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    Best players you've ever seen?

    I'm gonna start with the best two players I've ever watched play several full games of football. Both of these guys were highly productive, but I'm going with awe factor and amazing plays above all else. I left Barry Sanders off because he was so inconsistent. It's great how amazing the good ones were but he danced too much and caused too many 3 and outs in my opinion. I'd rather have a Peterson or Emmit who get yards
    Almost every time to set up favorable down and distance to pass from.

    Reggie White - Had the brute strength to walk a 310lb OT straight back into the QBs lap and the speed to round the corner like guys 50 pounds lighter than him. He's the only guy I remember throwing offensive lineman around like they were kids two or three grades smaller than him. Absolute dominance

    Randy Moss - His combination of speed and football intelligence was off the charts. I've never seen a WR so dominant as a deep threat as long as I've watched football. Culpepper would just throw it up and time after time after time he came down with it.


    Best old timer that i never got to watch, but have seen enough film to be absolutely amazed is Don Hutson. He just ran past the rest of the league like he was in high school and everyone else was a 6th grader. Unbelievable. I mostly look at Packer history. I'm sure there were other guys.


    A list of favorite Packers who aren't quite as amazing as Reggie but still note worthy.
    Majik
    Sharpe
    Tim Harris
    Favre
    Rodgers
    Woodson
    Collins
    Javon Walker
    Jordy
    Jennings
    Ahman Green
    Desmond Howard
    Chad Clifton
    Clay Matthews
    Brooks
    Freeman
    Sitton
    Peppers

    List of other teams guys I've loved watching
    John Randall
    Jared Allen
    Herman Moore
    Chris carter
    Warren Sapp
    Barry Sanders
    Dione Sanders
    Jerry Rice
    TO
    Kevin Greene
    Tom Brady
    Joe Montana
    D McNabb
    Devin Hester
    Jason Taylor
    Tony Gonzolez
    Gronk
    Ronnie Lott
    Strahan


    Favorite coach
    McCarthy

    Favorite GM
    Thompson

    Favorite historical coach
    Lombardi

    So yeah, that's a bunch of stuff. Just wanting to talk some football history and remember the awesomeness of football.
    Last edited by RashanGary; 12-19-2016, 02:09 AM.
    Formerly known as JustinHarrell.
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    Jim Brown

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Patler View Post
      Jim Brown
      Lawrence Taylor. I watched him throughout the 80's. I think other players - including some of his own teammates - were afraid of him.

      Ted "the Mad Stork" Hendricks was a freak of nature. What he did in a single season in Green Bay may never have been matched.

      And for me, Ahman Green was the best running back I've ever seen in a Packer uniform. I don't know why he isn't spoken of more often. He ran like a bull yet he had incredible speed. He could catch the ball and blocked pretty well. Early in each season he'd have fumbling issues, but he ended up wearing rubber sleeves and this solved the problem. In his prime, I'd take him over Emmitt Smith or Marcus Allen, hands down.
      "The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."

      KYPack

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      • #4
        Gale Sayers
        One time Lombardi was disgusted with the team in practice and told them they were going to have to start with the basics. He held up a ball and said: "This is a football." McGee immediately called out, "Stop, coach, you're going too fast," and that gave everyone a laugh.
        John Maxymuk, Packers By The Numbers

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        • #5
          Barry Sanders is the greatest RB I've ever seen by far. I'm not sure how you can leave him off the list. Emmitt Smith always got positive yardage because of his OL...If Barry Sanders were in Dallas instead of Emmitt, Barry would have 24,000 career yards.
          It's such a GOOD feeling...13 TIME WORLD CHAMPIONS!!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by King Friday View Post
            Barry Sanders is the greatest RB I've ever seen by far. I'm not sure how you can leave him off the list. Emmitt Smith always got positive yardage because of his OL...If Barry Sanders were in Dallas instead of Emmitt, Barry would have 24,000 career yards.
            I think for many people it's because Sanders had a lot of touches for no gain, or only a couple yards, because he was always trying to hit big. On top of that, the guy did not have breakaway speed. He'd get out into the open, but he couldn't take it home. Still, he was phenomenal, and I'd take Sanders over Smith any day.

            I'm not an Emmitt Smith fan, not at all. I think that dude is way overrated, and I'd take Sanders in a minute. To me, Emmitt Smith was three yards and a cloud of dust, and that was with one of the best offensive lines in football.

