Damn old NFL players are just as delusional as old NBA players “Id average 350 yds rushing this era”

[Professor Emeritus]

What's a lineman speed got to do with the lack of wrapping up and tackling?

Every thing

It's the physics of it. When you're accelerating into a guy or overtaking him it is FAR easier to complete the tackle than when you're losing ground or barely hanging on. Basic conservation of momentum, if you bringing enough weight fast enough you're gonna take the guy down no matter what the technique. Plus the faster you are, the less opportunity there is to outrun or juke you.

Watch Arron Donald tackles - half the time he gets the tackle on pure momentum, technique don't even matter cause he's coming into the guy so fast.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Linebackers aren't bigger today. They're actually smaller.

with all the passing, LBs and safeties getting smaller

Just looked it up and y'all dead wrong if we comparing to Bo's era.

1989 Pro Bowl, 5 of the 8 the linebackers were 230-240 lbs. One was 226, one was 245, and one was 250.
2019 Pro Bowl, EVERY linebacker was 250-260 lbs.

So literally the smallest Pro Bowl linebacker today is bigger than the biggest Pro Bowl linebacker in Bo's time. And I'll bet you anything they got faster 40 times and way more bench press reps too.

 

[concise]

People in here posting combine numbers as if that immediately translates to 400 yards/game.


Bo Jackson averaged 80 yards/game in his BEST season.

Bo Jackson's career best season was 5 rushing TDs. Not career best game, he only had 3-5 TDs rushing in the whole season each year he played.

Only 7 more career TDs than career fumbles.


You can't just take someone who only ran 80 yards/game and scored about once every-other-game, and claim that he would have been able to pull off 300+ yard games regularly against better athletes than the ones he faced. Bo Jackson was an all-time freak athlete but come on now.

He wanted to play pro baseball and pro football at the same time and the Raiders let him report to the team after the baseball season was finished.

He never played a full NFL season.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Bo is the G.O.A.T what if ... BUT

1. he'd never get enough carries

B. Defenders are bigger stronger and faster than they were in his day.

The DBs are the main players who lack fundamentals for tackling, which is a byproduct of the league becoming so pass happy. Linebackers and interior linemen would be able to handle him. But if he breaks into the secondary he's wreaking havoc.

Not like he didn't wreck havoc in the secondary in his own era, had to be the all-time leader in breakaway TD frequency.

And coverage corners and free safeties have always sucked at tackling (remember Deion), it's mostly just the SS that has transitioned more in the coverage direction. But even then you still have your Kam Chancellors in this era who has to be one of the hardest-tackling safeties ever besides Ronnie Lott.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

He wanted to play pro baseball and pro football at the same time and the Raiders let him report to the team after the baseball season was finished.

He never played a full NFL season.

Forget full season, look at his per game numbers.

He never averaged more than 86 yards/game. He never scored more than once every-other game .

Trying to translate from an 70-80 yard/game career and claim he'd get even 200 yards/game now against bigger and faster defenders is just silly.

 

[Won Won]

Averaging 18.3 per rush and shyt

 

[South Paw]

yall really dont know about Bo

 

[yseJ]

Just looked it up and y'all dead wrong if we comparing to Bo's era.

1989 Pro Bowl, 5 of the 8 the linebackers were 230-240 lbs. One was 226, one was 245, and one was 250.
2019 Pro Bowl, EVERY linebacker was 250-260 lbs.

So literally the smallest Pro Bowl linebacker today is bigger than the biggest Pro Bowl linebacker in Bo's time. And I'll bet you anything they got faster 40 times and way more bench press reps too.

I went ahead and looked it up for actual linebackers and not 3-4 OLBs who usually get lumped in with DEs

bobby wagner made the all-pro and pro bowl last year, hes listed at 242

fred warner is likely to make pro bowl this year, hes at 230
levonte david is likely to make the pro bowl this year, hes at 232
luke kuechly was 230ish

all middle linebackers are hovering at 230-240 range.

to be fair, I looked at 1989, and Mike Singletary and others were also at 230-240 range.

so both us and you are wrong looks like inside LBs basically stayed the same.

 

[DrexlersFade]

Forget full season, look at his per game numbers.

He never averaged more than 86 yards/game. He never scored more than once every-other game .

Trying to translate from an 70-80 yard/game career and claim he'd get even 200 yards/game now against bigger and faster defenders is just silly.

Had to split carries with Marcus Allen my brother.

 

[Shadow King]

In the right offense I can see Bo averaging over 200 total yards a game tbh. These nikkas don't know how to tackle and Bo would run circles around defenses.

With the way offenses spread defenses out and cant nobody tackle this man was 240 pounds with world class speed 200 easy behind the right line of course.

Bo Jackson is one the biggest freak athletes of all time. I dont doubt him.

Bo jackson was the greatest athlete that ever lived

He was 240 pounds and ran a 4.1 40 time.

He was a baseball all star as well

He avg 250 or more not 350 tho

But he was a great great player

Freak of nature

I came in here ready to kill the old head until I saw it was fukking Bo Jackson who tf is arguing with the greatest athlete of all time on what ifs

Believe in 3500 yard NFL rushing seasons, brehs

 

[NYC Rebel]

I went ahead and looked it up for actual linebackers and not 3-4 OLBs who usually get lumped in with DEs

bobby wagner made the all-pro and pro bowl last year, hes listed at 242

fred warner is likely to make pro bowl this year, hes at 230
levonte david is likely to make the pro bowl this year, hes at 232
luke kuechly was 230ish

all middle linebackers are hovering at 230-240 range.

to be fair, I looked at 1989, and Mike Singletary and others were also at 230-240 range.

so both us and you are wrong looks like inside LBs basically stayed the same.

Thank you. They had to be a bit bigger because there were more maulers at the o-line position.

Regardless....we aren't talking about average joe schmo here. Bo Jackson might have been the greatest athlete of the last 50 years. His shyt is abnormal. He's talking about HIM, not "his era" shytting on the current day league, saying "back in my day players were tougher" using players in his era to shyt on today's players like corny ass old NBA niqqas.

 

[DrexlersFade]

Believe in 3500 yard NFL rushing seasons, brehs

Don't know when someone is being sarcastic brehs

 

[Shadow King]

Don't know when someone is being sarcastic brehs

Y'all in here believing 200 yards a game. That's 3200. Not happening.

 

[010101]

bo elite but that's cap cap cap ha*

 

[DrexlersFade]

Y'all in here believing 200 yards a game. That's 3200. Not happening.

No shyt!!!