Is LaDainian Tomlinson washed up? (1 Viewer)

[Maurile Tremblay]

Short week ahead for LT, could explain the game usage...but the last drive?He should be out there Norv says on post game presser, the decision on LT was based on rolled ankle.

interesting. thanks. I thought people were joking about him being hurt. I thought his usage was entirely a "coaches decision." Wonder when he 'rolled' it. I don't remember him limping off.

A trainer was looking at it on the sideline after the touchdown run.

 

[THE UNDERCOVER BROTHA]

That also was a bad field to play on too, everyone was slipping and sliding, maybe cause of the dirt.

 

[billjohnson]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.

Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball?

SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight.

Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles.

Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

What kind of league was LT going late second???

 

[PahtyTom]

Short week ahead for LT, could explain the game usage...but the last drive?He should be out there Norv says on post game presser, the decision on LT was based on rolled ankle.

interesting. thanks. I thought people were joking about him being hurt. I thought his usage was entirely a "coaches decision." Wonder when he 'rolled' it. I don't remember him limping off.

It was after the 13 yard run. He got hit from the side and his ankle got stuck in the turf just enough for the "roll" to occur.If you can watch the play again, you'll notice that the ankle gets tweaked just enough.Frankly, I don't think it mattered much, as Sproles is the spread/hurry-up/3rd down type back anyway. And that's all they did from that point in the game forward.I didn't see the first and goal from inside the 10 with 45 seconds left as the same as normal goal-line situations. Sproles in gives a greater threat of (and in this case illusion of) a pass.

I thought he got his ankle rolled up on earlier in the game on the play he fumbled. If you dvr'd it, take a look. It looked bad but he went back in after that and seemed to be running the same so who knows.

 

[WiDDoW_MaKeR]

It's sad to see that the coaches clearly don't feel comfortable putting LT in when the game is on the line. If it is an important series... Sproles is in the game.

 

[moderated]

Short week ahead for LT, could explain the game usage...but the last drive?He should be out there Norv says on post game presser, the decision on LT was based on rolled ankle.

interesting. thanks. I thought people were joking about him being hurt. I thought his usage was entirely a "coaches decision." Wonder when he 'rolled' it. I don't remember him limping off.

It was after the 13 yard run. He got hit from the side and his ankle got stuck in the turf just enough for the "roll" to occur.If you can watch the play again, you'll notice that the ankle gets tweaked just enough.Frankly, I don't think it mattered much, as Sproles is the spread/hurry-up/3rd down type back anyway. And that's all they did from that point in the game forward.I didn't see the first and goal from inside the 10 with 45 seconds left as the same as normal goal-line situations. Sproles in gives a greater threat of (and in this case illusion of) a pass.

I thought he got his ankle rolled up on earlier in the game on the play he fumbled. If you dvr'd it, take a look. It looked bad but he went back in after that and seemed to be running the same so who knows.

you don't need dvr to realize LT is a ghost of his former self.

 

[cvnpoka]

id be happy to have lt on my fantasy team after watching that game. he looks quick and shifty. all the yards he got, he had to work for.

 

[footballnerd]

Take away the 13 yd run and he's avg 3.5 per carry. Just sayin......

Take away all the others and he's averaging 13 per carry!! Just sayin.....

Championship!

 

[Truman]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball? SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight. Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles. Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

If anything his value is down because he got pulled with the ankle and people will think Sproles is the full time 3rd down back. I'm looking to pick him up.

 

[fozzy fosbourne]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball? SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight. Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles. Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

If anything his value is down because he got pulled with the ankle and people will think Sproles is the full time 3rd down back. I'm looking to pick him up.

As an LT owner, I'm kind of in the middle here -- part of me thinks an LT trade would be selling low after a bad night, part of me thinks his O-line just got beat up and it would be selling high if someone still held him at his draft day value.

 

[The Jerk]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.

Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball?

SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight.

Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles.

Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

What kind of league was LT going late second???

According to many posters here tonight, a pretty smart one.Seriously, these have become my favorite posts in the supposed "shark" pool. I'm not sure if it's because it adds so much utility to the ongoing discussion or because it so obviously paints a poster as having a huge ego in desperate need of feeling superior to other posters.

It's a 10 team league with all TDs worth 6 points + distance bonus (1 pt for each 10 yds). Yardage 1 pt per 20 yards rush/rec, 1 pt per 50 pass. In this scoring format, different FF services ranked Tomlinson as the 11th best to 27th best overall player. So taking him as the 18th overall selection was almost exactly in the middle.

The best thing about this scoring format is it inflates QB and WR value just enough so that there is actual legitimate positional variety in the first two rounds of the draft. Instead of the first 15 drafted players being all RBs, there is usually a close to even split among QBs, RBs and WRs. People who think they are superior to this kind of league would likely end up with a very deep stable of RBs but then find out that waiting too long to draft a QB and 3 WRs can be just as fatal to their success.

