John Lynch, safety: Sans multiple locks -- and multiple players who have been finalists five times or more -- I believe this is the year for the Buccaneer great. So much Hall accounting work has gone on over the last few years, "cleaning up" the Charles Haleys and Tim Browns of the world who kept missing the final cut, that Lynch was perhaps an afterthought. There are also those voters who feel Brian Dawkins (see below) or Darren Woodson (a semifinalist who missed this cut) were equal to or better than Lynch. But I don't think there are enough of those voters to take down his candidacy.