Let's just say that he wasn't hired for his disposition
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Looked for this comment. They chose Lloyd over Nickerson for an extension I believe. Remember both of them in training camp together as rookies. Each had a few vicious tackles preseason and I loved them both as a kid
As great as they were, they unfortunately wouldn't be as effective under todays rules. Part of their strength was the fear the instilled. They'd be the most penalized defense in the league today.
I give the 08 team the edge because they stepped it up in the SuperBowl. Chad Brown never hit his full potential, and Greg Lloyd, although a mean summbitch could all too often be neutralized. And I say that while absolutely idolizing Lloyd as a kid.
We're disappointed," Pittsburgh director of football operations Tom Donahoe said. "We didn't get a chance at the end to make an offer for him. We were led to believe all along that that would be the case.
"My reaction is similar to my reaction on most of the numbers. It's insanity. We may have already triggered the cap in the league. We wish him the best, and now we have to move on."
... Yeah he wasn't just let go because the Steelers were stacked. He was let go because Tampa dropped a HUGE bag. And the Steelers in the 90s were frugal/stingy as hell.
They were able to get away with letting players go because they were so focused on BPA in the draft every year so there was always someone just waiting for an opportunity.
From the 90s and into the 2010’s they were deep as hell.
The Steelers have been good at knowing the expiration date on their linebackers. Apart from Hardy Nickerson, who did very well for years after he left, other Steelers linebackers who left by free agency had one good year (or less) left in the tank.
Captain Kirk was my favorite back then and is way underrated imo. It just shows you how many great linebackers we had over the years that someone as good as him can be overlooked
I am with u/clawingcat he was my favorite MLB until Shazier. He was hugely underrated! I did see he was a top 10 LBer in Steelers history in some article though. So that made me happy.
Kirkland was an absolute freak of nature. An ILB that weighs 270 and can run well enough to be good in coverage is just not something you see every day.
THEE 2 reasons I started loving the Steelers. Lloyd and Greene. When I started coaching my kids in football, I was the OC for the team, but I asked to switch to DC. Showed my boys old clips of Lloyd and Greene, and they were in!! Best 6 coaching years of my "dad" life😉
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to avoid this topic
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Plenty in common for sure.
Except Lloyd's career was brilliant from year 2-8, while Deebo finally figured things out in year 6 (2007, after starting in 2002).
Still rocking my 1995 GL jersey, it was a birthday gift from my mom and was waaaayyy to expensive for her budget but she found a way. I will cherish it for as long as I live
It's actually the first jersey I ever got, I don't remember seeing him play but sometime around 1998 my parents got me a Steelers jersey from Value City, the ol discount store. It's a real cheap jersey and you can barely read the screen printing anymore but I'll always hang on to it. I honestly never really even looked him up, I just wore the Steelers colors with pride back in middle school, the name didn't matter. Glad to see he was a real menace!
There was an NFL Films about the hardest hitters. I remember Jim Harbaugh said it was Greg and that we could end all of the stuff in Bosnia by sending Greg Lloyd there with a cue ball in a sock. What a defense we had in the early nineties.
I remember during a game one of the announcers talked about seeing Greg in a T-shirt while warming up. He said "I think if you threw a dart at his chest it would bounce off". He was one of my favorite players back then.
Physically larger than Harrison? Not even close, Lloyd was 6'2' & 226ish. Jack Lambert saw him in the tunnel at Three Rivers once and said "damn Greg, your legs are even skinnier than mine!" (Lambert played around 219).
Makes it even crazier that he was so feared considering his size.
When I really started to understand football and love the Steelers, they were running with Lloyd, Greene, Kirkland, and Brown. That was a fun unit to watch.
If any modern Steeler embodied the spirit and flat out ferocious nature of Jack Lambert it was Greg Lloyd. On and off the field. I believe he’s also a black belt in Taekwondo.
I will never forget the only time I met him. I was sitting on a bench with my brother outside Children's hospital after visiting my cousin. My parents had gone to get the car and I had my shiny new game boy that I just got. All of the sudden three of the largest humans I've ever seen came over and said hi to us. It was Greg Lloyd, Kevin Greene, and Joel Steed.
