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PHIMan - PHILS NLCS! said 12/20, 08:11 PM
Only accept this TD if you do not think that Fred Taylor should have made the pro bowl.

Alright, I think that Fred Taylor got snubbed from the pro bowl. Here are the 3 Running backs that made it in front of him:

Ladanian Tomlinson
Willie Parker
Joseph Addai

I said he only should have made it instead of one of them and it is not Tomlinson, so it is one of the other two, so lets compare.

Fred Taylor shares carries with MJD and still manages to have the 4th most rushing yards in the AFC, that is amazing. He even has more yards than Addai despite Addai having 35 more carries than Taylor.

Fred Taylor averages a staggering 5.1 yards per carry. Addai averages 4.1 yards per carry and Parker also averages 4.1 yards per carry. So Taylor averages a whole yard more than both Addai and Parker.

Fred Taylor has 4 touchdowns and Parker has 2 touchdowns. So Parker has 104 more carries than Taylor and Taylor has 2 more touchdowns.

Taylor has 42 1st down runs, Parker has 49 and Addai has 60. So Taylor has much less carries than both of them and is still very close to Parker at least in 1st down runs. Also Parker has fumbled 4 times and Taylor has only fumbled twice.

PHIMan - PHILS NLCS! said 12/20, 09:02 PM
Alright here are my cases for Taylor over Parker and Taylor over Addai. Remember I just said one of them, I would probably take Taylor over Parker more than Taylor over Addai.

Taylor averages 1 more YPC than Parker and that is a lot. Taylor only has 7 less 1st doqwn runs than Parker despite Parker having more than 100 more carries than Taylor. Taylor has 2 more touchdowns than Parker. If Taylor would have 320 attempts like Parker, Taylor would have about 1632 yards, that is a close number since he averages 5.1 YPC.

This is a response to your reason why Parker does not have much TD. Taylor has more even though he has way less carries and splits time with MJD. MJD will take away touchdowns. MJD has 8 TD, so Taylor could have more TD.

As I said I believe Taylor should have made it over Parker more than he making it over Addai.

Taylor has more yards than Addai despite 35 less carries. Taylor, also averages 5.1 YPC, so if he had the same amount of carries as Addai, he would have a lot more yards than Addai.

Addai is on a better team with a better passing game than the Jags. With the passing game Addai is in, it makes it easier to receive and run.

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PHIMan - PHILS NLCS! said 12/21, 10:34 PM
Alright I cannot really argue against your argument because you missed the deadline, so you had your argument forfeited.

Addai is on a better team with a better passing game than the Jaguars. With the passing game Addai is in, it makes it much easier to be a better receiving running back than where Taylor is at.

That also creates a lot of holes to run through because they are afraid of the passing game also. The Jaguars do not have as good as a passing game as the Colts do.

That was continued from my last argument that I could not fit in there.

I know the pro bowl is more of a popularity contest these days, but Fred Taylor still deserved the pro bowl more than Willie Parker mainly because he averaged more yards, had more touchdowns, and was very close in other categories despite having way less carries and playing time to rack up the stats that Willie Parker could.

I the last 5 games Taylor has averaged 114.4 yards per game with 3 TD and Parker has averaged 88.8 yards per game without scoring a single TD in the past 5 games.

Taylor averages the most yards per carry in the AFC and he is doing all of this at the age of 31 years old. Now that is impressive!!