But I think he might be a top back of all time when you look at it. I want to say top five because I played against him, but I have to respect all these other guys I looked up to. I was a running back. That was my first love as a position on the field, I played running back. I scored my first touchdown as a running back.
My heart has always been in that position and I grew up understanding and watching several running backs. The third would be Jerome Bettis. When you look at guys who changed the game if he gets going, that was LT. He definitely changed the complexity scheme-wise of what you were trying to do on defense if he got going.
When you think about guys who are hard to tackle, I think of [Tomlinson and Bettis] — and AP is up there too — but those two guys had different running styles: Bettis was more power because he was such a big guy, it was hard to wrap him up; but LaDainian would kill you because when he got the iso, open field, one-on-one.
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Spanish La Liga View team list. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Tomlinson was unstoppable for the San Diego Chargers that season, and AFC West teams that met him twice a year faced the brunt of that attack: Tomlinson posted rushing yards, three rushing touchdowns and a passing touchdown in two games against the Raiders.
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Just tell yourself: 'It's gonna hurt. I've got a lot of scars: in the heat of the game, it's so crazy, you don't feel it when you get cut. My wife knows it's a pretty physical game. The only problem she has is when I jump over people into the end zone. She gets on my case about that — every time after a game.
I tell her: 'Honey, desperate times call for desperate measures.
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