At the time, NO. The situation was would not have been in our best interests at that time. He is a good back, and IMO I believe he will be a very good back behind a decent/good o-line. He just needs to better his situation.
unfavorable....i liked him originally, but the lamont love on this site caused me to dislike him i think he could be decent in a good situation, but almost any running back would/could...lamont is nothing special
i agree...i would have like to see more of him, and at the time i thought he was a great back-up, and it looks like that holds true, a great BACK-UP, not starter...although to be fair, the raiders QB's are so inept and the line so porous that he really has no chance so lamont jordan gets a poll but jerald sowell doesn't?
Funny, that was exactly my thought - whether for reasons out of his control or not, he didn't play enough for me to have any real opinion of him one way or the other. As to whether the Jets should have kept him, IMO certainly not at the price Oakland eventually paid.
I choose to remember "the chainsaw" and how whenever he checked into the game at RB, I would get excited and expect a big run... Now I hope he never comes back to NY. I vote "yes"
I thought he played well enough in his limited action for a favorable vote. As for keeping him, we did not have a choice. Most teams, least of all the Jets two years ago could afford to pay 2 running backs starter salaries given the cap limitations. If Edwards had given him more playing time, the Jets might have been able to extend his contract back in 2004, but after that, it was too late.
This guy was a beast. The situation that existed at the time of his free agency was the worst one possible...we had a Hall of Fame back we were already paying and couldn't afford to pay two starters. I would love to have him back, just like coles, he'll always be a jet to me. And for all you haters out there, last year was his only injury plagued season and that was because b/c of oaktown's swiss cheese factory they called a line...take a look and you'll see that all of their backs were hurt at one point last year...they can't all be injury prone, so it must've been the line. Even our boy Curtis couldn't play out a whole season with a crappy line. The guy put up over 1500 total yards with no more than an average line and QB, so unless you can back up your bullshit, don't even try to tell me he sucks.
I voted un favorable. He really did nothing in my eyes other than being a Jet to warrant all the love he receives. Should he have played more to relieve CM.......... of course. The fact is he did not. All he was, was a back up. Also as far as bringing him back............. another big no thanks. He has admitted to not reading the playbook and loafing. He is not the type of player that would fit in here any longer. I really hope he stays with the Raiders he is their type of player thru and thru. :smile:
Unfavorable. No doubt. He decided to go to the money instead of waiting just one more year to be the heir to Curtis Martin. I am glad he did though now. He isn't good.
Favorable. Would not want him back, but he made the best of his playing time. Can't ask much more of a back-up running back.
I've said it before and i'll probably say it again, but during his rookie season, there was this one run, he broke i think three tackles, off the right side on his way to the endzone it was a 34 yard run i believe and that made me love Lamont Jordan, i was sure he was the back of the future, but then when he came back in his second year when i watched him run, i hated him, he seemed to have lost his fire and he was just not fun to watch anymore.
it wasn't "waiting one more year" back then, it was "when the hell am i ever gonna get to play" is what he was thinking, oh yeah, that and "you're gonna pay me how much?"
Not his fault Herm never used him to his potential. Great change of pace and short yardage back. Good compliment to C Mart.
Do I have a favorable opinion of Jordan? Yes. Do I think that we should have kept him? Absolutely not. Hindsight is 20/20 and it's easy to say now that we should've signed him longterm, but at the time it was unrealistic and unnecessary.
I'm not sure why, but I have an unfavorable memory of Jordan. I like him as a player, I have no problem with him leaving here for a starting job and more money, he did what anyone would have done. There is no reason, I just find myself hating on him recently.
