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There are two types of people: those that know Barry is the GOAT, and those who are wrong. Pushing the line is all well and good, but the name of the game is to score, and Barry did tons of that! His game would translate to modern day football so well, he’d be unstoppable!
Nobody could change direction like Barry. No body had the vision and instincts like Barry. And his legs were so so strong, that's why he could change direction and accelerate like no one else. Crazy. He was plenty fast, but couldn't outrun everybody, but could out accelerate anyone. Look up the top 20 runners all time yardage, only Barry & Jim Brown are 5+ per carry, everyone else is 4-4.5 per carry.
People tend to underestimate Barry's straight line speed - primarily because his agility, balance, and lateral movement were so incredible. The thing is, Barry was a legit elite sprinter - 4.33 forty and 10.3 100 meter dash. And forget about him being 5'9". I believe the Lions listed his height as 5'8". However, I met him at a function at which he was speaking. I attended with my father, who was just under 5'8". Barry was slightly shorter - not by much, but noticably so when they stood face to face. I watched Barry play against Nebraska in 1988. The guy had 360 yards on over thirty carries, as well as six touchdowns - all against a pretty good defense. Nebraska won the game by about 20 points. At the end of the game, 80,000 Nebraska fans stood as one and saluted his performance with a standing ovation. It was the most remarkable feat of sustained athleticism I have ever witnessed. Unbelievable. Barry's father called him the third best running back of all time - after Jim Brown and Walter Payton. I agree with that assessment.
He was the reason you watched Thanksgiving NFL games. And no matter how good the Lions were doing, no matter how well YOUR team was doing, you watched HIM!
He was said to have Ball-Bearings fit ankles. He was ALWAYS quicker than fast. He led the league EVERY year in carries for a loss, but was inevitably at the top of the yardage list every season. He was at full speed in 3 steps, literally. He was a UNICORN!
One of my favorite Barry stories was when he was at Oklahoma State and Thurman Thomas was an older, more mature back who started ahead of him. One of the opponents told his guys to be careful and not injure Thomas because he didn't want OK State to put Barry in. Imagine being more afraid of a young guy at RB2 than you are of a heisman RB in the game.
Highlight #20 Barry didn't run out of gas...a linebacker had snagged one of his cleats while trying to tackle him...thus he was running 1 shoe on and barefoot.
He was a unassuming super star. Scored a touchdown and handed the ball to the ref. If you 7 to 8 guys miss tackling you you don't need to spike the ball
There are only two RBs in the top 10 career rushing yards list to average 5.0 per carry. Jim Brown and Barry Sanders. Couple that with the fact that Barry has the most negative yards in NFL history and it is without question that Barry did more pure rushing than any RB in history. This is what 🐐’s are made of
That run where the announcer says Barry “runs out of gas”, he actually lost his shoe on the attempted tackle and read that long run with one sock 🧦 and one shoe 👟! (It was run number 20 on the highlights)
Nah, on play #21, the defender had the angle on Barry. That's why he couldn't take it all the way. If dude didn't have that angle, Barry would've had an easy 99-100 yard TD run. He outran everybody else.
Barry is the Goat because he played on some bad teams. He’s a freak based on his size, speed, explosiveness, IQ he’s top three all time. Imagine if he had the offensive line Emmitt had and milked his career like Emmitt did? No comparison. In my mind. Thanks for mixing it up!
I understand that people have their personal biases, but by any objective standard, Barry had the best combination of speed, power, vision, and shiftiness. No other back in the history of the game had that combination to the level that Barry had. He is the GOAT. Simply the best.
I have to respectfully disagree with your comments about some of the runs where he takes it to the house being early in his career. One of the reasons Lions fans were so upset when he retired was because he hadn't lost a step yet. Barry had a very good 40 time at the combine of 4.39. Excellent time but there have running backs with faster times. He was not a sprinter (track) guy like OJ or Dickerson to name a couple, but what nobody who's ever played the game could match was 0-20 speed! His stop and start has never been matched! Great reaction gentlemen!
They do have plays designed where a running back cuts back. It’s called a “counter” run. But as you see with Barry, his were normally done to avoid guys
Barry is the best NFL player of all time. If you think his NFL highlights were good check out his collage highlights. He was a man among boys in college he broke 39 single season records his Jr year and the only one he started at running back.
