What would jim brown be worth today?

[iceberg]

If Brown grew up playing in todays game ..... he would be built like todays athletes.

He would be a battering ram that destroyed anything in his way.

[Players like Chuck Bednarik, David D. Deacon Jones, Johnny Sample, and Sam Huff remembered how Jim Brown was never intimidated, he couldn't be intimidated. Sam Huff tried and he failed miserably. He would say stuff like "Way to go D," or "Nice tackle Sam." "Way to go D. Come right back at you again you hate that. I'd rather he call me some nasty name or something," David "Deacon" Jones said. "You'd gang-tackled him, did what ever you could, give him extracurriculars. He'd get up slow, look at you, and walk back to the huddle and wouldn't say a word, just come at you again, and again, said Chuck Bednarik. "You'd just say 'What the hell? What's wrong with this guy for heaven sake when is he gonna stop carrying the ball, how much more can he take?"}

Sounds like Emmitt ...... and thats what kinda player I think he would have been in todays game.

i'd have to agree that he's 'come up' with the competition as well. if you took him w/*no changes* into todays game maybe they nay-sayers have a point. but if he came out today he'd know how to adjust, work out better, and still be a top player.

too bad we can't ever see something like that.

 

[Stautner]

I understand what you've been discussing.

Earl Campbell was a great back. But he did not have the elusiveness, quickness, lateral ability, stop and go that Brown had. Brown didn't have the quicks like Sanders, the fluidness of Sayers with those quicks, but he was more elusive than Emmitt Smith ever was, stronger, faster, and anything else except maybe some moves Emmitt had. He may not have had Smith's vision but that is debatable.

The point is Brown was almost Gale Sayers in a FBs body. And stronger relatively than Campbell to the players of his era. He could block. He could catch the ball. Running backs just didn't have the same role catching the ball then so I can't say for sure how well he'd do now it that capacity. Remembering how well he did as a pass receiver makes me think he'd have been very versatile.

I can't really think of but one for player that was better overall. And that's Gale Sayers. I'm not saying how he fit the Bears. I'm saying his talents overall. But that's debatable. Others are close especially OJ. Not sure about him. But no one was as far ahead of his time than Brown.

Brown could play now as he was then. No doubt for me. And if he had the nutrional benefits from birth along with year round training I believe he'd have been bigger and maybe faster. Not sure about that one. But he could definitely play with today's athletes as he was.

You apparently saw a lot different Jim Brown than I did - I would never have thought of comparing him to Gale Sayers.