Barry Sanders was awesome- Fun video to watch.
 

The things this guy could do. Awesome to watch.

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Saw two of his games. He was amazing.

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Can't wait for all the negative comments this will get.

Loved Barry and Al Michaels.

He's no Rashaan Sheehee.

Was that the game that he and Emmitt Smiff both went for 200 yards rushing?

I love how Al Michaels is just waiting for Sanders to break a big run on literally every rushing attempt.

Overrated

I noticed that too. And the sound of the crowd everytime they actually stuffed him at the line.

IMO - He's the greatest RB of all time. A lot of people go with Jim Brown but nobody in the history of the NFL has possessed the talent Barry had.
If he played behind that Cowboys O-Line in '94 he would have gained 3,000 yds. Too bad that the Lions F.O. beat the love of the game out of him by sucking so bad.

ROFL

He's right though...

He would be if I was being serious lol.

Dang sarcasm meter's on the fritz again.:thumb:

"Sanderrrrrrrrrsssssssssssssss...."

It happens.

So THAT'S what 70,000 people exclaiming in unison, "OH SWEET JESUS THANK GOD WE DIDN'T GET RAPED" sounds like

On a somewhat relevent note -

I wonder if Mark Collins kept the football he intercepted when Sanders tried a halfback pass against us during that Thanksgiving game.

I remember watching that game so I went and looked up the stats. Sanders had 40 carries for 194 0 TDs and Emmitt had 29 for 143 with 1 td that night. The Lions won the game 20 to 17

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I watched that game too. It was a great season overall, (with the exception of the 49ers cheating the salary cap to win the SB...).

Cool, thanks.

Heh, 40 carries by a single RB.....that's nearly unheard of now days.

No flag for that, times HAVE changed.

He reminds me so much of Jamaal Charles/SNR

Ironically, the first time the Chiefs played against Sanders in 1990 was the Barry Word 200 yard rushing game.

Jamaal Charles does that very same shit with the porous offensive lines in past years.

He put up some numbers behind those Chiefs lines but he doesn't make cuts the way Barry did. Barry Sanders made people look stupid, Jamaal Charles just makes people look slow.

Does Barry Sanders type all your posts?

Would make sense.
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Its awesome how many run plays that were blown up at the los and Barry made something out of nothing.
Its also amazing how much Barry played without injuries.

Nice horse collar tackle. Did they even call that shit then?

lol...

LOL Scott Mitchell....biggest theif in the history of the NFL, literally stole money through lack of performance from the Lions, :doh!:

Incredible. If they didn't have the guy wrapped up when he was going down, he'd dive from a foot off the ground or even run with his hands to get an extra yard or two.

Sanders did things nobody else in the history of football could do. If I had a beef it would be that he lost yardage too often. For a team that had as small a passing game as the Lions did, to start constantly in a 2 and 14 hole was too much to overcome. With all the negative yardage, its hard to believe he is 2nd all-time rushing.

He didn't call the plays man. Everyone KNEW Sanders was getting the ball, and the oline rarely did jack shit to help him out. He basically made chicken salad out of chicken shit.

I don't think there are many that will argue that Barry Sanders was the most most talented RB that ever played the game.

He did, however, play with a lack of intelligenge.

If I remember correctly, he had the most carries for lost yardage in NFL history.

He put his team in difficult positions as often as he did great things f r them.

Give me a RB like Walter Payton or Eric Dickerson, that almost always moved forward.

That could have a little to do with the shit o-line he played behind. Like was said earlier, if he played on the cowboys teams Emmitt played on he wouldn't have had as many carries for loss. He would have shattered every running record.

Walter Payton, in his first 5 or 6 years, ran behind a line every bit as bad as the Lions.

He ran smart.

He rarely gave up yardage in an effort to make something happen.

Barry Sanders did.

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He didn't give up yardage trying to make something happen. He gave up yardage being hit 3 yards behind the line when he got handed the ball.

In some of these highlights Sanders has to juke out his own linemen.LMAO

BTW - the move on Reggie White is Epic! Payton and Brown would have shit their pants and went home.

rofl, what did you expect him to do? Just fall on the ground and give up in order not to lose a couple of yards? A lot of his best plays came from broken hand offs right off the bat.

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Great video that talks about his carries for negative yards and the horrible line he had.

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At least you make a case for Walter Peyton though.... whom very well could be the best RB ever.

Anyone who mentiones Emmitt Smith is just a tard Cowboys homer.

He had carries that resulted in losses that all told cost him 2000 yards rougly over the course of his career.

Do you have any idea how many times he would have had to simply get hit 3 yards behind the line to acummulate 2000 yards in losses?

No, I want him to move forward.

He cost his teams more often with losses than he helped with spectacular plays.

And he literally juked Rod Woodson straight out of his ACL. Almost forgot about that.

I don't think anyone could argue against him being the most elusive back in history...
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FANTASTIC music on that video!

And actually I didn't even see the video that says what I said before posting
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Cost his team?!? Are you kidding me? What would his team be without him?!? They had nothing! Nobody! Who were their other weapons??? He ran for 2,000 frigging yards in a single season when he was the ONLY weapon. Opponents had NOBODY else to defend against. They're gameplan against Detroit was literrally "stop Barry Sanders". That's it. And he STILL ripped off 2,000 yards in a single seaon, yet you complain about losing yards occassionally? Put down the pipe man.

lol, done with you. Move along.

Maybe so, but whatever. He's the ultimate risk/reward type of player, and I'll take a guy that will try until the very last to make a play.

There isn't a team out there that wouldn't take Barry Sanders in his prime, no matter who their starting running back is. He is as good as there ever was to play, and that includes Payton and Brown.

