A guy that can set the NFL rushing record on a team without a QB or a deep threat? Thats insane.
Good post, he is amazing.
Great points ! The guy has no supporting cast on offense. Give him a QB to take safeties out of the box and he'll be putting up 100 yards on a bad day.
Adrian Peterson is a great runner but he has to have help. The Packers defense was smokin today. With his performance so far this season, no teams will be sleeping on him.
IF he is going ot get hurt i think it will be due to his physical nature of playing the game the way he does. I have yet to see him duck outtta bounds.
A guy puts his helmet on your knee at the moment you are making a cut back. OF COURSE you are going to get hurt.
It's easy to speculate now but RB is a tough position to play so there will be injuries regardless of how good you are. I think Barry Sanders and Curtis Martin are the only 2 great RB's that lasted 10 years with little or no damage. Just too much physical punishment and it catches up sooner or later. I saw a special on Earl Campbell and how fvcked up he is now due to the punishment he took with the Houston Oilers and it was quite the eye opener.
cool, then he would not be as vulnerable.
Well, I think this is the first time a Cowboys fan has rooted for the 49ers
Richard Nolan was an assisstant with the Cowboys before taking over for the 49ers in the 70's, may God bless his soul.Yes a cheap hit. Quite the genius eh?
Thats not a cheap hit. He's a RB not a QB that just stepped up into the pocket and let the ball go. DB's and smaller LB have to go low to tackle a physical freak like Peterson.
I don't think it will be. It was an LCL so shouldn't put him out for more than a game. Hopefully. For Minnesota's sake anyway.
Exactly the guy tackling him was Al Harris, a CB and a good one, but big size difference.
That wasn't a cheap hit. Things happen fast when you're playing football. He could have also hit a teammate on the knee. There are several occasions where a teammate accidentally drives his helmet on a teammates leg, knee, etc.
ahem Emmit Smith :thumbsup: My take on this is that yes he is a freak but does anybody else remember in previous years when every one and their mother was saying Lt, Larry Johnson, Priest Holmes, Edgerrin James, Jamal Lewis etc... and how they were the next incarnation of Jim Brown or Eric Dickerson. I mean all these guys are very good running backs but the longevity just isn't their anymore I mean the average lifespan on a rb these days is 4 years.
I see your point about the lack of skill position support. But, there are some cattle on that Minnesota offensive line that are helping these backs run wild up there.
Cadillac Williams *ahem* talk of most impressive rookie ever then *ahem*.
The hype about AP's injury history is so overplayed. He has had a series of freak injuries that have little to do with his running style. Here is a summary of his injuries.
I disagree because it suggests structure is not as tough as his muscles are strong/fast. Plus he is big, energy is mass * acceleration. His body produces a massive amount of energy that possibly his frame cant contain.
You did not even address his injuries in your "argument". Like I said, his injuries are all freakish occurances and nothing can prevent a bone from breaking or tendon from tearing that part of your body his hit perfectly so it has to bear all of the force.
I did address his injuries - they are all bone and tendon related just like you said. My "arguement" is that his muscles are so explosive, it puts his bones and tendons at greater risk.
Your philosophical reasponse does not address the facts at hand.
I have not heard anything about a dislocated shoulder.
And your deliberate ignorance and contemptuousness prevents you from seeing the 'facts' you are attempting to expound in the first place.
Sorry my reality isnt determined in a philosophy class. Reality is he is unfortunate. Injury prone means his body is prone to injuries, not that his body is prone to a series of individual freak occurrances that would injure anyones body they happened to. Like I said a million times, bones and tendons arent made to absorb a force beyone a certain level without catastrophic failure. He is unfortunate and you cant tell me his injuries are a consequence of some flaw in his anatomical structure.
Are you also impressed by his ability to use those big words without making one valid argument? I am. It reminds me of reading a philosophy book.
Well, by your use of the terminology 'Philosophy book' I'll take an assumptive leap of faith you have not read many. The argument is there, and completely valid. AP is injury prone, and your completely denial of that allows us to ascribe a few positive qualities to you:
My degree is in engineering... cold hard facts. I have read some philosophy in lib ed classes enough to know it makes me want to go back to even the worst engineering class.
Reading and interpreting spoken language are not mutually inclusive properties. The 'and/or' conjunction delineated an exclusive separation, though strong agreement, between the two properties. I realize your 'engineering' degree more than likely did not assist in your reading comprehension skills, so may I suggest a more linear manner of posting for yourself?:
Exactly. We both made our points, let it rest since this thread got way too off topic. This debate will be put to rest by the rest of AP's career, unless he gets a piece of shrapnel stuck in his leg from a terrorist attack and Mullet calls him injury prone because of it.
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