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re: 5 most overrated players in the sec
Posted on 9/14/16 at 9:36 am to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 9/14/16 at 9:36 am to SoFla Tideroller
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Remember Buck Belue? Neither does almost anyone else. That's the UGa quarterback when Herschel was dominating college football. Not exactly Johnny Unitas or Dan Marino. You don't think the box was stacked when Herschel lined up in the I formation?
One other factor, every single defense that Herschel played against was recruited and schemed to stop the run since every team then had a run-first, pass-second offense. Half the defenses Fournette faces have been designed to stop the spread (I.e. With smaller, quicker players), so he should have easier sledding.
Fournette also broke Herschel's record by almost 100 yards and in 85 fewer carries
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Posted on 9/14/16 at 9:37 am to lsufball19
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Fournette also broke Herschel's record by almost 100 yards and in 85 fewer carries
Damn shame it wasn't Herschel's record anymore at that point ;)
Posted on 9/14/16 at 9:40 am to lsufball19
Your point? The point was, don't tell us how much LF suffers by facing stacked defenses. He doesn't. Others have faced the same and performed at the same level.
Posted on 9/14/16 at 9:44 am to lsufball19
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Fournette also broke Herschel's record by almost 100 yards and in 85 fewer carries
People forget Herschel was a huge workhorse. He didn't have an insanely high career yards per carry average. He had almost 1000 carries over his 3 seasons. For Fournette to get to the same amount of carries Walker had, he would have to have 507 carries this season. Hell Herschel averaged 32 carries per game in his sophomore season, that's insane.
Walker had a career rushing average of 5.3 yards per carry. Very good certainly for a guy who toted the rock as much as he did. But Fournette is on another level, at 6.1 yards per carry currently.
This post was edited on 9/14/16 at 9:48 am
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