One of the Greats of all time ... Rate Him?

[Long island EFL]

4 hours ago, RickLM30 said:

One other thing to consider in Campbell's favor was that when he played he was the back.  There was no halfback in the backfield with him.  Everyone knew he was going to get the ball.  Brown had Green or Kelly and Taylor had Hornung with them, so they didn't have the defense keying on just them.  That made Earl's job a little harder! 😊

That is true and he was so hard to bring down and of course we wouldn't deny any of these guys in our backfield and he might have lasted even longer if you had some type of support in the backfield with him or even a huge block in back I don't remember if he had that

[Paul Kian]

26 minutes ago, Long island EFL said:

That is true and he was so hard to bring down and of course we wouldn't deny any of these guys in our backfield and he might have lasted even longer if you had some type of support in the backfield with him or even a huge block in back I don't remember if he had that

If I remember correctly (and I could be mixing up coaches), the Oilers of Campbell's era were one of the "Run-and-Shoot" teams that were also heavy users of the Ace formation, but with 3 WR and 1 TE instead of the Joe Gibbs 2 TE flexback set. So he probably never had much of a lead blocker.

[Long island EFL]

3 hours ago, Paul Kian said:

If I remember correctly (and I could be mixing up coaches), the Oilers of Campbell's era were one of the "Run-and-Shoot" teams that were also heavy users of the Ace formation, but with 3 WR and 1 TE instead of the Joe Gibbs 2 TE flexback set. So he probably never had much of a lead blocker.

Bum Phillips was the Coach but if Campbell had a big blocking back like OJ had in Braxton, who knows, he may have added a little more longevity to his career.

[RickLM30]

4 hours ago, Paul Kian said:

If I remember correctly (and I could be mixing up coaches), the Oilers of Campbell's era were one of the "Run-and-Shoot" teams that were also heavy users of the Ace formation, but with 3 WR and 1 TE instead of the Joe Gibbs 2 TE flexback set. So he probably never had much of a lead blocker.

Yup, you are right.  He had no help. The Oilers listed him as a running back and they had a couple guys listed as fullbacks, but they hardly ever were actually on the field. Also, they did run from the :run and shoot".  Also agree with Long Island EFL, if Campbell had some help in the backfield he would probably have been even better and lasted longer.

[Long island EFL]

14 hours ago, Long island EFL said:

That is true and he was so hard to bring down and of course we wouldn't deny any of these guys in our backfield and he might have lasted even longer if you had some type of support in the backfield with him or even a huge block in back I don't remember if he had that

Did you guys notice that your words get changed on here?  If I am not mistaken, I thought I wrote blocking-back, but that is not what it says. LOL!

[Paul Kian]

3 hours ago, Long island EFL said:

Did you guys notice that your words get changed on here?  If I am not mistaken, I thought I wrote blocking-back, but that is not what it says. LOL!

Haha, yeah I've noticed that sometimes my words get changed or some spaces between the words disappear. As long as it doesn't change to a swear word or something I'm not too worried. 😊

[RickLM30]

Yeah, once in awhile.  As long as it doesn't make it look like I'm cursing by throwing extra letters in there, I'm ok with it... 😊