            I saw Sanders live a couple times, and it was an incredible experience. Once, he was surrounded five yards behind the line of scrimmage by four Packer defenders. Four. A juke, a quick twitch of the hips, and next thing you know, Barry's twenty-five yards downfield.
            "The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."

            KYPack

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            • #7
              Very few players have taken more plays off in their career than Randy Moss. If he would have played every down like Jerry Rice did, he would have 24,000 yards.
              Originally posted by 3irty1
              This is museum quality stupidity.

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              • #8
                You about gotta do this by position.

                Running Back: 1 Jim Brown 2 O.J. Simpson 3 Gayle Sayers

                Quarterback: 1 Aaron Rodgers 2 Brett Favre 3 Peyton Manning

                It's gonna take more thought than I want to expend right now for the other positions. I base these picks on pure ability and performance. Nobody tops Jim Brown. However, if he was the Wilt Chamberlain of the NFL, our own Jim Taylor was the Bill Russell of the NFL. You could make the same comparison of Barry Sanders - Wilt and Emmitt Smith - Russell a generation later, but neither of them had the pure ability of Brown and Simpson. O.J., of course, gets ignored because of all the shit later in life, but nobody but nobody was a threat to take it to the house every time he touched the ball like he was.

                Suffice it to say, I'm pretty sure it's more than homerism to put Rodgers and Favre at the top of QBs.

                Probably due to the nature of the game, current or recent QBs seem most outstanding, and old time RBs seem to top everybody more recent.
                What could be more GOOD and NORMAL and AMERICAN than Packer Football?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Fritz View Post
                  I saw Sanders live a couple times, and it was an incredible experience. Once, he was surrounded five yards behind the line of scrimmage by four Packer defenders. Four. A juke, a quick twitch of the hips, and next thing you know, Barry's twenty-five yards downfield.
                  Barry Sanders played behind a pathetic OL...and still managed to put up the numbers he did. OF COURSE he was going to get tackled for loss more than most RBs...he was often battling defenders as soon as he took the handoff. He was a one man show. All 11 guys on the defense were keying on him almost exclusively for his entire career.

                  And I don't get the comment on his breakaway speed. That is one of the most ignorant comments I've ever seen on this board. Barry Sanders had 15 career TDs of over 50 yards...which is most in NFL history. The next closest I believe is Jim Brown...with 12.
                  It's such a GOOD feeling...13 TIME WORLD CHAMPIONS!!

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                  • #10
                    There are MANY. But I will name one of my all time favorite Packers that I haven't seen listed, James Lofton.

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                    • #11
                      Billy Sims, before he got hurt.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by King Friday View Post
                        Barry Sanders played behind a pathetic OL...and still managed to put up the numbers he did. OF COURSE he was going to get tackled for loss more than most RBs...he was often battling defenders as soon as he took the handoff. He was a one man show. All 11 guys on the defense were keying on him almost exclusively for his entire career.
                        I don't agree with that comment. The Lions often had credible run-blocking OL in front of Sanders. For example, Lomas Brown and Kevin Glover were there most of Sanders career (as I recall) and both were not only perennial Pro-Bowl players, but 1st or 2nd team All Pro as well. The Lions also brought in a lot of excellent OL at the ends of their careers. Guys like Bubba Paris, Bill Fralic and Dave Lutz. Their best years were before they got to Detroit, but they were wise, skilled OL who could still run-block some. For their time, the Lions OL always seemed big, run-blocking types.

                        That said, I agree that defenses keyed on Sanders, making it very difficult for him, mostly because the Lions had little stability at QB. Sanders was clearly their best weapon, and if you could stop him, you stopped the Lions.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Patler View Post
                          Jim Brown
                          I'm gonna go watch me some Jim brown.
                          Formerly known as JustinHarrell.

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                          • #14
                            Von Miller
                            When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro ~Hunter S.

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                            • #15
                              Seriously, nobody's mentioned Walter Payton? I can't say I enjoyed watching him since he was running over the Packers so much, but he was consistently great. Not just long runs, but even things where there was nothing, he gained 5 yards.

                              If you are only talking about players seen in person, then sadly the best I've ever seen, at least more than once, is Jeff George.
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