Then tread lightly. I was just letting the CZ know of you, and also your post about some sort of vigilante justice for the sake our OUR forum. And please, spare me the Like as confirmation retort.
So post 18 doesn't resonate with you, then, Kazuya? With respect, brother.
Also with respect, brother.
His carries you're including are using HS/COL/NFL I assume, Kaz?
I've posted to you numerous times after I apologized to you, Aero. If they weren't worthy of your time, it reeks to me of you tuck tailing and running off from my points to you. Even in this thread you wont address my point on topic with op.
Here’s the NFL all-time list for carries, through 1998 when Barry retired.
Well Emmitt could have quit when he was still productive too, which would have preserved his YPC but also left him several thousand yards short of Sanders total. You can’t have it both ways...
Ah, I see, brother. Okay, hear me out:
Well there’s no doubt that Emmitt’s carries at the end of his career on crappy Cowboys and Cardinals teams dragged down his averages. But the problem is, he needed all those carries to get the yards he got. He carried the ball 1,342 more times than Sanders to pick up 3,086 more yards. It doesn’t take a math genius to figure that’s not a great ratio.Ah, I see, brother. Okay, hear me out:
Emmitt Smith -- 4,409 (1st all-time)
Barry Sanders -- 3,062 (6th all-time)
A difference in career attempts of over 1,000 makes a YPC debate, re:late stage of their career, as per op, a tough one for me, Kaz.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_att_career.htm
Where Barry was at, ranked relative to Smith, when Barry retired, doesn't make a complete argument when discussing totalities of careers. There is no doubt, that at the time of his retirement, Barry had the gaudier stats. But as Emmitt kept choochoo'ing along, he blew by him in everything but per-game (non-scoring, non-playoff) stats.
It's a half argument that is disingenuous to the op, imo. And again, with respect, Kaz. Appreciate the discourse, brother.
My point is, with a smaller framed Barry, on his own version of cruddy teams, who's to say his numbers don't nose dive? 1,400 carries is ~4/5 more seasons for Sanders. Four to five more seasons in which he ages. At the most violent position in football.
I agree, I would not pencil him in for the record at all, he still had a long way to go even if he kept up his stellar pace, which likely would have fallen off some. I just don’t consider the record and total yards in general to be a differentiating point. Both guys rushed for a ton of yards.
Well is there a reason to pull him perhaps? I mean that is getting rather speculative.
So yeah, then it's pure speculative/subjective.
The point of the game is to score. So I don't get the preserving argument. you don't preserve him until you get into the redzone? XD I just know when I was a teen in 1993, thats one criticism I heard about Barry Sanders back then, that he got a lot of yards, but wasn't so good once he got into the red zone. Guess those were the days before he got elevated into godhood, and well you can't just have any criticism about him since he is the greatest ever.
