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May 8 2013 09:16am
not even i believe doug martin is a top 5 back yet.

top 15 maybe
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May 8 2013 09:16am
I would hope that a back who gets 300+ carries a season and has a passing attack to keep the defense honest could produce that well.

I am not knocking Arian Foster, but McCoy and JC for sure are better, if I had to knock one out of this list to make space for him I guess it'd be Ray Rice or MJD, prolly Rice cuz he plays for a good team and doesn't produce Foster-like numbers, the others on the list Carry their team
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May 8 2013 09:20am
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I would hope that a back who gets 300+ carries a season and has a passing attack to keep the defense honest could produce that well.

I am not knocking Arian Foster, but McCoy and JC for sure are better, if I had to knock one out of this list to make space for him I guess it'd be Ray Rice or MJD, prolly Rice cuz he plays for a good team and doesn't produce Foster-like numbers, the others on the list Carry their team


Ray rice has had 4 straight seasons of 1700+ yards.. He produces better then any back other then AP and Foster, hence #3.
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May 8 2013 09:22am
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Nah, foster is very good but if we are going off of ability and not production is have to put him at 6.

He has the benefit of playing in a very balanced offense that may make him look better then the weaker team RB, but I'll give MJD JC and McCoy all the edge over him talentwise, he is 6th for sure though


foster isn't super fast but he can cut quickly and he punishes defensive backs who don't wrap him up. not to mention he has incredible hands out of the backfield

he is better than all of those three by leaps and bounds
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May 8 2013 09:24am
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foster isn't super fast but he can cut quickly and he punishes defensive backs who don't wrap him up. not to mention he has incredible hands out of the backfield

he is better than all of those three by leaps and bounds


LMFAO

And everything you state that Foster does is shit McCoy can do as well or better. In terms of being able to cut, nobody in the league is better than McCoy at that. He's easily got the quickest feet of all the top tier RB's, he can make something huge out of nothing being able to just cut back and get to full speed again so quickly.



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May 8 2013 09:25am
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LMFAO


whatever they put in the water in philly i need some of

mccoy is a hangnail away from sitting out half of this season too
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May 8 2013 09:26am
Rice also does a fair bit of recieving, which accounts for many of said 1700 yard season. Really not tryin to even start an argument here, my opinion of talented runnin backs isn't based entirely off of stats bc you have to have a team around you to produce, unless you are JC, MJD, McCoy, T-rich, etc
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May 8 2013 09:27am
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whatever they put in the water in philly i need some of

mccoy is a hangnail away from sitting out half of this season too


You don't want any of that, Philly is a cruddy place :rofl:
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May 8 2013 09:28am
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whatever they put in the water in philly i need some of

mccoy is a hangnail away from sitting out half of this season too


Dude, what?

This past season was the first time in his career that he's missed games from injury. 4 whopping games in 4 seasons missed from injury. Oh no, he's so fragile! lol
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foster isn't super fast but he can cut quickly and he punishes defensive backs who don't wrap him up. not to mention he has incredible hands out of the backfield

he is better than all of those three by leaps and bounds


Respectfully disagree, what makes Foster good is strength and durability (he never gets injured which is awesome) . mcCoy can cut much much better and the others have better moves and speed
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