Rubbish. Jackson and Gore are playing on teams that won't even make the playoffs. Jackson's yards per attempt are way lower than Westbrooks.
If the 49'ers traded for Westbrook he'd be the best back they've had since Ricky Waters. Gore has 6 TD's, Jackson has 10. Westbrook has 11.
The best players are the ones that deserve to go, the ones that make their teams playoff contenders. Westbrook is the better player, period. He does more things on the field, and drives defensive coordinators nuts trying to find ways to stop him.
Like I said, Westbrook is a terrific player, but please consider, this is his fifth season and fourth as a starter, and he is getting his first 1,000 rushing season now. He is also more comparible to Roger Craig then Ricky Watters anyway, as a quarter of his touches are receptions, while Gore is more of a runner then receiver and Watters had some conflicts that neither Craig nor Westbrook share.
Gore is in his second season, will probably surpass Garrison Hearst's San Francisco seasonal record total for rushing yards, and, BTW has
SEVEN touchdowns, not six. He also ran over Division leader Seattle for a team record 212 yards in their first meeting this season. No problem - Seattle just put nine in the box to force Alex Smith to beat them the second time up in their place. This worked until it didn't, and Gore ran for another 144.
I like Westbrook, but why would you consider him better then Gore? It is not like there is consistency in the SF attack from the quarterback position yet, while the Eagles had McNabb and now a very efficient Garcia running their offense. Without Gore (and <shudder> if Kevan Barlow was still starting for the Niners), do you really think there would be talk about the playoffs yet in San Francisco?
Gore is the real deal. He plays hard, he literally lives at the Niner compound in San Mateo (his apartment is next door), he cries when he feels teammates are not playing hard enough, and he makes an average offensive line play harder then they did for Barlow, who could not get three yards a carry with a shotgun up his arse.
Do you know why Gore was drafted in the third round? He tore his ACL in both his knees while in college at Miami. Before that, he was considered the best running back recruit in the nation the year he graduated from high school. But with his knee injuries, most teams gave him a pass. You don't work so hard and come so far so fast by being an average guy. Gore deserves going to the pro bowl as much as anyone in the NFC.
You might notice that he averages better then Westbrook on his rushes as well. That is not because he is faster, which he might be, but because he is that good after the initial hit. His problem was that in his first couple of games starting this year, he fumbled the ball and unfortunately those came close to the goal line as he was trying to score. As a result, his touchdowns may not number as many as Westbrooks, but they should increase with time.
Westbrook is the ideal back for the west coast offense and he makes his job worthy of that by putting up the right numbers in it. Gore is being noticed for what he is, a back who makes other teams cringe because they know they should stop him and essentially stop the Niners, but instead he has gotten better as the season has gone on.
The Pro Bowl in the right conclusion for what he has accomplished this year.
