Fansided · Aug 24, 2016
Adrian Peterson and Norv Turner are both dinosaurs
Adrian Peterson and Norv Turner have are both hold-overs from a seemingly bygone offensive era.
One epitomizes the bell-cow I-formation power running back, while the other is today’s foremost proponent of old-fashioned run-it-and-go-play-action offense.
Adrian Peterson and Norv Turner ought to get along pretty well as both are throwbacks.
Peterson and Turner both in their own way typify a brand of football that has largely been abandoned in today’s NFL.
Nowadays for running backs it’s not about being Superman, it’s about being a cog in the machine. Conventional wisdom tells us you don’t draft a running back high and pay him a ton of money to run the ball 20 times every game.
