Matt Stover was told he's not in the Ravens plans. Does he deserve a place in the hall of fame?

good question, but no good answer. since matt is a kicker a place in the hall is somewhat unlikely, most kickers who are in the hall played at other positions as well. I don't think anyone could ever take a thing away from Stover if you remember the Ravens won like 6 games straight without an offensive TD all their scoring came from Matt or turnovers in which the defense scored, so he was among one of the key players in their 2000 championship run. Its always interesting to debate if a certain player should be in the hall of fame and I'm all for kickers making it as well and most football fans broadcasters analysts etc. never give kickers (or punters) the credit they deserve since the general school of thought is "kickers don't matter" but let me tell you, the kicker sure as hell matters when your team is down by 2, 3 seconds on the clock in the 4th and ball on the opponents 20...in that situation the kicker isn't a player that matters, he's THE player that matters!!!

matt along with morten andersen, gary anderson (2 kickers who are number one and 2 in all time scoring) along with punter jeff feagles may one day be enshrined but I wouldn't count on it at least in the next 25-30 years

oh by the way matt stover is number 5 on the all time most points scored list, behind andersen, anderson, george blanda (he is in the hall was a kicker but a qb as well and played for 26 years!!!) and the one active player ahead of stover john carney who is 4 years older than stover but has only scored 11 points more. Jan Stenerud is the only player to make it to the hall of fame as a player who only played the kicker position, no one who played punter only has made it to the hall

I think that he was a good kicker, but not the Hall of Fame. There is only one pure kicker in the Hall of Fame-Jan Stenerud.

I think that Gary Anderson and Morton Andersen are ahead of Stover in line for the Hall of Fame

he;s agreat kicker don't get me wrong but no. If you put Stover in you have to put both Anderson's in(Morten and Gary) and if you put Stover in you probably also have to put David Akers in and then definitely Adam Vintieri (he might actually make it just because of his playoff performance). But, Jan Stenarud(already in) and maybe Vinatieri are the only two kickers who I can see in the Hall of Fame

No, but the Ravens should keep him. He does deserve that much. How could they cut him. I know his distance isn't strong, but he is one the most reliable kickers in the game right now.

What!!! the Ravens cut Stover???

no but kickers like adam vinateri(when he retires) and morten anderson will definetly go, because vinateri won three superbowls and two that were last second field goals, and anderson has the most points scored

hard to evaluate kickers they all play so long and with so little contact its really unfair to induct a kicker over a borderline position player

No he's not a Hall of Famer