Dave Dameshek

I'll say you.

Interesting, but the other side of the coin and what I'm pushing at is Cam Newton didn't benefit from any of that kind of talk.

I mean, Cam Newton's body broke down because he, you know, the one of sports enduring ironies is that the biggest dude wears out the fastest.

Like, nobody can get him to the ground.

You mentioned Earl Campbell.

He ran out of gas pretty early.

The anomaly is kind of Jerome Bettis for, you know, making it in the double digits in his career and still being relevant.

Derek Henry.

Shaq wore it.

Well, yeah.

Derek Henry's a great guy to push back with.

He is an exception that proves the rule.

But like Shaq and Lemieux and Eric Lindros and Mark Bavaro and Rob Gronkowski, those guys who are hard to get to the ground when it requires multiple human beings to launch themselves at you.

to to get you to the ground you're the one you're the common factor in all those collisions and so you end up wearing out more quickly than the guys um taking the shots that you are andrew luck was like yeah we get it man like would would carolina would charlotte north carolina have gotten it of cam newton a week before the season or whatever was like yeah body ain't ain't responding the way i'd like it to good luck everybody

I feel like people, as memory serves at least, people, you had no horse in the race with the all-time rushing record.

But I remember there was some like, what the hell are you doing, Barry Sanders?

Just stick around for one more year and break the rushing record.

And then do what you do.

Barry Sanders does that.

It's funny that Barry Sanders still, if you bring his name up in the year of the Lord, 2026, there's a decent percentage of people who say, oh, that's the best running back of all time.