Greatest NFL RBs

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Doesn't make them any better than the guys playing now. Running backs now are way more dynamic and athletic.

Im not trying to use the time machine argument. Truth is in todays NFL there are running backs on every team that can break a big one. Granted you have elite RB's, but the difference between the great ones and the good ones in the NFL is thin. Compared to back then, the great ones had a huge margin over the what was considered good.

Take Paul Hornung for instance, not only was he a top running back, he threw and kicked. He was an all around star back in the day. It was him Jim Brown and Gale Sayers and nobody else as far as running back goes.

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Also in todays NFL basically to win is scheme vs. scheme, back then it was player vs. player and there were some big time game changers who looked like men playing with a bunch of boys.

Cant really say that today as most, if not all the NFL players are fine athletes in their own right.

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best i've seen is Barry Sanders, Bo Jackson, and Adrian Peterson in that order.

You should watch a Titans game sometime then b/c AP isn't even the best current RB

[President]

You should watch a Titans game sometime then b/c AP isn't even the best current RB

Chris Johnson is way too fast for All Day AP, and is the better receiver

Plus AP fumbles a lot, his only edge is probably his strength

Chris Johnson is clearly the better back

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Chris Johnson is way too fast for All Day AP, and is the better receiver

Plus AP fumbles a lot, his only edge is probably his strength

Chris Johnson is clearly the better back

To be perfectly honest...Ray Rice & Steven Jackson have been better this season than AP as well. It can even be argued that a few other RBs have been more productive this season than AP has been also

[Arctic Blast]

Jim Brown is #1. That pretty much goes without saying.

OJ Simpson, Barry Sanders, Jim Taylor, Franco Harris, Walter Payton, John Riggins, Emmitt Smith, Curtis Martin and Marshall Faulk would probably be my other 9.

And as for short careers, how about if George Rogers didn't become a massive cokehead?

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Jim Brown is #1. That pretty much goes without saying.

No, it doesn't. Brown doesn't have his numbers if he played on those horrible Lions teams that Sanders was a part of. On the other hand, Sanders could very well have been even better had he played on those superior Browns teams (you know, the ones with multiple HOF o-linemen & a HOF coach). Everyone in the stadium knew that all you had to do against the Lions was put both your corners on Herman Moore, a safety on their other scrub WR & then keep 8 in the box to stop Sanders, but the thing is nobody could ever actually stop him. Clearly, I'm not taking anything away from Brown (or Payton or OJ or Dickerson or Campbell, etc), but to say it 'goes without saying' just isn't true.

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To be perfectly honest...Ray Rice & Steven Jackson have been better this season than AP as well. It can even be argued that a few other RBs have been more productive this season than AP has been also

Jackson and Johnson have also played on teams that have had terrible passing games. Rice pretty much the same. Coincidence????

AP is pound for pound the most talented back in the NFL today, and IMO one of the most talented i've ever seen. Yes, statistically this year hasn't been as good for him as some of the others in the league, and yes he fumbles too much...but Jim Brown, OJ, Sanders....they didn't lead the league in rushing every year either. Jamal Lewis was the leagues best back one year....anyone ever talk about him with the greatest backs ever?? No.

[reflections]

Jim Brown and then it doesn't matter.
Don't forget when Brown played, this wasn't the technology age with all the advancements in medical and training. And it wasn't the NFL of today race wise. The players back then played hard and dirty and took extra hits in the scrums.

You watch film of Jim Brown and it looks like he was playing against college kids who couldn't tackle.
Its hard to find someone like that nowadays.

[OregonDuck1989]

Uh, Rashaan Salaam.

kthxbye

[ragecage]

Uh, Rashaan Salaam.

kthxbye

Justin Vargas, he is 10th leading rusher in Raiders history! lol.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

Jamaal Anderson, TJ Duckett, Warrick Dunn.

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[OregonDuck1989]

Olandis Gary.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

Maurice Clarett.

[OregonDuck1989]

Maurice Clarett.

He was awesome