I have to say no. Although i will say they both played in two different eras for this franchise so i think the answer is a little more complicated than "one is better than the other."

 

MJD was a monster with a Chip on his shoulders that he never seemed to get rid of, even towards the end of his career. While fred was a guy who was taken high, kept his head down(as far as media attention), had a hell of tenure in jax. 

 

Funny story, i saw fred at a bar at a hotel while he was in town to do some announcing work 2 years ago. i didnt say anything at first cause the bar was pretty empty and everyone was kind of minding thier own. then a british couple, that had no idea who he was, sat down next to him and started talking to him about typical junk and stuff. I couldn't help but over here the conversation, then they started talking about what they do for a living and they asked fred what he was doing in town and what he did. He told him we was here to do a radio show appearance for the Jaguars. The conversation sort of steered away from that until a server came up and asked for a picture with Fred. The people sort of realized he was something more than just a radio host so they started asking him how he became affiliated with the jaguars. He casually said that he used to play for them back in the day. They got a little excited and asked if he knew Mark Brunell, and he Casually said he played a few years with him. They went on to ask how long he was with the team and he said about from 99 to 08. He then steered the conversation back to what the people were in town for and asked them how their kids were doing in college back in england and stuff, but seemed genuinely interested.

 

It sort of shocked me because here you have fred taylor, a top 20 running back of all time and the jaguars greatest RB, literally say nothing about his career or who he was other than he played with mark Brunell. once they left i bought him a drink and we talked about his son and tons of football stuff which he was more than happy to sit a chat about, but then he started talking about me in college at the time and playing soccer and even joked about being a FSU fan and hating UF for a while. I kept thinking "why the hell am i talking to fred tayor about me?" but he would keep asking question and steering the conversation away from himself. I went away from it with a whole new respect for that man. he is one of the most genuinly humble people i've met. you never get this impression that you are talking to a famous guy at all. Ive met quite a players because of my fathers line of work. some cool, some not. But never one quite like that guy. 

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