Well, they did have Herman Moore and a decent Brett Perriman. :eek:

JFC a ton of those plays he was getting hit as he was getting the ball...
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Lux Aeterna

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This one is great too.

Miami Ohio 178
Texas A&M 157
Tulsa 304
Colorado 174
Nebraska 189
Missouri 154
Kansas St 320
Oklahoma 215
Kansas 312
Iowa State 293
Texas Tech 332

Total: 2,628 (238.9 yds/game), 39 TD's

Wyoming (Bowl Game) 222
Overall season Total: 2,850, 44 TD's

In 10 seasons he had 10 1,000 yard rushing seasons. Had held the rushing title for 4 out of those 10 seasons. Ran for over 1500 yards on 5 of those season (4 of them in a row).

Here are his rushing numbers by season:

1,470
1,304
1,548
1,352
1,115
1,883
1,500
1,553
2,053
1,491

All while playing for the Detroit freaking Lions. Yeah, I'd take that on my team any day.

Think what he could have done behind our o line under vermiel
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You two misunderstand me.

I am saying that he needed to run smart and not try to make things happen as often as he did.

He put his team in 2nd or 3rd and long situations more often than he made spectacular runs.

It's like a talented QB throwing interceptions under pressure.

Brett Favre would be in the discussion with Joe Montana as the greatest QB ever if he had played it smart more often.

How many times did he engineer last minute comebacks only after he put the Packers inposition to have to comeback with a stupid interception?

How many times did he fail to make those comebacks?

The Packers were better with Favre than without, as the Lions were better with Sanders than without.

But they could have been better with out the stupid mistakes.

:whackit: He wouldn't have had his "problem" of too many carries for negative yards.

How many times did the Lions make it to the playoffs with Barry Sanders even though he didn't play it smart? Do you think he would have had near as many carries for loss if he played for the Cowboys during his playing years? With the cowboys line blowing open huge holes like they did? With the cowboys having a multi-dimensional attack that made defenders account for more than just the running back? It was said here earlier and I'll repeat it. He made chicken salad out of chicken shit. He had to try and fight for yardage because that's all the team had.

Bottom line it for you.

In a team with a good O-line and good surruonding talent, I'll take Barry Sanders.

On a team with a bad O-Line and marginal surrounding talent, I'll take Walter Payton.

What an idiotic statement. "he put them in 2nd or 3rd and long more than specatcular runs".....NO SHIT. He also put them in 2nd or 3rd and SHORT more often than 2nd or 3rd and long.

I remember watching a highlight of his on Sportscenter, from just the hips down, and him just dancing around defenders... He was flat awesome.

Yes'm.

So basically, you're saying Walter Payton would have run better than Barry if he played for the Detroit Lions? Because the lions were a bad o-line with Marginal talent, and Barry put up numbers as great as Paytons.

And your anology of Barry losing yards being like a QB throwing interceptions is completely wrong. It would be more akin to a QB taking a lot of sacks hanging in the pocket waiting for a big play. Or a qb attempting a 60 yard bomb and having an incompletion rather than hitting the open guy 3 yards out. If he fumbled, that would be a comparison to a QB throwing an INT.

And to set the record straight, Barry didn't lose 2,000 yards as you stated. He lost yards 336 times in his career for a total of 962 yards lost. Averaging 16 games a year (not sure how accurate that is, don't know exactly how many games he played figuring games not played + playoff games. ) That equals about 2 losses for a total of -6 yards per game. I'd take losses for 3 yards twice a game anyday with what he brought to the table. Especially when you take into account how many gains he had after he was hit behind the line of scrimmage, or juked a guy to avoid a hit behind the line of scrimmage.

Anyway, back to more of the fun stuff:

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I really like videos like this that show all of his runs in a game so you can really get a feel for how he did throughout the game. Watch how many times he has people in his face behind the LOS. It's amazing he didn't have MORE carries for loss.

I believe thsoe Lions teams could have made it to the playoffs just as often with back like Payton, and with his ability to make positve yardage on almost every single carry, they might have won an extra game or two, putting them in a more favorable seed in the playoffs.

2nd and 14, 3rd and 17 situations are extremely difficult situations.

I'm not going to find the link, cause it's been a few years, but I read a story a few years ago that said he had far more lost yardage than 962 yards.

Regardless, I watched Sanders, and his propensity for lost yrdage always pissed me off.

Again, statistically he lost yards 2 times per game at -3 yards per loss. Just watch the video I just posted. Pick out the times he lost yards. Then pick out the number of times he has someone in the backfield when he gets the ball. Then pick out the number of times he gains yards when he does have someone in his face in the backfield.

I don't know what pissed you off back in the day to give you the perception that Barry was always losing yards and a detriment to his team, but it wasn't and still isn't based off reality.

Steve Young was so talented that he could have won a SB in TB... oh wait...
Circumstances tend to play a huge role in player performance. To make the comparison of Peyton and Sanders is a bit of a reach. Sanders fell forward as often as he could and dropped the shoulder on many occasions, much like Peyton, but in no way was Peyton more elusive, (he was too busy high stepping his way into the end zone untouched).

Just to throw more fuel to the fire:

uhhhhhhh....what? Seek help.

First, Barry was awesome.

Second, Herman Moore. Loved watching that guy play.

Also at 2:58 in the Bucs vid, he just shrugs off a DE like its nothing. Bary was/still is the man. Can't wait to watch his son play at Stanford.

pos rep for you sir

Me too!

Seriously, it is a wonderful situation for him. Pro style, run heavy O at a great academic institution.

They said that Little Barry runs the 40 in 4.31. thats faster then his pops. They said a little taller, but has more top speed.

Should be interesting watching Stanford this year.

He isn't built like him or has his running style, I hate to make this comparison but his style is more like Charles than his Dad's.