Carl Crawford vs. Bubba Starling

Pick One

  • Carl Crawford

    Votes: 14 70.0%

  • Bubba Starling

    Votes: 6 30.0%
  • Total voters
    20
Cdog923 said:
Would they have been the same type of runner? I remember Lord being a bruiser, a Tebow/Frost type of power runner. Would Crawford been more elusive? A Crouch/Martinez type? 
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Yup, fair point.  I never saw him play football.  He was one heckuva athlete when he played CF for Tampa Bay when he came up.

 
junior4949 said:
I've often wondered if the absolute beating Lord took wasn't mostly self-inflicted?  He was running behind a 1st Team All American tackle and behind a solid center.  Back then, I thought the OL was unfairly blamed because it seemed Lord wasn't exactly on the same page as his OL.  I always wondered on the plays where he made something out of nothing came from him going the wrong way to begin with.
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Good point as well.  The offense just seemed to be Lord left and Lord right.  He did have Diedrick as a RB his in '02.  In '03..yeah you had Josh Davis and Cory Ross as the next 2 leading rushers.  No wonder Lord felt he had to carry the team.

 
Starling had potential to have been a stud in Pelini's offense. Guy was a pretty darn good runner, both fast and elusive, not T-Mart fast but every bit as fast if not faster than TA.  I thought he threw the ball every bit as well as TA did in HS. Guy just seemed to have that mystical "IT Factor". 

 
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