Quote:I feel like Peterson has more "power" than Taylor did. I don't know that I've ever seen a player with the kind of speed that AP has, just rip through tackles the way that he does. Fred would simply juke you unitl you fell over and maybe throw a stiffarm on his way by -- it felt to me like he brought along his stiff arm and shoulder in the latter part of his career -- and then turn on the speed.

 

AP seems a bit less "move" based than Fred was in that Peterson knows he doesn't need you to be totally out of position in order to get around or through you, he just needs you to be off balance just that much and he's gone.

 

Fred's power was an underrated aspect of his game. Maybe he wasn't "AS" powerful as Adrian Peterson, but Peterson probably wasn't AS elusive as Fred, either. Yet, the 2 players are indeed similar. More similar than some people probably realize. 

 

Quote:As much as I love Fred, his jukes didn't seem to be fooling anyone at the end there lol.

 

 

Who's jukes at the end of their career do??? Not Shaun Alexander or LaDanian Tomlinson, thats for sure. You might say Barry Sanders, but he retired before the real diminishing of his skills would have been evident. 

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