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As of today, who is the greatest Philadelphia Eagle of all time ?
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Reggie White
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Isn't Reggie a hybird? He was also a Packer.
It sure wasn't that QB who wore #5!
Donovan McNabb? He is their all time leader in quite a few of their team records. I was a big fan of Randall Cunningham back in the 80-90's.
Eric
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Chuck Bednarik. No doubt.
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Ralph
All time? I’d say Chuck Bednarik
And after watching that video it amazes me that anyone can say there was a better RB. It’s honestly ridiculous
There are clips just as good of Payton, Smith, Dorsett, Campbell and others.
Reggie White is not the only man to get faked out of his j-strap.
LOL Dime, I’m not basing it on that play and your 100% wrong about other RB’s having similar videos, yea they had great highlight runs but NOBODY had moves like Barry Sanders did. NOBODY
Keith Byers was a pretty good Eagle
Truth right there. He was the best.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Byers was pathetic ……….. at least the year that I had him in a FBL. He avg about 1.5 yards a carry.
Ok whoever disagreed me then please step up and show me a guy with better moves. Seriously please show me
perk - me and you agree on a lot of things, but Sanders being the best RB is NOT one of them. He is not number 1 in anything. Smith has the most yards and Brown has the most YPC at 5.2. Maybe just maybe the reason Sanders had 5.0 is because he quit after 10 years. If he had played as many years as Smith I think the numbers would have been different.
You and Mark and Grote must be the founding members of the Barry Sanders Fan Club.
I love how the best Eagle thread ever turned into a Barry Sanders thread
Perk, as the video said every single of Sanders ten seasons was a masterpiece. Can’t sum it up any better. The Dimedude likes to forget Sanders retired at 30 after a monster season. Dimeman is the first to say the Cowboys would have won more Super Bowls if Jones didn’t mess things up. Or the Bulls would have won 2 more titles if Jordan wouldn’t have played baseball. But you will never hear him say that if Sanders would have played a few more seasons that he would be the all time leading rusher even with Smith padding his stats the last few years of his career. With the eye test Sanders was the best that I have ever seen. Never saw Brown play but Sanders dad said that Jim was better then Barry so I’ll leave it there.
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Ok Jon, thank you for the response but I was looking for video proof lol! Look I’m going to argue 2 football players as being the best ever at their position Tom Brady and Barry Sanders. Truthfully I shake my head when I try to wrap my head around anybody who argues that BUT I do understand the Joe Montana and Jim Brown/Emmitt/Payton thing to a point that I don’t think a person is not football smart over it. Steve likes Brown you like Emmitt I like Barry Sanders, none of us are losing with those picks regardless as it’s a matter of opinion but again I will always think I’m right, I mean we could grab a 30 pack and have this conversation and it wouldn’t end up in a fist fight because all players mentioned were great
Dimeman is absolutely right. Posted below is a Jim Brown video.
What Sanders fans need to understand is that Brown would look even more devastating if there were all the additional close-up cameras that were around when Sanders played, showing every nuance of his moves. Brown had moves to, or he would just run over you...the defensive players picked their poison - LOL
Additional note: Second time I've posted an NFL video recently and it's been blocked, at least on my computer it is? Oh well, anyone can go to Youtube and see all the Jim Brown highlight videos.
Understood Mark!
That video even said that Barry retired 1500 rushing yards short of Payton's career record at the time. Had Barry played another 4-5 years Emmitt would have been chasing Barry who could have finished with 20K+ rushing yards.
Eric
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Man Jim Brown was the biggest player on the field in all those clips
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Barry wasn't about stats or awards or records. He was a humble humble man. His kid played flag football against my nephews. A very approaching dude
mar
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Let's just leave it at that. Like you said all 3 were great.
If you are ever at FUN we (me, you and Mark) will have to meet and talk this over a few drinks! 
Sanders did ok. 10 seasons. Ten pro bowls and he managed to do this:
Most Seasons, 1,100 or More Yards Rushing (10) tied with Walter Payton
Most Consecutive Seasons, 1,100 or More Yards Rushing (10)
Most Seasons, 1,300 or More Yards Rushing (9) tied with Walter Payton
Most Seasons, 1,400 or More Yards Rushing (7)
Most Consecutive Seasons, 1,400 or More Yards Rushing (5) tied with Emmitt Smith, 1991–1995
Most Seasons,1,500 or More Yards Rushing (5)
Most Consecutive Seasons, 1,500 or More Yards Rushing (4)
In 1997, he set an NFL record by rushing for at least 100 yards in 14 consecutive games and became only the third player to reach 2,000 yards in a single season. He shared the NFL MVP award with Brett Favre.
During the final 14 games of the 1997 season Sanders rushed for exactly 2,000 yards on 310 carries (6.5 yd./carry), a figure which bears comparison with O.J. Simpson's 14-game mark of 2003 yards on 332 carries (6.0 yd./carry).