Barry is the goat because he did what no other human can do. Threat to score Every. Single. Touch. Near or at top in every career stat and with terrible teams (Lions have 1 single playoff game win since 1957). I love big backs - Henry, Alstot, Bettis, etc. I get it... But forget all that. The rules don't apply to Barry. He BROKE physics!!!
People have been making fools of themselves for decades now trying to put asterisks next to him. "He's too small", "I like big backs" (like Tony freaking Dorsett? LMAO). "He's just quick not fast". Dumb, dumb, dumb. He was the GOAT. Also, he was the best and fastest version of himself when he retired.
The counter trap was absolutely a designed play in Wayne Fontes' system. He knew Barry had that tremendous cutback ability and burst and he also knew teams would overpursue. Lomas Brown was their left tackle responsible for sealing off the outside lineman on those runs.
He didn't have the fastest top end, which is why you'd see some DB's run him down eventually, but his initial burst of speed was superhuman. He'd take off like everyone else was standing still and then they all would have to play catch up.
My understanding is that it didn't matter that the Lions sucked as a team, Detroit fans always went to the games and fans of opposing teams also went just to see Barry play.
Imagine if he had a line and a fullback in front of him Dont know how he didn't break his ankles on some of those cuts You like big backs try Larry csonka and john Riggins Big monster backs
There are counters, which are basically designed cutbacks. But these were pretty much ad lib. You have to watch the Lawrence Taylor best of. Nothing compares in any sport to those highlights. Players were legitimately scared of him.
Y'all ever hear of a guy named Earl Campbell? Houston Oilers? Check him out. Kind of a cross between Jim Brown and Barry Sanders with legs like tree trunks.
Dave Megget was convicted for burglary and criminal sexual assault. I wish Barry played longer, I feel that this limits him from being the GOAT. Def my top 3 with Jim Brown and Sweetness, Walter Payton. You also have to take into consideration the era that these guys played in. RB were just used differently years ago. The game was different too. All I could think of when you said I love big backs was: I love big butts and I cannot lie 😂. Don’t forget about the D too. Some LT highlights would be fun.
The biggest reason I will always put Barry over Emmitt is what he had around him. Emmitt had probably the best OLine ever. Barry had trash. Was the entire offense. Pretty much every play here was against a run defense. He played his whole career facing 8 in the box and STILL cooked. As a lifetime Bears fan I still have Walter Payton as #2. It blows my mind to think that somebody can be so good that they could do that for a whole career when practically every play he lined up and looked at 4 Linemen, 3 Linebackers and a safety all keyed on him.
I’ve got Barry around #Five like you Che I preferred bigger backs, my favorite was Eric Dickerson! The combination of speed, power , balance and that upright running style helped make him magic to watch, next I go with “ Bo” I think of the numbers he could’ve had if not for that catastrophic hip injury! Great conversation gentlemen ✌️😊
Barry isn't even in the top ten as far as open field speed, but NOBODY has ever been shiftier, moved better laterally, or had vision like his. And never once spiked the football, he just gave the ball back to the ref. He spiked it once in pee wee football and his dad told him, act like you've been there before, and he never did again. The man is a class act and was wasted in Detroit.
@@airplay_movies Current Kansas resident here, but a former Michigan native. Just wanted to say that I have my doubts that the Lions are going to do all that well in the playoffs, but if they do, then the entire city of Detroit's going to go *berserk.*
Barry ran a 4.37 40 . That means there are only a handful of guys in the league that are faster and his acceleration is unparalled. Living in Detroit I had the hinor of watching every game /run of Barrys and he surely quit football because the Lions sucked. He just made up with the organization and got a statue recently so Barry is not going to rip the organization even though he should have long ago , he never did. After he retired the Dolphins offered 3 first round picks to the Lions for Barry and the Lions declined and responded by saying that Barry would play as a Lion or not at all in typical Lion fashion.
The thing about the runs in this video. A lot of them were called back on penalties. Being from Michigan and a mandatory Lions fan, it was painful. I walked away from the NFL before it was woke. I bet his new reason for leaving involves the sex trafficking & corruption.
You’re confusing best with favorite which are two discernibly different things. One is based solely on preference and one is based on myriad of criteria some of which is objective and some of which is subjective. People do this in hip hop constantly. They often tout their “favorites” for who they think is the best. Same thing here. You prefer big backs with a certain style and those are your favorite backs. But nobody you named is better than Barry in 99% of both subjective and objective criteria or consensus.
