Greatest Bengals RB: Dillon or Brooks?

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(07-19-2017, 02:05 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Brooks Teammates...
QB: Boomer Esiason
WR: Cris Collinsworth, Tim McGee, Eddie Brown
Notable OL: Anthony Munoz, Max Montoya

Dillons Teammates...
QB: Akili Smith
WR: Peter Warrack, Craig Yeast, Ron Dugans
Notable OL: Willie Anderson, Richie Braham

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The fact that they're even COMPARABLE after that tells me all I need to know. Sure Brooks was a superior pass catcher, but if Dillon was on a team that wasn't arguably the worst decade+ in NFL history, he would have easily been a first ballot Hall of Famer.

I put Dillon in the same category as Steven Jackson. On a good team (or even a mediore team) we would be talking about them as among the best of all time.

It's not a coincidence that as soon as Dillon got away from the Bengals, he put up by far the best season of his career despite being 30, and carried (literally and figuratively) his team to a SB win.

He came into the NFL and rolled off 6 straight seasons of 1,100+ yards. I can only imagine what it would have been on a good team.

Funny, I remember more of Jeff Blake as QB, than Akili Smith.  Anyway.  Brooks more a product of the team, and that marvelous OL.  They could have likely gotten similar production out of most any respectable RB.  Dillon, on the other hand, had to carry the team.  He was the big threat that teams had to defend, in order to allow Blake and Pickens, Scott to hook up.  Teams HAD to sell out to stop the run, which allowed so many deep balls to be wide open.