Wow, well I suppose if your going to do it.... http://www.chargers.com/news/articl...ego-ends/4017d022-3cb2-4a9b-8ae0-9511599ef969
he was still serviceable. its a shame his career was wasted under norv turner. an absolute shame, hopefully he goes somewhere else and plays well, i always liked the guy and hate to see him get cut but the nfl is an obnoxious place these days. it would sure be nice to see him go to another afc team and beat the turners in the playoffs next year. everyone else gets to do it.
I would love to see LT play for the Pats. I breathed a sigh of relief every time the Chargers handed the ball off.
You know it'll happen, and you know that he'll be a terror for the next 3 or 4 years if it does. People thought Corey Dillon was washed up, too. As were Rodney Harrison, Junior Seau... even Randy Moss, according to some people, who sure do look foolish now. I'm sure there are other examples, but none come to mind (Fred Taylor, but he never did amount to much in New England). I don't care how bad he looked last year, if he signs with the Patriots, he'll probably top a thousand yards, and if not that, he's guaranteed at least 2 100 yard games. You know which ones I mean.
How about Washington, Seattle or Houston as a landing spot? Portis has taken a beating and his best days are clearly over. Betts is only two months younger than Tomlinson, so it's not as if Washington has a young heir apparent to Portis. Maybe the Redskins can cut Portis. I have no idea. I don't know his contract status.
I think the arguments for Dillon and Moss were about their behavior, although Dillon just wanted out of Cincy. The argument against Moss were that he took plays off, and aside from 2007, they have been totally correct. Harrison was far from washed up when the Pats picked him up, although you are right about Seau - everyone thought he was done and he ended up making an impact for the Pats, unfortunately. I think Seau is the only real comparison you can make on this one.
You are probably right but he doesn't scare me at all at this point in his career. Against poor or average defenses he might be serviceable but when we played San Diego he was a complete nonfactor.
Not so, people definitely were saying Moss had lost his speed. I remember it was big news when the Patriots said he ran something like a 4.3x in the .40, and pretty much everybody was skeptical until they started lighting up the scoreboard. Dillon's behavior certainly forced the issue in Cincy, but they wouldn't have given him up, and there would have been more general interest in signing him, if there wasn't a widespread conception that his best days were behind him. And they were, but he wasn't completely out of gas. I can easily see LT being the same way. People will keep away because they fear he won't ever be the same as he was in his best years, then he'll go to New England and have a 'rebirth' running under their deep passing game. The funny thing will be, despite what people are saying about LT now, the moment he signs with New England, they'll go right to the top of everybody's offseason power rankings. Watch it happen.
Yeah, the same thing happened when they picked up Fred Taylor. Someday the pundits will learn. I'm still holding out hope that the Bills pick him up.
I don't know why the Pats would even want him, but if they got him I wouldn't be worried. They have 185 2nd round picks, they can get a young stud RB to complement the 23 old guys they already have.
