Deangelo Williams = Brian Westbrook without injury issues

[Munkey]

I think tonight both our backs looked like clones of each other. They both played hard and ran fast.

[TerriblePizza]

He reminds me of Westbrook a little. I'd love to see what he could do with the ball thrown to him half as much as Westbrook.

[British_Panther]

I think tonight both our backs looked like clones of each other. They both played hard and ran fast.

I disagree, you can always tell which back is which in the open field. #34 runs away from defenders, #28 runs TOWARDS them.

[dksmith17]

Not even comparable becuase they play in completely different syles of offenses. But I think talent wise Deangelo might have a small advantage with breaking tackles but Westbrook is a better pass catcher probably. Just think, have you ever seen a Westbrook stiff arm like we saw last night? Or an amazing catch by Deangelo like Westy can do?

[Snake]

Im not gonna jenx us so Im gonna say he is doing good right now.

[rayzor]

i love the westbrook comparison.

do you think he makes a case for best RB of the 2006 class?

the candidates:

Player      		College      		Round   Overall      	NFL team


Reggie Bush		Southern California	1	2		New Orleans


Laurence Maroney	Minnesota		1	21		New England


DeAngelo Williams	Memphis			1	27		Carolina


Joseph Addai		Louisiana State		1	30		Indianapolis


LenDale White		Southern California	2	45		Tennessee


Maurice Drew		UCLA			2	60		Jacksonville


Brian Calhoun		Wisconsin		3	74		Detroit


Jerious Norwood		Mississippi State	3	79		Atlanta


Leon Washington		Florida State		4	117		N.Y. Jets


P.J. Daniels		Georgia Tech		4	132		Baltimore 

addai is talented but is having some injury problems and in a system that is capable of making him good.

MJD is a beast

reggie has tons of potential but they can't figure out how to use him corectly

norwood....i dunno. williams is better

lenwhale will never again see the success he is achieving now

washington is showing some great stuff in NY.

it's a very good class of RBs. i think it may still be a couple years before we know for sure.

[Peppers90 NC]

Well the Eagles have a pass-first philosophy but I do think they are built very similar and have similar skills. Will he be as effective in the pass game is what it would take to be at his level. We still havent figured out to run a screen play, but I like our game plan better than the Eagles anyway, which we bang on the Saints for having a similar philosophy and let the Eagles get away with being frauds as well. They have proved though that teams can run on the Giants and I hope we execute in two weeks like they did.