BARRY HOLDS the NFL record for RBs with 15,269 yds total in 10 consecutive years... NO OTHER RB IS WITHIN 450 YDS of Barry. AGAIN NO RB IN NFL HISTORY HAS MORE YDS IN 10 CONSEUTIVE YEARS TOTAL THAN BARRY SANDERS with a total of 15,269. FACTS IS FACTS
There are two types of people: those that know Barry is the GOAT, and those who are wrong. Pushing the line is all well and good, but the name of the game is to score, and Barry did tons of that! His game would translate to modern day football so well, he’d be unstoppable!
Barry still holds the all time single season college record in 80's 2,628 and 37 TDs in 11 games!
Nobody could change direction like Barry. No body had the vision and instincts like Barry. And his legs were so so strong, that's why he could change direction and accelerate like no one else. Crazy. He was plenty fast, but couldn't outrun everybody, but could out accelerate anyone. Look up the top 20 runners all time yardage, only Barry & Jim Brown are 5+ per carry, everyone else is 4-4.5 per carry.
Barry was so good all you could do is shake your head in awe greatness personified
No dance, just hand over the ball….loved watching the man play.
Barry Sanders and Bo Jackson was the reason I started playing football when I was a kid. GOAT!!!
People tend to underestimate Barry's straight line speed - primarily because his agility, balance, and lateral movement were so incredible. The thing is, Barry was a legit elite sprinter - 4.33 forty and 10.3 100 meter dash.
And forget about him being 5'9". I believe the Lions listed his height as 5'8". However, I met him at a function at which he was speaking. I attended with my father, who was just under 5'8". Barry was slightly shorter - not by much, but noticably so when they stood face to face.
I watched Barry play against Nebraska in 1988. The guy had 360 yards on over thirty carries, as well as six touchdowns - all against a pretty good defense. Nebraska won the game by about 20 points.
At the end of the game, 80,000 Nebraska fans stood as one and saluted his performance with a standing ovation. It was the most remarkable feat of sustained athleticism I have ever witnessed. Unbelievable.
Barry's father called him the third best running back of all time - after Jim Brown and Walter Payton. I agree with that assessment.
BAR NONE---------- THEE MOST ELUSIVE RB EVER
He was the reason you watched Thanksgiving NFL games.
And no matter how good the Lions were doing, no matter how well YOUR team was doing, you watched HIM!
He was said to have
Ball-Bearings fit ankles. He was ALWAYS quicker than fast. He led the league EVERY year in carries for a loss, but was inevitably at the top of the yardage list every season. He was at full speed in 3 steps, literally. He was a UNICORN!
Had he played with a good team ... My oh my !!!
Barry the goat
He broke ankles. He was quick and fast
One of my favorite Barry stories was when he was at Oklahoma State and Thurman Thomas was an older, more mature back who started ahead of him. One of the opponents told his guys to be careful and not injure Thomas because he didn't want OK State to put Barry in. Imagine being more afraid of a young guy at RB2 than you are of a heisman RB in the game.
Used to watch the Lions games when I was younger. Become he was playing.😊
Highlight #20 Barry didn't run out of gas...a linebacker had snagged one of his cleats while trying to tackle him...thus he was running 1 shoe on and barefoot.
Barry ran a 4.3 he was very fast with a quick burst and the best vision from a rb the nfl ever seen
He was a unassuming super star. Scored a touchdown and handed the ball to the ref. If you 7 to 8 guys miss tackling you you don't need to spike the ball
If there's a better runner, God has not made him yet.
There are only two RBs in the top 10 career rushing yards list to average 5.0 per carry. Jim Brown and Barry Sanders. Couple that with the fact that Barry has the most negative yards in NFL history and it is without question that Barry did more pure rushing than any RB in history. This is what 🐐’s are made of
That run where the announcer says Barry “runs out of gas”, he actually lost his shoe on the attempted tackle and read that long run with one sock 🧦 and one shoe 👟!
(It was run number 20 on the highlights)
Nah, on play #21, the defender had the angle on Barry. That's why he couldn't take it all the way. If dude didn't have that angle, Barry would've had an easy 99-100 yard TD run. He outran everybody else.
