Quote:Saying the opposite, but not in the context you are understanding apparently...

 

Barry/ FRed would be the special talents, whereas MoJo/ Martin would be the "very good" players but not elite runners. 

 

 

 

lol.....this board and its penchant for accusing others of not watching player x or y....smh....

 

We're all avid football fans and have been watching pretty much every player out there. Not sure why people love to make that former accusation all the time, as if we were instead watching LA Law and never seen a football game ever, and wouldn't know Barry Sanders from Barry White.... 

I did that on purpose primarily because your extremely general comparison is [BLEEP] and baseless.

 

People make that accusation because users make silly comparisons like the one you made above.

 

 

Quote:That's funny.  You talked about MJD's knack for landing in the end zone, but you picked a play where he got caught on the 1 yard line.  

Well, he scored the very next play. But the point was that there are multiple plays that only MJD would've been able to pull off and that's one of many.

 

MJD was a special player here and every bit as good as Fred in his prime. It's unfair to say he wasn't considering his numbers and the circumstances.

 

 

Quote:Fred wouldn't have been caught from behind...  He was a physical freak of nature.  Nobody his size and with his power should be able to run as fast as him, and he certainly shouldn't have had the lateral quickness to go with it.

 

Mojo definitely had a nose for the endzone, but Fred's biggest roadblock to the goal-line was always Coughlin.  So many times I saw Fred earn a TD for this team only for Coughlin to pull him for a "short-yardage back" when we got close to the end-zone.  Irritated me to no end considering our short-yardage backs were never better than Taylor in short-yardage situations.  Cost him lots of TD's, and probably Pro-Bowls, and possibly even a shot at the HOF.

 

I honestly don't think Fred wouldn't have gotten that far, and that's no sleight on him, but MJD got out of that because of physical assets that are exclusive to him, like being short and large and being able to continue full speed despite contact with multiple defenders.

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