Vikings Looking To Part With Adrian Peterson

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No. I think RBs should still be paid they are important to the team especially with the NFL cutting players how they do...I also noticed that winning teams for the most part have a running game...You can pass all day but you need someone to run the ball and control the clock.

even in college the teams that win are not the ones throwing for 5,000 a year, its the ones that pound the ball, tire out defenses
 

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1. remember stuff like this whenever cac broadcasters complain about the lack of "loyalty" among players who are trying to feed their families

2. I'm not a Vikings fan but it's sad seeing a great player's prime wasted on bad teams. We've witnessed history over the last few years, he's a special player. I wish he had played for better teams.

3. If my son wanted to be a RB I'd make sure he worked with TE or WR coaches learning how to catch and run routes. The best way to prolong your career as an RB is to be able to catch in the backfield. Reggie Bush could play for 2-4 more years due to that alone.
 
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if there is one remaining running back you dont :birdman: it's perterson. dude is an exceptional talent and deserves to fade to black slowly, damn, at least try to resrtucure. AD literally carried your sorry team to the offs. like i said in another thread, unless you're a QB, any player getting 8 figures per is not seeing that for more than two years, max.

Yep...I think this will be Larry Fitzgerald's last year with the Cardinals, to.
 

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No. I think RBs should still be paid they are important to the team especially with the NFL cutting players how they do...I also noticed that winning teams for the most part have a running game...You can pass all day but you need someone to run the ball and control the clock.

RB's are gonna continue to be less valuable as more and more teams realize they can just plug and play competant RB's into a system without losing much on the ground.

my only question is does RB go the way of the FB.
 

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RB's are gonna continue to be less valuable as more and more teams realize they can just plug and play competant RB's into a system without losing much on the ground.

my only question is does RB go the way of the FB.
The disconnect is that Running is the most glamorous position from little League to High School (excluding QB of course)

Everyone wants to be a running back when your little
 

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The disconnect is that Running is the most glamorous position from little League to High School (excluding QB of course)

Everyone wants to be a running back when your little

that's shyt is going the way of the dodo bird. WR is the glamor position nowdays outside of QB. WR's be all on sportscenter, making more $$ than elite RB's, and they always get away with the flamboyant TD celebrations. all this, plus their career tends to be much longer due to a good WR only having 80 touches a year as opposed to 300 for a workhorse RB.
 

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that's shyt is going the way of the dodo bird. WR is the glamor position nowdays outside of QB. WR's be all on sportscenter, making more $$ than elite RB's, and they always get away with the flamboyant TD celebrations. all this, plus their career tends to be much longer due to a good WR only having 80 touches a year as opposed to 300 for a workhorse RB.
No one has passing games that make being a WR worthwhile until you get to college though.

They just need to pay RBs a premium every year
 

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I want to agree that you don't win championships just passing......






But my Saints won the chip and our rushing totaled 51 yards in that game. :lupe:
 

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They shoulda did this about 6 years ago....Garbage ass organization.. Let him get his ring elsewhere so his career will be complete..

that would put it after his rookie season:mjlol:

Watching Barry as a Lions fan, I concur
 
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