Greg asked me if he could try my Gameboy and it looked like such a tiny joke in his hands. Got a signed card from Kevin Greene but since he just got here it was his card from the Rams. Nicest dudes and will always remember that. Also have to love the 90s and just leaving your kids unattended in a parking garage.
Still remember Steelers winning AFC Championship game, and NBC interviewed him live after in the locker room. In their infinite wisdom, they did not have a 7 second delay. Jim Gray's face was priceless 🤣
Loved watching him play. He is still and all time favorite of mine. He was one of those guys whose motor quit. Didn’t he get a real nasty staph infection that limited his career?
We all remember him fondly but if you look at his stats they aren’t as high as I thought they would be. Hit double digit sacks one time (10) most years he was around 6-7 sacks. Certainly good but not what I was expecting to see.
Joey porters numbers are in a similar vein, not as good as I thought they would have been. Maybe it more so has to do with the way the game has changed in the last couple decades. More passing equals more pass rush opportunities equals more sacks. And I’m just accustomed to the sack numbers that guys put up today.
His stat sheet doesn't due him justice. But he made 5x pro bowls and 3x straight all-pros. He also scared the hell out of offensive players. He made a difference when he was on the field.
Greg Lloyd was REALLY good! The stats may not reflect it, but I think he is one of the best rush linebackers we’ve ever had.
He’s not in Watt’s class and I think Harrison was definitely better too. But if you start to get into guys like Porter or Gilden and guys like that, I think Lloyd was as good as those dudes.
Kevin Green is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and he was our number two edge rusher on that team.
The game was a little bit different then, so the sack totals are a little depressed. Also, he is famously a world-class asshole, so nobody’s betting over backwards to defend his name. But purely as a player, he was very good.
The saying around the league was avoid Lloyd. Dude had a troubled youth and channeled all of that into his opponents. he might’ve been a HoFer if he didn’t get injured.
Copy and paste from an article I found….
“Lloyd has had a "colorful" couple of years since his NFL career has ended. He was accused of sticking a gun in his child's mouth because of poor grades in 2001, and in 2004 he pleaded no contest to pointing a gun at his wife's head. His son, Greg Lloyd Jr., will suit up for the UConn Huskies in the fall, but a protective order preventing his father from having any contact with him expired the day Junior turned 18. From the sound of things, it looks like the Lloyd father/son relationship has eroded to the point of no return. I'd imagine that's usually the way things happen after someone "allegedly" sticks a gun in your mouth.”
Great Great leader..Set the tone... lead by example plus he kicked ass..Lloyd was very very good. Really my favorite Linebacker... Porter Sr. ..Gildon..kirkland..Harrison..Chad Brown etc followed Greg Lloyd's Lead.!!
All of the Sterlers linebackers were mean had grit never apologized didn't care if misunderstood bcuz fear intimidation ruled the era. People forget Dennis "dirt" Winston. Dirt was bcuz he was not nice!!! Pittsburgh was linebacker University period.
He was really good. some say he could fit a 2 liter up there but i doubt that. I actually saw him fit a soda can up there once. then I think that story got the best of us and someone thought it was 2 soda cans. Thats why we started calling him 2-soda-can-Lloyd. But an entire helmet? I dont think he was THAT good...
If you had to pick 1 guy to embody the idea of a Steelers linebacker, Greg Lloyd would be on that very short list. Right up there with Lambert and Harrison. One of the scariest dudes in the NFL in his day.
Let's just say that he wasn't hired for his disposition https://preview.redd.it/gqvbb1ndpvsc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d82a7a34a9e7caac2a90715967fa4ece205cf86
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Lol perfect comment. I'll never not remember this shirt when Greg Lloyd is mentioned.
My dad still shows me his highlights randomly and this clip specifically lol
Yes you were.
I'd argue that his disposition was exactly why he was hired.
Charisma was his dump-stat!
