Only thing Lynch is better at AP at is career games against the 49ers.
That AP 2012 season is untouchable by backs in the modern era.
AP is tied with OJ for most 200 yard rushing games in career with 6. Lynch doesn't even have a 150 yard rushing game to my knowledge.
A 297 yard game? LOL. Yeah, AP is all by himself.
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Lynch is great, but I would have loved to have scooped up 2006 Frank Gore in the time machine and sent him straight to the Harbaugh era. Would have been a GUARANTEED Super Bowl, even with Alex Smith QBing.
1695 yards playing with a garbage team in 2006? Two 78+ yard TDs in one game in 2009?
Gore 2005-2009 was more beastly than 2010-present. Even 2013 on, there's another drop off. Their primes weren't fully aligned.
Not sure Lynch's career is greater than Gore's when you consider Lynch wasn't even on national radar until he left Buffalo, and then has been in the playoffs every year since.
Gore: 4.5 ypc career, 70 TDs
Lynch: 4.3 ypc career, 74 TDs
Lynch has the flashier play, Gore the more subtle, nuanced play.
Since Lynch is stronger and faster than Gore, along with the zone blocking scheme, it's undeniable on pure running instinct, Gore was better. He had to otherwise he'd never have the stats he put up.
Of course there's going to be bias here (and I expect the same in reverse), this comparison I find a lot more interesting.