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zilby wrote:In other news, TJ is officially off the market.
Signed with Kansas City today.
TKF wrote:zilby wrote:In other news, TJ is officially off the market.
Signed with Kansas City today.
honestly, a stupid move by the jets to let him go for the 3 mil bonus.. and now leon washington visiting the niners... jets are going to regret cutting jones... You know what you get with jones.. a locker room leader, a guy who will run hard and never fumbles.....
TKF wrote:
honestly, a stupid move by the jets to let him go for the 3 mil bonus.. and now leon washington visiting the niners... jets are going to regret cutting jones... You know what you get with jones.. a locker room leader, a guy who will run hard and never fumbles.....
Free agent running back LaDainian Tomlinson is at the Jets training facility for a visit, and the team is doing all it can to get his name on a contract before he leaves New Jersey.
"For that to ever turn into a signing, it's gonna have to be if everything lines up with him, us, economics, medical, role," GM Mike Tannenbaum said this morning on WFAN.
"I think he would bring great leadership to our organization, but we'll see how it goes today."
Fanhouse.com reports the Jets are willing to give Tomlinson the same two-year, $5 million deal the Chiefs gave Thomas Jones, who could not get that offer from the Jets.
"(The Jets) may be willing to move upwards to $3.5 million a year for Tomlinson in a contract loaded with incentives," the report says.
The report says "Tomlinson has already told the Jets that he wants to think things over, travel back home to visit with his wife, LaTorsha, and pray over all options."
But the Jets are trying to avoid that.
"We want this guy, and when we want a player, we typically go get the player,'' a Jets source told Fanhouse. "We have every intention to get him signed before he leaves.''
Fanhouse reports several details on Tomlinson's visit, including a gift basket for his first child (expected this summer) and dinner at Trump National Golf Club.
Tomlinson was scheduled to fly back home to San Diego, but the dinner plans prevented him from catching a flight to the West Coast. The running back’s itinerary beyond Friday night had not yet been determined, Jets spokesman Bruce Speight told The Associated Press.
Tannenbaum said Tomlinson is familiar with the Jets' system having worked with offensive coordinator Brain Schottenheimer when he was an assistant in San Diego.
"He would give us that change of pace back after you pound it and pound it with Shonn (Greene)," the Jets source told Fanhouse writer Thomas George. "If LaDainian stays healthy, you put him in some of the same situations our other backs were in last year with this offensive line and you will see even bigger production."
JETS GM ON JONES, SANCHEZ
Greene likely is the Jets' starter, but with Jones gone and Leon Washington possibly leaving, it seems Tomlinson's role could be bigger with the Jets than with the Vikings, whom he visited Thursday.
"We have Shonn and Leon, and we will add somebody else to the mix," Tannenbaum said. "That's a position that we feel we need depth."
Tomlinson left Minnesota without a contract, but Vikings coach Brad Childress didn't sound worried about Tomlinson's visit with the Jets.
Speaking on a Twin Cities radio station, Childress hinted that Tomlinson simply may be trying to create a bidding war for his services.
"I think that a lot of times when you only have one person involved the agents don’t like that game and a lot of time they take them and -- what shall I say? -- create the atmosphere that there’s want somewhere else," Childress said on KFAN radio, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "And there may be, in fact, want somewhere else. But something to drive the deal."
Childress seemed confident Tomlinson's visit with the Vikings would be enough to get him to sing with Minnesota, despite Friday's visit with the Jets, and rumored stops in Philadelphia and New Orleans to come.
"He gave [the Jets his word he would visit] and he is a man of his word and it wasn’t like I was going to throw myself down in front of the road," Childress said.
And each team reached its conference championship game last season, so a priority for a winning team should not decide the issue.
"I know he wants to win a championship and that factors heavily into his decision," the Jets source told Fanhouse. "We think we can accomplish that together.''
j4remi wrote:I think LT would be a great fit. I was upset with dumping TJ but understandable since he faded hard. I wonder what will happen with Leon though, I really would like to see him with the Jets still. Not thrilled about Poole btw.
zilby wrote:j4remi wrote:I think LT would be a great fit. I was upset with dumping TJ but understandable since he faded hard. I wonder what will happen with Leon though, I really would like to see him with the Jets still. Not thrilled about Poole btw.
If we sign another safety, Poole will not play, so it really has no effect on me.
zilby wrote:http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/jetsblog/vikings_coach_lt_agent_could_be_Fr8v2E19wz93caDuGFS9PO
Talks about how the Jets are making a hard push for Tomlinson and want to sign him to a 2 yr $5M deal.
Rich Rane wrote:zilby wrote:j4remi wrote:I think LT would be a great fit. I was upset with dumping TJ but understandable since he faded hard. I wonder what will happen with Leon though, I really would like to see him with the Jets still. Not thrilled about Poole btw.
If we sign another safety, Poole will not play, so it really has no effect on me.
It's a depth move. Nothing wrong with adding safety depth, but they better not believe he's the answer to the hole left by Rhodes.
Rich Rane wrote:zilby wrote:http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/jetsblog/vikings_coach_lt_agent_could_be_Fr8v2E19wz93caDuGFS9PO
Talks about how the Jets are making a hard push for Tomlinson and want to sign him to a 2 yr $5M deal.
If LT returns to 3/4 of his best form, I welcome the move. They are probably hoping with our O-Line, it might happen.
2. I keep hearing from my Jets sources that they’re having internal discussions regarding Brandon Marshall and would love to put together a package of players that might entice the Broncos and still keep their first-round pick.
zilby wrote:2. I keep hearing from my Jets sources that they’re having internal discussions regarding Brandon Marshall and would love to put together a package of players that might entice the Broncos and still keep their first-round pick.
http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Sun ... -1029.html
Would LOVE if this happened.