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<blockquote data-quote="Sunshinepacker" data-source="post: 516067" data-attributes="member: 9033"><p>When looking at Sanders I don't care who was on the oline, just look at who else was on offense that defenses had to account for. The Detroit Lions offense was a wasteland outside of Sanders, with the sole exception of Herman Moore who was only really an impact WR from 1994 - 1997. Of course Sanders had a lot of negative runs, he routinely (and by routinely I mean always) faced defenses that were solely geared towards stopping him. You think defenses cared if Rodney Peete, Scott Mitchell or Charlie Batch wanted to throw the ball? Any team at any time would happily take Sanders (exceptions might be Payton, Brown, AD).</p><p> </p><p>An interesting way of looking at how Sanders performed was done by Football Outsiders (in an Emmitt Smith article). The author looked at the yards per carry gained by the top 20 retired running backs by yardage and compared that to the yards per carry achieved by other players on their teams (e.g., what was Sanders' YPC compared to other Lions running backs when he was there). Sanders was #1 as far as difference between him and the other guys on his team. Not a perfect measure by any means, but it does help illustrate how much more Sanders could do with the same players than his backups. Link to full article is below</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2010/was-emmitt-smith-really-product-his-line" target="_blank">http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2010/was-emmitt-smith-really-product-his-line</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunshinepacker, post: 516067, member: 9033"] When looking at Sanders I don't care who was on the oline, just look at who else was on offense that defenses had to account for. The Detroit Lions offense was a wasteland outside of Sanders, with the sole exception of Herman Moore who was only really an impact WR from 1994 - 1997. Of course Sanders had a lot of negative runs, he routinely (and by routinely I mean always) faced defenses that were solely geared towards stopping him. You think defenses cared if Rodney Peete, Scott Mitchell or Charlie Batch wanted to throw the ball? Any team at any time would happily take Sanders (exceptions might be Payton, Brown, AD). An interesting way of looking at how Sanders performed was done by Football Outsiders (in an Emmitt Smith article). The author looked at the yards per carry gained by the top 20 retired running backs by yardage and compared that to the yards per carry achieved by other players on their teams (e.g., what was Sanders' YPC compared to other Lions running backs when he was there). Sanders was #1 as far as difference between him and the other guys on his team. Not a perfect measure by any means, but it does help illustrate how much more Sanders could do with the same players than his backups. Link to full article is below [url]http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2010/was-emmitt-smith-really-product-his-line[/url] [/QUOTE]
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