LB's. Amazing how when a team loses its big spaceeaters(DT's) its highly touted (and paid) linebackers become MIA.
WR's are also very overated. Good Wr's are plentiful since NFL has continued(since '77 and again periodically)to change the rules to stop the bump and run and eliminate almost any contact by the db's. Used to be you had to be really tough AND fast to be a good wr but now you just need track speed and passable hands and your a 'star'.
WR's are also very overated. Good Wr's are plentiful since NFL has continued(since '77 and again periodically)to change the rules to stop the bump and run and eliminate almost any contact by the db's. Used to be you had to be really tough AND fast to be a good wr but now you just need track speed and passable hands and your a 'star'.
The RB position has become just that...this is a trend that started over the past decade though...the meain reason is we have incredible speed everywhere...now back in the day this was not the case.. the great RB was highly coveted, there were only so many OJ Simpsons and Gayle Sayers and Jim Browns...now everyone is fast as hell , everyone is strong as hell , so it's obviously changed for that reason alone.
Look at an old film where OJ is running around the secondary zig zagging past a bunch of slow white defenders.... thise amazing runs seemed to last several minutes, slow motion or not.
Barry Sanders was the excetpion....he did the same things in the speed era.
Look at an old film where OJ is running around the secondary zig zagging past a bunch of slow white defenders.... thise amazing runs seemed to last several minutes, slow motion or not.
Barry Sanders was the excetpion....he did the same things in the speed era.
