Ahead of Joe Thomas' induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, former NFL players reflect on their encounters with the legendary Browns tackle on the field.
: The story behind the only NFL player to record two sacks against Joe Thomas in one game
“That’s what it was like to play against Joe. It was a chess match, and he was always able to recover.” Former Packers defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins feels similarly about his 2009 sack against Thomas, which he notched with 6:25 to play in 31-3 blowout. Jenkins feels lucky to have knocked the ball free on a play where he never actually hit quarterback Brandon Weeden. But he still screenshotted the email when cleveland.com reached out for an interview. And he plans to save the video clip of the moment an undrafted free agent out played a Hall of Famer.
Against most second-year tackles, Freeney would have “destroyed” the game. Three sacks, four. “They would’ve had to get me off the field,” Freeney said. Indianapolis Colts' Dwight Freeney says Hall of Fame tackle Joe Thomas was the best blocker at mixing size and speed.Don’t forget the bend. In the nine years that Johnson played against Thomas, the tackle’s flexibility is what puzzled Johnson most. The former Browns tackle could absorb all of Johnson’s power by simply “bending, bending, and bending again,” Johnson said. He remembers asking former Browns and Bengals defensive end Frostee Rucker how Thomas did it.
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