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Originally Posted by AKAKBUCK
Ironically, Dryden, I think CB40 is right... its pretty hard to quantify... (though you left out Big Ten Offensive player of the year in '96  ) the guy was just unbelievable. |
Well, for brevity - and the fact that this is Adams's thread, not Pace's - I left off a lot of stuff, such as the fact that Pace didn't surrender a sack to his man in '95
or '96.
There was a Monday night game two years ago where the Rams played the Colts. Coming into that game, Dwight Freeney was riding a high -- leading the NFL in sacks. What was his line after matching up against Orlando Pace? One tackle and a forced fumble. That's it! One lousy tackle!
I just find it hard to believe, as with Alex Boone before, that anyone can go to a high school game, or watch a few games worth of high school film, and compare a kid dominating his high school division to one of the most dominant OTs to go through college and the NFL, for the last 14 years running (barring his triceps injuries).
Compare Adams to Stringer, or Joe Thomas, or Jake Long, or anybody else that is really, really good. But Pace is on another level, and any comparison to him is way premature.