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9 months ago

settle a debate. Who's better? Walter Payton or Barry Sanders?

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RabidWolverine said...
settle a debate. Who's better? Walter Peyton or Barry Sanders?

I say Sweetness
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RabidWolverine said...
settle a debate. Who's better? Walter Peyton or Barry Sanders?

I would go with Payton. Did everything that a teams asks for in a back. Hard nose runner, breakaway speed, great out of the backfield in routes, and was a ferocious blocker.
Sanders was a special talent, but had a ton of negative plays and was stopped all too often in big games. He wasn't great at 3rd and 1 either. He was probably the most entertaining back to watch though that I have ever seen.

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9 months ago

You guys aren't helping my case (cept for rollbama)
I'm on Sanders' side.. His OLine was absolutely horrid and a lot of times he would make the opponent miss and turn it in to a big gain.. And he still averaged 5.0 yards per carry with that OLine which is amazing..

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Sanders.
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9 months ago

Depends on the OL and the system you want to run.
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9 months ago

Walter Payton
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9 months ago

Barry Sanders. Put that guy behind a respectable OL and he shatters every record in the books.
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9 months ago

Peyton, no contest
Without self-knowledge there is no individuality
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bamaman79 said...
Peyton, no contest

isn't that a bit extreme?
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BBucksorBeGone8 said...
isn't that a bit extreme?

Nope
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Walter Peyton
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Walter Payton. He is the greatest to ever walk on the field. He was fast, strong, agile, tough, and above all had more heart than anyone besides maybe Dick Butkus. His was the offense on his team(so that doesn't work in Sanders favor as much as people want).
He ran like a man possessed and its a shame he had to die so early.
Lebron James will never be as good as Michael Jordan, thus we should get rid of his nickname, "The King".
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9 months ago

Sanders. He hung it up too soon.
Yeah, I said it.
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9 months ago

4/6 people have spelled Walter Payton's name wrong.
Hey Trojans, LSU's 74 are better than your 75.
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U-Chucky said...
4/6 people have spelled Walter Payton's name wrong.

Including me. Nice catch.
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U-Chucky said...
4/6 people have spelled Walter Payton's name wrong.

Guilty as charged, In my defense, I did spell it right, until I saw the OP's spelling, then I thought I spelled it wrong. So copied the Op's spelling.
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bamaman79 said...
Peyton, no contest

How is it not close?
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RabidWolverine said...
How is it not close?

How is it close? He was a more complete back, and people forget that Payton didn't exactly play behind a great line either. He played eleven years before having the luxury of running behind even a single pro-bowler. If this is based of stats alone then you would have to include a couple other backs who were probably even better...
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bamaman79 said...
How is it close? He was a more complete back, and people forget that Payton didn't exactly play behind a great line either. He played eleven years before having the luxury of running behind even a single pro-bowler. If this is based of stats alone then you would have to include a couple other backs who were probably even better...

Sure, Payton was more complete. But Barry was so good at his style of running, that makes up for his lack of whatever doesn't make him "complete" imo.
I understand what you're saying, and I respect your opinion but we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

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RabidWolverine said...
Sure, Payton was more complete. But Barry was so good at his style of running, that makes up for his lack of whatever doesn't make him "complete" imo.
I understand what you're saying, and I respect your opinion but we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

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9 months ago

Wilbert Montgomery is the GOAT
Not guilty y'all got to feel me
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bamaman79 said...
Absolutely..

I just don't get how you can say it isn't close. Stats do not lie. And Barry has better stats than Payton
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9 months ago

Barry Sanders
He played on a crap team his whole career and would have made Emmit look pedestrian if he hadn't figured out football would make him a vegetable.
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Barry Sanders is the greatest college RB that I've seen live and on television.
Walter Payton is the greatest NFL running back I've ever seen live and on television. Growing up a Viking fan, no single player worried me as a fan that Walter Payton.
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