Big backs are limited in their use.. Barry is the best RUNNINGback. Payton is my favorite all-around RB
GoLaa! Go Chee! Barry is the greatest!
Just my opinion. Barry's the 🐐. And I am biased being from the D. Thanks fellas for this. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
Barry is the Goat because he played on some bad teams. He’s a freak based on his size, speed, explosiveness, IQ he’s top three all time. Imagine if he had the offensive line Emmitt had and milked his career like Emmitt did? No comparison. In my mind. Thanks for mixing it up!
Barry behind Larry Allen might get 3,000 yards.
I understand that people have their personal biases, but by any objective standard, Barry had the best combination of speed, power, vision, and shiftiness. No other back in the history of the game had that combination to the level that Barry had. He is the GOAT. Simply the best.
I have to respectfully disagree with your comments about some of the runs where he takes it to the house being early in his career. One of the reasons Lions fans were so upset when he retired was because he hadn't lost a step yet.
Barry had a very good 40 time at the combine of 4.39. Excellent time but there have running backs with faster times. He was not a sprinter (track) guy like OJ or Dickerson to name a couple, but what nobody who's ever played the game could match was 0-20 speed! His stop and start has never been matched!
Great reaction gentlemen!
I know this is kinda old but for what it's worth Jerry Rice ran a 4.6 40 combine speed isn't the same as game speed
Love Barry Sanders one of the most underappreciated NFL backs of all time.
Check out the man that kept Barry on the bench at OU, Thurman Thomas.
The year he won the Heisman I don't think those stats will ever be duplicated. Check out that highlight tape.
They do have plays designed where a running back cuts back. It’s called a “counter” run. But as you see with Barry, his were normally done to avoid guys
Barry is the best NFL player of all time. If you think his NFL highlights were good check out his collage highlights. He was a man among boys in college he broke 39 single season records his Jr year and the only one he started at running back.
I have Barry at the top of my RBs.
Barry is the goat because he did what no other human can do. Threat to score Every. Single. Touch. Near or at top in every career stat and with terrible teams (Lions have 1 single playoff game win since 1957).
I love big backs - Henry, Alstot, Bettis, etc. I get it... But forget all that. The rules don't apply to Barry. He BROKE physics!!!
barry barry barry barry!
People have been making fools of themselves for decades now trying to put asterisks next to him. "He's too small", "I like big backs" (like Tony freaking Dorsett? LMAO). "He's just quick not fast".
Dumb, dumb, dumb. He was the GOAT. Also, he was the best and fastest version of himself when he retired.
I thought it was dumb as well until I learned the difference between quick and fast.
The counter trap was absolutely a designed play in Wayne Fontes' system. He knew Barry had that tremendous cutback ability and burst and he also knew teams would overpursue. Lomas Brown was their left tackle responsible for sealing off the outside lineman on those runs.
He didn't have the fastest top end, which is why you'd see some DB's run him down eventually, but his initial burst of speed was superhuman. He'd take off like everyone else was standing still and then they all would have to play catch up.
The dude he froze on number 8 was John Lynch.
Didn’t get to the house Chee? 109 touchdowns….he got it home 109 times
The A-Train
Barry was The Human Pinball. For big backs, check out Houston Oilers Earl Cambell and Kansas City Chiefs “The Nigerian Nightmare”
Actually, the older Barry got, the less he got caught from behind. He defied all laws of physics.
My understanding is that it didn't matter that the Lions sucked as a team, Detroit fans always went to the games and fans of opposing teams also went just to see Barry play.
Running a 4.35 40 is pretty fast
Imagine if he had a line and a fullback in front of him
Dont know how he didn't break his ankles on some of those cuts
You like big backs try
Larry csonka and john Riggins
Big monster backs
Zone read are plays with designed cut backs
There are counters, which are basically designed cutbacks. But these were pretty much ad lib.
You have to watch the Lawrence Taylor best of. Nothing compares in any sport to those highlights. Players were legitimately scared of him.
Y'all ever hear of a guy named Earl Campbell? Houston Oilers? Check him out. Kind of a cross between Jim Brown and Barry Sanders with legs like tree trunks.
Dave Megget was convicted for burglary and criminal sexual assault. I wish Barry played longer, I feel that this limits him from being the GOAT. Def my top 3 with Jim Brown and Sweetness, Walter Payton. You also have to take into consideration the era that these guys played in. RB were just used differently years ago. The game was different too. All I could think of when you said I love big backs was: I love big butts and I cannot lie 😂. Don’t forget about the D too. Some LT highlights would be fun.
