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FREDDY FREDDY FREDDY

Quote:I miss Freddy and ill miss MJD too. As great as Fred was and I maintain if he'd stayed healthy he may have set records MJD was a pretty good follow up to him.

 

 

I would consider the Jags very lucky/fortunate if the next RB after MJD has a career anywhere near as good as MJD's career with the Jags.

Freddy was on pace for 14,000-15,000 yards had he not been hurt so much. Insane.

I don't remember what game it was but the replay of it sticks in my mind. The Jags were near their own goal line and the play was Freddy T off the left guard. The hole opened up but two defenders filled the gap immediately and Fred juked the first one who went to the ground untouched, he juked the second one and he whiffed then Fred was off to the secondary for a sizable gain. It was the most amazing running I've seen without anyone touching a defender.

 

Regards.........................the Chiefjag

Quote:One of the greatest to play the game!....and my All time favorite Jaguar.

 

 

 

Agreed with both ^^^

 

Its going to take one hell of a player to supplant Fred as my favorite Jags player of all time. 

Quote:Freddy was on pace for 14,000-15,000 yards had he not been hurt so much. Insane.

 

Yep, no doubt he would have topped 15,000 yards had he been able to have an Emmitt Smith like career in terms of major injury avoidance for most of it. 

Quote:I remember when people were sayng MJD will overtake Fred's team all time rushing yards. 

 

 

 

I remember that and still laugh. It was never going to happen. 

Steelers fans HATE Fred. He owned them.

Just for reference and because ill always be a MJD fan and respect his game. He put up some respectable numbers while here.. More than respectable. MJD totaled 13,139 all purpose yards and 81 total TDs as jaguar.

Fred always seemed to come up HUGE against the Steelers... He owned to Colts as well.

I don't know if we will ever see a RB with his rare ability again. 6'1" 225-230 who ran a 4.38 40 at the combine (his words). He could run away from you (ask B. Marion), through you (ask M. Doss) or completely break your ankles.... I will always cherish the memories watching him play.


Cheers to Freddy T.... OWNER OF LONGEST RUSH IN NFL PLAYOFF HISTORY.

Speed, power, size, elusiveness, technique, fundamentals, personality... you name it, Freddy T had it.

 

You don't see that many players possess all of those things. It's too bad injuries cut down his career because a healthy Fred Taylor was dangerous. 

I hope Gerhart is able to carry the torch of having great running backs. I love both Freddy T and MJD.

Freddie!!!!

It's going to be fun when I'm 70 years old and I can talk about Fred like the old guys now talk about Brown, Sayers, Payton, etc.

LT got all the running back credit for those days.  What a gem we had on our team.  He was so powerful that he juked his groin from the bone.  That injury was horrific.  I think that ranks right up there with Bo Jackson's power ripping his own hip out of the socket.  It is unbelievable to think what Bo Jackson could have done without injuries.  I think Fred and Bo were just such freaky unbelievable athletes.

 

We are lucky to have MJD after Fred.  Now if only we had QBs to transition us on this team.

Quote:I don't remember what game it was but the replay of it sticks in my mind. The Jags were near their own goal line and the play was Freddy T off the left guard. The hole opened up but two defenders filled the gap immediately and Fred juked the first one who went to the ground untouched, he juked the second one and he whiffed then Fred was off to the secondary for a sizable gain. It was the most amazing running I've seen without anyone touching a defender.

 

Regards.........................the Chiefjag

 

My "Memorable Fred Moment" came against Buffalo, kind of late into his career. He was running off of the Right side, but he had to stop to let the hole open. Fred came to a complete stop, then accelerated and ran by everyone. It was the most amazing "stop-start" thing I had ever seen.

I remember talking to as many people that would listen when Fred Taylor was about 2-3 years into the league, and telling people that he is one of the most talented RB that there has been in this league....they would usually make some sort of smirk or snarky comment, "the guy that plays on Jacksonville?",,,,or they wouldn't even know of him because he was a Jaguar,,,,it used to make me so mad, because they were obviously clueless. 

 

When Jim Brown eventually spoke about Fred being one of the best there have ever been, it was a good feeling to have someone obviously credible and objective pretty much say the same thing I had been for all those years. 

Quote:I remember talking to as many people that would listen when Fred Taylor was about 2-3 years into the league, and telling people that he is one of the most talented RB that there has been in this league....they would usually make some sort of smirk or snarky comment, "the guy that plays on Jacksonville?",,,,or they wouldn't even know of him because he was a Jaguar,,,,it used to make me so mad, because they were obviously clueless.


When Jim Brown eventually spoke about Fred being one of the best there have ever been, it was a good feeling to have someone obviously credible and objective pretty much say the same thing I had been for all those years.

those same people that didnt know who Fred was probably didn't know who Brown was.

The first time I saw Fred live was before I lived in Jax or was even a Jags fan. I scored some free tickets to a Ravens- Jags game November 1, 1998. Brunell and Smith hooked up midway through the first to give the Jags a 7 point lead. Baltimore clawed back to tie it at 7 with just under 2 minutes to go in the 1st. On the first play of the next drive Fred took a short pass from Brunell 78 yards for the score, juking future HOFer Rod Woodson out of his shoes in the process. Even from my garbage seats I could see he was playing at a different level than the other guys on the field. The floodgates opened shortly after that as Fred racked up roughly 80 more yards on the ground and scored again. By halftime the score was 42-13 and the game was completely out of hand. Fans in the stands, disgusted with the inabilty of Roosevelt Potts to get anything going on the ground cheered wildly as unheralded RB Priest Holmes came into the game in mop up time.