Barry was every bit as big of a weapon as Emmit, it's just harder to deploy that weapon when everyone's expecting it. The thing that makes Emmit have bigger numbers is his whole team. People say Barry didn't inspire people and whatnot, I disagree. He inspired a bunch of mediocre players to be a *decent* team for several of his years, in spite of having Scott Mitchell as our QB and cokehead Wayne Fontes as our coach. In the mid-late 90's (95? 97? I forget) the Lions had one of the most prolific passing offenses of all time, do you know why? Because on any play, Barry could run sideline-to-sideline 3 times and then break one for 80 yards, 15 seconds after getting the ball. When you're watching for that, receivers will be open and QBs will complete passes. Even if they are Scott Mitchell.Momopi wrote:Then you can say if Bo Jackson was on the cowboys he would have been better than both Barry and Emmitt by a longshot. Barry just wasnt as big of a weapon as Emmitt was.
They're both great backs, and the arguing of if this and if that will never really get us anywhere; Barry is retired and Emmit is still playing. For my money though, I'd rather watch Barry play any day over watching Emmit, I always found him to be much more exciting.
