Which one NFL team had the 3 best WRs? (1 Viewer)

[Raider Nation]

The signing of Owens gives the Bengals Ocho, Bryant and T.O. Really good, but not all-time best.

Which team could throw the scariest "3-wide" set at you? If there is a definite answer, I don't know what it is.

A few possibilities, off the top of my head:

Moss/Carter/Reed? (Reed wasn't that great, but Moss, Carter and ANYONE would have to be up there.)

Jeffires/Hill/Givens?

Clark/Monk/Sanders?

Bruce/Holt/Hakim?

Harrison/Wayne/Stokley?

 

[2323]

someone will have to help me out here...back in the air coryell days, i believe thsi is correct?

john jefferson, charlie joiner, wes chandler (also kellen winslow @ te)

also

fitz, boldin, breaston

was there a third wr with rice and taylor?

 

[Crazy8s]

Rice, Stokes, Owens

 

[Chase Stuart]

Best at the time or best career WRs who happened to play with each other? (Ala did the '73 Chargers have insane QBs with Fouts and Unitas or terrible QBs with a 40-year-old Johnny U and a 22-year-old rookie Fouts?)

 

[Raider Nation]

Best at the time or best career WRs who happened to play with each other? (Ala did the '73 Chargers have insane QBs with Fouts and Unitas or terrible QBs with a 40-year-old Johnny U and a 22-year-old rookie Fouts?)

Best at the time with one team in one year. I know there have been some great over-the-hill WRs thrown in with some great young WRs. That's why I didn't include Nat Moore with Duper and Clayton.

 

[bostonfred]

Moss Welker Holt

 

[Chase Stuart]

someone will have to help me out here...back in the air coryell days, i believe thsi is correct?john jefferson, charlie joiner, wes chandler (also kellen winslow @ te)alsofitz, boldin, breastonwas there a third wr with rice and taylor?

Jefferson and Chandler never played together -- they were traded from/to SD 12 days apart.

 

[bigmarc27]

Lofton, Reed, Beebee?

Just throwing it out there for discussion.

 

[Chase Stuart]

'07 Pats -- Moss/Welker/Stallworth

'04 Colts -- Harrison/Wayne/Stokley

'00 Rams -- Holt/Bruce/Hakim

'98 Vikings -- Moss/Carter/Reed

'98 49ers -- Rice/Owens/Stokes

'95 Lions -- Moore/Perriman/Morton

'91 Bills -- Reed/Lofton/Beebe

'91 Oilers -- Jeffires/Hill/Givins

'89 Redkins -- Clark/Monk/Sanders

'84 Dolphins -- Clayton/Duper/Moore

 

[Raider Nation]

'07 Pats -- Moss/Welker/Stallworth

'04 Colts -- Harrison/Wayne/Stokley

'00 Rams -- Holt/Bruce/Hakim

'98 Vikings -- Moss/Carter/Reed

'98 49ers -- Rice/Owens/Stokes

'95 Lions -- Moore/Perriman/Morton

'91 Bills -- Reed/Lofton/Beebe

'91 Oilers -- Jeffires/Hill/Givins

'89 Redkins -- Clark/Monk/Sanders

'84 Dolphins -- Clayton/Duper/Moore

Thaaaaaat's the obvious one I knew I was forgetting. I had Barry from '93-'96. That was a fun offense to watch!

 

[Polar Dude]

The '02 Raiders boasted Jerry Rice, Tim Brown, and Jerry Porter (near his peak). That's at least as good as what the Bengals are trotting out this season.

 

[SSOG]

If we expand the exercise from "3 best WRs" to "3 best passcatchers", I think the 1980s Chargers have to top the list. Jefferson, Winslow, and Joiner were all first team AP All Pros that season. Might be the only season in history where a team has had 3 first team AP All Pro pass catchers.

Of course, if we're including TEs, the homer in me has to nominate the 1998 Denver Broncos. Rod Smith, Ed McCaffrey, Shannon Sharpe. As with the 1980 Chargers, the #4 receiving option had under 300 yards. Those three guys essentially WERE the entire passing game that year.

 

[bostonfred]

Moss Welker Holt

C'mon fred. Your homerism borders on the LHUCKS level of disgusting sometimes.

