[kabar]

Like Jim Brown, LT's peers and most knowledgeable football experts consider him to be the best ever at his position. LT could dominate a game. Marshall could not.

Lawrence Taylor, defensively, has had as big an impact as any player I've ever seen," former Raiders coach John Madden said. "He changed the way defense is played, the way pass-rushing is played, the way linebackers play and the way offenses block linebackers."

[JLS]

I saw Marshall dominate a game. I never saw Taylor do that. I am not sure that Taylor was the best LB on the team he played on.

He was a one diminisional pass rushing DE. You either run at them or pass to the spot the vacated. His one talent was he was very fast. You had to run at him or pass quickly into the spot he vacated.

[Alberta's Child]

This may sound bizarre to NFL fans, but I watched the Giants almost every weekend for LT's entire career, and there were times when he wasn't even the best linebacker on his own team -- let alone in NFL history.

He was a remarkable athlete and revolutionized the way the game is played, but he was not really a linebacker in the true sense of the position at all -- he was basically a fast, undersized defensive end.