Top 50 of the Belichick era debate: Dont’a Hightower vs. Willie McGinest
Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast
NBC Sports Boston
4.5 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:01.0 | And there ain't |
| 0:03.0 | all right. |
| 0:04.0 | All right. |
| 0:06.0 | I hope you're all primed for the top 50 Patriots under Bill Belichick, Volume 2. |
| 0:28.2 | I had a blast putting this together, and I knew this time around I needed to get more input from some experts. |
| 0:35.1 | So I reached out to them. |
| 0:37.0 | The first debate that I wanted to try and settle was Dante High Tower and Willie McGinnis. |
| 0:42.8 | Who belongs higher? |
| 0:44.6 | Dante High Tower helped deliver three Super Bowls with different players. |
| 0:47.7 | I mean, he was a beast in 2018 against the Rams, terrorized them. |
| 0:51.7 | I don't have to tell you about the Strip Sack in 2016, do I? Against the Falcons. |
| 0:56.3 | And back in 2014, if not for him tripping up Marshawn Lynch? You might never heard the name Malcolm |
| 1:02.9 | Butler. But Dante Hightower has nothing on Willie McGinnis. Big Willie drafted 4th in 1994, a bridge guy all the way through with three |
| 1:14.9 | Super Bowl wins, the leading soccer in postseason play in NFL history, and OG, which guy goes |
| 1:24.6 | first? This was something I was going to be fascinated to hear the input on. |
| 1:30.0 | Dionne Branch has thoughts. |
| 1:32.0 | Dionne. |
| 1:35.2 | I look at Hightower and McGinnis is similar, |
| 1:38.6 | but Hightower is actually a little more versatile in some ways than Willie, who was up at the edge. |
| 1:45.2 | So I actually wanted to ask you about that. |
| 1:47.0 | That specific conversation, there's a couple of tough ones for me. |
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