That's what I'm saying. I didn't say legpress was bad, I said it shouldn't be the cornerstone of your leg workout. I legpress after I squat, but there is no way baby could keep the getaway sticks swole just pressing all day.
And I'm sure Platz legpressed but he didn't become a legend "legpressing" for 10 minutes straight.
I didn't think Mikey would get so butt hurt over me not fauning over Yates leg routine and resort to peppering me with this icon -> 
hehehe, you spoke like a true prodigy, so relax, I won't 'pepper' you with this

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I agree with what you said. I have been saying EXACTLY this: both exercises are the cornerstone of any good leg program, provided your biomechanics is well suited for both, otherwise it's a moot point insisting on an exercise just because it belongs to the Pantheon of the best exercises ever created, hence Dorian sticking to legpresses and smith machine squats. Hell, Frank Zane built his medialis combining sissy squats superseted with leg presses with feet on the bottom of the platform, heels out of it, just the balls of the feet.
Now Tom was born to free squat, period! He would be a fool to ditch squats of his program if he responded so well to them, maybe that's why he DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED to explore other choices and concepts of an unorthodox primary mass builder for the quads, so he kept legpresses as a detail exercise, but nevertheless he FOUND IT VALUABLE to his training, that's the key.

So in closing this discussion, yes, leg pressing can be a tough guy of an exercise if done properly and if taken to the outerlimits of failure, just like you would do with a regular squat. If you don't allow yourself a quarter squat, why would you be content with a half ass, flex/unflex the knees ROM legpress with 2000 pounds??? Maybe that's why legpresses are so polemic in discussions like this. To my mind discussing what's more valuable between squats and legpresses is the SAME as discussing which one has more benefits in terms of mass, barbell curls or alternate dumbell curls? Some people find discomfort with a straight barbell on the wrists and can't feel a twinge on the biceps with an E-Z barbell, but they almost have orgasms with a dumbell in each hand, doing alternate curls, because of the pump they are feeling with them. Would you have the balls to go to that person to say "Hey! your choice as the main massbuilder for the biceps is a shame!!" I guess no......