Our eyes are misleading, are they not?
Since the 1990s, when DNA testing was first introduced, Innocence Project researchers have reported that 73 percent of the 239 convictions overturned through DNA testing were based on eyewitness testimony. One third of these overturned cases rested on the testimony of two or more mistaken eyewitnesses. How could so many eyewitnesses be wrong?
Barry Sanders LOOKED amazing. He was fast, yes, but the shiftiest player we'd ever seen. Hell, he could walk on water, I bet. I saw him juke 2 All-American defenders and made them grasp at air. Darn tootin'.
And yet he carried the ball about the same number of times as those other RBs I listed and he averaged the same yards per each of those carries as the RBs I listed. The end results were the same. So I say again, a boring 7 yard carry is the same result as an exciting 7 yard carry.
Guys, if Sanders was as good as we all insist he was, he'd have averaged like 11 yards per carry.