I'm not too interested in rehashing the McFadden debates of years past, but it's telling that three seasons into his career a single 150+ yard rushing game is such a big deal that it causes people to bump ancient threads and pull out the "See, he doesn't suck!" card. As much as I've enjoyed poking fun at DMC in the past, I often went out of my way to acknowledge that he had explosive speed and would almost certainly yield occasional highlight reel moments. I still rate him clearly behind Rashard Mendenhall, Jonathan Stewart, Chris Johnson, Felix Jones, Ray Rice, and Jamaal Charles as an NFL player and FF asset. We don't bump threads when those guys have good games because we know they're good players and we expect them to excel. However, every time DMC does anything remotely promising the fanboys come out of the woodwork to have themselves a good pat on the back. I think it's telling that his successes have been so few and far between that a good game is still newsworthy.
The fact that some people are bringing the whole BMI thing into the equation is pretty amusing considering that DMC has struggled to stay healthy throughout his NFL career and just recently missed the past two weeks with an injury. Where were the sarcastic BMI remarks when he was sitting on the shelf nursing his chicken legs?
If you go back and read my posts from around the 2008 draft,
my argument wasn't that DMC was complete crap who had no place in the NFL. It was merely that he was an overrated prospect who probably wouldn't become the consistent superstar that his most ardent supporters envisioned. I feel good about that prediction and I think it's funny that people still attack me about DMC when my original opinion was pretty sound. I guess the people who have suffered through seasons of DMC-induced frustration need to savor the rare feeling of success. Be my guest. If landing the 6th or 7th best RB from a draft class with the 1.01 rookie pick is cause for celebration, by all means break out the
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