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Originally Posted by YDFL Commish
Lest we forget, '87 was a strike season. So most NFL starters only played 9 games.
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No, most starters did not play 9 games in 1987. Most starters played 12 games in 1987, because there were 12 non-strike games. In fact the only player in the entire NFL who had more rushing yards than Dickerson was Charles White, and he played in all 15 games, including the 3 strike games ...... White had 1,374 yards in 15 games, and Dickerson had 1,011 games in 9 games with the Colts.
There were 12 non-strike games in 1987. Dickerson played in 9 of them with the Colts.
The Colts went 6-3 in the 9 non-strike games in which Dickerson played in in 1987. The Colts went 1-2 in non-strike games in which Dickerson did not play in in 1987.
The Colts were not a good team, or even a decent team without Dickerson in the late 1980's. Dickerson is the primary reason of what made them the respectable team that they were in 1987, 1988, and 1989.
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Originally Posted by YDFL Commish
In the 3 non-strike games that Bentley started before Dickerson was the starter, he accumulated 492 scrimmage yards or 164 scrimmage yards per game. This was weeks 16 0f '86 and 7,8 of '87.
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Your numbers are wrong on Albert Bentley. There were 2 games before the strike, not 3. In those 2 games, Bentley had 230 yards from scrimmage, or 115 yards per game. In the first game back from the strike, Bentley had 118 yards from scrimmage. In those 3 games combined Bentley had 348 yards from scrimmage, or 116 yards per game.
Bentley had a great game against the Jets, in which he had 145 yards on 29 carries. That was Dickerson's first game with the Colts, in which he played very little in, gaining 38 yards. So in the final 8 games of the season in which Dickerson played the entire game he gained 973 yards, which computes to 1,946 yards over 16 games.
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