The Spaz
07-17-2004, 07:22 PM
There’s not enough room in this division for Willis McGahee.
Kidding, of course. But when you look at the AFC East on a position-by-position basis, you are struck by how much running back talent there is in this division. And you then might sit down and wonder if the owners should put on a John Wayne face and say something like “This town ain’t big enough for the five of us!”, given that you add McGahee to the likes of Corey Dillon, Ricky Williams, Curtis Martin and McGahee’s teammate, Travis Henry.
McGahee has yet to play a down in the NFL, as he is coming off a horrific leg injury suffered in his final collegiate game at Miami of Florida. It is still rather puzzling why Buffalo drafted McGahee, given that it has Henry, who has put up some numbers of his own which relegates him to nobody’s back seat. Like McGahee, Henry also comes up short in the longevity department when compared to the other three backs, as he has logged only three years in the league. If these two can somehow be able to play together and stay together, you’ll then have the AFC’s answer to Stephen Davis and DeShawn Foster down in Carolina.
Separately, these two fall short of their divisional counterparts. But together, they form something that, by the time Martin retires, could very well be the best rushing attack in the division, if not the entire conference. But for now, trying to sort out the backs in this division is like trying to figure out if you prefer a Lamborghini to a Ferrari.
Elsewhere by position in the division, it really isn’t all that difficult. So, we’ll save the running backs for last.
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Kidding, of course. But when you look at the AFC East on a position-by-position basis, you are struck by how much running back talent there is in this division. And you then might sit down and wonder if the owners should put on a John Wayne face and say something like “This town ain’t big enough for the five of us!”, given that you add McGahee to the likes of Corey Dillon, Ricky Williams, Curtis Martin and McGahee’s teammate, Travis Henry.
McGahee has yet to play a down in the NFL, as he is coming off a horrific leg injury suffered in his final collegiate game at Miami of Florida. It is still rather puzzling why Buffalo drafted McGahee, given that it has Henry, who has put up some numbers of his own which relegates him to nobody’s back seat. Like McGahee, Henry also comes up short in the longevity department when compared to the other three backs, as he has logged only three years in the league. If these two can somehow be able to play together and stay together, you’ll then have the AFC’s answer to Stephen Davis and DeShawn Foster down in Carolina.
Separately, these two fall short of their divisional counterparts. But together, they form something that, by the time Martin retires, could very well be the best rushing attack in the division, if not the entire conference. But for now, trying to sort out the backs in this division is like trying to figure out if you prefer a Lamborghini to a Ferrari.
Elsewhere by position in the division, it really isn’t all that difficult. So, we’ll save the running backs for last.
http://www.patsfans.com/bob/display_story.php?story_id=2449
There's definitely a hint of homerism in this article!;)