Coryell Was Robbed

Don Coryell did not make the NFL Hall of Fame last Saturday.

In his place were voted in the likes of Russ Grimm, John Randle and Rickey Jackson.

Rickey Jackson? An above-average linebacker gets in over a coach who revolutionized the game of football and whose offensive innovations are the most widely-copied schemes in the current NFL?

Dubious.

Nothing against Rickey - who was like Shawne Merriman before Merriman got hurt - but this strikes me as a pick that piggybacked the fact the Saints made the Super Bowl. New Orleans was on everyone's mind and so they voted in an old-school Saint.

If the Bolts had made the Super Bowl, I bet Coryell makes it and Rickey is on the outside looking in.