All time receiving records by that trio:Most receptions, single season:

Wes Welker (t2nd, 123)

Torry Holt (8th, 117)

(by the way:

Wes Welker (t13th, 112)

Wes Welker (t23rd, 111)

Randy Moss (t23rd, 111)

Randy Moss (t28th, 106))

Most receiving yards, single season:

Torry Holt (5th, 1697)

Torry Holt (9th, 1635)

Randy Moss (10th, 1632)

Most TDs, single season:

Randy Moss (1st, 23)

Randy Moss (t5th, 17)

Randy Moss (t5th, 17)

(by the way: Randy Moss (t17th, 15))

Career records:

Receptions:

Randy Moss (10th, 926)

Torry Holt (11th, 920)

Wes Welker (145th, 442, but he has had an unbelievable 342 of them in the last three years)

Receiving Yards:

Randy Moss (6th, 14,465)

Torry Holt (10th, 13,382)

Receiving TDs:

Randy Moss (2nd, 148)

Torry Holt (27th, 74)

Receiving Yards/Game:

Randy Moss (3rd, 77.8)

Torry Holt (4th, 77.4)

 

[fantasizing]

I don't think we'll see another offense like the Greatest Show on Turf for a long while.

Those 3 receivers mentioned above plus Warner plus Marshall Faulk may go down as the best offense ever.

 

[Rovers]

I think it would me more interesting to list the 3 best pass catchers, as someone mentioned. In the old days, there weren't many teams using 3 WR's, it was 2 and a TE, and there were quite a few good threesomes in that rule set.

 

[Raider Nation]

I think it would me more interesting to list the 3 best pass catchers, as someone mentioned. In the old days, there weren't many teams using 3 WR's, it was 2 and a TE, and there were quite a few good threesomes in that rule set.

The three from the Chargers would be the gold standard, as SSOG mentions.

 

[Ghost Rider]

It almost sounds like you were trying to say you were sorry for calling me a homer for posting a correct answer to a question you admit was unclear enough that you had to clarify it. If you apologize, I'll probably accept.

Gotta love pissing in the Shark Pool like this.

 

[ookook]

Okay, if we are going for Homerism and giving TEs value, I feel compelled to mention the following corps. Maybe not the best, but deep and pretty hard to cover.

WR Robert Brooks

WR Andre Rison

WR Don Beebe

TE Mark Chmura

TE Keith Jackson

 

[Polar Dude]

I don't think we'll see another offense like the Greatest Show on Turf for a long while. Those 3 receivers mentioned above plus Warner plus Marshall Faulk may go down as the best offense ever.

Except I'd use Ricky Proehl instead of Hakim.Warner's most recent trio of Fitzgerald, Breaston, and Boldin was pretty darn good too.

 

[Polar Dude]

As for the accusation that I'm peeing in the pool, RN asked a question, then felt compelled to clarify it midstream. I answered, and he made an unflattering accusation of homerism because I answered the question he asked and admitted he had to clarify, and then accused me further of being unexcellent when he led out with an unfounded accusation and refused to apologize. I think I've been pretty calm about this, and even suggested that I'd accept his apology, but he refuses. How exactly am I the one peeing in the pool?

Nobody gives a crap. Move on already.

 

[ookook]

No peeing going on, but I doubt Moss, Welker, and Holt are better than the top offenders Chase listed. Is an empirical question, mind you, but I would bet against.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

It almost sounds like you were trying to say you were sorry for calling me a homer for posting a correct answer to a question you admit was unclear enough that you had to clarify it. If you apologize, I'll probably accept.

Gotta love pissing in the Shark Pool like this.

I'm no homer. It's not my fault that most of this board's existence has been during the Patriots' dynasty. My username may imply more of a bias than it should, just like RN's name probably makes his biased assertion that Tom Brady fumbled in the waning minutes of the 2001 AFCCG seem like he's some kind of "homer" for still questioning a referee call from a decade ago. As for the accusation that I'm peeing in the pool, RN asked a question, then felt compelled to clarify it midstream. I answered, and he made an unflattering accusation of homerism because I answered the question he asked and admitted he had to clarify, and then accused me further of being unexcellent when he led out with an unfounded accusation and refused to apologize. I think I've been pretty calm about this, and even suggested that I'd accept his apology, but he refuses. How exactly am I the one peeing in the pool?

Chase requested a clarification. I complied with his request with my post at 10:42.In that post, I clearly started that this was "one team ... one year."Your first post was at 10:48, and it didn't meet the qualifications. Not sure why you'd like an apology from me.

BF's list did seem a tad homerish upon first reading. But on the flip side, his initial list made at least as much sense as Ocho, TO and Bryant.

 

[ookook]

You guys got a room yet? Good.

So someone who can work the DBs, which teams had most receiving yards per game?

 

[Bonzai]

Clark/Monk/Sanders?

I'd go with this.

 

[nittanylion]

Let's lighten things up a bit, eh? The Three Amigos!!!

