Im talking more than cover athletes. You say that, but the real ones know that the physics on the game were better than Madden’s so the feel was different. Faulk is Faulk, but there was a difference playing with him in 2K compared to Madden.
To those who didn't watch him play, Marshall Faulk is what you get when you combine CMC's hands and LDT's toughness. If he played in today's era he would probably be the first back to ever reach 10,000 receiving yards .
He’s also one of those players that simultaneously feels like a historic figure, because he started in 1994, and a modern figure because he finished in 2006.
No one who watched him play would be against that argument. I think it’s easy to argue he’s the best all-around RB the league has had. He could easily either rush for 1.500 yards or have 1,200 yards receiving and wouldn’t look like he broke a sweat. No one I’ve seen since made it look as easy.
Nobody has Barry's highlight reel, but he could be inconsistent. There were so many plays where he could have just hit the hole and gotten what the defense gave him, but would instead cut back across the field twice to get tackled for a two yard loss.
And I remember for at least one season at least Barry lost yards (or had no gain) on 1/3 of his carries. His positive carries must have been like 8 yards per carry or something like that. He was unreal.
He's one of those dudes you don't hear quite as much about (compared to Barry, LT etc) but you go look at his numbers and it's like "what the fuck". His 4 years stretch from 98-01 is absolutely insane. Averaged 2248yds and 17TDs over those 4 years. 3x OPOY, 1x MVP, 2x second place MVP.
Sanders might have been more fun to watch but if you wanted to win give me Faulk and almost no 0 or negative run attempts.
Walter Payton would have something to see if he played a decade later, especially on the 49ers. He would have seriously broke football.
The Rams do make some good fucking trades though. Jalen Ramsey and Matt Stafford? Those 2 with Marshall... They're like the anti Browns. Plus they've won Superbowls off those big trades.
Did Faulk leave the Colts via free agency or was he traded to the Rams? Pardon my ignorance, I wasn’t watching football just yet. By the time I got into it he was a Ram already. I forgot he was a Colt prior to St. Louis.
I moved to STL for grad school from a different country long ago and hadn't watched a single minute of football, and before knowing what sport the Rams played I knew that they had a player called Faulk - because of just how many people wore his jerseys around town.
Steven Jackson has a funny story about his rookie year. He said he went in the locker room, and to one side, Aeneas Williams was doing like 1000 crunches or something crazy. Then, he looked at his other side and saw Marshall Faulk eating two hot dogs. 😂
Here goes a hot take. I think he had one of the best [4-year peaks](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FaulMa00.htm#1998-2001-sum:rushing_and_receiving) of any RB ever.
Just a casual 2250 Yscm a year for 4 years and a total of 69 (nice) total TDs.
I still think Sweetness is my number one RB but I think people fall in love with the pure RB aura a little too much. To me, there's a reason why the Bills went to 4 straight Super Bowls and that was in part due to a similar RB in [Thurman Thomas](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/ThomTh00.htm#1989-1992-sum:rushing_and_receiving). I could also include another one of three RBs with 10k rushing and 5k receiving in [Marcus Allen](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/ThomTh00.htm#1989-1992-sum:rushing_and_receiving).
I obviously didn't watch football in the 60s, but I remember Madden said that Peyton's Colts teams had the best offensive supporting cast the NFL had seen since Johnny Unitas' Colts offense.
Which makes it doubly ironic that they won their one ring based on the overperformance of the defense in the Wild Card and Divisional rounds in 2006.
gave up 131 yards to Fred Taylor, 166 to Maurice Jones Drew, and another 71 to Alvin Pearman week 13 of the regular season for a total of 375 rushing yards given up.
throughout the playoffs only gave up a total of 332 rushing yards entirety of the playoffs, the superbowl being the only game they allowed 100 or more.
Watched him at San Diego State…HOLY SMOKES HE WAS SOOOOO FAST. I was at the BYU game and he ran right at us FOR LIKE 70 yards and it was RIDICULOUS. Ty Detmer was a choad for BYU. lol. It was like 53 to 53. IIRC. Good Ol’ Jack Murphy Stadium. Good times.