Most of the games he played on turf he was wearing Nike basketball shoes.
Only reason Barry didn’t get to the house is because there was nobody blocking for him downfield.
Cutback plays are called "counters"
You like big hitting RB, check out Earl Campbell highlights.
Also Jerome Bettis.
He was 5'9", 201#, and half of that was thighs.
Bo is the goat, Barry is a human joystick lol. Barry will break your ankles, bo will just run you over or past you
Bo was the man!!
Zone blocking is designed for cut backs. Detriot didn't use this. That's all Barry
There can be plays designed for a cutback
The biggest reason I will always put Barry over Emmitt is what he had around him. Emmitt had probably the best OLine ever. Barry had trash. Was the entire offense. Pretty much every play here was against a run defense. He played his whole career facing 8 in the box and STILL cooked. As a lifetime Bears fan I still have Walter Payton as #2. It blows my mind to think that somebody can be so good that they could do that for a whole career when practically every play he lined up and looked at 4 Linemen, 3 Linebackers and a safety all keyed on him.
I’ve got Barry around #Five like you Che I preferred bigger backs, my favorite was Eric Dickerson! The combination of speed, power , balance and that upright running style helped make him magic to watch, next I go with “ Bo” I think of the numbers he could’ve had if not for that catastrophic hip injury! Great conversation gentlemen
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Barry isn't even in the top ten as far as open field speed, but NOBODY has ever been shiftier, moved better laterally, or had vision like his. And never once spiked the football, he just gave the ball back to the ref. He spiked it once in pee wee football and his dad told him, act like you've been there before, and he never did again. The man is a class act and was wasted in Detroit.
Keep in mind he did that with not the best offensive line. I always wondered what he coulda done on a good team
He has 4.3 speed
Adrian Peterson #28 All Day
The real GOAT. Retired way too soon. Just unfortunate he played for the worst team.
Yea. He was exciting to watch. Lions doing pretty good now though.
@@airplay_movies Current Kansas resident here, but a former Michigan native. Just wanted to say that I have my doubts that the Lions are going to do all that well in the playoffs, but if they do, then the entire city of Detroit's going to go *berserk.*
No one ever got a clean shot on him.
AP was pretty good! Just saying
Barry ran a 4.37 40 . That means there are only a handful of guys in the league that are faster and his acceleration is unparalled.
Living in Detroit I had the hinor of watching every game /run of Barrys and he surely quit football because the Lions sucked. He just made up with the organization and got a statue recently so Barry is not going to rip the organization even though he should have long ago , he never did.
After he retired the Dolphins offered 3 first round picks to the Lions for Barry and the Lions declined and responded by saying that Barry would play as a Lion or not at all in typical Lion fashion.
If Barry played for the Cowboys, with that offensive line, he would have ran for over 20 000yds.
Top 10 fo sho? Tell me you don’t know BARRY without saying you don’t know Barry!
The thing about the runs in this video. A lot of them were called back on penalties. Being from Michigan and a mandatory Lions fan, it was painful. I walked away from the NFL before it was woke. I bet his new reason for leaving involves the sex trafficking & corruption.
😂😂😂
You’re confusing best with favorite which are two discernibly different things. One is based solely on preference and one is based on myriad of criteria some of which is objective and some of which is subjective. People do this in hip hop constantly. They often tout their “favorites” for who they think is the best. Same thing here. You prefer big backs with a certain style and those are your favorite backs. But nobody you named is better than Barry in 99% of both subjective and objective criteria or consensus.
No one was or is better then Berry, he was just with a crappy team. I know because I'm from michigan.
BARRY HOLDS the NFL record for RBs with 15,269 yds total in 10 consecutive years... NO OTHER RB IS WITHIN 450 YDS of Barry.
AGAIN NO RB IN NFL HISTORY HAS MORE YDS IN 10 CONSEUTIVE YEARS TOTAL THAN BARRY SANDERS with a total of 15,269. FACTS IS FACTS
Barry gets it for me because he was on terrible teams. Jim Brown was the best big back.
Really the only dude in NFL history where “pursuit angle” meant nothing…
Top 10?!?!?!?😅😅😅😅