Michael Irvin GOES THE HELL OFF on podcasters downplaying WRs / DBs of his day compared to today’s players
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
All I know is when Jerry Rice set a record with 5 TDs and Montana had a personal career high number of passing yards, Charles Dimry was the corner lined up against him for most of the game.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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That damn NBA done rubbed off on my precious football!
Bryan Danielson
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Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD
The new #12 is bold and black. Browns are back 😎
He lined those boys up and gave'em courtesy promotion as a gift like a high dolla hoe
Bryan Danielson
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I stand with Mike on this….
so I stand with @darealvelle @dtownreppin214 @DallasTxRep @Dallas' 4 Eva too
I don’t have to like The Cowboys or MI….. but he definitely one of the GOATs and a lot of these current boys can’t lace his boots
so I stand with @darealvelle @dtownreppin214 @DallasTxRep @Dallas' 4 Eva too
I don’t have to like The Cowboys or MI….. but he definitely one of the GOATs and a lot of these current boys can’t lace his boots
Mike 100% right on this. Its easy to run fast when nobody can touch you while you are running and they cant hit you until after you catch the football. The term "separate from the football" has pretty much lost all meaning in todays game, and we all knew what that meant back when Irvin played. You caught a pass over the middle and you were looking to hit the ground, YAC meant you were trying to get sawed in half.
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AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Has Deion ever explained what happened that day? Lol
Fans of a certain player have diminished legends for years to prop their player up. It's sad this has spread to other sports.
Deion would be able to play today.
With that being said, the overall talent and freakishness of the WR's today as a whole are much better than in the 90's and prior. That's not to say that Rice and some others wouldn't be great today, but the sheer amount of freakish WR's today is much more than decades ago. QB's are also making passes that QB's decades ago weren't making. There are always exceptions, but as a whole the WR's today are tougher to cover.
With that being said, the overall talent and freakishness of the WR's today as a whole are much better than in the 90's and prior. That's not to say that Rice and some others wouldn't be great today, but the sheer amount of freakish WR's today is much more than decades ago. QB's are also making passes that QB's decades ago weren't making. There are always exceptions, but as a whole the WR's today are tougher to cover.
I think the point being made is that they were Wilt Chamberlain vs plumbers, so all that is kinda pointless in regards as regards this discussion
Bryan Danielson
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That speed means absolutely NOTHING once they get cracked by Ronnie Lott or Steve Atwater though.
Cracked like a certain loser coli poster NBA Stan/hater girlfriend
Many guy are freakish today and still not at good as the legends.
How much easier is it to catch a pass over the middle when you know someone is not aiming straight for your chest like a missile? Back then QBs used to get a lot of shyt for even throwing those passes because it would lead to their receivers getting hurt. The announcers would say "thats a pass you cant make" or "he lead his receiver into that hit".
Receivers today can extend themselves and go for those spectacular plays because A, there aint a DB holding them down with one arm, and B there isnt a linebacker sizing them up who has no intention whatsoever on playing the actual ball.
There was no such thing as a "defenseless receiver" when Irvin played.
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