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Easy E -> RE:The Packers (10/12/2007 8:40:17 AM)
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[quote="djskilbr"][quote="Trekgeekscott"][quote="Jeff Jesser"]That is funny. I didn't catch that part. BS the most over rated RB. NICE! That dude was probably the most underrated.[/quote] If Barry Sanders hadn't retired abruptly as he did, there wouldn't be any talk about Emmit Smith holding the rushing record. Sanders would have annihilated it.[/quote] I agree there. The Sanders thing is baffling. Emmit Smith is clearly the most overrated RB in the history of the game. Ciatrick Fason would be a top 10 rusher all time with that line. Did he really say that about Moss?[/quote] Barry's not baffling, he's just different. Like Jim Brown different. He loved playing football, and then, when he didn't love it anymore, because he continually had to play for crappy coaches that pulled him and misused him, when he had had enough of that, he stopped. I really hate Emmit Smith. He's an average back that was a self righteous, arrogant, glory hog. He was all about records and personal gain, and then he took a hypocritical shot at Barry when he was getting too much attention for setting the single season rushing record... then guess what Emmit? He showed how much that meant to him by sitting when the game was won. Emmitt played behind the greatest offensive line ever assembled in the history of the NFL. And yet, he rarely gave them any credit. Look at Emmitt's rushing yards and average by quarter. It's so obvious where his "talent" lay. I also love those who say Barry had to many negative runs. Guess what, when you have a bad line that makes you have to start dodging tacklers behind the LOS, you're going to have some of those. Barry put up all his numbers despite that fact, and in my mind it makes his accomplishments even greater. Take every TD Tommy Vardell scored, to me Barry scored those too. It was sick how bad of a coach Wayne Fontes was.
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