Each of his 10 years from 1989 through 1998 he was first- or second-team All-Pro and selected to the Pro Bowl.
Over his professional football career, he rushed for at least 100 yards in 76 games, just short of Walter Payton's 77 games and Emmitt Smith's 78 games.
NFL record 25 games in which Sanders rushed for 150 yards or more. Jim Brown is second with 22 games.
NFL record 46 games in which Sanders had 150 yards from scrimmage or more. Walter Payton is second with 45.
15 career touchdown runs of 50 yards or more, most in NFL history. Jim Brown is second with 12.
At the time of his retirement, Sanders' 15,269 career rushing yards placed him second behind Walter Payton's 16,726 yards. At Sanders' then-current yearly yardage pace, he would have eclipsed Payton within one or two years. Payton died from liver cancer at age 45 just months after Sanders' sudden retirement.
His 18,190 career yards from scrimmage place him sixth on the all-time list.
His career average of 5.0 yards per rushing attempt (min. 1500 att) is second all-time for running backs. Jim Brown is first with a 5.2 career average.
His career rushing yards per game average of 99.8 yards is second in NFL history behind only Jim Brown's 104.3 yards per game.
In 1999, he was ranked number 12 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, making him the highest-ranking Lions player and the third highest ranked running back, behind Jim Brown and Walter Payton.
PLUS HE WAS MUST SEE TV
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Put him on the field in the 90’s and 00’s and he would be a big Running Back but not the biggest guy on the field, not the strongest and not the fastest. ( by a long shot ) remember he played against part time athletes
Greatest Eagles player for me has always been a tough call between Chuck Bednarik and Steve Van Buren.
I lean towards Bednarik if I'm forced to make a choice but I like them both equally.
I knew Steve personally in his older years. It's funny, but he would never talk pro football. He loved talking college football. That's when he talked at all because he never said much, basically a shy individual. However I never saw him turn down an autograph.
How about Harold Carmichael?
Let’s all go on a canoe trip. I bet not all of us make it back
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
What would it cost me to have you on my side?!
Sounds like fun. I'll carry the bow and arrows, somebody else can bring the banjo.
Being the oldest of the three...…..I think I'll pass.
i have a sneaking suspicion that all of us hanging together would hands down be the weirdest f'ing experience of my life
like, i can see us at an adult establishment and all of a sudden a brouhaha breaks out, with the only audible words being "barry sanders"
Just put my beers on SteveK's tab. He's good for it.
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Not to mention, how quickly.
Since geographic loyalty carries so much weight here...I vote for Nick Foles!
I wouldn't mind putting the beers on my tab, but just don't try to include your bill for the lap dances. LOL
Thanks for posting! Have seen it before, but again amazed at Browns combination of strength and speed. Barry was amazing as well, Brown was better in my opinion.
For those that keep harping on how much bigger JB was than other players, he wasn't 4X bigger, yet it sometimes took that many to bring him down, AND it looks like he was almost as fast as anyone on the field to me.
The point that Perk keeps making and I subscribe to as well is that Brown played against smaller and vastly less talented defenses then the modern era. Many were part time players. The best athletes couldn’t afford to play football back then. It didn’t pay. For goddsake they used to smoke cigarettes on the sidelines. Bobby Layne was drunk during the games. I’m not saying they were less tough back then. I am saying they were less talented and less skilled. As Steve would say that can’t be debated. Case closed.
In the 90’s defeneses were geared to stop one thing. The run. No doubt Brown would still be a force in any era but would not be as dominate out of his. JMHO.
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I’m just glad that someone gets what I’m saying, thank you Mark.
Barry also had to play some killer NFC defenses during his career. The Giants,49ers,Cowboys,Bears,Vikings,Eagles,Skins & Saints all had really good defenses during that stretch and Sanders still got his yards.
Eric
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When you want someone to look at something on youtube that happens on a certain point not at the beginning there is a simple way to link to it starting at the point you want people to see.
You can watch the video yourself and pause it right before the point , then click on the share arrow and it will put up a box with a link below that is a checkbox that says start at 2:40 .
If you check the box it will change the link by adding t=2m40 at the end of the link . You can also just add that to your link manually
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When I do it I'd probably say t=2m35 just so it doesn't happen instantly as the video begins but thats a personal preference
I think it would be like an old school miller lite commercial TASTES GREAT !!! LESS FILLING !!!!
I get to be boom boom I'm working on my Quebecois accent .
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Awesome
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=13&ved=0ahUKEwjrjIvugrvcAhXkx4MKHcI5BV8QwqsBCDwwDA&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM&usg=AOvVaw2GA02M7EgrRv2zX-cRwZwI
Forgot how to post videos but for those that remember the Miller light commercials they will surely remember the video I posted
Light beer tastes like chit. I can't stand light beer, won't drink it, so what do i care if it's less filling.
Gimme a full calorie Sam Adams beer every time.