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  • #16
    Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

    I think he'd be good in Indy for the right price.
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    • #17
      Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

      I'm not even a Colts fan and I think it's a silly/crazy/stupid/foolish thing to bash and insult Indy's Offensive line.
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      • #18
        Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

        Originally posted by KnicksRGarbage View Post
        I'm not even a Colts fan and I think it's a silly/crazy/stupid/foolish thing to bash and insult Indy's Offensive line.
        It's not really an insult to say that they are better at pass blocking than run blocking...
        Originally posted by Natston;n3510291
        I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of the 3 T.J.s working for them, and that ain't bad...

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        • #19
          Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

          Originally posted by KnicksRGarbage View Post
          I'm not even a Colts fan and I think it's a silly/crazy/stupid/foolish thing to bash and insult Indy's Offensive line.
          IT is what it is. Look up the stats.

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          • #20
            Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

            I'd be shocked if he ended up with the Pats. He could be serviceable for one more year, but this isn't a situation like Curtis Martin or even Thomas Jones. I think he has enough left in the tank for one season and then he will retire. He'll probably put up roughly 800sh yards, 5-6 TDs wherever he goes and then retire the year after.

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            • #21
              Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

              Originally posted by KnicksRGarbage View Post
              I'm not even a Colts fan and I think it's a silly/crazy/stupid/foolish thing to bash and insult Indy's Offensive line.
              Well, any Colts fan will tell you the reason we can't run the ball is because of the O-Line, its quite obvious. They are a tremendous pass blocking group, but have absolutely no idea how to run block. Hopefully with the departure of Mudd it will improve as the scheme changes a bit.

              I agree with the poster who said LT to the Jets. That makes perfect sense to me. I could also see him landing in Chicago or Houston, but the Patriots doesn't make much sense to me.

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              • #22
                Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

                For the first time in a long time, I think the Colts may actually go an offseason with hunting down another WR, TE or HB. If Polian were to use a draft pick (since we'll never sign anyone), this time I'd actually be a bit annoyed.

                This is the offseason to worry about the next RDE after Freeney. The Colts can continue seriously contending late into Manning's career if they maintain a pass rush. After that, they'll get to fortify both lines. It'll be splendid. An offseason without a high pick on a backup skill player.

                Oh, and no to LT.

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                • #23
                  Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

                  Originally posted by Isaac View Post
                  Well, any Colts fan will tell you the reason we can't run the ball is because of the O-Line, its quite obvious. They are a tremendous pass blocking group, but have absolutely no idea how to run block. Hopefully with the departure of Mudd it will improve as the scheme changes a bit.

                  I agree with the poster who said LT to the Jets. That makes perfect sense to me. I could also see him landing in Chicago or Houston, but the Patriots doesn't make much sense to me.
                  I don't think its scheme. Look at my beloved Steelers, who have changed personnel to try to be better at protecting the QB and now they struggle to open up running holes. You can have sturdy OGs that create a pocket, or fast OGs that can pull and aggressively blast open running lanes. But rarely do you find an Alan Faneca that can do both.
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                  • #24
                    Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

                    http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...jets/#comments


                    Tomlinson picks the Jets
                    Posted by Michael David Smith on March 14, 2010 6:11 PM ET
                    LaDainian Tomlinson has made his decision. He's going to be a New York Jet.

                    Adam Schefter of ESPN is reporting that Tomlinson and the Jets reached an agreement today on a two-year contract.

                    Tomlinson's decision, which had been expected for the last couple of days, comes after he considered the Minnesota Vikings, where he visited on Thursday. On Friday he visited the Jets and on Saturday he flew home to San Diego to spend some time thinking before making up his mind.

                    Tomlinson will join a backfield that also includes running back Shonn Greene, who's coming off a strong rookie season with the Jets in 2009. During the regular season Greene carried 108 times for 540 yards, and in three playoff games he had 54 carries for 304 yards.

                    The question now is whether Tomlinson, who will turn 31 in June, has enough left to contribute to a Jets team that's coming off a loss in the AFC Championship Game and has Super Bowl aspirations. In 2009 Tomlinson had a career-low 730 rushing yards and a career-low 3.3 yards a carry.

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                    • #25
                      Re: LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet

                      Well, the Jets just got better.
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                      • #26
                        Re: LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet

                        Originally posted by Lord Helmet View Post
                        Well, the Jets just got better.
                        I disagree I think they were better with Thomas Jones than with this guy come playoff time you'll see

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                        • #27
                          Re: LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet

                          Originally posted by Basketball Fan View Post
                          I disagree I think they were better with Thomas Jones than with this guy come playoff time you'll see
                          I liked Thomas Jones but he was asking for twice of what LT was..... LT is at least as good at TJ and feels he has something to prove. Thomas Jones showed what the cared about when he signed with the Chiefs to back up Charles.
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                          • #28
                            Re: LaDainian Tomlinson has been cut from the Chargers

                            I very rarely get to do this so...

