Originally posted by captveg:
Originally posted by Digger:
Man hard to believe Gurley only played 6 seasons, he was THE fantasy RB for a couple years there. And Cook was really done after 6 too, even though this is his 7th season.
Careers like this is why whenever someone argues that Frank Gore was just a stat accumulator due to playing so long I retort with the longevity itself being HoF worthy. RBs sticking around for 16 seasons is practically unheard of.
Yup very good point!!!
I've brought up the stat on FB that Gore had a streak of 9 seasons with 4.0+ ypc, tying Jim Brown and only trailing Barry Sanders who had 10 seasons (those 9 seasons were all with the 49ers BTW)... I believe 200+ carries minimum....
Lots of these idiot casuals dismissed it like it wasn't important. But no other RBs ever could say the same....Walter Payton had 3.x slump somewhere halfway over his first ten seasons. Adrian Peterson, LaDainian Tomlinson, Emmitt Smith, Curtis Martin, Marshawn Lynch, Marshall Faulk, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Thurman Thomas, Jerome Bettis, Jamaal Charles, Steven Jackson, go ahead name it, none of them had 9 seasons at 4.0+ ypc.
An RB has to be healthy and put in maximum effort each time they get the ball to deliver 4.0+ ypc over an entire season. That's so damn hard to do versus say playing WR where you can take routes off from time to time....
Just imagine if Gore was drafted as the Harbaugh era started.....my God.
[ Edited by JTsBiggestFan on Jan 3, 2024 at 1:12 PM ]
I don't want Andrew Luck's career on anybody, including our new Franchise QB.