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Originally Posted by Burt the Butcher
Are you serious? You must be a youngin....never saw Sweetness, Sanders, Dickerson?....hell, I wouldn't even go so far as to say SA had the best vision of Hawks backs..I would rank Curt Warner ahead of SA...Warner did it with a crappy O-line making teeny tiny holes...not taking anything away from Shaun, but come on.....  |
I stand by it. I think Alexander's ability wasn't a fraction of either of the three guys that you mentioned, yet he still had a high ypc, broke the single-season TD record, and was a all-around stud for 5 years.
He probably ran a 4.7, he didn't possess great moves, he couldn't run you over and he ran kind of upright.
But he had the ability to see holes and break long runs over and over and over. He did it in college and the NFL.
I think if you give him 4.4 speed, or jaw-dropping moves like Barry Sanders, he could easily had put up comparable numbers to the top rb's in NFL history. Heck, you can probably put his 5 year run up against most HOF RB's and it compares favorably. If he could have stuck it out another 3-4 years, he would have a compelling case for the hall, based on numbers alone.