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 Location: KHAAANNNN!!!!!
Registered: 04-21-2000
Posts: 7000
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I just looked him up. He was 5'8" and 182 pounds. He played from 1975-77 with the Packers and then from 1978 to 1984 with the Cardinals. Looks like he was 3 yards and a cloud of dust kind of guy. Anyway, nope, I didn't remember him.
http://www.nfl.com/players/willardharrell/careerstats?id=HAR322725 |
 Location: The Halls of Hallowed Ground
Registered: 05-18-2007
Posts: 853
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Guys & Gals - we don't have to go that far back to find louse RBs. How about these:
DeMonn Parker - 01 Rafel Cooper - 01 Raymond Harris - 98 Travis Jervey - 98 Michael Blair - 98 Basil Mitchell - 99 Brent Moss - 99 Edwin Watson - 99 Chris McCoy - 00 Tony Fisher - 02 Rondell Mealy - 02 Maurice Smith - 02 Cut 5 in 03 - some I don't remember. You get the idea. We have seen a lot of bodies come through GB. Not many did anything. Grant better get his body back into action or Jackson will be starting. I don't understand what his hold up is. He doesn't have any leverage - unless he has pictures or something. |
 Location: NW Chicago Burbs
Registered: 02-07-2000
Posts: 18111
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I couldn't disagree more with those who say that Jackson's best future is a "solid #2 back." I see a kid that can do it all, and he has that "it" factor when he is in traffic that gets him into a hole. He sees holes before they open. He showed that in college. With a solid training regimen and all the time in the classroom, he's going to be an excellent RB. Ryan Grant is slash and burn- Brandon Jackson is make them miss and explode. They'll compliment each other, but I think eventually Jackson will be the Packers best and most valuable RB. I think he has all the tools and some of the intangibles that only the elite RBs have.
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 Location: Dining in hell...
Registered: 04-10-2001
Posts: 5290
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Great name, though. Loved the way it rolled off Pat Summerall's tongue. I can still hear him...
Thunder and lightning. Love it!! |
 Location: San Diego
Registered: 12-19-2005
Posts: 6826
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No thread of crappola GBP RB's would really be complete without the likes of the immortal Mike Meade and Del "Popcorn" Rogers in the mid-80's. Not sure if UW's Gary Ellerson was mentioned yet, but if not, he had one ridiculous game in the pros (I think he went for 240 or something crazy against Detoilet once) and was basically never heard from again. Let us also not forget the early 90's FA stoolpot signing of the great John Stephens and Reggie Cobb. Those guys were brought in to make up for other greats including Brent Fullwood, Kenneth Davis (who went on to be a good pro in BUF, I believe) and Keith Woodside.
Jackson is gonna be a good RB. There sure are a lot of guys on this thread who sucked, that's for sure. |
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Location: NW Chicago Burbs
Registered: 02-07-2000
Posts: 18111
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Meade's leaping plunge into the EZ against Washington on that record-setting MNF game was a thing of beauty... |
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Location: San Diego
Registered: 12-19-2005
Posts: 6826
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Yep. That's the only reason I really remember him, except that I was 11 then, was at the game and thought how he was gonna be awesome. Nope. However, that play earned his immortality. Didn't Ellerson flunk out of UW as well and wound up a low-round pick partially as a result? There was some sort of baggage attached to him. The Forrest Gregg era - go figure. Ah, happy memories of my youth... |
 Location: Somewhere
Registered: 02-02-2000
Posts: 12813
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IF we wanted lousy, how about Paul Ott Carruth, Herman Fontenot, Darrel Haddix, LeShon Johnson, among others...
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 Location: st paul
Registered: 08-11-2007
Posts: 845
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Vince Workman |
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Location: st paul
Registered: 08-11-2007
Posts: 845
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Johnny Gray talked up Deshawn Wynn on the 5/28 sportsline show, iirc. They're posted on www.packernet.com
I think the coaches are still down on Wynn, though, aren't they? Seems to me I heard something to that effect. Just wondering what you guys might have heard, since Johnny might know something I don't. |
 Location: Land of Enchantment
Registered: 03-19-2000
Posts: 3341
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This was in the RB article at the JSO site and it doesn't really sound too encouraging. I notice it says "Fullback Wynn" and I'm gonna assume that's just a mistake as I've heard nothing about him switching to FB.
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Location: st paul
Registered: 08-11-2007
Posts: 845
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Thanks. Wynn's got talent. He could be the Thunder. He's just gotta man up, that's all. This time of year there's always reports about players "rededicating themselves." I remember articles to this effect about Charles Lee. I like Edgar Bennet as a coach, though. If anyone can get the message through to Wynn, it's him. |
 Location: Corn Rows, not just for your head.
Registered: 09-22-2002
Posts: 24824
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Wynn has had the same rap since college. All the tools, no heart, crappy attitude. I could easily see him getting cut. |
 Location: Catskill Mtns., NY, USA
Registered: 05-02-2002
Posts: 7132
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Ghost of Lambeau wrote:
Jervey was a special teamer, not an RB. (Well, they may have tried to use him at RB, but it was a mistake.) He even went to the Pro Bowl in the ST spot one season. |
 Location: Jersey Shore
Registered: 05-02-2006
Posts: 1071
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He also had a pet F'N lion. |
 Location: Boise, Idaho via Madison
Registered: 02-14-2000
Posts: 1658
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And he was a surfer dude. May not have been a great Packer, but a very colorful character at the very least. |
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Location: Dining in hell...
Registered: 04-10-2001
Posts: 5290
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Travis had the best hair on the team...
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 Location: I've got big balls, and they're such big balls
Registered: 10-04-2004
Posts: 9214
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You were a kid in 1992 but recall seeing the Packers in the 80's and then you worked at KFAN in '95/'96. Do you have access to Professor Peabody's Wayback machine? |
 Location: The shed behind Boris Castle.
Registered: 03-20-2005
Posts: 6500
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Location: I've got big balls, and they're such big balls
Registered: 10-04-2004
Posts: 9214
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Since Rodgers is so smart he should have no trouble reading and recognizing all these blitzes! |
 Location: Northern Mi.
Registered: 08-27-2001
Posts: 873
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Yeah but so did Roy from Vegas and look where that got him. |
 Location: (PPP) Poster Protection Program
Registered: 05-15-2007
Posts: 1000
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I'm sure Max will be fired up about my history... I was 12 when I became a Packers fan...I'm 40, now...like Mike Gundy. I worked at KFAN when I was a "kid". I was in my 20's. I stopped working in the biz in my 30's. 2002 to be exact. If you add the time I was an intern in early '95 to my leaving the field in mid 2002 you get about 7+ years. Hope that clears that up for you. Yes...I started following the Pack in '80 but recall watching John Brockington. Loved the list of all the old Packer stiff RB's... My old favorites were "Ellis and Ivery"...as an idiot kid I wrote a song about them parodying "Ebony and Ivory"... Side by side in the Packers backfield... It was hot, baybay. |
 Location: Milton WI
Registered: 03-10-2001
Posts: 1432
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