Barry Sanders

[BlueBrewer]

Does anyone remember when The Packers held Sanders to negative yardage at the half and 7 total rushing yards on the game. It was in the Reggie era, I don't remember exactly what year though.

[chain_gang]

Does anyone remember when The Packers held Sanders to negative yardage at the half and 7 total rushing yards on the game. It was in the Reggie era, I don't remember exactly what year though.

I remember the playoff game against Detroit when Green Bay held sanders to -1 yds on 13 carries for the game. Is that the one you mean?


In another wild card showdown, in "Lambeau" on December 31, 1994, the Packers' highly committed defense accomplished the "impossible," limiting the redoubtable Barry Sanders to a minus-1 yard rushing in 13 attempts and the Lions to -4 yards rushing - an NFL playoff record - as a team in a 16-12 victory.

[BigDmoney]

Imagine...Brett Favre & Barry Sanders on the same team in the '90ties!? WOW!!! I didn't know much about rookies in 1989 but I couldn't fathom that an OT could be more worth than a RB. I was right due to my "go-get-the-guy-that-score-TDs" theory - if nothing else. Oh, well. Getting Favre is still at the top of biggest trade scoops in NFL history.

I don't even want to think of a Favre/Sanders combinatin. Turf or No truf. As fars as Favre being one of the best trade scoops in history I agree, but it's not the top. Remember the purple giving up 124 players for Hershall Walker?

[Harlan Huckleby]

Sanders is too small to be a great NFL back, forget about him.

[ny10804]

Sanders is too small to be a great NFL back, forget about him.

Um.........ha..ha.....

[woodbuck27]

"Remember the purple giving up 124 players for Hershall Walker?" BigDmoney

Yea! That was a raaaalllyyyy BIG TRADE.

[packerpete]

barry was a freak, everytime we played the lions i held my breath because you knew barry could take it all the way on any given play

IMO he's in the eite group with payton as the best rb's ever (and i never saw brown play but i always thought he was a bit over rated by just watching the old clips, i'm sure he was the best in his day, but i don't think he'd be the best ever if he played today)

as for barry being a packer. i don't know if it would have worked. as someone else mentioned, he played better on turf and in a dome, and it makes sense, his cuts and quickness are what made him so good. if you put him on a frozen or sloppy field you take away a lot of what made him so damn good and you get what i witnessed back a long time ago, barrry running for -1 yards in a playoff game at lambeau

as a packer fans i would have like to have him, just out of hope that he would have been the same player. as a football fan i'm glad he played somewhere else where the conditions were perfect for him. i just wich it would have been for a team outside the noris division

In every head to head game they ever played against each other, Jim Taylor outrushed Jim Brown.

Taylor was the absolute toughest SOB to ever lug the pigskin.

I do not think Jim Brown was the greatest of his era.

[packerpete]

Sanders is too small to be a great NFL back, forget about him.

Hey Harlan, are you really Tom Braatz?? LOLOLOL

[prsnfoto]

Sanders is too small to be a great NFL back, forget about him.

You are going to get bashed for this so I'll take some heat too. Does anyone know if they keep stats on how many 0 gain or negative gain attempts a back has in his career. Most games i watched Barry he would have 15 negative carries 4 5 yd carries and one 8oyd td run when his team was already down 21 points, all those negative rushes took the Lions out of a lot of games. Just my opinion.

[Run2win38]

I loved the way Barry just flipped the ball to the ref after he scored (except against the Packers)

No bling bling - dance around - look at me BS - just another TD by a great player