Brown did not fumble like AD – only 4 seasons with more than 6 in his 9 year career.

Dickerson was worse – never won champtionship either. Hmmmm…. Not a good benchmark.

Tony Romo was the darling of all the analysts a couple of years back too – has yet to really show he earned that.

I don’t put a lot of stock in the young players that get heavily promoted – seems the networks (and sponsors) need to be highlighting young stars – often before they have proved themselves in big games.

Perhaps fumbles come with his aggressive style, but its a problem and defenses are going to key on it.

You are right, payton did have more fumbles each of his first three years than AD. After that, only 2 seasons with more than six – during that period he consistently had more than 315 attempts.

Also – payton WAS the bears for most of his career – a terrible team (he used to even line up to take the snap because there was no decent QB).

I don’t want to be disagreeing with you, Mike, you bring some good stuff here. I am not sold on AD as the ultimate back and will not be surprised to see him cost them another game this season – perhaps in the playoffs.

I know some will (perhaps correctly) blame chilly and terrible offensive game plan in 1st half for bears loss.

But when the game is on the line in OT, ya got to hold onto the ball. Hopefully, it won’t matter, MN keeps its second seed and will learn from mistakes.