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JamesJM
Not your rank of players, or who to include... but this comment I hear more and more these days.... "With a LOT". That term, today, comes off to me as so dismissive, and belittling...(yes, I know you don't mean it that way)...
I don't know any great NFL player who did it on their own. Not one. And not rarely that help leaned more toward the coaches involved than the teammates. But help they got, all of them.
The worst NFL players in history... (with a few exceptions due to things not related to physical talent)... have been extraordinarily gifted athletes.
I think 'teammates' IS part of the criteria that should be used to evaluate players, obviously... but I think it's overblown these days and tends to ignore other criteria that 'may' be as important if not more. - JamesJM
What Barry Sanders did, he did with remarkably little.
