Thread: Peterson compared to NFL's greatest

Peterson compared to NFL's greatest

Paul Wiggin went up to Adrian Peterson on Monday morning, shook his hand, congratulated him on Sunday's performance and compared him to the man he still considers the greatest running back in NFL history.

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Some people here will never consider him to be one of the greatest, until he gets a ring.

Originally Posted by singersp

Some people here will never consider him to be one of the greatest, until he gets a ring.

I remember a couple years ago you tried to argue that Deangelo Williams was the best RB in the league. Ha.

Originally Posted by C Mac D

I remember a couple years ago you tried to argue that Deangelo Williams was the best RB in the league. Ha.

Yup. It was 2008 as a matter of fact. At the time of that discussion DeAngelo was better. You're going to have a hard time convincing me otherwise.

In 2008, AD had a couple of hundred more yards, but that was it. DeAngelo had almost twice as many TD's as AD & had 0 fumbles while AD had 9 fumbles. Count them 9.

DeAngelo also had 2 receiving TD's to AD's 0.

That year AD couldn't hang on to the ball, he also couldn't block worth a shit & had trouble catching a ball. I lost track of how many ducks he dropped that year.

A good RB has to be able to do all 4 of those things well, in 2008 he only did one well & that was run.

There was no trying to argue about it. It was fact.

Good luck trying to prove otherwise. HA!

Boy you guys argue and bicker over the stupidest things sometimes.

I'm not arguing anything... and Singer, that opinion is laughable.

Originally Posted by C Mac D

I'm not arguing anything... and Singer, that opinion is laughable.

How do you figure? You have absolutely nothing to back your statement up.

What's laughable is thinking all a RB job is to do is to run & the RB with the most yards at the end of a season is the best. That's what's laughable.

Do you feel scoring 10 TD's is better than scoring 20?

Do you feel fumbling 9 times is better than not fumbling at all?

Do you feel that averaging 4.8YPC is better than averaging 5.5YPC?

Do you believe getting 1st downs on 22.1% of your carries is better than getting 1st downs on 24.2% of your carries?

LOL! You must, if you feel AD was a better RB in 2008 than Williams.

The only thing AD had more of was more total yards & that's only because he had 90 more carries than DW.

Still waiting on how you feel AD was the better back.

Originally Posted by singersp

Some people here will never consider him to be one of the greatest, until he gets a ring.

Really? In a sport with rosters full of 54 players, you would say that? So, Barry Sanders is not one of the greatest? Eric Dickerson not one of the greatest? O.J. Simpson? Ladanian Tomlinson? You're right ... none of them are as good as Roger Craig because he has three rings!

How did you consider DeAngelo Williams the best back in the league without a ring?

You just like to bash on AD for whatever reason. Fantastic. Keep doing it and looking silly. You clearly never have a problem with looking silly.

And just because DeAngelo Williams was better statistically than AD in 2008 does not make him a better running back, it makes him statistically better for that season. Daunte Culpepper was NEVER a better quarterback than Tom Brady, but he statistically had some better seasons. It is completely silly to say someone is better because they were better that season, it simply means they had better numbers for a season.

Originally Posted by singersp

How do you figure? You have absolutely nothing to back your statement up.

What's laughable is thinking all a RB job is to do is to run & the RB with the most yards at the end of a season is the best. That's what's laughable.

Do you feel scoring 10 TD's is better than scoring 20?

Do you feel fumbling 9 times is better than not fumbling at all?

Do you feel that averaging 4.8YPC is better than averaging 5.5YPC?

Do you believe getting 1st downs on 22.1% of your carries is better than getting 1st downs on 24.2% of your carries?

LOL! You must, if you feel AD was a better RB in 2008 than Williams.

The only thing AD had more of was more total yards & that's only because he had 90 more carries than DW.

Still waiting on how you feel AD was the better back.

I agree Williams had a better season statistically in 2008. But that means very little. Last year 4 or 5 guys arguably had statistically better seasons than Peterson, but you and I watched Peterson run. He was awesome last season. More times than I can count he made something out of nothing. Sheer force of will and amazing talent gained him a large portion of his yardage. How many backs can you say that about?

Peterson has unrivaled talent at RB. In 08 he was playing in an offense that garnered zero respect from defenses. He was all we had that year.

Williams was one of two very good running backs. The #2 back ran for over 800 yards on a team that had a respectable QB(at the time Delhomme was solid) and two 1,000 yard receivers in Muhsin Muhammad and Steve Smith.

DeAngelo Williams was never a better back than Adrian Peterson. Not in high school, not in college, not in the NFL. I don't know about pre-high school ball, but I wouldn't wager against Peterson then either.

That season was an anomaly.