LJ UPDATE

[Johnny Vegas]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

It is obvious he lost a step, before Herm threw his career in the meat grinder, Larry ran with this intensity that was unmatched in the nfl. He shed first contact, ran over linebackers and outran safeties, this kind of play was absent during Larry's last two years.

If he continued to run like that then his career would've been shorter. Its not exactly easy to run over linebackers year after year. To expect this is questionable. Lets face it when LJ was in the D would take him out first and let the mistakes happen at QB which is pretty consistent to say the least. Herm fooling us to thinking LJ was the guy to build the offense around was absolutely the wrong call. We can all agree on that. It made expectations exceed what any 1 player can do for an offense. Some players are better when success is around and some players are better leaders to find a win. LJ wasn't the leader he was crowned to be and 30,000 are still pissed because they called it. Maybe he was a better with another RB handcuffed. He was never used right after the 2005 season. I'm a fan of LJ, but I can see that he needed to go. You can gain by subtraction and IMO both parties won.