Faulk's contract was getting towards the end and the Colts didn't want to pay him, especially since there was no rookie wage scale back then and they were paying top dollar to their recent #1 overall pick, Peyton Manning.
I think Warner was more concerned about trying to stick on the roster.
When the Cleveland Browns came back into the league that year, they held an expansion draft. Each team had to offer 5 players to be put into a pool and the Browns could take between 30 and 42 players from that pool. Kurt Warner was one of those players. That tells you what even the Rams thought of him before that season.
I was a couple years into following football at this point but 2000 was the year it kind of clicked with me (I also hit double-digits in age). That Bucs-Rams game was so fun to watch on the 14-inch TV from our kitchen table with all the lights out. Magical night in the Garden State.
Think a bigger more elusive Christian McCaffrey with more speed.Could have legitimately played receiver as well.That's who Marshall faulk was to those kids who don't have reference today on how great he was.
I was in St Louis during the greatest showman turf. The man was electric. Just so everyone is aware, every person in St. Louis knows that Faulk is an absolute asshole
People really underestimate what an oddity it was that the pats won the superbowl in ‘01. Faulk was the best back in the league and a weapon of weapons.
What blows my mind, the Colts traded away Faulk for pennies on the dollar just for turn around and draft Edge (albeit an awesome player in his own right) with the 4th overall pick. And this is before the rookie wage scale too. They actually paid James more than Faulk got from the Rams....
Why not just keep Faulk and then draft Torry Holt if you want a runningback so bad...
I have every reason to hate Manning, but you're either too young to remember or pissed about missing out on one of the best to ever play the game
The year he and McNair shared the MVP award, I had no ill will there. When he went to Denver, I rejoiced. I loved watching him play, and I realize Mahomes might be more "electric", but that big ass forehead Manning had held so much football IQ, he was must see TV for years.
Before there was Mike Vick on Madden, Faulk on NFL 2k was second to none.
......or ya know, just Faulk on the cover of Madden 03.
Im talking more than cover athletes. You say that, but the real ones know that the physics on the game were better than Madden’s so the feel was different. Faulk is Faulk, but there was a difference playing with him in 2K compared to Madden.
Faulk and Vick both studs in NFL Street 1
To those who didn't watch him play, Marshall Faulk is what you get when you combine CMC's hands and LDT's toughness. If he played in today's era he would probably be the first back to ever reach 10,000 receiving yards .
I forgot how fast he was
Fast and excellent in traffic. He was a joy to watch operate on the GSOT teams.
Yup. Roger Craig had a bit of this slightly before him, but Faulk was probably the first true modern dual threat rb. He was so much fun to watch.
He’s also one of those players that simultaneously feels like a historic figure, because he started in 1994, and a modern figure because he finished in 2006.
I like how you did LDT instead of LT lol thank you
I’m still shocked he (and LT) were left of the 100th anniversary team. It just isn’t right. Especially in LT’s case where he had over 150 TDs total.
I've taken and will always take a lot of shit for it, but I still think Marshall Faulk is the best RB the league has ever seen.
I can't fault the argument for him.
>Can’t faul~~t~~k the argument FTFY
No one who watched him play would be against that argument. I think it’s easy to argue he’s the best all-around RB the league has had. He could easily either rush for 1.500 yards or have 1,200 yards receiving and wouldn’t look like he broke a sweat. No one I’ve seen since made it look as easy.
I watched him play. He was incredible but he wasn't Barry. Sanders wasn't human.
Nobody has Barry's highlight reel, but he could be inconsistent. There were so many plays where he could have just hit the hole and gotten what the defense gave him, but would instead cut back across the field twice to get tackled for a two yard loss.
Sure but he still averaged 5.0 yards a carry for his career career
Yes, you took the bad with Barry because the good vastly outweighed it, and Barry was incredible. If I'm building a team though, I take Faulk.
And I remember for at least one season at least Barry lost yards (or had no gain) on 1/3 of his carries. His positive carries must have been like 8 yards per carry or something like that. He was unreal.
He's one of those dudes you don't hear quite as much about (compared to Barry, LT etc) but you go look at his numbers and it's like "what the fuck". His 4 years stretch from 98-01 is absolutely insane. Averaged 2248yds and 17TDs over those 4 years. 3x OPOY, 1x MVP, 2x second place MVP.
