2006 Ladainian tomlinson rushing/receiving one of the goat rb years ever?

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56 rec for 508 yards 3 td
1815 yards rushing 28 tds


Would you put any other rb year over this?
 
The season that AP literally carried the Vikings into the playoffs on his back. He was what, 6 yards short of the record that season?
 
bjpenngoat said:
56 rec for 508 yards 3 td
1815 yards rushing 28 tds


Would you put any other rb year over this?
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LT was an absolute stud & won me at least 1 fantasy football championship. For sure that 2006 season... probably the best stat guy I've got to watch... maybe a couple years of Marshall Faulk in the early 2000s?
 
Yeah, probably the GOAT season. LT is arguably the GOAT RB.

Dirt Road Soldier said:
The season that AP literally carried the Vikings into the playoffs on his back. He was what, 6 yards short of the record that season?
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Literally the most overrated season ever

He had Christian fucking Ponder throwin the ball, what else were the Vikings gonna do?

pv3Hpv3p said:
LT was an absolute stud & won me at least 1 fantasy football championship. For sure that 2006 season... probably the best stat guy I've got to watch... maybe a couple years of Marshall Faulk in the early 2000s?
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Priest Holmes was my boy

Honorable mention to Sweetness, he did what AP did but under much worse conditions, plus he blocked and could catch.

Fuck AP

 
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Taking his receiving numbers and TD is almost impossible to not put LT as the most impressive season.
 
pv3Hpv3p said:
LT was an absolute stud & won me at least 1 fantasy football championship. For sure that 2006 season... probably the best stat guy I've got to watch... maybe a couple years of Marshall Faulk in the early 2000s?
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Faulk had 1300 rushing yards and 1000 receiving yards, but did like half the TD as LT.

Depending on how much weight people put on the TD's LT is alone as the most impressive or he is up there with Dickerson and Faulk just based on yards.
 
Bamboozled said:
Literally the most overrated season ever

He had Christian fucking Ponder throwin the ball, what else were the Vikings gonna do?
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Thats just it though, they had Ponder. Teams could (and often did) stack the box to stop him because lord knows Ponder wasn't winning them any games. And he still racked up yards, the guy was just playing lights out all season.

Fake edit: Just looked it up, Ponder had 3k yards with 18 TDs and 12 INTs. The leading receiver was Percy fucking Harvin with... 677 yards. AP had just shy of 2100 yards on the ground, with 217 yards receiving and 12 TDs. So yah, AP was quite literally their entire offense, and teams still couldn't stop him. I wouldn't call that an overrated season by any standard.
 
Lt had a shitty line, with one All Pro in his entire prime (Dielman I believe), and had the best 7 year prime period of any back ever
Most combined yards and TDs by a lot

I have Faulk as better slightly all time, but barely

Thurman Thomas was very good on the Bill's as well
 
Bamboozled said:
LT is arguably the GOAT RB.
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lol wut?

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armbarforhire said:
Faulk had 1300 rushing yards and 1000 receiving yards, but did like half the TD as LT.

Depending on how much weight people put on the TD's LT is alone as the most impressive or he is up there with Dickerson and Faulk just based on yards.
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IMO Faulk's more impressive when a person takes into consideration he shared the offensive load with top pro bowlers. At the time Faulk's team was a pass heavy offense and he was a team-first type of player.
 
Dirt Road Soldier said:
Thats just it though, they had Ponder. Teams could (and often did) stack the box to stop him because lord knows Ponder wasn't winning them any games. And he still racked up yards, the guy was just playing lights out all season.

Fake edit: Just looked it up, Ponder had 3k yards with 18 TDs and 12 INTs. The leading receiver was Percy fucking Harvin with... 677 yards. AP had just shy of 2100 yards on the ground, with 217 yards receiving and 12 TDs. So yah, AP was quite literally their entire offense, and teams still couldn't stop him. I wouldn't call that an overrated season by any standard.
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Compared to Cambell and Sweetness? It's overrated as all hell. Recency bias is real. Sweetness had a terrible team in a terrible stadium in a terrible city with terrible fans and he still fucked shit up.
 
bjpenngoat said:
56 rec for 508 yards 3 td
1815 yards rushing 28 tds


Would you put any other rb year over this?
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Barry's MVP year. Doesn't compare with the TD's it does with the yards. Also Barry in 91 had a decent Lions team up on what many analytics people say is the greatest team of all time in the NFC title game. They got killed after that but one team was never so dependent on a running back and he'd dragged them there(as a running back quite literally dragged).

LT at that time had a fucking stacked team and you really couldn't give LT the attention that was warranted. He also was a rb who had one of the greatest blocking FB's of all time in an era where the position had been all but phased out of the NFL. He'd be in the HOF if the position wasn't seen as unnecessarily. The passing game had a likely HOF QB passing to a HOF TE.

I have LT at number 2 all time after Barry but those stats don't tell the full story. Barry did have one borderline HOF lineman though but still.
 
LT? Lol. Leveon Bell is better than him. So is the Great White Hope MaCaffery.
 
Dirt Road Soldier said:
The season that AP literally carried the Vikings into the playoffs on his back. He was what, 6 yards short of the record that season?
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pv3Hpv3p said:
LT was an absolute stud & won me at least 1 fantasy football championship. For sure that 2006 season... probably the best stat guy I've got to watch... maybe a couple years of Marshall Faulk in the early 2000s?
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Yeah, for RB seasons, I'd go:
1. Adrian Peterson, 2012
2. Marshall Faulk, 2000
3. LT, 2006

AP's season was statistically the least impressive, but it exceeded in the eye test. Minnesota had a mediocre o-line and no passing game and he still averaged 6 yards a carry.
 
AP was laying a manslaughter on his opponent week after week all by himself.

LT was the man, no denying. I loved him so much. He was a more polished player in every way, and much more effortless.

I give an edge to LT.
 
LT might be most complete RB of all time his 2006 regular season was unreal and one for the record books. I miss watching him play he was unbelievable and electric anytime he had the ball in his hands and catching it out of the backfield. AP was amazing in 2012 he deserved the MVP over Peyton Manning that year looking back I wish he would’ve beat the NFL rushing record that year for single season he was only 6 or 7 yards away from beating it.
 
Dirt Road Soldier said:
Thats just it though, they had Ponder. Teams could (and often did) stack the box to stop him because lord knows Ponder wasn't winning them any games. And he still racked up yards, the guy was just playing lights out all season.

Fake edit: Just looked it up, Ponder had 3k yards with 18 TDs and 12 INTs. The leading receiver was Percy fucking Harvin with... 677 yards. AP had just shy of 2100 yards on the ground, with 217 yards receiving and 12 TDs. So yah, AP was quite literally their entire offense, and teams still couldn't stop him. I wouldn't call that an overrated season by any standard.
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He was a destroyer that season
 
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