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.