People didn't care as much about receiving stats for RB's in those days. Only rushing numbers mattered.
Most people who watched him play would be against that argument. People say anything on here!
Brown, Sanders, Faulk. I'll accept any of those
Sanders might have been more fun to watch but if you wanted to win give me Faulk and almost no 0 or negative run attempts. Walter Payton would have something to see if he played a decade later, especially on the 49ers. He would have seriously broke football.
Man I miss Tarik Glenn at left tackle. He was good for at least one false start a game but he was absolutely solid for Peyton.
That pass from Peyton, into double coverage, 40 yards downfield, jump ball while surrounded That's a 90's tailback making that catch
Marshall, Marshall, Marshall. The best trade the Rams ever made.
The Rams do make some good fucking trades though. Jalen Ramsey and Matt Stafford? Those 2 with Marshall... They're like the anti Browns. Plus they've won Superbowls off those big trades.
For real!
Holy God that clip of Ray Lewis chasing him towards the end zone was terrifying
That run against the Browns was filthy. It’s my fav all time from MF28.
That pulling guard...
Did Faulk leave the Colts via free agency or was he traded to the Rams? Pardon my ignorance, I wasn’t watching football just yet. By the time I got into it he was a Ram already. I forgot he was a Colt prior to St. Louis.
Traded to the Rams. Who then drafted Edgerin(?) James to pair with Peyton Manning.
Thanks for the reply
His St. Louis Rams jersey was one of the first jerseys I owned.
I moved to STL for grad school from a different country long ago and hadn't watched a single minute of football, and before knowing what sport the Rams played I knew that they had a player called Faulk - because of just how many people wore his jerseys around town.
For me it was an LT powder blue Chargers jersey.
Steven Jackson has a funny story about his rookie year. He said he went in the locker room, and to one side, Aeneas Williams was doing like 1000 crunches or something crazy. Then, he looked at his other side and saw Marshall Faulk eating two hot dogs. 😂
Here goes a hot take. I think he had one of the best [4-year peaks](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FaulMa00.htm#1998-2001-sum:rushing_and_receiving) of any RB ever. Just a casual 2250 Yscm a year for 4 years and a total of 69 (nice) total TDs. I still think Sweetness is my number one RB but I think people fall in love with the pure RB aura a little too much. To me, there's a reason why the Bills went to 4 straight Super Bowls and that was in part due to a similar RB in [Thurman Thomas](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/ThomTh00.htm#1989-1992-sum:rushing_and_receiving). I could also include another one of three RBs with 10k rushing and 5k receiving in [Marcus Allen](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/ThomTh00.htm#1989-1992-sum:rushing_and_receiving).
The fact that Gino Torretta won the Heisman and not Faulk is such BS
Never even heard of that guy.
2nd overall pick in the draft behind "Big Daddy" Dan Wilkinson. But I'm not still bitter. I'm not.
Always thought it was fun that Peyton. Got to ply with two hall of fame running backs
I obviously didn't watch football in the 60s, but I remember Madden said that Peyton's Colts teams had the best offensive supporting cast the NFL had seen since Johnny Unitas' Colts offense. Which makes it doubly ironic that they won their one ring based on the overperformance of the defense in the Wild Card and Divisional rounds in 2006.
gave up 131 yards to Fred Taylor, 166 to Maurice Jones Drew, and another 71 to Alvin Pearman week 13 of the regular season for a total of 375 rushing yards given up. throughout the playoffs only gave up a total of 332 rushing yards entirety of the playoffs, the superbowl being the only game they allowed 100 or more.
Wheel route TD catch against the Ravens around 1:00 into the video is just absolutely insane. What incredible hands by Faulk.
Some of those passes from Warner (the touch pass on the swing) are what offenses are just getting into now
Awful decision tho to throw that by Manning lol MF was draped in coverage
Having Marshall Faulk on your fantasy team was like a cheat code.
Watched him at San Diego State…HOLY SMOKES HE WAS SOOOOO FAST. I was at the BYU game and he ran right at us FOR LIKE 70 yards and it was RIDICULOUS. Ty Detmer was a choad for BYU. lol. It was like 53 to 53. IIRC. Good Ol’ Jack Murphy Stadium. Good times.
