Re: Top-4 All-Time RBs...
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:08 am
Had to retype what I was posting earlier because I was [also] going to ask what the criteria was and say that Faulk doesn't end up on these lists as much as he should, then John's post popped up. So he said everything I was going to say about Faulk except I included his "football IQ" on my list of attributes, too.
Of what I think the criteria is, Brown and Payton are obvious choices. I would have Faulk on the list, too.
I'm very much a fan of SVB and The King. Even bigger fan of Jim Taylor. LT is in the Faulk mold though I like Faulk more. Like "Tanks" I like to get the entire history in so I look at someone like Latone but that's based on everything I've read/researched but still will never know how good was he really? On one hand I think he should be in the PFHOF, on the other I've never seen him play with my own eyes and that's a big thing, for me. Then you have guys like Emmitt who I've posted about before that he was in the category of so overrated that people go the complete opposite and eventually he becomes severely underrated, but I don't think he'd be Top-4 for me. I know Barry Sanders wouldn't be, -unless the criteria is top-4 most exciting RB's- I was never as impressed with him as a football player as everyone else seemed to be. I once left him off a Top-10 RB list that we did on the old forum and still feel perfectly fine about that. Juice and The Tyler Rose were obviously great. Others, etc.
I think I'd just leave it as Brown and Payton as top-2 then say that Faulk would be my choice out of RB's whose career I saw 'in real time' start to finish -- i.e. was actually alive and watching football before he was in the NFL (or in college for that matter). And even if I hadn't been alive I'd probably start my top-3 with him in it, anyway.
If I were to use John's "want on my team", LT and Allen (bonus points for my middle name being named after him) would join my list, in that context.
Of what I think the criteria is, Brown and Payton are obvious choices. I would have Faulk on the list, too.
I'm very much a fan of SVB and The King. Even bigger fan of Jim Taylor. LT is in the Faulk mold though I like Faulk more. Like "Tanks" I like to get the entire history in so I look at someone like Latone but that's based on everything I've read/researched but still will never know how good was he really? On one hand I think he should be in the PFHOF, on the other I've never seen him play with my own eyes and that's a big thing, for me. Then you have guys like Emmitt who I've posted about before that he was in the category of so overrated that people go the complete opposite and eventually he becomes severely underrated, but I don't think he'd be Top-4 for me. I know Barry Sanders wouldn't be, -unless the criteria is top-4 most exciting RB's- I was never as impressed with him as a football player as everyone else seemed to be. I once left him off a Top-10 RB list that we did on the old forum and still feel perfectly fine about that. Juice and The Tyler Rose were obviously great. Others, etc.
I think I'd just leave it as Brown and Payton as top-2 then say that Faulk would be my choice out of RB's whose career I saw 'in real time' start to finish -- i.e. was actually alive and watching football before he was in the NFL (or in college for that matter). And even if I hadn't been alive I'd probably start my top-3 with him in it, anyway.
If I were to use John's "want on my team", LT and Allen (bonus points for my middle name being named after him) would join my list, in that context.