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S Caleb Downs (All B1G, All-American, National Champion)

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RuGettinIt said:
I always find the best ever argument to be a bit ridiculous. Hard to compare different generations of players.
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
You almost have to do it in tiers for it to make sense. How do you compare Mike Doss to Hopalong?
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No idea what you guys are talking about. I don’t need tiers to know that Gomer Jones is the goat center at OSU. 5’8 and 210 lbs of fury.
 
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1926Buckeyes said:
No idea what you guys are talking about. I don’t need tiers to know that Gomer Jones is the goat center at OSU. 5’8 and 210 lbs of fury.
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You know Gomer and under your avatar it says ‘Head Coach’.

Are you the ghost of Francis “Close the Gates of Mercy” Schmidt, the originator of the Gold Pants?
 
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IMO you have to compare a player in their own era and how they did against their peers. Then you can start to have a cross era comparison conversation. (Which is why, say, the things Babe Ruth did vs his peers is so unlike what anyone else has done vs their peers in sports)

That is why I said Downs is just so visibly better than other players on the same field. That stand out element is universal when you watch the great ones play in their day (whatever day it is). They stand out, it's almost like you can't stop watching them once you see them.

Downs has that level if "it" that I don't recall in an OSU secondary since Winfield.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
IMO you have to compare a player in their own era and how they did against their peers. Then you can start to have a cross era comparison conversation. (Which is why, say, the things Babe Ruth did vs his peers is so unlike what anyone else has done vs their peers in sports)

That is why I said Downs is just so visibly better than other players on the same field. That stand out element is universal when you watch the great ones play in their day (whatever day it is). They stand out, it's almost like you can't stop watching them once you see them.

Downs has that level if "it" that I don't recall in an OSU secondary since Winfield.
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It's always blown my mind that something like the last 530 HRs Ruth hit were extending his own record. Another sort of guy who was so much better than his peers ... Wayne Gretsky. Mario Lemieux was about as close as you can get, but he wasn't that close.
 
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