Who is your Greatest Rams Running Back of All Time?

[Loyal]

if it wasn't for John Cappelletti, I probably would have followed most of my family and been a Jets fan, and still be in a state of depression

I had a soft spot in my heart for Cappelletti....

 

[RhodyRams]

I had a soft spot in my heart for Cappelletti....

my Godfathers last name is Cappelletti..no relation tho

but is the soft spot because he made me a Rams fan, or because of his story?

 

[BC Ramfan]

Marshall.

ED was really big and really fast. Terrifying runner.
But RB includes receiving and pass blocking.
So Marshall, easily.

BC

 

[XXXIVwin]

I've been re-watching the 1983 Rams-Cowboys wildcard playoff game. Good Lord, ED was a freak of nature. That combo of big, strong, fast, and quick. Just a bit better than everyone else.

So I voted MF as my pick for greatest Rams RB of all time. Combo yards, football IQ, championship pedigree, the engine of the GSOT. But ED is awful close. As far as pure talent, I'd have to give it to ED. Who knows what Martz or McVay coulda done with this guy? Or even if the Rams had been a functional team and didn't trade him away?

Re-watching that 1983 game just reminded me how unstoppable he was.

 

[Allen2McVay]

I've been re-watching the 1983 Rams-Cowboys wildcard playoff game. Good Lord, ED was a freak of nature. That combo of big, strong, fast, and quick. Just a bit better than everyone else.

So I voted MF as my pick for greatest Rams RB of all time. Combo yards, football IQ, championship pedigree, the engine of the GSOT. But ED is awful close. As far as pure talent, I'd have to give it to ED. Who knows what Martz or McVay coulda done with this guy? Or even if the Rams had been a functional team and didn't trade him away?

Re-watching that 1983 game just reminded me how unstoppable he was.

If you enjoyed that game, you may also want to pull-up the 1985 Divisional Round win over Dallas.

 

[PhillyRam]

If you enjoyed that game, you may also want to pull-up the 1985 Divisional Round win over Dallas.

Color Commentator Hank Schram: "It's the bye bye blues"

After Dickerson ripped off his 55yrd TD run

 

[AvengerRam]

Let me settle this:

Best runner: Eric Dickerson
Best all-around back: Marshall Faulk
Best aggregate career as a Ram: Steven Jackson
Most unreached potential: Todd Gurley
Worst pizza topping: pineapple

Any questions?

 

[Giles]

Sjax is Hella underrated as a all around rb. He was the only reason to watch the rams during my teenage years.

 

[Kupped]

Would be like choosing a favorite kid. Can't.

 

[Tano]

Let me settle this:

Best runner: Eric Dickerson
Best all-around back: Marshall Faulk
Best aggregate career as a Ram: Steven Jackson
Most unreached potential: Todd Gurley
Worst pizza topping: pineapple

Any questions?

Thread winner just for the worst pizza topping

 

[gogoat1]

Stop it, the best Rams RB of all time was ED.
Rookie rushing record. Still stands today even with more games.
Single season rushing record. Still stands today even with more games.
Playoff game rushing record. Still stands to this day.
What more can the man do ?
Its not his fault we had a stupid, cheap front office.
Dickerson got a fucking cake after his record season.
He should have gotten a Lambo.
And bell peppers are the worst pizza topping by far. They take over the pizza.

 

[RamsFan4Life]

Well you know recency bias and all of that! haha

Shit apparently I'm guilty of it myself because I know McCutcheon but didn't realize he had that many yards and I'm ashamed to admit it but it's the truth, I didn't know who Dick Bass is/was until I just looked up this list from your post! smfh

Well there is a rabbit hole I need to throw myself into.

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Well, there plays into the conversation again of the 60's-mid 80's I have a hole of knowledge with.

Awesome vid but at :20 seconds wtf is that other guy on our team thinking catching up and knocking him down? lol


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HzbnIHBxPw

Do not forget that Popeye Forearms Lawrence McCutheon ran for all those yards during an era when the game wasn’t so “refined”……

Guys legitimately were trying to rip guys heads off, and slobberknockers and de-cleating hits were celebrated.

LM was one of the toughest SOBs to ever tote the rock

 

[Tano]

Stop it, the best Rams RB of all time was ED.
Rookie rushing record. Still stands today even with more games.
Single season rushing record. Still stands today even with more games.
Playoff game rushing record. Still stands to this day.
What more can the man do ?
Its not his fault we had a stupid, cheap front office.
Dickerson got a fucking cake after his record season.
He should have gotten a Lambo.
And bell peppers are the worst pizza topping by far. They take over the pizza.

Yeah I am not a big fan of bell peppers either on a pizza.

I had a friend come over one day back in the 90s and we decided to order pizza.

I stated that you can put whatever topping on the pizza as long as it wasn't bell peppers nor pineapple.

Well. she stated that she only wanted a pizza with those toppings. And I refused.

She even said we can have half of it whatever I wanted and the other half pineapple and bell peppers.

And I told her, the bell peppers will bleed over to the other half and ruin the pizza. She couldn't believe what she was hearing.

Well, we argued for about 30 minutes or so and we gave up on ordering the pizza lol.

However, she did come back to me another day and said a co-worker agreed with me about the bell peppers bleeding over.

 

[Soul Surfer]

I go back to the Lawrence McCutcheon days and I have to go with Eric Dickerson.
The records he broke, the yards per game.
How smooth and athletic he looked when he ran.
Those gazelle legs.
Serious poetry in motion.

He was the only player I ever saw that made Tom Landry give up in a playoff game.
The Rams were at Dallas and early in the fourth quarter Tom Landry started putting in his second stringers hoping to avoid an embarrassing blowout.

Marshall Faulk runs a close second, IMO, because of his ability to catch the ball was an extra problem for defenses and led to quite a few extra wins for the Rams.