Browns: Even Bill Cowher thinks Clay Matthews is a Hall of Famer

Former Browns player and Steelers head coach Bill Cowher agrees with the rest of Cleveland by saying it’s time to put Clay Matthews in the Hall of Fame.

The only people who don’t seem to agree that  Clay Matthews of the Cleveland Browns is a Hall of Famer are the people who vote for such things. Despite being the Browns best player in three different decades, being one of the best pass rushers of his era and, helping lead the team to its best era since the ’60s, Matthews has yet to see enshrinement at Canton. It’s baffling, something former teammate and Pittsburgh Steelers icon Bill Cowher agree with.

Cowher, who played several years with the Browns at the start of the ’80s, was a linebacker on the same team with Matthews. Cowher would then go on to coach after his tenure in the NFL. As he began coaching players, he started teaching them things Matthews was known for. Some of those players got into the Hall of Fame due to those techniques.

At least that’s what he’s being quoted as saying by Matthew’s daughter, Jennifer. She and others are trying to get the Matthews patriarch into the Hall of Fame. That’s something most people believe he deserves.

To have a man like Cowher, he himself a 2020 inductee into Canton, endorse you as a player and essentially state that you were the reason why modern linebacking is where it is, is huge.

"He defined the art of playing outside linebacker."

Those aren’t words to take lightly. Not with all the great linebackers that Cowher has seen. The mystery as to why Matthews isn’t in yet persists, with no one having a really good reason why. He was a great pass rusher in an era where weren’t recorded for the first part of his career. Imagine saying one of the God Fathers of the modern pass rush isn’t good enough to be in the Hall of Fame. It’d be like saying Pete Maravich isn’t a great scorer because he spent most of his career playing without a three-point line.

Cowher is right, Matthews has done more than enough to warrant enshrinement. It’s time to do it.