no reasonable defense? Ell had flaws?
If you are giving Freems credit for putting up numbers on mediocre to bad teams I would give more credit to Ell for making a mediocre to bad team conference champions with the way the cats looked without him v Marshall and how the team crated in 04 with Sproles and 11 other returning starters.
Hell, Freeman may have had as much NFL talent at the skill positions as Ell played with when you consider Jordy is an NFL stud, Mastrud had a decent career and guys like Figurs, Clayton and Johnson actually got snaps in nfl games.