It's relatively easy to come in with fresh legs twice a drive, with a different running style and get a better YPC than the guy you are spelling for. Just because he backed up the best Jets RB of all time doesn't mean we should usher him in: no thanks to an oft-injured, aging, disgruntled player that would add another body to a position that needs more help in front of it.
Double Post. Not every RB has the luxury of running behind a top 5 O-Line like Jordan did when he was spelling Martin. And he wouldn't exactly be shooting up the O-Line ladder if he came over here.
Not now, but I guarantee he would have been productive had we resigned him. Now thanks to playing in Oakland his career has gone down the proverbial toilet.
Why would LJ sign with the jets? He AVERAGED 8 yards a carry as an 2001 rookie and then watched Boobway give Curtis Martin an EIGHT year contract age 30 the following summer. Makes one feel a little unwanted if you're Jordan?
I can not lament over LaMont. He didn't get his just due while here, that is for sure; he was very, very under-utilized as Herm failed to recognize talent and develop player depth.
For what, one year? That is about it really. Part of his issue is durability. For a guy that hadn't taken much of a pounding he sure went down to injury awfully fast. And in that department he's no Curtis Martin.
I never said anyone lost their skills... I am just saying he wasn't as good as he was hyped to have been, and he certainly had durability issues (which we could not have known).
jordan was a clutch player here. he may not have been great but he played great when the game was in his hands. Think about the first game vilma started at the meadowlands and intercepted the pass against the 49ers that day when the jets d shut them out in the 2nd half and started the crazy streak w/ donnie as DC. jordan was getting it done through the ground and had a great lower the shoulder second effort to get a clutch 1st down on a swing pass i believe. he was good and id love to him back.