 

[Ghost Rider]

As for the accusation that I'm peeing in the pool, RN asked a question, then felt compelled to clarify it midstream. I answered, and he made an unflattering accusation of homerism because I answered the question he asked and admitted he had to clarify, and then accused me further of being unexcellent when he led out with an unfounded accusation and refused to apologize. I think I've been pretty calm about this, and even suggested that I'd accept his apology, but he refuses. How exactly am I the one peeing in the pool?

Nobody gives a crap. Move on already.

I'd hate to derail such a timely and fantasy relevant thread. A high five digiter like you probably knows more than I ever will about how things should be handled on this board. Please feel free to resume answering the critical question in the original post, but as a friendly aside, be sure to stay on topic with the OP's intent, even if his question is unclear, or be prepared to feel his unforgiving wrath.

I'll bet you're a fun guy to be around. And at you pulling out the "five digiter" comment. No, you're not pissing in the Pool at all!

 

[ookook]

I think the first step is admitting that there is a little LHUCKS in each of us...nevermind. Goes without saying; he and Captain Tuttle.

 

[ookook]

You guys got a room yet? Good.

So someone who can work the DBs, which teams had most receiving yards per game?

 

[ookook]

Because he wanted to type Tate and just couldn't?

 

[Alex P Keaton]

If I apologize to Fred (even if I don't mean it and I have nothing to apologize for), can we move on?

SORRY FRED!

As you can see, cross posts happen. I accept your weak and half-hearted apology.

I have no idea how a post consisting of "Moss Welker Holt" took six minutes to craft, but whatever.

Time spent sorting through the list of top-3 WR combos on each Pats team since 1960.

 

[Cassius]

Fred -> change the avatar please.

 

[baconisgood]

If we expand the exercise from "3 best WRs" to "3 best passcatchers", I think the 1980s Chargers have to top the list. Jefferson, Winslow, and Joiner were all first team AP All Pros that season. Might be the only season in history where a team has had 3 first team AP All Pro pass catchers.Of course, if we're including TEs, the homer in me has to nominate the 1998 Denver Broncos. Rod Smith, Ed McCaffrey, Shannon Sharpe. As with the 1980 Chargers, the #4 receiving option had under 300 yards. Those three guys essentially WERE the entire passing game that year.

If you are going 3 best pass catchers then the 00 rams has Bruce, Holt and Faulk.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Andre Reed

James Lofton

Don Beebe

 

[OddibeMcD]

Fred -> change the avatar please.

The avatar is a tribute to a fallen board member. I wouldn't joke about it.As for the original question, give me Reed, Lofton and Beebe (or Thomas if we can take a pass-catcher.)

 

[SSOG]

If you are going 3 best pass catchers then the 00 rams has Bruce, Holt and Faulk.

If we're talking strictly about passcatching (i.e. not giving Faulk credit for his rushing), Jefferson/Winslow/Joiner still wins. Neither Holt nor Bruce were 1st team AP All Pros in 2000, while both Jefferson and Joiner were 1st team AP All Pros in 1980. Marshall Faulk was a 1st team AP All Pro, but that was largely for his rushing work, as well. Meanwhile, Kellen Winslow matched his all pro, but chipped in 8 more receptions for 460 more yards and 1 more TD.In a list strictly of passcatchers, I really don't think anyone can even come close to the 1980s Chargers. That trio ranked 1st, 2nd, and 4th in the league in receiving yards. I don't think that feat will ever be matched again.

 

[MarshallRob]

If you are going 3 best pass catchers then the 00 rams has Bruce, Holt and Faulk.

If we're talking strictly about passcatching (i.e. not giving Faulk credit for his rushing), Jefferson/Winslow/Joiner still wins. Neither Holt nor Bruce were 1st team AP All Pros in 2000, while both Jefferson and Joiner were 1st team AP All Pros in 1980. Marshall Faulk was a 1st team AP All Pro, but that was largely for his rushing work, as well. Meanwhile, Kellen Winslow matched his all pro, but chipped in 8 more receptions for 460 more yards and 1 more TD.In a list strictly of passcatchers, I really don't think anyone can even come close to the 1980s Chargers. That trio ranked 1st, 2nd, and 4th in the league in receiving yards. I don't think that feat will ever be matched again.

If we're counting Winslow as a receiver then I agree with your pick of the Chargers trio. If we're only counting WR's don't overlook the mid-70's Steeelers WR corps of Swann, Stallworth and Frank Lewis. The first two are Hall of Famers (though their selections might not have been the Hall's finest hour) and Lewis managed to play in the NFL for 13 seasons. His Steeler numbers are underwhelming, even for that era, but later with the Bills he made a Pro Bowl and posted two 1000-yard seasons.

