LT is not a leader

[AG2]

You can take all LT's running numbers and shove em.


The guys is soft and not a leader.

I wouldn't want him on my team there are plenty of other tough backs that get it done when it matters.

Rivers played with his knee.

 

[grizpack]

Didn't he sit out a couple of years ago in the playoffs with a "migraine" headache? I think he did.

I am wondering if he isn't the type that when the going gets tough, he gets injured.

 

[AG2]

I don't remember the migrane thing but it pissed me off when the announcers said it was a "coaching" decision for him not to get back into the game.


What happened to the big tough NFL professionals saying "if I can walk, I will play"?

Or the announcers saying " he could have broke his arm but nothing will keep this guy off the field in this situation"

Must not have met LT.

 

[Hammer]

See Ronnie Lott!

 

[AG2]

See Ronnie Lott!

Exactly.

 

[MrTitleist]

Remember the MT Tech QB a couple years ago that played against Carroll in the playoffs with a broken arm he got in the 1st quarter?

 

[Hammer]

I think Jack Youngblood played a game with a broken leg once.

 

[Drew]

I think the more telling thing was that he just sat on the bench for almost the whole game when he should have been up on the sideline cheering his team on.

 

[Bronco]

He also finished last year in a strange way.

 

[SuperHornet]

I think Jack Youngblood played a game with a broken leg once.

That was the Super Bowl vs. Blitzburgh.

 

[SuperHornet]

I was listening to Double X Radio out of SD tonight, and a guy called in literally screaming about Tomlinson. (I won't stoop so low as to allow him the initials as those belong to Lawrence Taylor.) The guy was building up Rivers as something dang near a god for playing on two screwed-up knees, while Tomlinson was on the sidelines pouting (and I quote) "like someone stole his lunch money."

I didn't see any shots of this so I can't confirm or deny. The station commentators (including the best I've ever heard) noted that (as alluded to earlier in this thread), the game was essentially DNP-CD. I don't know whether the team is covering for his refusal to re-enter the game or if he was pi$$ed at being held out. The caller expected that if Tomlinson were hurt, he should have been at the sideline leading cheers. To some extent, I agree. The playoffs are not the regular season, and certainly not pre-season exhibitions. As much as I don't like the guy, something can be said in this regard for Rice coming back from his injury in the playoffs.

The hard part about this decision, though, is that it cuts both ways. There have been guys who have tried to play hurt, to the point that their playing has hurt the team, and they were panned for being selfish.

I can see both sides of this argument. I'm not sure where the line should be drawn. But if the medical personnel say that a guy is OK to play in a playoff game, then he [bleep] well better be in and not crying. Especially given the reference in another thread to Youngblood, who played on a freaking broken leg in a Super Bowl.

 

[Drew]

(I won't stoop so low as to allow him the initials as those belong to Lawrence Taylor.)

Taylor doesn't deserve the initials any more than Tomlinson does. He was a drug addict and a criminal.

 

[Bozgriz]

Announcers said LT didn't play due to a "coaches decision"...