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Yep.....3 time league MVP's are always over rated.
Got it.
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Do you understand "overrated"? My understanding is players that do not help their team as much as is generally thought is overrated. Is your point MVP's cannot be overrated? Kurt Warner won how many MVP's - 2 I believe. Does that make him one of the greatest of all time as well. Is he or was he overrated?
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I'll take Elway and Favre as #1 and #2 all time.
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I probably would as well if we were saying "who are your 2 favorites of all time". I think guys like Montana and Brady don't get enough credit b/c they are coolly efficient, whereas Favre gets too much b/c he tries a throw that works maybe once in ten instead of taking the smart play. For me, Favre is consistently overrated b/c of his style - people love him for good reason, but he has singlehandedly cost his teams as many games as he has singlehandedly won. Really, it's a counterpoint reason to why I would say TO is underrated - people justifiably hate him, which clouds the issue of what he does on the field (though TO may actually be destructive enough to a locker room that this is a moot point. Wasn't the case until about 2 or 3 years ago though). Who do you like is not the same as who is overrated - in fact, there is probably a correlation: the bigger the fan favorite, the more likely to be overrated.
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Oh, and Terrell Davis is not overrated and his place in history is secure. The best Denver RB ever and that includes Portis...who, frankly, has shown his numbers in Denver were inflated. Davis SHOULD be a HOFer at some point.
I guess the point is that don't you actually have to be overrated to BE overrated?
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Davis had what, 3 or 4 big years? Is Jamal Lewis HOF material as well based on having a 2,000 yard season and helping a team win a Super Bowl. Lewis will probably surpass Davis this year in career yards, and their yards per carry are very similar (4.6 versus 4.4). Add in the fact that Lewis plays on a team where he is the sole source of offence, and you have an argument (ignoring the character issue Lewis clearly has). IMO, Davis was good, but hardly HOF material.