What is your feeling on Ellington's upcoming season

[Mulli]

Larry Centers gets shafted, every time. No respect. The dude had 100 receptions in 95 and 99 in 96. As a running back. He was a new-age RB in a 1995 league. He still owns records for passes caught and yardage for a RB. He was a better version of Roger Craig on a very bad, pathetically bad, team with no offensive line. Still owns records for most receptions by a RB and 2nd most by any non-WR in football. Caught passes in 128 consecutive games. The dude was a badass and was the best player on our team in those years by far. Today he would excel extremely well and be known as one of the best, most modern HB's/FB's in the game.

He was a joy to watch, and if you are a real Cardinal fan, at that time, he was the only thing to watch.

(Edit: And honestly, sometimes I wonder, when people throw out stats like his carries per game, or average per carry a game, whether they ever watched Cardinals football in those years. He wasn't used in that way, but what he was used for he excelled at exceptionally well)

Better version of Roger Craig? What? Centers was awesome with his effort, but he was a good player on a bad team. Other teams were more than happy to let Centers catch a dump off pass for 6 yards on 3rd and 11.

 

[D-Dogg]

Better version of Roger Craig? What? Centers was awesome with his effort, but he was a good player on a bad team. Other teams were more than happy to let Centers catch a dump off pass for 6 yards on 3rd and 11.

Thank you.

While Larry himself was awesome, I absolutely hated the Larry Centers offense. When your FB is catching 100 passes and you lose a lot of games, that's not good football.

A fullback should be blocking and getting an occasional carry to the upback, a flare pass or two, etc. This is an offense. Larry did none of those things, but he caught a lot of passes and made some awesome runs and open field moves. To the detriment of a real offense. I like what Larry did, but hate the fact that the team leaned on a FB as their offensive go-to.

And yes, I know that's an unpopular opinion.

 

[Mulli]

Thank you.

While Larry himself was awesome, I absolutely hated the Larry Centers offense. When your FB is catching 100 passes and you lose a lot of games, that's not good football.

A fullback should be blocking and getting an occasional carry to the upback, a flare pass or two, etc. This is an offense. Larry did none of those things, but he caught a lot of passes and made some awesome runs and open field moves. To the detriment of a real offense. I like what Larry did, but hate the fact that the team leaned on a FB as their offensive go-to.

And yes, I know that's an unpopular opinion.

it is the correct one.