ChiefsPlanet - L. Johnson in no rush to get new deal done

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Originally Posted by BWillie007

It worked for the colts and countless other teams. They got rid of Edge, picked up a rookie Addai. They have been fine. Look what Denver did, you all thought they were crazy. They straight up traded Clinton freaking Portis for a CB, and it worked. If you have good blocking, and a good system, like I said, the RB is one of the most easily replaceable positions in the NFL. Look at the Bears, either running back can produce. New England was led by a rookie running back as well. Jacksonville too. The life of a running back is short now days, and I don't want to waste a ton of money on LJ if we don't have to. LJ is a great player, but if we have him locked up, why give him more money if we don't have to? He's going to be done in 2-3 years, done. Look what happened to Eddie George and Jamal Anderson, the guy who LJ broke the single season record for carries. LJ runs tall too, I know he's been durable thus far, but to not expect him to break down in the next 2-3 years at the pace he's going is just not using your brain.

http://www.pro-football-reference.co...s/AndeJa00.htm

Addai had some success at times this year. As well as Rhodes.
Yeah and Denver still doesn't like thier RB situation. Denver's success running the football is "scheme" cut-block related. Not in the talent at the RB position. The reason they traded was the fact that they couldn't pull a CB out of thier asses for nothing. Not to mention they knew Portis was somewhat overated.
Yeah Maroney looked pretty good running the ball but when you throw the ball 50 times a game it is pretty easy to get a few good running plays in there. And Dillon was the one in there when they were going for the tough yards not Maroney.
Jones-Drew looked pretty good out there in Jacksonville. He is a nice change of pace to Fred Taylor.

Cadillac Williams, Kevin Jones, Ronnie Brown as well as several other RB's have had A fair season for thier teams. But have not been able to continue to accomplish the same success. LJ has done this while also running behind a Oline that is absolutely horrible not to mention that defenses knew exactly where the ball was going on every play.

And the Titans nor the Falcons have had a true replacement for either one and have not been nearly as good since they left.

To me we redo his contract soon so that we can get the most out of the money we will be spending on LJ. If we wait and sign him later the cost of his contract increases as the salary cap and other contracts increase. Making it cost us more later and as far as a couple of years at the Franchise tag level a few years from now we could probably sign him to a nice contract now that would cost us close to the same in signing bonus money than the tags combined would cost. Not to mention if you put him off he might become a cancer to the team.