 

[Don Quixote]

If counting Winslow, then, in similar vein, Biletnikoff, Branch, and Casper should be up there too.

 

[zadok]

'98 Vikings -- Moss/Carter/Reed'91 Oilers -- Jeffires/Hill/Givins'89 Redkins -- Clark/Monk/Sanders

Those would be my finalists.

 

[CravenM]

1998 Denver Broncos:

Rod Smith had 86 receptions for 1,222 yards

Ed McCaffrey had 64 receptions for 1,053 yards

Shannon Sharpe had 64 receptions for 768 yards

 

[stewartcjae]

all time I would probably lean towards the Moss/Carter/Reed.

for one year I'm gonna throw out the 1995 Falcons

Bert Emanual 74 rec 1039 yd 5 td

Terance Mathis 78 1039 9

Eric Metcalf 104 1189 8

Think i remember them being good on tecmo super bowl

 

[Fantaholic]

Seeing some of these lists brings me back a couple of decades. One threesome I haven't seen here is Elway's 3 Amigos. Ricky Natiel, Mark Jackson & Vance Johnson. I don't if they were elite stat-wise but they made for a pretty tough threesome.

 

[Stinkin Ref]

from a more recent fantasy perspective I think it would have to go like this:

1. Harrison/Wayne/Stockley

2. Bruce/Holt/Hakim

3. Moss/Carter/Reed

I think you could make a case for putting those 3 in about any order.....slight nod to the first group for the year Stockley had like 10 TD's and a bunch of catches.....Hakim was more of a home run hitter.....and Reed sometimes a slight afterthought..........

all three of those combos produced 3 guys that were basically "startable" every week........

 

[nittanylion]

Let's lighten things up a bit, eh? The Three Amigos!!!

You must have missed this. Touchdown Banditos! Enjoy!FTR, if I had a gun to my head I'd probably take Moss/Carter/Reed by a nose-hair over Monk/Clark/Sanders, but I'd put either trio over Harrison/Wayne/Stokeley and Bruce/Holt/Hakim-Curtis-Proehl-Looker

 

[GloryDaze]

Lofton/Jefferson/Epps

 

[SSOG]

Seeing some of these lists brings me back a couple of decades. One threesome I haven't seen here is Elway's 3 Amigos. Ricky Natiel, Mark Jackson & Vance Johnson. I don't if they were elite stat-wise but they made for a pretty tough threesome.

I always thought a more appropriate nickname should have been "The Three WR2s" because there wasn't a WR1-caliber player among the bunch.

 

[Cassius]

Fred -> change the avatar please.

The avatar is a tribute to a fallen board member. I wouldn't joke about it.

Yeah - a very intelligent, witty, valuable fallen board member, which is why Fred shouldn't use it if he's going to act like such a #####.

 

[Mr. Peterson]

As for the accusation that I'm peeing in the pool, RN asked a question, then felt compelled to clarify it midstream. I answered, and he made an unflattering accusation of homerism because I answered the question he asked and admitted he had to clarify, and then accused me further of being unexcellent when he led out with an unfounded accusation and refused to apologize. I think I've been pretty calm about this, and even suggested that I'd accept his apology, but he refuses. How exactly am I the one peeing in the pool?

Nobody gives a crap. Move on already.

I'd hate to derail such a timely and fantasy relevant thread. A high five digiter like you probably knows more than I ever will about how things should be handled on this board. Please feel free to resume answering the critical question in the original post, but as a friendly aside, be sure to stay on topic with the OP's intent, even if his question is unclear, or be prepared to feel his unforgiving wrath.

Wow, you're acting baby-ish. And your post above about Moss, Welker and Holt is pretty bad. I'm gonna say these two are close:'91 Oilers -- Jeffires/Hill/Givins'98 Vikings -- Moss/Carter/ReedAnd being from Buffalo I remember how good Reed/Lofton/Beebe were, but I'm not sure they were as good as the ones I mentioned before.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Not saying Moss/Carter/Reed is definitely the best, but some of you are underrating how good Jake Reed was. He was a damn fine number 2 in Minnesota before Moss got there.

 

[DawnBTVS]

Not a best ever but really good threesome...

1995 Atlanta Falcons

Eric Metcalf: 104 - 1189

Terance Mathis: 78 - 1039

Bert Emanuel: 74 - 1039

They also combined for 22 of the team's 26 TD catches that year. Probably more remarkable that they did it without Andre Rison.

 

[eaglezzz]

hmmmmm wonder what

Jackson/Maclin/Celek can do this year