(02-12-2019, 03:26 PM)hb1148 Wrote:

(02-12-2019, 01:09 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: I took out Fred Taylor's name and highlighted his supporting cast from the Original List.

QB-Mark Brunell
FB-Greg Jones
WR-Jimmy Smith
WR-Keenan McCardell
TE-Kyle Brady
LT-Tony Boselli
LG-Vince Manuwai
C-Brad Meester
RG-Chris naoele
RT-Leon Searcy

Agreed, Fred had to compete with other skill players which decreased his number of opportunities.  

Fred was freaky fast and powerful and had all kinds of different moves. MJD was quick and crazy powerful for his size and liked to run guys over. Look, I'm not going to knock MJD, he was a great player for us. But the way I look at it is that MJD had maybe three seasons in which he was as productive as FT was over the course of his entire career.

Another way to look at it is that FT has a real shot at getting in the HOF at some point, I'd be honestly surprised if Mojo makes it.

I also prefer Freddy T as he's one of the reasons i became a fan as a young kid. But to play Devil's advocate:

MJD has 3x as many probowl appearances, 3x as many all pros (2 1st team, 1 2nd team), led the league in rushing/won a rushing title (which Fred never did), has more TD's in way less games (114 or so to Fred's 140 games played), was a better receiver, holds the franchise single season rushing yards record, holds the franchise single season all purpose yards record, and the single season rushing TD's franchise record (Fred has total TD's in a single season by 1 score) and Fred and MJD's career YPC are damn near identical at 4.6 and 4.5 respectively .. There is a VERY legit case for MJD being the best RB in franchise history. and MJD did all that with wayyyy less talent up front and around him in general; and in the "small market jacksonville" and adding to that, he did all that on some very very BAD Jaguars teams. (At least when Fred played the team around him was competitive and was in the playoff mix) the fact that MJD did all of that may make him a darkhorse HOF candidate one day if the logjam of RB nominees ever clears up; especially because he works in the media now and is generally very well liked.

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