Frank Gore Thread

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by titan:
Sterling Sharpe got in. I can't understand why Gore wouldn't.

That's not really a good argument, cause Sterling Sharpe was a better player at WR than Gore was at RB. It's nonsense to keep a player out of the HOF because of the 'he didn't play long enough' argument....when you can clearly see how talented Sharpe was. This was long overdue.

On the flip side Gore overcame two torn ACLs in college, multiple surgeries and injuries in the NFL and still was a premier back. He should be a first ballot hof based on that.

What Gore accomplished without considering the injuries, is amazing. He certainly deserves to go to the HOF.

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by titan:
Sterling Sharpe got in. I can't understand why Gore wouldn't.

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That's not really a good argument, cause Sterling Sharpe was a better player at WR than Gore was at RB. It's nonsense to keep a player out of the HOF because of the 'he didn't play long enough' argument....when you can clearly see how talented Sharpe was. This was long overdue.

On the flip side Gore overcame two torn ACLs in college, multiple surgeries and injuries in the NFL and still was a premier back. He should be a first ballot hof based on that.

What Gore accomplished without considering the injuries, is amazing. He certainly deserves to go to the HOF.

we just pencil sterling in for 15 years of greatness but a lot of WRs that doesn't happen. michael thomas was great for a handful of years. he's not HOF.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
we just pencil sterling in for 15 years of greatness but a lot of WRs that doesn't happen. michael thomas was great for a handful of years. he's not HOF.

Not only irrelevant, but you actually torpedo your own point. Sharpe only had a handful of years, and he IS a HOF. Sharpe was simply a better player than Gore, and there isn't much of an argument against that.

Originally posted by Pillbusta:

Originally posted by Niners99:
It will be impossible to keep him out because of where he sits on the all time yards list. The top SIXTEEN RB's in all time yards are all HOFers, and Gore sits at 3.

Yes he will get his due. Had Harbaugh given him the ball in the red zone in the Super Bowl he'd have had his ring in 2013. Instead we got to see the Ray Lewis send off special because God told him he was gonna win

SMH

That was so bad. Gore was avg 4+ yards in the game and we had 1st and goal at the 6 yard line. SMH. Our OC was an idiot. He did the same thing in Seattle in the Championship game!!!! I never liked Crabtree anyway but those 2 games were pathetic JMHO

Originally posted by Cg9erSF:

Originally posted by Pillbusta:

Originally posted by Niners99:
It will be impossible to keep him out because of where he sits on the all time yards list. The top SIXTEEN RB's in all time yards are all HOFers, and Gore sits at 3.

Yes he will get his due. Had Harbaugh given him the ball in the red zone in the Super Bowl he'd have had his ring in 2013. Instead we got to see the Ray Lewis send off special because God told him he was gonna win

SMH

That was so bad. Gore was avg 4+ yards in the game and we had 1st and goal at the 6 yard line. SMH. Our OC was an idiot. He did the same thing in Seattle in the Championship game!!!! I never liked Crabtree anyway but those 2 games were pathetic JMHO

Seahawk fans have been saying the same thing about that pass in the SB against the Patriots. Why didn't they give the ball to Lynch? Sometime coaches try to get too cute. Sometimes the obvious play is obvious because it's been working all day.

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by titan:
Sterling Sharpe got in. I can't understand why Gore wouldn't.

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That's not really a good argument, cause Sterling Sharpe was a better player at WR than Gore was at RB. It's nonsense to keep a player out of the HOF because of the 'he didn't play long enough' argument....when you can clearly see how talented Sharpe was. This was long overdue.

On the flip side Gore overcame two torn ACLs in college, multiple surgeries and injuries in the NFL and still was a premier back. He should be a first ballot hof based on that.

What Gore accomplished without considering the injuries, is amazing. He certainly deserves to go to the HOF.

"Deserves" got little to do with it now.

It used to be if you made the final five they then decided to vote yes/no on all of you, and from 2006-2024 every one - 100% (95/95) - of those final five players got in. It was 80% needed but each player vote was isolated from each other.

Now they changed the way they vote. Now they get down to 7 and those 7 have to essentially survive against each other to get 80% of the vote. Each voter can only vote for 5. So you get this unnecessary death match with a higher % bar to clear than the BASEBALL HoF (you know, the one that is the stingiest of them all at "only" 75%). They have to vote in a minimum of 3, otherwise they would have had only 2 inductees from the 7 this year. That's how hard it is to be on 80% of those ballots when all 7 are seen as deserving to be in the HoF.

Gore has no chance on the first ballot with this system. Easily 20%+ of those sportswriters will have the east coast bias and/or the view of Gore as a longevity stat accumulator rather than a game changer at the RB position.

Rinse and repeat every year as long as this new asinine process is in place.

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Originally posted by titan:
Sterling Sharpe got in. I can't understand why Gore wouldn't.

That's not really a good argument, cause Sterling Sharpe was a better player at WR than Gore was at RB. It's nonsense to keep a player out of the HOF because of the 'he didn't play long enough' argument....when you can clearly see how talented Sharpe was. This was long overdue.

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On the flip side Gore overcame two torn ACLs in college, multiple surgeries and injuries in the NFL and still was a premier back. He should be a first ballot hof based on that.

What Gore accomplished without considering the injuries, is amazing. He certainly deserves to go to the HOF.

"Deserves" got little to do with it now.

It used to be if you made the final five they then decided to vote yes/no on all of you, and from 2006-2024 every one - 100% (95/95) - of those final five players got in. It was 80% needed but each player vote was isolated from each other.

Now they changed the way they vote. Now they get down to 7 and those 7 have to essentially survive against each other to get 80% of the vote. Each voter can only vote for 5. So you get this unnecessary death match with a higher % bar to clear than the BASEBALL HoF (you know, the one that is the stingiest of them all at "only" 75%). They have to vote in a minimum of 3, otherwise they would have had only 2 inductees from the 7 this year. That's how hard it is to be on 80% of those ballots when all 7 are seen as deserving to be in the HoF.

Gore has no chance on the first ballot with this system. Easily 20%+ of those sportswriters will have the east coast bias and/or the view of Gore as a longevity stat accumulator rather than a game changer at the RB position.

Rinse and repeat every year as long as this new asinine process is in place.

Why did they even change the process?

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Why did they even change the process?

Some b******t of not having the voting of the final five be so "automatic" and/or the induction ceremony being too long. Hey geniuses - no one had to vote yes on every final five candidate. They always got 80%+ yes votes because there has been a huge backlog of worthy candidates. There's more teams and more players in recent decades than there were in past decades.

If they don't adjust this further the logjam is gonna get absurdly large.

The senior/coaches/contributor candidate is the same thing. Instead of having Yes/No votes on each individually with 80% needed for the 3 final nominees, they now can have up to 3 nominees for seniors and 1 each for coach and contributor for each category for up to 5 total. Each candidate then needs 80% of the votes to be enshrined, with a minimum of 1 being elected no matter what. Voters can vote for a maximum of 3 candidates. (Sharpe was the lone enshrined this year of five candidates).

Will any coach or contributor ever get 80% of the vote if a voter has 3 votes and there are 3 senior players they can vote for?

Basically they broke it in trying to fix it.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6125655/2025/02/10/nfl-hall-of-fame-rule-changes/

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Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

Frank Gore is a PROBLEM in the ring 😳🥊

Gore is 2-0 as a Pro Boxer. pic.twitter.com/qvgtWj9lFq

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) March 1, 2025

I love Frank but Jesus, hall of fame RB to a pro boxer 💀 give the old noggin a rest my guy