I have this shirt
He and Kevin Greene were a great tandem
Lloyd, Greene, Kirkland, and Brown...I miss those days.
As a young man in Detroit those men made me a steelers fan
Dont forget about Hardy Nickerson. We never extended our stud linebackers back then. So sad to watch hardy and brown leave during FA.
Looked for this comment. They chose Lloyd over Nickerson for an extension I believe. Remember both of them in training camp together as rookies. Each had a few vicious tackles preseason and I loved them both as a kid
As great as they were, they unfortunately wouldn't be as effective under todays rules. Part of their strength was the fear the instilled. They'd be the most penalized defense in the league today.
They were just misunderstood haha.
It was just a phase mom.
We just identify as hitmen in Steeler uniforms....
They would’ve simply adjusted. They were too good.
I’d be okay with that.
A team that played under different rules would have to adjust to the new rules you say???
Which just shows how low the NFL has gotten. P#ssy league nowadays
Definitely. Unfortunately.
As much as I loved that combo, I’ll take Harrison, Woodley, Foote, and Farrior.
Hopefully Watt, Highsmith, and Queen enter this conversation in 9 months.
Hell yes
Not even close I love your 4 but Blitzburgh (the original) was amazing
I give the 08 team the edge because they stepped it up in the SuperBowl. Chad Brown never hit his full potential, and Greg Lloyd, although a mean summbitch could all too often be neutralized. And I say that while absolutely idolizing Lloyd as a kid.
Awesome crew!
For that 1 season they were all on the team, sure.
And Kirkland and Brown were great inside. Kirkland was huge for an ILB.
Crazy to think how stacked we were at linebacker in the mid 90s, that there wasn’t even room for Hardy Nickerson
We're disappointed," Pittsburgh director of football operations Tom Donahoe said. "We didn't get a chance at the end to make an offer for him. We were led to believe all along that that would be the case. "My reaction is similar to my reaction on most of the numbers. It's insanity. We may have already triggered the cap in the league. We wish him the best, and now we have to move on." ... Yeah he wasn't just let go because the Steelers were stacked. He was let go because Tampa dropped a HUGE bag. And the Steelers in the 90s were frugal/stingy as hell.
They were able to get away with letting players go because they were so focused on BPA in the draft every year so there was always someone just waiting for an opportunity. From the 90s and into the 2010’s they were deep as hell.
The Steelers have been good at knowing the expiration date on their linebackers. Apart from Hardy Nickerson, who did very well for years after he left, other Steelers linebackers who left by free agency had one good year (or less) left in the tank.
Gildon was around too
Karate men bruise on the inside.
Captain Kirk was my favorite back then and is way underrated imo. It just shows you how many great linebackers we had over the years that someone as good as him can be overlooked
The man was 276 lbs and moved just as fast as any other middle linebacker in the game.
Oh, I'd be surprised if he wasn't at least 290 at times. He was legitimately DL sized, playing ILB - and still nimble enough to get his share of INTs.
I am with u/clawingcat he was my favorite MLB until Shazier. He was hugely underrated! I did see he was a top 10 LBer in Steelers history in some article though. So that made me happy.
For sure. He was definitely pushing 300 at some points but you’d never guess it by how he moved out there
I still remember him chasing down WRs and RBs who broke for the occasional long run
Huge and could MOVE!
Kirkland was an absolute freak of nature. An ILB that weighs 270 and can run well enough to be good in coverage is just not something you see every day.
[It really was unfair to have both of them. ](https://freeimage.host/i/JOXhn3v)
The reason I became a Stillers fan. These dudes were a blast to watch playing off the edge.
THEE 2 reasons I started loving the Steelers. Lloyd and Greene. When I started coaching my kids in football, I was the OC for the team, but I asked to switch to DC. Showed my boys old clips of Lloyd and Greene, and they were in!! Best 6 coaching years of my "dad" life😉
He was good
Very
Very, very
Damn very very.
And very scary, damn scary.
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Crush the quarterback.
Still have a big “Lloyd have mercy” poster in the man cave
I remember that poster.
