I do agree w/this, buuuuut…even though Barry was a bit more of a one trick pony, his trick was SOOOOOOOO ■■■■■■■ good. Total freak show. Looked like some sort of combination of trick photography and divine intervention. Barry literally looked inhuman out there. (Yes, even better than Tony Sandwich – Screw Ewe, Packers!)
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He’s the best players I’ve ever watched. Maybe the best ever.
The awe inspiring runs. The edge of your seat suspense. He brought something to the game that no other player has.
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Yup!
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Can you imagine having Barry run jet motion sweep plays…
with a power back like Swaggy getting a run fake to keep the defense honest???
Or…. having Barry paired with a mobile QB that could run zone read plays??? OMG!!!
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The best 10 years of my Lions fandom. We at least won a few division titles, a playoff game, and had Barry.
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I think they’d still key heavily on Barry and take their chances with Jamal. Jamal can get you for 20 yards on a big play…with Barry…6 points.
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When you watch Barry Sanders run, sometimes you have to look to the heavens and say WOW!
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He’s no Aveion Cason that’s for sure
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Barry is a great football player, but when Godzilla attacked Tokyo, he didn’t do jack. So there is some perspective for you.
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This is how Barry made defenses look trying to tackle him.
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OR someone that could BLOCK?
The man had somewhere around 1114 MINUS yards over his career.
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my preference too. I just want him on this team, with this OL, with THIS coach (especially with this coach)…remember, barry retire because he lost his passion for the game.
Would he have lost his passion for the game under coach Dan?
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Lomas Brown was a borderline of hall of fame tackle and Kevin glover was in 3 pro bowls. Utley was a huge mobile guard and Andolsek was better.
Barry had a lot of negative plays because he would never just Look to go down or not try and make something out of nothing…plus he faced a ton of loaded boxes and run blitz as well as ran a lot of delay plays, all of which can contribute to negative plays especially given how many he ran. 3062 attempts, 8th all time.
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I remember watching ppl almost take the handoff regularly.
my theory is that Barry’s impact made the OL look better - way better.
HORRIBLE QB play
Solid TE play
OL subpar
I was REALLY young, and REALLY inexperienced, an not viewing through the same lens I currently dothough.
I always felt like Lomas was overrated.
Always like Glover a lot.
Andolsek wasn’t here very long, was he?
I’m purely going off of memory.
I felt the box was stacked AF against him, for sure (makes ol look worse)
WRs always much more open because Defense shitting their pants over Barry
WRs get better numbers
QB gets better looks
…all because of Barry
On paper, looks like he was surrounded by HOF players.
REality, he took the pressure off of them all.
Moore was really good.
So were Perriman & Morton
Perriman was an amazing down field blocker too.
Still though → I always felt like that OL was overrated
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Loved Barry, hated the run/blocking scheme we used with him.
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I used to get so mad watching Cowboy games….
when Emmitt Smith would run for 3-5 yards before any contact…
and the announcers would talk about how great he was… and I couldn’t help but wonder how crazy Barry’s stats would have been with that O line blocking!!!
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The run blocking scheme created a lot of space many times by letting the ends come up field On the delayed hand off… Lots of places to go and open lanes for vision/ cutback.
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yup - it was by design. I remember them calling it a “belly” blocking system in a pregame show. Man pregame was better back then.
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