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drastically, as in less than 5% of his carries accounted for more than 33% of his total yards. Now consider that in term of effectiveness.
Picking a game at random. Randomly picked one from the 1994 season. Great running game, he had 166 yards on 20 carries. His one longest was 85 yards (Derrick Moore scored a TD after that run), next one was 21 yards, and then he had a 3rd for 15. So three carries counted for 121 yards. 15% of his carries counted for 73% of his yards. So what you say, why does that matter. Well, at most those three runs could factor in three drives, Detroit had ten drives in that game. That makes seven drive where Barry was not a factor. How effective is that. I know, you're going to pick apart what I said, but I challenge you to look-up a game at random yourself, and see how few drives Barry actually had an impact in the game, and then tell me that if you were building a team, the first thing you would look for to build on is a running back that factors on average two or three drives a game.
Nice threat theory - how did that playout in the playoffs? - to put in the immortal words of Ray Rhodes, "we didn't worry about Barry, he will get his yards but he won't hurt you"
I see this post I think of Kathy Bates, and the poor Barry is James Caan.
Troy Aikman didn't have to better than Scott Mitchell, he could count on Emmitt Smith - a luxury Mitchell never had.
Oddly enough it was the Lions beating the shit out of Aikman, Emmitt, Irvin, Novachek, Moose and Co. that forced them to go get Charles Haley, and the rest was history. Went from a mid level defense to a top 5 defense after that, and the rest was gravy.
Oddly enough it was the Lions beating the shit out of Aikman, Emmitt, Irvin, Novachek, Moose and Co. that forced them to go get Charles Haley, and the rest was history. Went from a mid level defense to a top 5 defense after that, and the rest was gravy.
True that, but they remained a top tier Defense through th 99 season, yet they won thier last Super Bowl in 95, the last year Emmitt was highly productive. He had 25 td's in 95. In 1996 his TD production dropped to 12, he never had more than 13 after the 95 season. As a matter of fact, after the 95 season, they won just one more playoff game in the 90's. How Emmitt went so did the Cowboys.
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Haha, I am sure dwt is taking great joy this weekend. His Lions lost and Stafford took a pummeling.
So sad, yet so true.
F#*K OHIO!!!
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