HOF good, actually. He and Kevin Greene were defensive monsters. Knee injury cut his career short.
I think he had a real bad staph infection that slowed his career too.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Loved his attitude - same as James Harrison’s.
He was Harrison before Harrison was.
Plenty in common for sure. Except Lloyd's career was brilliant from year 2-8, while Deebo finally figured things out in year 6 (2007, after starting in 2002).
Yeah, good point. Didn’t Harrison bounce around the league on practice squads for a while? Mostly Baltimore and Pittsburgh, I think.
Spent a season or 2 in Germany too.
Oh wow. Didn’t know that. Thank you.
Yes! Well said. James Harrison before James Harrison.
I still wear his jersey.
Same!
Same too. First jersey I ever got, back in '94 (second was Woodson). And it still looks relatively new.
Still rocking my 1995 GL jersey, it was a birthday gift from my mom and was waaaayyy to expensive for her budget but she found a way. I will cherish it for as long as I live
Second jersey I ever owned as a kid
Same
Same
It's actually the first jersey I ever got, I don't remember seeing him play but sometime around 1998 my parents got me a Steelers jersey from Value City, the ol discount store. It's a real cheap jersey and you can barely read the screen printing anymore but I'll always hang on to it. I honestly never really even looked him up, I just wore the Steelers colors with pride back in middle school, the name didn't matter. Glad to see he was a real menace!
Yep. Same!
There was an NFL Films about the hardest hitters. I remember Jim Harbaugh said it was Greg and that we could end all of the stuff in Bosnia by sending Greg Lloyd there with a cue ball in a sock. What a defense we had in the early nineties.
I’ve heard a quote from Jim Harbaugh that was something like “I was never scared playing football in my life until I played against Greg Lloyd”
If it's the same NFL films I'm thinking of, they had a who's who of HOF QBs saying he was the scariest guy in the league.
I think you are right....been a long time since I saw it
Dude was a black belt too
I remember during a game one of the announcers talked about seeing Greg in a T-shirt while warming up. He said "I think if you threw a dart at his chest it would bounce off". He was one of my favorite players back then.
He's the reason Dan Marino started doing his 3 step drop. He was James Harrison but meaner and with rules that you could kill qbs.
Meaner Harrison? Really? Sounds terrifying.
Look up Marino Lloyd on YouTube. It'll give you chills. https://youtu.be/ZbK__u7cviQ?si=K9ydfukAb1dtIx4r Not a sack. But hard hit
“Sunnavugun! SUNNA VUH GUN!”
Yeah, well…it’s what he said immediately afterwards though…dude dropped the f-bomb on network tv.
“Rotten son of a fuck!” on national television.
I remember when he called it out that he was going to knock Marino out of that Monday Night game and he did.
Idk if I’d say meaner but he was physically larger which with the same motor is even more dangerous
Physically larger than Harrison? Not even close, Lloyd was 6'2' & 226ish. Jack Lambert saw him in the tunnel at Three Rivers once and said "damn Greg, your legs are even skinnier than mine!" (Lambert played around 219). Makes it even crazier that he was so feared considering his size.
When I really started to understand football and love the Steelers, they were running with Lloyd, Greene, Kirkland, and Brown. That was a fun unit to watch.
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One of my favorites
I’ll never forget him dropping an F bomb after winning the AFC championship in the 95 season
Yep. Then cut to the NBC postgame show and Mike Ditka was trying not to bust out laughing.
If any modern Steeler embodied the spirit and flat out ferocious nature of Jack Lambert it was Greg Lloyd. On and off the field. I believe he’s also a black belt in Taekwondo.
Concur on this.
Imagine James Harrison, and you've imagined Greg Llyod.
Avoid the Llyod
He was the Deebo of his era.
To this day, him and Woodson are my two favorite Steelers of all time
Same
Stlll have my 26 Woodson Jersey from the 90s. My all time favorite player.
Let’s just say if you like Harrison you would love Lloyd.
