Originally Posted by BroncoBuff
I get it, I get all of that, definitely. But there is a path for me to rank BMarsh near the top, and that path goes through, first - the WR career highlight videos on YouTube (pay for ad-free YT, it's well worth it), and second - Calvin Johnson. Always loved Megatron, a unicorn of greatness stuck on a BAD franchise. Just like Barry Sanders, two all-time greats compelled to retire after just nine and ten years. Nine and ten, really?
Couple years back I'm watching a Calvin video, and it strikes me his daunting physical size is exactly the same as BMarsh: both 6'5" 235. So I switch to a BMarsh video, and he just leaps off the screen – even more impressive than Megatron. It’s the YAC, the contested catches, the one-handed catches, the physical, the catches in traffic, the everything.
NOW: I don’t harbor any contempt for the flood of "pass-first era" WRs that started filling up retirement lists after 2010 ... Larry Fitzgerald, Tim Brown, Marvin Harrison, Andre Johnson, Michael Irvin, they all have their place in mostly stats-driven greatness. But what I see with them is more smooth, more route running, more system, more QB, more consistency with team and teammates …. BMarsh had little to none of that.
BMarsh was and is a troubled personality, it contributed to him playing for 6 teams in 13 years (really 4 teams in 11 years, the last two barely registered). 6/11 100-catch seasons, 8/11 1000-yard seasons. Better catch % than Calvin Johnson, Randy Moss, T O., Michael Irvin … but it’s not stats. The bottom line is the eye test
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Give it 3 minutes…..
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