Football: Making Fever's greatest fantasy football team (part 2 RBs) (1 Viewer)

[|Fever| Little T 79]

I did a fun set of threads like this back in my hay day and wanted to bring back some fun, with a twist.

We are going to build the greatest NFL team of all time by all of your votes, Fever members votes! It will be fun to build a team of what Fever believes to be the greatest team to hit the field of any time.

We started with Offensive Tackles, to which the members of Fever selected Walter Jones and Anthony Munoz!

Next we are moving on to Running Backs! Vote on who you think is the greatest RB of all time. The highest vote getter will be our man out of the back field. If you don't like the choices I have given, go for the write in spot. Vote away and enjoy building Fever's Fantasy football team!

EDIT: If you choose 'WRITE IN VOTE' make sure to write the players name in a post within the thread. Thanks.

Here is the team so far:
QB-
RB-
FB-
WR1-
WR2-
TE-
LT-WALTER JONES
LG-
C-
RG-
RT-ANTHONY MUOZ

RE-
DT1-
DT2-
LE-
ROLB-
MLB-
LOLB-
CB1-
CB2-
SS-
FS-

 

[|Fever| Little T 79]

With over 21,000 yards from scrimmage (3rd best all time), 16,726 rushing yards (2nd best all time), 110 rushing TDs (4th best all time) and 125 total TDs (#11th all time) my choice is Walter Payton (Don't forget he had 8 career passing touchdowns, not part of the 125 total TDs, that is the most passing TDs by any non-QB ever!). 9 Pro Bowls, 6 First Team All-Pro selections, NFL MVP 1977, Superbowl Champ, Hall of Famer...the list of his achievements goes on and on and on. On top of that, he was one of the quickest, most elusive athletes to ever play on the gridiron.

He was also a caring, amazing human being off the field. A wonderful person and even better athlete. I think there would be no one better in our RB position than Walter "Sweetness" Payton!

 

[Phizz]

I gotta go with Sanders.... If the Lions built a better team around him, he could have very well taken them to the superbowl many times.

Really was hard choosing between Smith, Payton, and Sanders.

 

[itzthunder]

I gotta go with payton on this one. It's a tough choice but I think payton was better overall

 

[|Fever| Little T 79]

Alot more votes this time, less discussion. I will be honest, it really is hard to choose between any of these guys.

 

[alkalinesolo]

I'm going LT here. He was an amazing rusher and pass catcher and had a nose for the endzone. He also put up all of his stats at a time when the league was transitioning away from a run heavy attack into the more pass happy league we see today.

 

[alkalinesolo]

Just saw Barry Sanders is winning.

I really love Barry Sanders, and he was one of the most amazing players I've ever watched play the game - but I feel like he's severely overrated when it comes to the "best of" discussions. Everyone remembers his highlight runs, but no one remembers the times where he danced around but wasn't able to break away and ended up losing yards instead. IMO he was part of the reason the Lions didn't have success. You want your RB to be able to pick up a couple yards every single time they touch the ball - you don't want your RB to be an all or nothing type player.
If the Lions have a 2nd and 1, then most RBs you'd feel comfortable giving the ball to a couple times in a row to pickup the first down - but with Barry Sanders you'd have a good chance ending up 3rd and 4 if you give him the ball on 2nd down.

The most important Barry Sanders stat that keeps him out of the top 3 IMO is this: He is the NFL's all time leader in rushes for a loss.

 

[Agent38ddd]

We all know how much I obviously love Barry Sanders (being a huge Lion's fan) -- but Jim Brown was the MAN. Big, fast, powerful, he could catch -- he could do it all. Barry Sanders is a top 3 guy for me. While I agree with [MENTION=4322]alkalinesolo[/MENTION] on his points about Barry Sanders, I think they are all trumped by how one-dimensional Detroit was during his time there. They absolutely knew they were going to run pretty much every down, and taking away Lomas Brown...the OL was almost as thin as QB/WR. I mean, they had Herman Moore -- but who was going to throw to him?? You put Barry Sanders behind the Dallas line of that era, and swap Emmit Smith over to Detroit...ouch. Sanders would own the yardage record, and nobody would ever catch it. Dallas was a workhorse team with E. Smith, with Aikman never needing to put up huge numbers, and I'm sure it would have been the same thing if Sanders was there. They wanted to pound the ball. Sanders had ridiculous speed and athletic ability. He was like a gymnast running the ball.

You really can't go wrong with anybody on that list. You could say Dickerson was stupid (LOL) -- because he left a RAM's team that couldn't throw the ball, and had a serious run blocking line -- but that doesn't change how awesome he was. IMO, barring injury, he would have had 18k yards staying with the Rams. Earl Campbell is my sentimental favorite, because he played the game the same way I did -- like every play was his last. That's why he crippled up so fast. Gale Sayers? You know when you play something like 61 career games -- and you STILL make the HOF, you must be something beyond special. Faulk and Tomlinson were ridiculous because they could do EVERYTHING -- even pass block. And Walter Payton? hell, half of his career was wasted playing on horrible teams. He's a lot like Sanders, in that the Bears had very little on the table -- so they knew he would have the ball. I like Payton over Sanders for the same reason that AP and Lynch are my favorite current NFL runners -- they don't give you the risk of all of those lost downs with lost yardage. I think Sanders explosiveness is an easy risk/reward thing that makes those lost yards a non-factor, but it was still tough for me to see it happen all the time. With Payton, he clawed for every yard like his mother's life depended on it -- just awesome.

 

[Agent38ddd]

Come on LT -- you're slacking!!!!!!!!

 

[|Fever| Little T 79]

Come on LT -- you're slacking!!!!!!!!

AHH! You got me. Tomorrow. I promise