Barry Sanders -- Most overrated Player of All Time?

nyjunc · Nov 29, 2010

Murrell2878 said: ↑

Wait a minute. Please don’t compare Emmitt Smith with Blair Thomas.

I feel that Sanders was better than Smith however I don’t always agree with the assessment or insinuation that Emmitt was only successful because of the line he played behind or because he played with Aikman and Irvin. Smith was an elite runner in his own right. He had terrific vision, great balance, could catch the ball, block and had toughness as well as good speed and elusiveness and was great near the goaline. Sure he had a great OL to run behind and great teammates to take some of the focus, but Smith was the centerpiece of that Cowboys offense and would not work w/o him. Just look at the 1993 season as an example. Emmitt held out the first two games of the 1993 season. Dallas lost both of them, averaged 13 pts/gm 97 rushing yds/gm and had a turnover ratio of -6. When he came back they won 12 of 14 games averaged 25 pts/gm 140.5 rushing yds/gm and had a turnover ratio of +12. On the way to win the Super Bowl.
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I think he was goofing around b/c Blair was terrible behind that OL too.

I tend to agree w/ you here, I think Emmitt gets underrated b/c of the talent dallas had.

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