                            CALLED IT!

                            Originally posted by travmil View Post
                            I think Thomas Jones is probably done with the Jets, and that O-line there is certainly more than capable fo opening lanes for LT. Shonn Green is the man there now, but sharing time with LT for a year or two sure wont' hurt that run game. And that's a team that made it to the AFCC this year and has a defense that will keep them in every game. The Jets make a LOT of sense for him.
                            I'm pretty sure the last time I nailed one of these was when I said the Colts would take Gonzales in the first round a few years back.
                            Last edited by travmil; 03-15-2010, 07:33 AM.

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                            • #29
                              Re: LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet

                              This article states what I feel exactly

                              http://www.northjersey.com/sports/sp...ts_weaker.html

                              O'Connor: LT only makes the Jets weaker
                              Monday, March 15, 2010
                              Last updated: Monday March 15, 2010, 6:37 AM
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                              The Jets actually got younger Sunday when they hired a star worthy of the brightest Broadway lights, LaDainian Tomlinson, born 10 months and four days after the running back with a stagehand’s profile, a guy named Thomas Jones.

                              Only in this case younger doesn’t mean better. In fact, the Jets wake up today softer, more vulnerable and a little harder to picture in next year’s AFC title game.

                              Mike Tannenbaum, general manager, hired the right people in Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez, the head coach and quarterback of the future.

                              What was the point in hiring the running back of the past?

                              I know, I know: Tomlinson is being asked to assume only a supporting role, to mentor Shonn Greene, to catch a few passes out of the backfield and, on a third down here and there, to make those soon-to-be 31-year-old wheels burn like they did in his San Diego prime.

                              But here’s the best way to judge this Jones-for-Tomlinson trade, even if Jones was fired before Tomlinson decided to bet the twilight of his Hall of Fame career on the Jets:

                              Who would you rather have on your team, right now, after the 2009 season left the Jets’ 2010 mission statement a Super Bowl-or-bust proposition?

                              Nine out of 10 doctors (and general managers) agree Jones is the fresher, superior player, and the one more likely to help the Jets scale Mount Peyton next time around.

                              Listen, Tomlinson is an all-time great. As Bill Parcells said of the original LT, the one who did his dominating on the more hostile side of the ball, he’s heading to Canton on roller skates.

                              Three years ago, Tomlinson was the league’s best player, good for 1,815 yards and 28 touchdowns on the ground, 508 yards and three touchdowns through the air. He was fast enough and elusive enough to earn mentions with the idols of his youth: Jim Brown, Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith.

                              But last time the Jets saw Tomlinson in full pads, he was being booed by his own fans. Out in sunny San Diego, where the fast-breaking Chargers were supposed to run layup lines through the Jets on the way to the Super Bowl, the crowd exploded when Philip Rivers handed off to LT rather than pass his team out of increasingly dire straits.

                              This was the soundtrack to a legend gone south. Tomlinson gained all of 24 yards on 12 carries in that one-and-done defeat, and looked every bit the washed-up star San Diego suggested he was when it cut him last month.

                              The Jets courted him, anyway. Treated him like he was 25 years old. Recruited him as if they were the Knicks and he were LeBron James in the early hours of July 1.

                              Are they trying to sell jerseys and PSLs as they did when they went for Brett Favre? Do they believe this LT can create the kind of buzz in the new stadium the other LT created in the old one?

                              Hey, the move makes sense for Tomlinson, who didn’t need to deal with Favre’s diva drama up north. By choosing the Jets over the Vikings, LT gets to spend his golden years chasing a ring with a contender on the come in the biggest of NFL markets. Good luck finding how this move makes sense for the Jets. Jones rushed for a career-best 1,402 yards last year, nearly twice LT’s output. Tomlinson averaged a career-worst 3.3 yards per attempt to Jones’ 4.2, and in the one area of the comparison Tomlinson is supposed to own – pass receiving – LT contributed a grand sum of 20 catches for 154 yards (Jones had 10 for 58).

                              The Jets didn’t want to pay Jones $5.8 million for one year, so they gave Tomlinson less for two. This wasn’t the time or place to save money on their league-leading running game, not with Sanchez needing a little more time to grow, and needing reliable legs to carry him through a potential sophomore slump.

                              NFL running backs have a notoriously short shelf life, and over his career Jones has 841 fewer regular-season carries and receptions than Tomlinson does. That’s why Jones didn’t look finished last year, and why LT did.

                              The Jets are hoping their latest acquisition can revive himself under another former Charger, Brian Schottenheimer, and give the team insurance against Leon Washington’s surgically repaired leg. But the best deal here was no deal at all.

