who out of all the players cheated out of their careers by caste system do you miss the most?
for me, the biggest disappointment was what happened to Luke Staley, following him through the college and not seeing him taking a snap in NFL... i know that in his case injuries where somewhat of a factor but how about Bills taking a chance on Willis McGahee who was even worse for wear that Staley?
even after Luke got through his injuries Detroit had too many "good", "promising" runningbacks to give him a shot...
another thing was the way in which the only white runningback (in last, what, 10 years?) that was given a chance to carry the ball was treated in last 5 -6 seasons... when called upon he got as close to 1k as anyone could with TB o-line back in 1999 and after that? his production dropped to the point, that with 15 games ahead of us in 06-07 season he still in all probability won't get to 5000 career yards... and the guy in question is... 81 yards away!
we're talking about a guy who could possibly get to 10K rushing yards...
i know that the day Mike Alstott retires will be the day that we see last great white runningback fading into history and following Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Larry Csonka, John Riggins...
simply because even though he could've done so much more, his career was still a great source of joy and inspiration for many fans... and this is probably more than what we can say about most of the NFL these days...
for me, the biggest disappointment was what happened to Luke Staley, following him through the college and not seeing him taking a snap in NFL... i know that in his case injuries where somewhat of a factor but how about Bills taking a chance on Willis McGahee who was even worse for wear that Staley?
even after Luke got through his injuries Detroit had too many "good", "promising" runningbacks to give him a shot...
another thing was the way in which the only white runningback (in last, what, 10 years?) that was given a chance to carry the ball was treated in last 5 -6 seasons... when called upon he got as close to 1k as anyone could with TB o-line back in 1999 and after that? his production dropped to the point, that with 15 games ahead of us in 06-07 season he still in all probability won't get to 5000 career yards... and the guy in question is... 81 yards away!
we're talking about a guy who could possibly get to 10K rushing yards...
i know that the day Mike Alstott retires will be the day that we see last great white runningback fading into history and following Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Larry Csonka, John Riggins...
simply because even though he could've done so much more, his career was still a great source of joy and inspiration for many fans... and this is probably more than what we can say about most of the NFL these days...
