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re: Who is the best player from your school, and would they be your starter today?
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:23 pm to captdalton
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:23 pm to captdalton
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It is common for people to arrogantly believe that people today are superior to people that came before them, whether physically, emotionally or intellectually
Every generation stands on the shoulders of those that came before them. That’s why you have to judge people, teams, whatever, relative to their era. But straight up? Obviously people are better at pretty much all things now. That’s indisputably true.
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I met one in particular a few years back that really made me rethink the myth that yesterday’s players were small.
You think an offensive line from the ‘60s or ‘70s is as big as one today? There’s probably a 50+ lb. difference in average size.
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. The idea that all former players would be loo small to play today is a complete fallacy.
Teams like the ‘70s Steelers or Dolphins would be outmatched by an elite college team today, much less an NFL team.
Your point that players are not bigger, faster, and stronger today is absurd. An elite NFL offense in 2025 would do whatever they wanted against the Steel Curtain.
This post was edited on 5/15/25 at 1:24 pm
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Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:30 pm to Darindawg
Herschel is the second best player of all time, many of our fans don't understand that yet. Stetson delivered, if he had one more year we probably three peat Instead we got Becks autistic arse who choked away the 2023 sec title game.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:34 pm to lewis and herschel
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Stetson delivered, if he had one more year
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:34 pm to captdalton
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Derrick Thomas had 27 sacks his senior season.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 2:30 pm to SEC Doctor
All QBs in the post COVID NIL days are old as shite.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:09 pm to Globetrotter747
So you think Jim Brown would not have been able to start in the NFL today?
You take thoae 6’4” to 6’7” linemen from the 60’s and 70’s, put them on a modern nutrition and workout plan, and they would be every bit as big as today’s players. That is technology. People have not evolved that much over 50 years.
And you seem to believe size is the only reason players are good at football.
The most dominate interior lineman in football is Aaron Donald. He is 6’2” and 280 pounds. He regularly makes today’s offensive lineman look stupid. So no, there is more to being a football player than weighing 350 pounds.
You take thoae 6’4” to 6’7” linemen from the 60’s and 70’s, put them on a modern nutrition and workout plan, and they would be every bit as big as today’s players. That is technology. People have not evolved that much over 50 years.
And you seem to believe size is the only reason players are good at football.
The most dominate interior lineman in football is Aaron Donald. He is 6’2” and 280 pounds. He regularly makes today’s offensive lineman look stupid. So no, there is more to being a football player than weighing 350 pounds.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:50 pm to RTRnFlorida
Derrick Henry and HELL YES!
Posted on 5/15/25 at 4:00 pm to RTRnFlorida
I'm not going to read every response here, so it may have been said already, but my vote goes to Dominique Wilkins, who in his prime would start anywhere even today. I was incredibly lucky to be at UGA when both Nique and Herschel were there. What a time.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 4:25 pm to RTRnFlorida
Earl Campbell and hell yes he would.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 4:32 pm to captdalton
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So you think Jim Brown would not have been able to start in the NFL today?
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You take thoae 6’4” to 6’7” linemen from the 60’s and 70’s, put them on a modern nutrition and workout plan, and they would be every bit as big as today’s players.
Are the players of decades ago as good as today or are they not? Get your story straight.
The U.S. population in 1975 was 215,000,000. In 2025 it is 341,000,000. Many NFL players in 1975 didn’t even play on college teams that had integrated, and I am sure more talent slipped through the cracks back then because of it. Schemes and player development (at all levels) are light years ahead of 50 years ago.
An NFL team from 2025 would annihilate one from 1975 for countless reasons.
I said in my first post on this thread that people should be judged against their era or time period. And no one is saying that a lot of people in the past wouldn’t do great things today if they had been born in this period whether it’s athletics or engineering feats.
Could certain exceptional players from long ago play today if transported as is? Probably with some tutelage in the modern game. But on the whole, players from generations ago would be severely outmatched due to the evolution of the game.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:13 pm to Scoob
RB don’t impact the game like QBs do. I love emmit though
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:25 pm to Globetrotter747
I’m sorry but if a dude built like hunter renfrow can make the pro bowl in todays nfl……..that dude from the 70s isn’t as out classed as you think.
This post was edited on 5/15/25 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:31 pm to bamabaseballsec
Anyone ever seen Peyton mannings naked boot against the cowboys. It took him ten seconds to get three yards but he did it untouched.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:53 pm to bamabaseballsec
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I’m sorry but if a dude built like hunter renfrow can make the pro bowl in todays nfl……..that dude from the 70s isn’t as out classed as you think.
Ronda Rousey can beat up a lot of men. I guess gender makes no difference.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:56 pm to bamabaseballsec
Peyton beat teams with his brains and arm like Brady.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:57 pm to Globetrotter747
Ronda Rousey can beat up a lot of men. I guess gender makes no difference.
Are any of those men professional fighters? Cuz if so you might have a point.
Are any of those men professional fighters? Cuz if so you might have a point.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 6:04 pm to Globetrotter747
You are stuck on the idea that bigger is always better.
Yet none of the greats were the biggest to play their position. If it was all about size, the NFL draft would look very different than it actually does.
This thread had nothing to do with teams from the 70s playing teams from the 2020s. It was about individual greats. And a lot of those greats would still be greats today.
Going back to Joe Jacoby, he was the biggest offensive lineman on that famous 80s Redskins offensive line. Yet he is also the only one who is not in the NFL Hall of Fame.
Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Mike Singletary, Deacon Jones, Joe Greene, Bruce Smith, and Jack Lambert would absolutely terrorize today’s offenses.
Yet none of the greats were the biggest to play their position. If it was all about size, the NFL draft would look very different than it actually does.
This thread had nothing to do with teams from the 70s playing teams from the 2020s. It was about individual greats. And a lot of those greats would still be greats today.
Going back to Joe Jacoby, he was the biggest offensive lineman on that famous 80s Redskins offensive line. Yet he is also the only one who is not in the NFL Hall of Fame.
Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Mike Singletary, Deacon Jones, Joe Greene, Bruce Smith, and Jack Lambert would absolutely terrorize today’s offenses.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 6:16 pm to RTRnFlorida
I think any SEC teams best player ever would be a starter today.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 6:21 pm to Yellow Truck
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Heath Shuler
Tony Robinson
I take Hendon Hooker over both of them.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 6:23 pm to Basura Blanco
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I take Hendon Hooker over both of them.
That is like saying you would take Nuss over Burrow.
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