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That was his stock recruiting line, "I coached up Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders".

Yep, Coker's coaching catapulted him into a hellova Pro career.

You're right. Not claiming he was. Someone was talking about never seeing anyone making the moves Sander's made and I mentioned Sayers.

I was initially responding to someone minimizing Jim Brown. As far as the goat, who's to say. Comparisons are difficult unless they played under the same conditions. But if you were to pick a top 5 (from any era), it would be hard to exclude him. And certainly Barry Sanders would be in the...

I didn't mention them because they didn't play with Jim Brown. No one's denying that many weren't allowed to play. It was still early in the process of integration. The point is the style of play at that time dictated a certain type of player at different positions. If blacks were more...

They're there, but with the changes in the game they're playing other positions like WLB. There's been a trend to smaller RBs. Imagine Lawrence Taylor or Derrick Thomas as a fullback. Everyone on the field was smaller. I remember when Ernie Ladd was the only player over 300 lbs. But what's...

Same with Gayle Sayers.

I doubt it. The rules today favor a wide open offense. Not so much back then. The game was played different and rougher than it is today. Going against stacked lines, with 7/8 in the box, was the norm. It was the era of the middle LB (Butkis, Huff, Nietske, Nobis, Bednarick, George...

Watched them both when I was a kid. Jim Brown is still the only player to average 100 yard per game over his career. Everyone knew he was going to carry it, the Browns didn't have too many weapons. Sayers is the only one that's comparable to Barry Saunders. It's a shame what injuries did...