There goes Herschel! Here comes Lehcsreh!

Buddy Ryan said he ran like a hen.

Which he did, with the Vikings and beyond.

I believe the Star-Tribune still bestows ignominious players with a Herschel Award.

All this business is clearly PR for the book. A very odd leak at a suspect time.

 

Didn't he again about 4,700 yards in his first season with the New Jersey Generals?

 

http://www.thisistheusfl.com/1sundaysheroes.htm

 

Never played for the Vikings.

 

Herschel will be on Nightline tonight to talk about his book. And Lehcsreh.

 

Straight-ahead runner. Could run over guys in the colleges, and roll.

In the pros, if he had to cut and alter course, there went 90% of his effectiveness.

 

Man, if I could find that mp3 of the Walker trade announcement, Rosie would banish me to Yawlanew quicker than you can say "Russell Maryland."

 

Bingo. Force him to go laterally and he was pretty much useless.

He was so robotic and stiff, and it became apparent after a while that he didn't want to meet up with anyone head on.

 

Y'all do realize that Herschel ran for 8,200 yards in the NFL (which doesn't even include his 5,500 rushing yards in three USFL seasons)? And gained 18,000 all-purpose yards just in the NFL, good for eighth all-time, right between, oh, one B. Sanders and one M. Allen?

"Useless." Right. ... Never let the facts get in the way of 20-year-old impressions of a guy. :

 

That Dooley quote is going in my sig.

 

forget the numbers for a moment

herschel was a stats compiler

herschel was an extremely limited runner. he would get a 70-yard run, then eight of his next 10 runs would be for 0 or 1 yard or negative yards. the game would over, you'd look at the numbers -- hey, herschel was 17-for-96, not bad. but then you saw how he did it - and what he gave his team on third and short - and realize why he's one of the most overrated RBs in NFL history

look at the teams herschel was with

every one of them got worse when he arrived and got better when he left

 

Yeah, that had nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with the fact that Dallas got about 80 draft picks for him in the trade.

Or that the Vikings got rid of a mediocre coach like Jerry Burns, or that the Eagles got rid of Rich Kotite(!), the same year after Herschel left.

Not saying that he wasn't a limited runner. But he wasn't overrated -- he was still a pretty damn good all-purpose guy in the NFL, despite playing for a lot of average teams -- it's just that the expectations coming out of college were so high that it was inevitable he didn't meet them. ... But when you look back on it, he was still very good.