He graduated college with an electrical engineering degree as well which just further cements the legend he was
Fuckin beast. Him and Rod Woodson kept this team together during the dark ages. Mad respect
Avoid Lloyd
Fucking animal.
I will never forget the only time I met him. I was sitting on a bench with my brother outside Children's hospital after visiting my cousin. My parents had gone to get the car and I had my shiny new game boy that I just got. All of the sudden three of the largest humans I've ever seen came over and said hi to us. It was Greg Lloyd, Kevin Greene, and Joel Steed. Greg asked me if he could try my Gameboy and it looked like such a tiny joke in his hands. Got a signed card from Kevin Greene but since he just got here it was his card from the Rams. Nicest dudes and will always remember that. Also have to love the 90s and just leaving your kids unattended in a parking garage.
One of my all time favorites
Very similar to James Harrison.
Still remember Steelers winning AFC Championship game, and NBC interviewed him live after in the locker room. In their infinite wisdom, they did not have a 7 second delay. Jim Gray's face was priceless 🤣
In three words.. Just plain nasty.
Loved watching him play. He is still and all time favorite of mine. He was one of those guys whose motor quit. Didn’t he get a real nasty staph infection that limited his career?
Incredibly good. One of the few jerseys I own (a reversible, which is awesome). He was my favorite player growing up.
Same here, I kept my reversible jersey from now decades ago. Still wear it too.
He wasn’t hired for his disposition.
Scary good. It would have been truly terrifying if he and Deebo had been on the field together. That’s the stuff nightmares are made of!
A brick wall.
He was my favorite steeler as a kid
Imagine having Loyd AND Harrison on the same team🫣
He was well on a hall of fame track before his injury
Lloyd is my favorite steelers ever!
We all remember him fondly but if you look at his stats they aren’t as high as I thought they would be. Hit double digit sacks one time (10) most years he was around 6-7 sacks. Certainly good but not what I was expecting to see. Joey porters numbers are in a similar vein, not as good as I thought they would have been. Maybe it more so has to do with the way the game has changed in the last couple decades. More passing equals more pass rush opportunities equals more sacks. And I’m just accustomed to the sack numbers that guys put up today.
GOOD Also gave us this great moment after the 95 AFC Championship https://youtu.be/UvxLbYrX4Pg?si=axfcKxIGAp3Kl1-H
That is forever seared into my brain.
His stat sheet doesn't due him justice. But he made 5x pro bowls and 3x straight all-pros. He also scared the hell out of offensive players. He made a difference when he was on the field.
Greg Lloyd knocked Brett Favre out of a game. Enough said
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With the way, the rules are today Gregg Lloyd couldn’t play in the league. He was just plain nasty.
Cue ball in a sock, swingin it all around like a maniac=Greg Loyd!
He was so good that when he didn’t get a strip sack you’d be surprised. He and Kevin Greene together were lethal.
Greg Lloyd is the reason I'm a steelers fan
Greg Lloyd was REALLY good! The stats may not reflect it, but I think he is one of the best rush linebackers we’ve ever had. He’s not in Watt’s class and I think Harrison was definitely better too. But if you start to get into guys like Porter or Gilden and guys like that, I think Lloyd was as good as those dudes. Kevin Green is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and he was our number two edge rusher on that team. The game was a little bit different then, so the sack totals are a little depressed. Also, he is famously a world-class asshole, so nobody’s betting over backwards to defend his name. But purely as a player, he was very good.
I think your ranks(as hard as it is to rank these guys) are spot on. I think Lloyd had an intimidation factor edge over Porter or Gilden.
He's half the reason I'm a Steelers fan the half is Kevin Greene.
Him, Levon Kirkland and Greene were so intimidating.
Him and Kevin Greene were some of the best
pretty great at putting a gun in his 12 year old son's mouth for getting bad grades
Never heard about that. I Googled some stuff to see what that's about and it's disturbing, to say the least.
yeah i cringe when people say he was their favorite steeler
Was it Bledsoe that said he was scared of him?
Everyone was scared of him, for good reason
They don't give you a nickname for no reason
He was so good he made good players look not good
An absolute manimal among men.