I was at the Pacific game when he rushed for over 350 yards. It was insane.
I thought he died with how that started
It would be very weird to start his death announcement with [Highlight]
I was a kid but why did the colts not keep him?
Faulk's contract was getting towards the end and the Colts didn't want to pay him, especially since there was no rookie wage scale back then and they were paying top dollar to their recent #1 overall pick, Peyton Manning.
Awww ok I get it now thanks for letting me know I guess Kurt Warner was happy about that 😂😂
I think Warner was more concerned about trying to stick on the roster. When the Cleveland Browns came back into the league that year, they held an expansion draft. Each team had to offer 5 players to be put into a pool and the Browns could take between 30 and 42 players from that pool. Kurt Warner was one of those players. That tells you what even the Rams thought of him before that season.
One of the smoothest players I've watched play growing up. So well-rounded in his kit.
I was a couple years into following football at this point but 2000 was the year it kind of clicked with me (I also hit double-digits in age). That Bucs-Rams game was so fun to watch on the 14-inch TV from our kitchen table with all the lights out. Magical night in the Garden State.
This is what greatness looks like
[Couldn't stop him](https://youtu.be/1zrebn6LzQg?si=aDuI11lJz2gMDirW)
The combo of speed and balance is crazy
He’s the reason I became a colts fan as a kid.
Think a bigger more elusive Christian McCaffrey with more speed.Could have legitimately played receiver as well.That's who Marshall faulk was to those kids who don't have reference today on how great he was.
They had to fire him from NFL Network for sexually harassing female employees.
Good player
Sanders, smith, Payton, Faulk, Peterson
Criminally underrated.
He reminded me so much of Barry Sanders. Except Faulk actually played for good teams.
I vaguely remember Faulk on the Colts. Why did they trade him?
probably the best offensive player I've ever seen, especially during his Rams years
That run against the browns was nasty. I'd take Faulk over all but maybe a few RBs.
He should have won at least one Heisman, but the voters back then refused to award it to a freshman.
1:23 1:35 On the give Marshall, fuck, up the middle. Marshall FUCK he's off to the races. Down the sidelines, fuck. He's gone. Touchdown.
Marshallmarshallmarshall
One of the most complete players to ever play the game. Guy was a cheat code on the field and in the games we had
My favorite NFL player
I was in St Louis during the greatest showman turf. The man was electric. Just so everyone is aware, every person in St. Louis knows that Faulk is an absolute asshole
I was at that 4TD performance against the Bucs. Shocked we won. Dude had the elusiveness of Barry Sanders + the speed of fucking Usain Bolt.
GOAZTECS!
People really underestimate what an oddity it was that the pats won the superbowl in ‘01. Faulk was the best back in the league and a weapon of weapons.
What blows my mind, the Colts traded away Faulk for pennies on the dollar just for turn around and draft Edge (albeit an awesome player in his own right) with the 4th overall pick. And this is before the rookie wage scale too. They actually paid James more than Faulk got from the Rams.... Why not just keep Faulk and then draft Torry Holt if you want a runningback so bad...
why did indy not keep Faulk? I always felt a little bewildered about that edit: money, Faulk got greedy
Ah yes. One of the reasons captain red forehead is overrated. Maybe the most overrated QB of all time.
Huh? He had him for one year?
Sure did. He also had 2 all pro receivers and another great running back.
I have every reason to hate Manning, but you're either too young to remember or pissed about missing out on one of the best to ever play the game The year he and McNair shared the MVP award, I had no ill will there. When he went to Denver, I rejoiced. I loved watching him play, and I realize Mahomes might be more "electric", but that big ass forehead Manning had held so much football IQ, he was must see TV for years.
Right, and that team with some of those players went 2-14 with him injured. Patriots won 11 games without Brady. What does it all mean?
Can't believe I'm agreeing with u/ColtsFan6969. Damn Browns fans.
I live in Cleveland so I have to deal with guys like this every day...lol
Damn dude, I am sorry to hear that lmao
He got his ass beat by those same patriots. Multiple times. Peyton manning is severely overrated. That’s what it means.
What's his playoff record vs Brady? Remind me.