(02-07-2024, 09:06 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(02-07-2024, 08:14 AM)mikesez Wrote: What an odd criteria.
The guys who beat him for the rushing title include Eddie George and Corey Dillon.  Fred should definitely get in before them.

Place among your peers of the era is a critical part of the selection process and both of them have a better resume than he does. He's in a era of great and accomplished running backs and his place as the, at best, 2nd or 3rd best back every year simply doesn't push him into HoF status. George, Dillon, Martin, Wiliams, Tomlinson, Lewis, Holmes, Portis, Alexander, Edge, Faulk...man the list of names in the years he played make it probably the last great era of running backs. When you list him against his contemporaries he just doesn't crack the threshold for me; the Hall doesn't usually take 10 guys from the same position and the same era/decade, so I just think the odds are really stacked against him.

You are very accurately capturing the way the Football writers guys work and project. It does make me sad and you are right it is probably the last era of great running backs.

Edit:
I am struck by the old joke...  Who is the only person that stopped Michael Jordan from scoring?  - Dean Smith

Who is the only person that kept Freddie T out of the end zone? - Tom Coughlin

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