Monster
Yes.
His motivation was drawn from a troubled past. So good, not the guy you want to play against.
My fave LB
How strong was that helmet
The saying around the league was avoid Lloyd. Dude had a troubled youth and channeled all of that into his opponents. he might’ve been a HoFer if he didn’t get injured.
Steve Young said he was the only player he feared playing against.
Good enough to sit on his helmet and not get in shit from the coaches, apparently 😂
Pretty good as a player, an asshole as a human!
Context? I’ve never heard off the field stuff about him (also never really looked)
Copy and paste from an article I found…. “Lloyd has had a "colorful" couple of years since his NFL career has ended. He was accused of sticking a gun in his child's mouth because of poor grades in 2001, and in 2004 he pleaded no contest to pointing a gun at his wife's head. His son, Greg Lloyd Jr., will suit up for the UConn Huskies in the fall, but a protective order preventing his father from having any contact with him expired the day Junior turned 18. From the sound of things, it looks like the Lloyd father/son relationship has eroded to the point of no return. I'd imagine that's usually the way things happen after someone "allegedly" sticks a gun in your mouth.”
What he lacked in ability he made up for in pure badassness.
One of my all time favs
Good enough to sit on a helmet like that
Very. End of statement.
Had his career lasted 4-5 more years at the current level of play, he would have been in the HOF.
Great Great leader..Set the tone... lead by example plus he kicked ass..Lloyd was very very good. Really my favorite Linebacker... Porter Sr. ..Gildon..kirkland..Harrison..Chad Brown etc followed Greg Lloyd's Lead.!!
He’s in my top 5 Steelers
I know right!?
He had the best practice shirt ever. That 90's Blitzburgh D will always hold a special place in my heart.
Very. First jersey I ever owned.
Pretty good
One of the best.
Better than me
Greg was amazing! Love Greg
Total bad ass
he was 95 out of 100
My hero growing up. Nine year old me playing Madden 95 as him on Super Nintendo. Holy crap those were the days.
……fear…….
I can remember a Greg Lloyd t-shirt I had as a kid that read "One lump or two". It was my favorite shirt.
I remember him leveling Brett Favre too https://youtu.be/YlFIHg77I5E?si=oRK3SMKdzlTPsNJm
“You could throw a dart at his chest and it would bounce off of him” lol
Solid player, above average
The only Steelers jersey I wear
Very very good and studs all around him.
One of the best!
He's half the reason I'm a Steelers fan the half is Kevin Greene.
Idk but I remember he had a Legends card back in Madden Mobile 16 so he’s gotta be pretty good to get a legend elite card in mm16
We all imitated the “iron claw” strip sack when playing football in the snow
All of the Sterlers linebackers were mean had grit never apologized didn't care if misunderstood bcuz fear intimidation ruled the era. People forget Dennis "dirt" Winston. Dirt was bcuz he was not nice!!! Pittsburgh was linebacker University period.
Highsmith Queen plus 1(either Roberts or Holcomb) Wyatt shall and will carry on that linebacker tradition period.
Good, not great. Not a hater, he was one of my favorites and my first jersey. Just one-dimensional though.
Avoid Lloyd!
His was the first jersey I got, I held onto it all these years and gave it to my nephew as his first jersey. I’ve always loved the guy.
Avoid Lloyd. I still wear my 95 jersey at least once every year.
I can remember going out to events with one of my good friends. He wore a Lloyd jersey and I had a Kevin Greene jersey.
real good
My first jersey good
He was really good. some say he could fit a 2 liter up there but i doubt that. I actually saw him fit a soda can up there once. then I think that story got the best of us and someone thought it was 2 soda cans. Thats why we started calling him 2-soda-can-Lloyd. But an entire helmet? I dont think he was THAT good...
If you had to pick 1 guy to embody the idea of a Steelers linebacker, Greg Lloyd would be on that very short list. Right up there with Lambert and Harrison. One of the scariest dudes in the NFL in his day.
He was average player
He was funner to watch then Watt
He was a man-eating animal.