2013 NFL Season

How many superbowls does Gore have?

Same as Curtis Martin and Tomlinson

Ambiturner_sl said:

A big problem Gore has, is that even though he's the 49ers most consistent weapon, he's never put up crazy numbers and they've always been a poor offense. You really need those things as a running back

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Leading the league with 1700 yards in 2006 is a pretty crazy number. If Gore retired after this season he probably wouldn't make the HoF. Realistically he probably needs 1-2 more good seasons and/or a ring this year. ESPN did a writeup recently on Terrell Davis' HoF credentials, and one of the stats was yards per game in the playoffs. At the time Gore was #5 all time, so that's another plus. He's always had good yards per carry, but he almost never got the touches that players like Emmitt Smith and Tomlinson got. And he did most of his damage on absolute shit bag passing offenses with teams stacking the box a big portion of his career.

Unfortunately the HoF weighs very heavily on name recognition. You've got players like Warren Sapp that are first ballot hall of famers, and then you see Charles Haley who has been denied for nearly a decade, and Bryant Young, who has similar numbers to Sapp, but won't even sniff the HoF now. Shit, just look at Tony Dungy being a finalist. Guy won 1 super bowl, but like Sapp, he's a well known football analyst so he gets propped up. There are a few guaranteed HoF'ers from the last decade like Manning, Brady, Tomlinson, Peterson, Revis, Lewis, and a few others but past that who knows what'll happen?

Sutekh_sl said:

How many superbowls does Gore have?

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Just as many as Marino.

Leading the league once with just under 1700 yards is pretty far from crazy. Especially when he's been in the 1100-1200 range the rest of his career. Consistently good just doesn't do it for HoF voters. You have to be on top for several years or be an important part of a Super Bowl or two

Ambiturner_sl said:

I don't know about LT ever being a household name.

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LT was league MVP, set the record for touchdowns in a season, was in sports center commercials, played in the playoffs for 2 teams and was on hard knocks. But yeah, nobody knows who the guy who is known by his initials is.

London Fletcher never missed a start as a LB for 16 seasons. I don't know if they look at that, but that's insane.

Jozu_sl said:

Tomlinson and AP are rare talents who come along very rarely.Gore is not the athlete Peterson is and isnt the pass catcher and big play guy Tomlinson was, but he is right under them in terms of respectability, if not production.

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That's why they're Hall of Famers and those other guys aren't.

Kirun_sl said:

Just as many as Marino.

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You missed the joke, but that's not surprising.

Uber Uberest_sl said:

Gore was never the best running back in the league, at any time. Not HoF'er.

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Neither were Thurman Thomas, Curtis Martin, Cris Carter (at WR), and many more players. All of them had 1 or 2 very good seasons and several good ones.

Uber Uberest_sl said:

Frank Gore has never been a top 8 RB in any year, ever.

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He was top three, maybe top two in 2006 without a doubt.

Chris Johnson was the best running back in the league in 2009. First ballot HoF'er.
Also if we're going by your dumbass metric of "Most X" for best running back, Frank Gore was #3 in 2006. Three is greater than eight.

All in favor of enacting the FoH ban bet rule say "aye".

"Aye"

Uber Uberest_sl said:

Better than Gore in '06

Larry Johnson
LaDanian Tomlinson
Steven Jackson
Rudi Johnson
Willie Parker

Facts, not opinons brah

2006 NFL Rushing Receiving - Pro-Football-Reference.com

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u wot m8?

I don't know what the Miami Dolphins have to do with you being wrong, or what Pras means.

Is that you channeling the swamp donkey?

Frank Gore had an entire yard more per carry than Parker and Jackson and more than that against Johnson (both of them). I'm not sure what metric you're using to determine that ranking, but I'm looking at the big picture here. 5.4 yard per carry is really, really fucking good. Gore had the third most rushing yards that season behind LT and Larry Johnson (Larry Johnson had over 100 more carries that season by the way). Only four RBs were averaging 100 yards per game and Gore was one of them. Next to LT, he also had the most amount of big gain plays.

Facts, not opinions brah.