Comments on: Frank Gore Vs. Adrian Peterson – Who Makes Hall Of Fame? https://i80sportsblog.com/frank-gore-vs-adrian-peterson-who-makes-hall-of-fame/ Sports Content You Didn't Know You Wanted Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:37:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Paul Eide https://i80sportsblog.com/frank-gore-vs-adrian-peterson-who-makes-hall-of-fame/#comment-1360 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 21:10:14 +0000 https://i80sportsblog.com/?p=9383#comment-1360 In reply to Julius Guccione.

Thanks for the comment Julius. Love that you mentioned the 3rd TD against the Browns. That is the greatest run I’ve ever seen in my lifetime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8Lih25NYE

The way he came back from the knee injury completely changed how we view recovery time from knee injuries, in every sport and scenario. The child abuse situation damaged how he was viewed, and people have been trying to shovel dirt on his grave for the last 3 years. But everywhere he goes, he produces.

Gore was an injury risk coming out of Miami as you mentioned. He also has torn both labrums, and that says a lot about his running style. Unbelievably tough back.

]]> By: Julius Guccione https://i80sportsblog.com/frank-gore-vs-adrian-peterson-who-makes-hall-of-fame/#comment-1359 Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:30:12 +0000 https://i80sportsblog.com/?p=9383#comment-1359 Nice & quite positive article on both Gore and Peterson. In my mind, Peterson is the best running back that has ever played in the NFL. Basically, he has the strength to simply bowl over or actually throw a defender to the ground with one arm, and the speed to outrun everyone when he gets an opening. Walter Payton probably was the best all-around NFL RB (including blocking, catching, and throwing) but he would get caught from behind, even in his first few years in the NFL. Barry Sanders probably was the most elusive NFL RB (Sayers is close or even better) but he was not the kind of back to bowl defenders over (like Peterson or Earl Campbell). Peterson has plenty of haters because of his child abuse case, but anyone who has seen his highlights (especially in his rookie year at Chicago and vs San Diego) should agree that there has never been another player that could match his combination of strength, speed, and elusiveness (strength showed up more in subsequent years; see 3rd TD run at Cleveland in 2009). Gore was steady and amazingly durable after suffering two major knee injuries before entering NFL. What Peterson did in 2012 after completely rupturing his ACL and MCL near the end of the 2011 season and playing the latter half of 2012 with a sports hernia is almost inhuman.

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