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I get what you're saying, but we also saw Torry/Isaac Bruce, Marvin Harrison, Steve Smith, etc. light up from the outside because of their quickness, speed and route running but they ain't close to the explosive runner, with the deceleration/acceleration Tyreek has.I don’t believe he would dominate in any era.
I’ve been watching this game my entire life. Closely. Been in the mix, on the sideline, in the meeting rooms etc.
And I’m not an era hater. It is what it is, if you played any era you either benefited from something others did not, or you had shackles that others did not. Life is life.
I was just telling a homeboy that I was at a Rams game (sideline) and the WRs and DBs looked like kids to me. I had to go google these guys lol. And I respect they are dominate football players that’s how they made an NFL team, but for 25 years I’ve seen guys look like mutants (even skill positions) and now they look like HS players…
And the truth is, they changed the defense so much (particuarly pass defense and linebacker play) that teams lean towards really small, speedy guys. DBs can’t put hands on, and Linebackers can’t bump them off routes or hit between hashes, which was football for 40 years until recently.
Tyreek in any other era is a beast at slot that you couldn’t get production from outside the hashes. But now, since you can’t touch him, he’s free to unleash hell in a way a Santana Moss was not. (No knock on him, he’s a great football player)
I have a coach friend that always says this:
“Man…I always wonder what the record book would look like if we weren’t allowed to touch Randy Moss“
So salute to what this kid is doing, I freaking love to see it, but I ain’t finna disrespect anybody era outside of pre70s lmao (I ran into Franco Harris and this MF look like damn Derrick Henry and he was like 70)
What we're seeing is a sure-handed, route-running technician who's great at making people miss with change of direction and 4.2 speed. I think that translates to any era imo.
I actually really like what someone said on reddit a few days ago:
The problem is he's a short, but not small WR (Marvin was 175 lbs.). Additionally, the guy is so compact it's difficult to tackle him. Dude can probably truck most DB's like a RB. Defenders got to get low to hit him and when they spend time changing levels he can make a zippy move and be outta there and when he gets one step, it's over. That's why those jump backs basically make everyone look slow.
A lot of those DB's were pretty strong, but watching Marvin, Torry, etc. highlights, man a lot of them CB's were slow as molasses during that time as well. If the best at the time was Champ, I got almost zero doubts Tyreek makes that era look bad (especially how Champ said his toughest matchup was Marvin).
Like imagine Tyreek in an era where Troy Vincent, Lito Shepard, Sam Madison, Chris McAlister, Dre Bly, Ronde Barber, etc. are the best cornerbacks. It'd be records everywhere. They'd have never seen anything like that: Marvin's quickness and route tree, Moss's speed and hands, Devin Hester in the open field, etc.
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, they (along with Loomis) have definitely mastered the art of cac cronyism within the organization. 
Leave them be. 
