I want LT back, I think we'll be fine with greene and mcknight. At some point although these guys are superstars like Taylor, LT, and Jenkins, we have to think about the future and get some younger guys in. Out of those three I'd rather see LT come back.
Considering it comes from his trainer, good luck disagreeing with the source. There are other ways to work out and train that don't involve straight lifting weights. Especially for a RB.
Out of those three I really hope Taylor doesn't come back and retires, LT comes back as like a 3rd down specialist (Hope next year is the year Greene explodes) and Jenkins... well it depends on his medical conditions. Let's not forget next year might be the first 18 games season... and the position that's gonna suffer the most from it is RB.
I am 100% for LT coming back in a reduced rule, and I absolutely believe he will return. Tannenbaum is simply unable to address this situation until we have a new CBA. LT's $2 million may be exactly what we need to keep our receiving trio together, or bring Cro back. We are almost certainly going to lose T-Rich this offseason, and to fill the leadership void Sanchez will elevate his competitive leadership another step, as he did last season, but LT will provide the complementary veteran, emotional leadership that the offense needs. Additionally, LT provides excellent injury insurance for Greene and McKnight. I am willing to go on record as saying I think McKnight will be a true contributor to this offense next season and he has genuinely turned the page on his incredibly rough start.
Next season will not be the first 18 game season. The first potential 18 game season is 2012. And before you say that's what you meant, an 18 game season in 2012 would have no impact on the decision to keep LT this year.
I said it MIGHT be... it's still up in the air. As of now it's probably going to start in 2012 but who knows what will happen in the CBA negotiations... http://www.scgffl.com/nfl_schedules/2011_nfl_sched.htm If the NFL adopts an 18 game schedule for 2011, the assumption used below in the opponent list is that every team would play two additional Conference games against opponents in the division that comes from the portion of the schedul that is based upon the team’s finish during the prior year. This 18 game scheduling idea is speculative and has not been published by the NFL. Classy to bring out posts from 2008 (the first one)... oh and a joke about mexicans... omgomgomg nobody makes jokes about other nationalities right?
Nice use of the ignore feature. You almost made it a day. That's your source? Some poorly put together fantasy football page that says "SPECULATIVE SPECULATIVE SPECULATIVE" all over the place? How about ol' Roger targeting 2012 for the earliest start date for an 18 game league? There's no way 2011 is 18 games.
Tannenbaum showed last off-season that character guys is a just a term they throw around and that they really don't give a sh-t about that, no matter what they say publicly. Let Thomas Jones go like he was yesterday's news. Cut TRich for a day or so cause he was making a whopping 800K or so. Cause somehow a vet with all those years should be playing for 20 bucks.
It was really all I needed... one day without the retardation of me and you going at it. Plus I decided to not go into the TT forum again and here things should be civil enough to not need the ignore list. As of now it's ALL speculation... For all we know there might not even be a 2011 season! By the time FA starts (since I now know when it happens) the picture will hopefully be clearer... but I just don't know how you can be so sure about the number of weeks in the 2011 season now...
Uh, I can be sure that it's 16 or under. The 18 game season in 2011 isn't even on the table. If the owners are pushing for 18 games in 2012, and the players don't want an 18 game season, why would they settle on starting it a year earlier?
From what I read on ESPN the owners want an 18 games season period, the players don't want it and Goodell said that although the NFL has the power to do it immediately it would like to discuss it with the players since they're rediscussing the CBA. He also said that it would take time and that it might not be implented right away. Since an 18 games season would create more income for the owners maybe the players would agree to starting it right away if in return they could get a better deal right away. More income for the teams in 2011, work stoppage avoided and the players get a better deal. I'm just saying atm nothing is definitive and almost everything is on the table to be discussed (as far as we know). For this reason I think it makes sense to discuss the LT scenario either in a 16 or 18 games season. On a totally different note my gut-feeling that the 2011 will be an 18 games season is low... but low is still a possibility. I'm just really good at faking my nationality -.-" regardless of my real origins (see what I did there?)
When LT came to the Jets he wasnt expected to be the starter, but he worked his ass off and earned the job. his productivity has declined and now its shonn greenes time to start
I'm not saying you're wrong on Goodell, but I've never seen him push the "we can do it any time we want to" argument regarding the 18 game season. Perhaps you could enlighten me. I just haven't seen it. The only thing I have seen him say, and consistently so since last offseason, is that he's setting a target of 2012 for an 18 game season. That's his goal. To start playing 18 games in 2012: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/38854821/ns/sports-nfl/ http://blogs.bettor.com/Owners-support-18-game-season-a23506 The problem with the argument of "more money for the players, so maybe players go along with it" is that they haven't settled on a percentage. And where that percentage lands is likely to be only tied in to the number of games played insofar as the number of games played will be used as a leveraging tool. The increase in revenue, and the associated increase in cap based on whatever percentage they reach, isn't likely to take place until AFTER an 18 game season is played. Prior to that, they're going to have to come up with a temporary arrangement, which involves hammering out details on a temporary cap adjustment for the first league year with 18 games. They'll need to use 2011 to get a firm cap number for 2012, with the understanding that 2012 revenues will then determine 2013. It makes no sense to discuss LT in an 18 game scenario because it makes no sense to discuss a 2011 18 game scenario.
23 is my boy, but if he wants the starting role, he should take it. Don't come out flat like you did last year fumbling the ball and tripping over your own damn feet. Yeah you're a recking ball late in the season and beyond, but beginning of the season you look like a Rook. LT secures a spot on the team with leadership, experience, and ability to hold on to the football.
The problem this season was never LT, it was Shotty. LT showed anyone who thought he was washed up that he still has something left in the tank, if used properly. His main role should be RB screens, catching balls out of the backfield, and running draws out of spread formations where his agility comes into play. By constantly using LT as the primary back to run into the teeth of defense play after play just acted to wear him down and take carries away from the people who should have been carrying in those spots (Greene, Connor).
