Quote:Don't get this twisted as I think Fred is clearly better. But In fairness to MJD, he oftentimes WAS the offe
nse, if not the whole team for a good portion of his career. Even though Fred was injury prone he still played on teams with Jimmy Smith for 7 years and had other playmakers to take pressure off of him, MJD definitely played on far worse teams.

 

Further, MJD's best game... yea he "only" had 177 yards...... but he did that on EIGHT CARRIES!!!!!!! him and CJ2K were one upping each other with long runs that game, unfortunately the Jaguars inept coaching staff decided to be pass happy rather than just feed MJD who was hot. Had they given him the ball 20 times ... yea he would've topped Freds 234 mark against the Steelers (although if Taylor wasn't severely hungover that day, he could've debatably set the single game rushing record that

day) 

 

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009110109...=fullstory

Come on man, after 2003 till 2007 the same thing could be said about Fred. He was a workhorse for us. Yeah MJD had heavy years too, but Freds best years were when he was the offense. Garrard wasn't very good till 2007, and Leftwich never was good. Freddy T made this team go during those years.

 

Either way, I love them both, but Fred was better and for a much longer period of time. I can still see him juking players out of their shoes and then trucking the next player. You just don't get that combo of speed strength and agility.

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