would have received a delay-of-game penalty if he'd stayed down, Munoz got up, and literally hopped a good 35 yards to the Bengals' bench before the next play. His injured leg was dangling.

He had torn his ACL.


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Bob, Don't you wish you covered the AFC Central? Such a colorful division. :-)

Yes, it is, B N G. Not always for the right reasons, either.

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