best 5 yrs for wide out rankin rice vs moss, holt, boldon, and fitz

Jul 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM

frankie
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http://www.revengeofthebirds.com/2009/5/27/889796/arizona-cardinals-news-larry

Rice vs Fitz, anquan, holt, moss

Interesting comparisons!

If az had a running game their receptions wouldn't be as high I don't believe!

[ Edited by frankie on Jul 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM ]

Jul 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM

Chief
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GOAT

Jul 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM

frankie
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Originally posted by Chief:
GOAT

Most definately agree!
But I wouldn't mind any of our guys puttin up the numbers of the others neither

Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM

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Player  Games  GS  Rec  Yards  Avg  TDs
Boldin  68  66  413  5,458  13.2  29
Fitzgerald  76  76  426  5,975  14.0  46
Holt  80  70  423  6,784  16.0  35
Moss  80  75  414  6,743  16.3  60
Rice  76  63  346  6,364  18.4  66

Nice job of compiling stats by a guy on a Cardinals fansite.

Jul 21, 2009 at 11:13 AM

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Rice's average, 18.4 yards per catch dominates the others. Too bad this guy had no clue that Rice's stats didn't really begin to take off until the 90's.

Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM

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But you can't just take 5 years.....you gotta take the whole career. Rice kept producing on a high level consistently, I'd like to see the stats go more years and we'll see Rice pulling away

Jul 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM

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You can debate who was the greatest QB whoever played the game. You can debate who was the greatest RB whoever played the game. Heck, you can do that with every position in football except one, and that one is WR. There is no real argument against Jerry Rice being the GOAT WR, and it's as simple as that. Who knows, maybe one day someone will surpass him, but I doubt it. Jerry Rice is simply the GOAT WR who has ever played the game.

Jul 21, 2009 at 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by BigRon:

Player  Games  GS  Rec  Yards  Avg  TDs
Boldin  68  66  413  5,458  13.2  29
Fitzgerald  76  76  426  5,975  14.0  46
Holt  80  70  423  6,784  16.0  35
Moss  80  75  414  6,743  16.3  60
Rice  76  63  346  6,364  18.4  66

Nice job of compiling stats by a guy on a Cardinals fansite.

Yeah I thought so as well! I thought it was quite interesting as well. I honestly don't believe that fitz and bolden would have these numbers if they had a running game! They have been forced to do nothing but pass for yrs. But they do have 2 badass wr's no doubt! And jerry is the greatest of all time no doubt! But this is a decent list of wr's.

Jul 21, 2009 at 11:07 PM

frankie
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Originally posted by fzrdave:
You can debate who was the greatest QB whoever played the game. You can debate who was the greatest RB whoever played the game. Heck, you can do that with every position in football except one, and that one is WR. There is no real argument against Jerry Rice being the GOAT WR, and it's as simple as that. Who knows, maybe one day someone will surpass him, but I doubt it. Jerry Rice is simply the GOAT WR who has ever played the game.

Joe montana / steve young
Barry sanders / walter peyton
Jerry rice

Yup there is no other to jerry! And well im biased to the niners qb's and I honestly feel they where the best .

Then there is barry, who was like no other!

Jul 21, 2009 at 11:09 PM

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frankie
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Originally posted by Youngone:
But you can't just take 5 years.....you gotta take the whole career. Rice kept producing on a high level consistently, I'd like to see the stats go more years and we'll see Rice pulling away

Agreed 100% but it is just the first five yrs, and I aint to sure anyone will surpass rice in my lifetime! And I have a long ways to go still!

Jul 21, 2009 at 11:11 PM

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Originally posted by Joecool:
Rice's average, 18.4 yards per catch dominates the others. Too bad this guy had no clue that Rice's stats didn't really begin to take off until the 90's.

Yeah its pretty awesome that a man once nicknamed butter fingers accumulated 66 touchdowns in 5 yrs! 6 more then moss! And that's including the season of the strike! His total would have been quite a few more! Along with catch's, yards, etc!