Tiki Barber Appreciation Thread...

[ISO]

I was mad we won without Tiki

 

[Rev]

I was mad we won without Tiki

Though he was really feelin himself and petty after retiring, I felt the same way. He put a lot of work in with the NYG and dealt with alotta criticism for all those years.

 

[Red Money]

He got hot late in his career....though a 10yr vet he retired too soon.

Curtis Martin is the RB lacking respect for putting in a solid 10yrs. He overlaped with too many big names like Emmitt, Barry, Marshall, Bettis, Eddie George, Ricky Waters & Terell Davis.

 

[KFBF]

Tomlinson is overrated. There is NOTHING he did better than Faulk. Nothing. His entire play style is a bite off Faulk----->I've said this before: Tomlinson is to Faulk what Kobe is to Mike. Ultra talented in his own right, created a GOAT career in his own right, so this isn't shytting on LT or calling him a scrub, because he wasn’t...

He was a great football player but he was the lesser version of Faulk. Faulk had a degree of gamebreaking skill that no runner I've ever seen has had in 21 years watching the NFL...

San Diego was not splitting LT out wide like a #1 receiver, because although he was an excellent receiver (one of the greatest RB receivers easily), he wasn't the degree of threat Faulk was...

Faulk is a legit trailblazer of the hybrid RB, and to date still the best to do it in that mold. You could line him up in any kind of base run scheme and he was a threat to break, his presence on the field changed how defenses defended his teams and this goes back to his Indy days. LT didn't make defenses change how they defended SD, he was just more often better/too good for them to stop with their regular package...

Would appreciate @NYC Rebel feedback on this.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Would appreciate @NYC Rebel feedback on this.

Not worth responding to. Anyone calling LT overrated has an agenda.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Shame it took till his last season or two to fix how he carried the ball.

I remember vividly in high school our coaching making us run 5 40yard gassers if we ran and didn't have the ball in our outside arm(arm closest to the sideline).