My problem with Jones following the 2007 season and for a lot of the 2008 season is that he is just not physical enough to create his own holes late in the game. Team that have a grind-it-out running game always have that guy that smashes the shit out of LBs and safeties that are plugging holes in the line and make them sore enough to resort to arm-tackles late in the game when they see that guy coming at them again. Jones is like Curtis Martin lite, he's got excellent cutbacks, a pretty good stiff-arm when it occurs to him, and if someone wraps him up, most times, he goes down pretty quickly. He NEVER punishes the defender. NEVER. I figure that's probably how he has stayed healthy to this point of his career, but that's not going to get us the tough yardage. In his defense, when he plays with heart, he does fight for yardage. I had about had it early in 2008 until he really started fighting for the yards, but fighting for yardage and punishing defenders just is not the same thing. And it drives me crazy when people call him a power back. HAVING HUGE BICEPS DOES NOT MAKE YOU A POWER BACK, IT MAKES YOU A BODY BUILDER. Plus you really can't give a guy who has already made pretty much all of the money on his contract more money on top of it at his age. RB is historically the most easily replaced position on the field. If you address it. And we finally did. I love the Greene pick. I'm not saying Greene is going to completely replace TJ, but a combo of SG and Leon looks like it would be very potent.
No sympathy TJ was paid $13M the firts 2 years of his deal. The first year you can make an argument was a failure, or at least below par. And then he has a big year and wants a raise because this year he's getting paid $900k. The way I see it that makes $14M the first 3 years which is right in line with what he should be paid. No sympathy. :jets:
