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Dont even have to read it. Someone that calls Barry Sanders overated shouldnt have a job writing about football. I dont know if any star has ever had the lack of talent surrounding them as Sanders, and he still was a huge producer.
Utter garbage...that spawns the old Emmitt vs. Barry debate in the Comments section.
This confirms that SalPal is an idiot.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/column...sal&id=3055421
Dont even have to read it. Someone that calls Barry Sanders overated shouldnt have a job writing about football. I dont know if any star has ever had the lack of talent surrounding them as Sanders, and he still was a huge producer.
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Paolantonio =
how does this guy still have a job?
the list is laughable
I never had much respect for SalPal, but now he's just a joke for me. Sounds like he's just trying to get his name out there. Can you imagine if Sanders played on a competive football team??? Geez. If Sanders failed in big games it was because of the faliure of the team around him.
"Sanders' postseason performance supports the notion that he was a product of the cozy, climate-controlled Silverdome. Nice carpet for easy, stop-on-a-dime maneuvering. Seventy-two degrees. Detroit faithful keeping the defensive line off balance with high decibel support."
Yes, you need the stop-on-a-dime maneuvering and extremely noisy crowd when you have no semblance of an offensive line or a SINGLE threat on offense except your own two legs and your field vision.
What an idiot.
Uhh, Sal, isn't the home crowd usually quieter when the home team has the ball?
And ask John Lynch how those stop-on-a-dime moves fare on grass...
all you can ask of a writer is to support his arguments with facts. SALPAL did a pretty good job of doing that.
Nevertheless, Barry Sanders was the best RB I've ever seen.
No semblance of an offensive line? If I remember correctly, Lomas Brown made 6 consecutive Pro Bowl appearances from 90-95 as well as Kevin Glover making the Pro Bowl 3 consecutive times from 95-97 all while playing for the Detroit Lions.
As for the "or a SINGLE threat on offense except your own two legs and your field vision." comment, you might want to check Herman Moore's stats and then come back and tell me that Sanders was the only threat on that offense. even Scott Mitc had a season where he threw for 32 TD's and ran for 4 more while playing in Detroit.
Here's some numbers to chew on:
3.5 YPC, 70 yds/playoff game, 2 rushing TDs in 9 playoff games
Guess who?
Payton
Overrated
Didn't Barry Sanders lead the league in negative yardage plays year after year? That's the only thing that ever bugged me about him. I hate running backs who lose yardage because they dance.
Everyone is en led to their own opinion
It's something like 400+ career carries for -1100+ yards.
It averages out to about 3 carries/game for -8 yards.
Hadn't seen it in a while, roughly 3 minutes in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yifWMmU7cSM
Barry is the 2nd best running back to ever play the game imo.
knocking barry's postseason stats sounds good until you actually remember the games.
that green bay game where he had 13 carries for -1 yards was ridiculous. there were always 2 and sometimes 3 or 4 guys in the backfield before he even got the ball in his hands.
All you had to do was take away Barry to be the Lions back then. Stack the box, 8 man fronts.
In that game, they were times when they had 9 defenders in the box.
Sounds crazy until you remember who was the Lions' QB: Dave Krieg, who was a spry 36 at the time.
Barry Sanders was Gayle Sayers, minus the bad knees. Calling him over rated is like calling Da Vinci or Michaelangelo over rated.
calling Barry overrated is just flat out stupid. if you question his leadership & dedication, maybe you've got a point. but there was nothing overrated about what Barry did on the field.
Can you imagine what his stats had been if he had the Cowboys offensive line of the early nineties? He possibly could have averaged 6-7 yards per carry.
Lions fans of the 90s used to have the argument every Sunday.
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