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Eric1 · 02-10-2022, 07:20 PM

(02-10-2022, 06:30 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:
(02-10-2022, 04:10 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: Lol .... I just looked at Gale Sayers stats

4,956 rushing yards
1,307 receiving yards
48 TDs

In the meantime: FRED TAYLOR
11,695 rushing yards
2,384 receiving yards
74 TDs

(02-10-2022, 06:25 PM)Eric1 Wrote: Yup and if they've won a Super Bowl or not. They put way too much value on if said players have won a SB, even though the HoF is an individual award and not a team award like winning a SB is.

I mean just look as these stats below, one player is in the HoF and talked about as one of the great WRs to play the game and the other's name is never even brought up. A huge part of that is because of where they played and because of Super Bowls. It's sad.

750 catches, 11,904 receiving yards, 65 TD - HoF

862 catches, 12,287 receiving yards, 67 TD - Completely forgotten about and never even mentioned

These two WRs are Michael Irvin and Jimmy Smith.

Its not always about a Super Bowl; look at the stats of Sayers and Taylor provided above by HURRICANE. Sayers in, Taylor not. Chicago vs. Jax? why? didnt both players play against the entire league? Why is Jax slighted? its stupid and unexplainable.

Gale was THAT DUDE when he played though right? From what 65-70? What other great RBs did he contend with during that time frame? I know Jim Brown's last season was 1965. This was obviously all way before my time started on this planet.

Part of why Taylor gets forgotten, besides the market he played in is because he played with some other big time RBs during that time. Tomlinson, Bettis, Eddie George, Curtis Martin, Emmitt Smith, Ricky Williams, Marshall Faulk, Priest Holmes, Edgerrin James etc. etc, just to name a few off the top of my head. There were plenty of others, but Taylor played in a era with a bunch of great RBs.

That's not to say he isn't up there, he was one of the greatest to ever do it and maybe the most underrated RB of all time, but the market he played in and the other Backs in the league at that time are a big reason why he always gets forgotten, sadly. It's wrong and he deserves to be in the HoF as well.

Taylor is currently 17th on the All Time NFL rushing leaders list. Every player ahead of him besides Frank Gore (at #3) and Adrian Peterson (at #5) are in the HoF. It's only a matter of time before Gore and Peterson get in as well. Then there's about 20 more guys behind Taylor on the list that are in the HoF as well.