A football life: Barry Sanders

[StarBoyz83]

Though there would be a thread on this. It was a great show. I think he's the best RB to ever play hands down!!! He had no o-line at all his whole career! His o-line makes ours look like the 90's Cowboys. lol it sucks he retired early but it actually made his legacy bigger by doing that. He'd still have the record by a lot if he played his career out. He was a beast!

[CowboyChris]

he's a quitter

[Lonestar94]

Originally Posted by CowboyChris

he's a quitter

Watch the show when you have time.

[Idgit]

Not the best in my book. Brown. Payton. Smith. After that, we can talk. But I suspect the OP is just baiting us, anyway.

[dexternjack]

Originally Posted by CowboyChris

he's a quitter

Agree with this. He was good but not the all-time best. Emmitt > Payton >maybe Sanders

[muck4doo]

Originally Posted by dexternjack

Agree with this. He was good but not the all-time best. Emmitt > Payton >maybe Sanders

Agreed. The Lions fans make me sick with their trying to downplay Smith. They had a decent o-line. Their RB just wasn't as good as ours, and quit on them.

Smith is the best RB ever.

[Lonestar94]

Originally Posted by muck4doo

Agreed. The Lions fans make me sick with their trying to downplay Smith. They had a decent o-line. Their RB just wasn't as good as ours, and quit on them.

Smith is the best RB ever.

No, Walter was the best RB of all time, then Jim Brown.

[Zaxor]

Originally Posted by Lonestar94

No, Walter was the best RB of all time, then Jim Brown.

No, the only way to judge without being subjective is yards gained and Emmitt wins

any other barometer is being subjective if you go by yards by carry you have to look at olines and what the backup did behind that same oline and so on...

so the only way to do it fairly is to ask "who ran for the most yardage" that is the winner

[mldardy]

Originally Posted by muck4doo

Agreed. The Lions fans make me sick with their trying to downplay Smith. They had a decent o-line. Their RB just wasn't as good as ours, and quit on them.

Smith is the best RB ever.

Yeah I don't like this at all. I watched some of this last night and Herman Moore, Lomas 'mush mouth' Brown and Thurman 'loser and I can't locate my helmet' Thomas were all downplaying Emmitt getting the record and he wouldn't have it if Barry kept playing and Barry would have had 25,000 if he kept playing. Lomas Brown even went on to say 'you wouldn't even hear about Emmitt if Barry didn't retire' *** you cotton ball mouthed idiot. Everyone knew who Emmitt was and did. Emmitt has the record for a reason and Barry doesn't. Barry chose to stop playing not Emmitt's fault.

I did love Emmitt's response when he said people are going to say something positive and negative but he doesn't care because it is what it is. I loved that response. I wish losers like Brown, Moore, Thomas and pretty much all of the Lions fans would shutup about woulda coulda shoulda. It never was for Barry. He didn't break the record and Emmitt did. That's that.

[Joe Realist]

He was the most exciting player I ever saw.

[Little Jr]

Originally Posted by StarBoyz83

Though there would be a thread on this. It was a great show. I think he's the best RB to ever play hands down!!! He had no o-line at all his whole career! His o-line makes ours look like the 90's Cowboys. lol it sucks he retired early but it actually made his legacy bigger by doing that. He'd still have the record by a lot if he played his career out. He was a beast!

I agree he's the best but his ol wasn't as bad as you made it out to be. It wasn't even close to being as bad as our is now.

[StarBoyz83]

Well emmitt is my favorite but he was behind the best o-line to ever play. So that for sure takes away from it imo.

[dexternjack]

I think its funny that some people who don't consider Romo elite is because he lacks hardware. Well, so does Sanders. How can it be that Barry is better then Emmitt, the guy that does hold some SB trophies.

Also, Emmitt was money in the playoffs, Barry was not even close. Here is a snippet I found:

Barry Sanders -- Overrated


Barry Sanders, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004 (his first year of eligibility), scored one touchdown for every 35 touches in his 153 regular-season games, but just one touchdown in 112 postseason touches in six playoff games.
Indeed, Sanders' only career playoff touchdown was a 47-yard run against the Dallas Cowboys in a 1991 divisional-round playoff game in the Pontiac Silverdome. The Lions won that game 38-6. Sanders' touchdown came in the final minutes of the fourth quarter with Detroit already leading 31-6. The following week, the Lions went on the road to play the Washington Redskins at RFK Stadium. Sanders was not a factor. Detroit took a 41-10 beating.


US Presswire
Barry Sanders wasn't the same player away from home.
Sanders' postseason performance supports the notion that he was a product of the cozy, climate-controlled Silverdome. Nice carpet for easy, stop-on-a-dime maneuvering. Seventy-two degrees. Detroit faithful keeping the defensive line off balance with high decibel support.
In four career outdoor postseason games, Sanders averaged a paltry 2.8 yards per carry. He never scored a touchdown. And he never ran for more than 65 yards in a single game. With Sanders, the Lions went 0-4 in outdoor playoff games, losing by an average of 17 points.



So, what is the final analysis if Romo can't be better than Eli because of rings but Barry can be better than Smith?

Emmitt may or may not be better(he is IMO) than Payton or Brown, but he sure is heck superior to the quitter Sanders. Just my two cents.

[rynochop]

Originally Posted by StarBoyz83

Well emmitt is my favorite but he was behind the best o-line to ever play. So that for sure takes away from it imo.

And how many of all those o lineman are in the hof?

I think people still forget that Emmitt played almost another entire season in playoff games and superbowls. I think its 14 games, well over 1000 yds, not sure of tds, double digit I'm sure.
If im starting a franchise, I pick Emmitt every time as my rb.