Best RB of all time?

#27
#27
If you're willing to compare across eras, then it's Jim Brown and it can't even be close.

It's sort of an idiosyncratic pick, but I still feel like the best pro RB I've ever seen myself was Earl Campbell. I admired his work a hell of a lot more than anything I ever saw from Barry Preening Sanders. Maybe if Campbell had been afraid to take a hit then his career would have lasted as long as Sanders's.

The best college RB -- and player -- of all time is still, unfortunately, Herschel Walker. Hard to imagine what his career would have sounded like had the ESPN hype machine been in effect 30 years ago.
 
#28
#28
Jim Brown is the greatest football player in the last 60 years easily, and possibly the greatest ever.

Compared to RB's there is no debate.

Barry was the best of his era, but that's all.
 
#30
#30
If you're willing to compare across eras, then it's Jim Brown and it can't even be close.

It's sort of an idiosyncratic pick, but I still feel like the best pro RB I've ever seen myself was Earl Campbell. I admired his work a hell of a lot more than anything I ever saw from Barry Preening Sanders. Maybe if Campbell had been afraid to take a hit then his career would have lasted as long as Sanders's.

The best college RB -- and player -- of all time is still, unfortunately, Herschel Walker. Hard to imagine what his career would have sounded like had the ESPN hype machine been in effect 30 years ago.

I agree with you on Brown and Walker.

However, there's a big difference between being scared of getting hit and no one being able to hit you square on.
 
#31
#31
I admired his work a hell of a lot more than anything I ever saw from Barry Preening Sanders. QUOTE]

Rarely have I ever seen a more inappropriate use of a word. Not just in football but in all of sports you'd be hard pressed to find anyone as universally identified with humility than Barry Sanders.
 
#32
#32
Copy and pasted from another thread...

If Barry had that Dallas O-line in front of him, he would have been a 2000 yd rusher multiple times. And all those knocks about him not being a great goal line runner would be destroyed. The only pro-bowler he had in front of him was Lomas Brown (I think he was a 2 or 3 timer). Go count how many The Cowboys had during the time Emmit was there.
 
#33
#33
I can't think of any way Jim Brown finishes anywhere but first and by a substantial margin. Guess we could take limited time periods and some folks might approach him, but dude was a man among boys, even in the NFL.
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Barry and Jim Brown are the only two rushers to average more than 5 yards a carry in their career. I don't know if I would go as far as to say "by a substantial margin".
 
#34
#34
Kevin Glover was a very good center in front of Sanders, in addition to the aforementioned Lomas Brown. A decent number of runners have had less of a line than that.

I still say Jim Brown.
 
#35
#35
The Herschel Walker reference makes a good comparison to Jim Brown...

Walker, in college, was one of those rare guys who simply looked like he was playing a different game than everyone else. Going back and watching film, Brown is the only player I can think of ever since the pro game succeeded the college game to look like he was a man amongst boys. And this was in the original NFL heyday.
 
#37
#37
Barry and Jim Brown are the only two rushers to average more than 5 yards a carry in their career. I don't know if I would go as far as to say "by a substantial margin".

I would. Brown simply had the ability to carry people and a gear to go around them. Barry had to go around, but he could often.

Sanders was a great football player, but I class him with Walter Payton, though Payton could put his head down better. Those guys are second tier to Brown, who really has no peers.
 
#38
#38
Best Running Back in real life... Walter Payton

Best Running Back TecmoBowl... Bo Jackson

Best Movie running back...J-Man Washington
 
#40
#40
I would. Brown simply had the ability to carry people and a gear to go around them. Barry had to go around, but he could often.

Sanders was a great football player, but I class him with Walter Payton, though Payton could put his head down better. Those guys are second tier to Brown, who really has no peers.

Wasn't Ernie Davis supposed to be as good or better? Too bad he died so young. Agreed on Jim Brown though, watching old film and looking at the stats, he was simply the best there ever was.
 
#41
#41
Wasn't Ernie Davis supposed to be as good or better? Too bad he died so young. Agreed on Jim Brown though, watching old film and looking at the stats, he was simply the best there ever was.

Davis and Gale Sayers are both left from the conversation because of simple lack of carries.

Jim Brown was a good sized DT, with great speed, agile enough to play TB.
 
#42
#42
Davis and Gale Sayers are both left from the conversation because of simple lack of carries.

Jim Brown was a good sized DT, with great speed, agile enough to play TB.

I watched The Express not too long ago, and while I got the feeling that some of it was overblown and the movie itself seemed a bit heavy handed, the Ernie Davis story is a sad but interesting one.
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#47
#47
I watched The Express not too long ago, and while I got the feeling that some of it was overblown and the movie itself seemed a bit heavy handed, the Ernie Davis story is a sad but interesting one.
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My wife and I watched that a few weeks ago. It was an interesting story.

As to the question at hand, I am going to go with the Jim Brown crowd.
 
#48
#48
Barry Sanders...far and away the best, not sure how anyone could even argue anyone else, he dominated on pathetic teams, everyone knew he was going to carry the ball and he still was the best player on the field every time he laced them up.
 
#49
#49
Earl campbell
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I used to love watching him run. Look up the definition of a battering ram and you'll see a picture of Earl Campbell.

If he couldn't get around you, he was going to do his best to run you over and a lot of times he did.
 
#50
#50
Barry Sanders...far and away the best, not sure how anyone could even argue anyone else, he dominated on pathetic teams, everyone knew he was going to carry the ball and he still was the best player on the field every time he laced them up.

You aren't sure how anybody could argue anybody else was better?

I don't know how anybody could argue that u are not worst poster in this board.
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