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....with a little less speed?

Is this how you would describe Ronnie Brown's potential?

Remember, their college careers at Auburn could be no more different.
 
Bo Jackson was even bigger and stronger than Ronnie Brown....and I would say Bo was as fast if not faster....before Bo got hurt he could break away from anyone and run guys like Bozworth over. I think Ronnie Brown can be very similar but there was only one Bo. If he is 75% of what Bo Jackson was I would take Ronnie Brown. If you ever get a chance to see Beyond the Glory with Bo Jackson tune it in (he was an amazing athlete in football, baseball, and basketball too).
 
As good as Ronnie Brown can be, he is definately nowhere near capable of being the back that Bo Jackson was. The few years he was in the league, Bo Jackson was the most dangerous man in the game.
 
I don't think there's much similarity between the two, other than their alma mater. You don't see a back with Jackson's combo of speed and power come along more than once every 10 or 20 years. In terms of running style, Cedric Benson is much more like Jackson.
I would note that Brown has much better hands than Jackson did, though that's obviously not enough to negate the other advantages Jackson had.
 
Ronnie's Dangerous.

Its sweet to be nice to the other two runningbacks.
 
LostInPatsLand said:
....with a little less speed?

Is this how you would describe Ronnie Brown's potential?

Remember, their college careers at Auburn could be no more different.
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I thought you were going to say Maurice Clarett :lol: just kidding Bo was the man. Before him was Earl Campbell. These were real running backs.
 
phunwin said:
I don't think there's much similarity between the two, other than their alma mater. You don't see a back with Jackson's combo of speed and power come along more than once every 10 or 20 years. In terms of running style, Cedric Benson is much more like Jackson.
I would note that Brown has much better hands than Jackson did, though that's obviously not enough to negate the other advantages Jackson had.
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I don't see the Benson/Jackson comparison, Benson is much much slower. Brown is closer to Jackson than Benson.
 
he said in terms of running style
 
Ronnie Brown reminds me of a clone of Bo, but the original is always better than the copy. He wont have as much success (bo could play almost every sport better than everyone else), but his styles of football play are similar.

Ronnie will be good in the NFL, but hes no Bo
 
The amazing thing about Bo Jackson

He was a phenomenal freshman at Auburn in 1982. But almost no one was dumb enough to assert he was even the best freshman RB in the country.

Marcus Dupree of Oklahoma was an absolute freak. He became the offseason favorite to win the Heisman Trophy in '83 as a soph, after Herschel Walker bolted a year early to the USFL.

Dupree had the best combination of size/speed/natural running ability I have ever seen as a RB. I'm not old enough to have viewed Jim Brown other than highlights, but Marcus Dupree is easily the most talented RB I've seen in 30+ years of viewing football live. In his freshman year he had something like 7 straight games with a 70 yard TD run or longer, outrunning tiny DBs into the end zone. He showed up at the Fiesta Bowl maybe 30 pounds overweight and played barely half the game due to leg injuries, yet still gained more than 200 yards against an Arizona State defense that was #1 in the country in rush defense.

Dupree, of course, was a head case who left Oklahoma before that soph year under all the scrutiny and briefly enrolled at Southern Miss. I was sick when he tore his knee in an obscure USFL game a year or two later. Please don't base any evaluation of Dupree on his brief stint with the Rams in the early '90s. That would be like comparing the 2004 and 1972 Dolphins.
 
Bo Jackson was probably one of the best running backs to ever play the game. We won't know for certain, but he is the all-time leader in yards per carry - probably the most important stat a running back can have. I don't think there's any question that had he not suffered a freak hip injury, he would've been the best ever. He had everything you look for in a running back.

If Ronnie Brown could be Bo Jackson, I'd take him. Hell, if ANYBODY could be another Bo, I'd take him.
 
LostInPatsLand said:
....with a little less speed?

Is this how you would describe Ronnie Brown's potential?

Remember, their college careers at Auburn could be no more different.
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bo had speed...but that was it, amazing athlete decent football player

Best back to ever put on the cleets was Barry Sanders
 
anybody here old enough to remember "tecmo?" "tecmo bo" was the greatest athlete anyone could ever conceive of. i used to use him, let my qb get sacked on the 1 yard line, then break 99 yard runs all day long. you could get 1200 yards or more in one game!
 
DPlus47 said:
anybody here old enough to remember "tecmo?" "tecmo bo" was the greatest athlete anyone could ever conceive of. i used to use him, let my qb get sacked on the 1 yard line, then break 99 yard runs all day long. you could get 1200 yards or more in one game!
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I agree :cooldude:



To put it in perspective:

Tecmo Bo is better than Madden Vick.
 
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