AFC title rematch in KC
Is Derrick Henry the best RB you ever seen?
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Sure. I was mostly speaking to that video.
If we genuinely consider his entire football career in totality from high school? In terms of production, longevity, and accolades it's only a few RBs up there with him all time if we're talking about dominating on all three levels aka high school, college, and pros. I don't think any RB in the NFL was better than Barry, but if we're objective there's only a few up there with him considering those three things on all of the levels. It's Henry, Dorsett, and Marcus Allen. They were all great out the gate, won Heisman's, and were doing it in the league at 30 or older......maybe you could throw Emmitt's or Peterson's or dikkerson's name in there too, but they ain't win the Heisman or Doak Walker in college......and Barry wasn't really known as that dude in high school from what I read.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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Man, seriously. This whole post 100%.
Even the Marlon McCree scapegoat thing is ass. Look how many mistakes this team made and how LT balled out. That was a total team failure in the 2nd half wasting a phenomenal effort by LT.
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I don't know much about OJ's high school career......I know OJ was whooping people ass in high school, but I don't know about how dominant/good he was in football. NFL and College wise he's one of those cats that is low key underrated now because you ain't supposed to really talk about how great he is. If you kept it just to college and NFL he's up there too. The man ran for 2000 yards in 14 games. That alone is fukking wild.
I know Dorsett and Marcus and Henry were at worst the best player in their state, proper football states too, they wasn't playing 6 man football in Kansas or something.
Erratic415
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Marlon McCree definitely gets too much blame in how people think the Chargers surely win if he doesn’t fumble. Their chances to win improve, but it’s not a lock.
There’s a clip of Marty before the game saying to go down when you make the INT at the end of the game rather than running around, and this always gets shown in relation to McCree. But there were 6 and a half minutes left when this play happened. It wasn’t the end of the game.
People act like Marlon McCree was running all over the field and fumbled when he ran for about 3 yards before being stripped. It was more of a great play by Troy Brown than some big screwup by McCree.
I don’t know why Marty chose to go for it on 4th and long rather than kick a FG in the first half.
Field Marshall Bradley
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Thsnks, fam..One of the most devastating losses I have ever seen. San Diego was the best team, all season, easily. Stood out above everyone, despite being in a loaded conference. (Indy, Baltimore, New England) Pittsburgh, Cincy and Denver missed the playoffs in 2006, but were excellent in 2005. The first two had QBs who were recovering from injury, Denver missed the offs in Week 17, if I recall correctly. Back to the loss, I felt LT's pain and Martys devastation. Gets fired after going 14-2, never coaches again and gets his championship.
. RIP to Coach Schottenheimer.
murksiderock
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Where do you place Henry historically, you don't think he's with any if those names mentioned?You doing the Lord’s work right now. PREACH!!!
KnowledgeDropper
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Best RBs I remember actually watching was Barry Sanders in terms of his ability to make plays. I remember guys like Adrian Peterson, Marshall Faulk, Tomlinson having better single / two / three season stretches. But I am guessing if Henry has a few more seasons like this, and if he gets a ring, he is a HOF
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I remember thinking that was completely their year.Thsnks, fam..One of the most devastating losses I have ever seen. San Diego was the best team, all season, easily. Stood out above everyone, despite being in a loaded conference. (Indy, Baltimore, New England) Pittsburgh, Cincy and Denver missed the playoffs in 2006, but were excellent in 2005. The first two had QBs who were recovering from injury, Denver missed the offs in Week 17, if I recall correctly. Back to the loss, I felt LT's pain and Martys devastation. Gets fired after going 14-2, never coaches again and gets his championship.
Peyton's Colts had so much trouble with SD historically and the Bears basically cooled off that season. Those would've been two easy wins for the Chargers. Those mistakes through that Patriots game completely came back for them as they had so many opportunities to put them away.
Had all that not happened Peyton may very well have been ringless his entire Colts career.
I did, too. With Bob Sanders was out for most of the year, the Colts had a historically bad run defense and special teams, too. Jacksonville with MJD and Freddy T, gave them a colossal whupping late during that season. Indy was off.the radar for many. Alot of ppl thought that Larry Johnson would run all over them and that KC would upset them in the Wild Card round. Sd had beat Indy in Indy in 2005, when they were 13-0. They had also bullied the Pats in 2005, in FoxBoro. Blew then out, actually. Even stepped on Bradys hand. Of course the Chargers would go on to beat Indy in the 2007 and 2008 playoffs. That is an insane thought, that if not for that massive letdown by SD, that Peyton never wins a ring with the Colts. Wow!!
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Yup and in 2005 SD didn't have Merriman either who was having his best season as a Charger while Peyton was having a ton of difficulties with the base 3-4. That still to me is one of the biggest missed opportunities I've seen for a team going for their first Championship in any sport.