(05-23-2023, 07:45 PM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote: We have had some thumpers in our past.  Big John Henderson, Stroud, Mike Peterson, Daryl Smith, but here is my boy:

He literally is just stopping full running RB's in their tracks.  He would be fined too often in today's game but Donovan Darius was a bad man.

https://youtu.be/LhifhacR0DI

https://youtu.be/Nr28r8o1ojI

Darius wins this hands down to me.

Almost 20 years removed from his career, he's still registered the hardest and most hits in team history.  Some of my favorites from him...

1.  The MNF trucking of Bettis.  It was a mirror image of Steve Atwater's hit on Chiefs RB Christian Okoye.  Similar dynamics as far as physical dimensions of the players involved....similar results.

2.  The hit on then Jets' TE Kyle Brady in the 1998 playoff loss to the Jets.  My Bills fan buddy thought he KILLED Brady.

3.  The hit on LaDanian Tomlinson, 2003 season.  Another poster here recently referenced that hit.  That was an early game tone setter, and we didn't hear a peep out of Tomlinson the rest of the game.

4.  Vs. the Green Bay Packers, hit on WR Robert Ferguson, 2004.  Yes it was flagged and the cheeseheads were moralizing about it (conveniently forgetting Charles Martin, he of the Bounty towel against the Bears circa 1988).  DD was not known as a dirty player before this hit, and fortunately, except for whiny Packers fans, the rep didn't stick.  But if you ever wanted to see a pro wrestling clothesline in the NFL...this is it. (In the video montage above, it's at the very beginning if the video. It somehow got cut off, so you only see the second half of it...but man...what a hit!

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