Carmichael was a talented, possessed rider, the MX equivalent of Michael Doohan, Bubba is a freak rider who has been a freak rider since early childhood (seen video of him beating other 9 yr olds on Rm/Cr80s etc and he was on a Z50. Reedy is hugely talented and personally driven, but has had the unfortunate luck of being of the same era as Bubba and RC, the fact that he could/can mix it with both of these two puts him on another level to anyone else in the sport today, villapoto and Dungey included.
Would be one hell of a start line with Rc, Bubba, Chad, Jeremy, & Stefan, in it I for one would reckon this woulda been clash of the modern era titans.
But fact is he was slightly behind those two greats of the sport, wether it was talent (i for one don’t reckon so) or the fact that they had greater exposure to the pure speed and opportunity in the USA since dot.