                              In a state of decline, LaDainian Tomlinson makes the Jets a little younger and a lot weaker.

                              Ian O’Connor can be followed at Twitter.com/Ian_OConnor


                              The Jets actually got younger Sunday when they hired a star worthy of the brightest Broadway lights, LaDainian Tomlinson, born 10 months and four days after the running back with a stagehand’s profile, a guy named Thomas Jones.
                              LaDainian Tomlinson agreed to a two-year deal with the Jets on Sunday.
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                              LaDainian Tomlinson agreed to a two-year deal with the Jets on Sunday.

                              Only in this case younger doesn’t mean better. In fact, the Jets wake up today softer, more vulnerable and a little harder to picture in next year’s AFC title game.

                              Mike Tannenbaum, general manager, hired the right people in Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez, the head coach and quarterback of the future.

                              What was the point in hiring the running back of the past?

                              I know, I know: Tomlinson is being asked to assume only a supporting role, to mentor Shonn Greene, to catch a few passes out of the backfield and, on a third down here and there, to make those soon-to-be 31-year-old wheels burn like they did in his San Diego prime.

                              But here’s the best way to judge this Jones-for-Tomlinson trade, even if Jones was fired before Tomlinson decided to bet the twilight of his Hall of Fame career on the Jets:

                              Who would you rather have on your team, right now, after the 2009 season left the Jets’ 2010 mission statement a Super Bowl-or-bust proposition?

                              Nine out of 10 doctors (and general managers) agree Jones is the fresher, superior player, and the one more likely to help the Jets scale Mount Peyton next time around.

                              Listen, Tomlinson is an all-time great. As Bill Parcells said of the original LT, the one who did his dominating on the more hostile side of the ball, he’s heading to Canton on roller skates.

                              Three years ago, Tomlinson was the league’s best player, good for 1,815 yards and 28 touchdowns on the ground, 508 yards and three touchdowns through the air. He was fast enough and elusive enough to earn mentions with the idols of his youth: Jim Brown, Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith.

                              But last time the Jets saw Tomlinson in full pads, he was being booed by his own fans. Out in sunny San Diego, where the fast-breaking Chargers were supposed to run layup lines through the Jets on the way to the Super Bowl, the crowd exploded when Philip Rivers handed off to LT rather than pass his team out of increasingly dire straits.

                              This was the soundtrack to a legend gone south. Tomlinson gained all of 24 yards on 12 carries in that one-and-done defeat, and looked every bit the washed-up star San Diego suggested he was when it cut him last month.

                              The Jets courted him, anyway. Treated him like he was 25 years old. Recruited him as if they were the Knicks and he were LeBron James in the early hours of July 1.

                              Are they trying to sell jerseys and PSLs as they did when they went for Brett Favre? Do they believe this LT can create the kind of buzz in the new stadium the other LT created in the old one?

                              Hey, the move makes sense for Tomlinson, who didn’t need to deal with Favre’s diva drama up north. By choosing the Jets over the Vikings, LT gets to spend his golden years chasing a ring with a contender on the come in the biggest of NFL markets. Good luck finding how this move makes sense for the Jets. Jones rushed for a career-best 1,402 yards last year, nearly twice LT’s output. Tomlinson averaged a career-worst 3.3 yards per attempt to Jones’ 4.2, and in the one area of the comparison Tomlinson is supposed to own – pass receiving – LT contributed a grand sum of 20 catches for 154 yards (Jones had 10 for 58).

                              The Jets didn’t want to pay Jones $5.8 million for one year, so they gave Tomlinson less for two. This wasn’t the time or place to save money on their league-leading running game, not with Sanchez needing a little more time to grow, and needing reliable legs to carry him through a potential sophomore slump.

                              NFL running backs have a notoriously short shelf life, and over his career Jones has 841 fewer regular-season carries and receptions than Tomlinson does. That’s why Jones didn’t look finished last year, and why LT did.

                              The Jets are hoping their latest acquisition can revive himself under another former Charger, Brian Schottenheimer, and give the team insurance against Leon Washington’s surgically repaired leg. But the best deal here was no deal at all.

                              In a state of decline, LaDainian Tomlinson makes the Jets a little younger and a lot weaker.

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                              • #30
                                Re: LaDainian Tomlinson is a Jet

                                Nine out of 10 doctors (and general managers) agree Jones is the fresher, superior player, and the one more likely to help the Jets scale Mount Peyton next time around.
                                I love how the New York media write articles like the rest of the NFL just sits still while the Jets improve and march on. Like it's a foregone conclusion that the Jets WILL be playing the Colts in the AFC title game next year.
                                Last edited by travmil; 03-15-2010, 11:49 AM.

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