One of the newest members in our league used to laugh at how many non-RBs were drafted early and also about how people were reaching for QBs and TEs far too soon. For the first eight years in the league, he always had five of the top 20 RBs on his roster. But he didn't win a championship until last season when only one of his first six picks were RBs. Bottom line is that in this league, many strategies can be successful and the draft is far more interesting because it can break so many different ways. I've won this league a few times, once with a dominant RB corps, once with three top 10 receivers, and once with a stud QB. It's not the position you draft, it's which players and when.

The most ironic part of the "what kind of league..." posts represented above is that they often show how unimaginative and unlearned these supposedly superior posters are. Apparently they cannot understand that every league is not the same as the ones in which they participate and/or that other leagues might be competitive and difficult to win because certain players SHOULD be drafted earlier or later than in their leagues.

 

[ttea]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball? SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight. Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles. Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

If anything his value is down because he got pulled with the ankle and people will think Sproles is the full time 3rd down back. I'm looking to pick him up.

As an LT owner, I'm kind of in the middle here -- part of me thinks an LT trade would be selling low after a bad night, part of me thinks his O-line just got beat up and it would be selling high if someone still held him at his draft day value.

You just don't move LT after tonight's game. His value is low, he was injured and the line was bad or Oakland's D is for real.I think you just have to temper your predictions for LT at this point. I still see him as a first rounder, but AP or MJD he is not.I just can't believe how black or white some of these opinions are.

 

[billjohnson]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.

Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball?

SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight.

Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles.

Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

What kind of league was LT going late second???

According to many posters here tonight, a pretty smart one.Seriously, these have become my favorite posts in the supposed "shark" pool. I'm not sure if it's because it adds so much utility to the ongoing discussion or because it so obviously paints a poster as having a huge ego in desperate need of feeling superior to other posters.

It's a 10 team league with all TDs worth 6 points + distance bonus (1 pt for each 10 yds). Yardage 1 pt per 20 yards rush/rec, 1 pt per 50 pass. In this scoring format, different FF services ranked Tomlinson as the 11th best to 27th best overall player. So taking him as the 18th overall selection was almost exactly in the middle.

The best thing about this scoring format is it inflates QB and WR value just enough so that there is actual legitimate positional variety in the first two rounds of the draft. Instead of the first 15 drafted players being all RBs, there is usually a close to even split among QBs, RBs and WRs. People who think they are superior to this kind of league would likely end up with a very deep stable of RBs but then find out that waiting too long to draft a QB and 3 WRs can be just as fatal to their success.

One of the newest members in our league used to laugh at how many non-RBs were drafted early and also about how people were reaching for QBs and TEs far too soon. For the first eight years in the league, he always had five of the top 20 RBs on his roster. But he didn't win a championship until last season when only one of his first six picks were RBs. Bottom line is that in this league, many strategies can be successful and the draft is far more interesting because it can break so many different ways. I've won this league a few times, once with a dominant RB corps, once with three top 10 receivers, and once with a stud QB. It's not the position you draft, it's which players and when.

The most ironic part of the "what kind of league..." posts represented above is that they often show how unimaginative and unlearned these supposedly superior posters are. Apparently they cannot understand that every league is not the same as the ones in which they participate and/or that other leagues might be competitive and difficult to win because certain players SHOULD be drafted earlier or later than in their leagues.

Dude...sounds like you are the one who thinks you're superior. However, will admit that after perusing some of that boring info about your league...I, too, am sorry that the question was ever posted....

 

[The Jerk]

Dude...sounds like you are the one who thinks you're superior. However, will admit that after perusing some of that boring info about your league...I, too, am sorry that the question was ever posted....

Well, then, thanks for wasting all of our time. You may actually be superior to me, to many of the posters here, or maybe to the whole forum,but a growing number of posters (like me) are growing tired of the posts in threads like this one or in waiver wire pickup threads that offer no insight or value to the topic at hand. It should not be that difficult to understand that leagues come in all different sizes, different scoring formats, different roster sizes, different lineup requirements, and different owner tendencies. When a league doesn't draft exactly like yours or has players on/off the waiver wire that yours do not, maybe it has something to do with the aforementioned differences and not with the fact that most of the league has no idea how to draft or manage a roster.

 

[billjohnson]

Dude...sounds like you are the one who thinks you're superior. However, will admit that after perusing some of that boring info about your league...I, too, am sorry that the question was ever posted....

Well, then, thanks for wasting all of our time.

Well, perhaps not everyone was subjected to your long, boring, and irrelevant post...hence, not everyone's time was wasted. Either way, I'm going to bed before I'm subjected to more of your pointless late night blather about your "superior" league and your "imaginative and learned" posts.....Have fun with the last word.....

 

[Clifton]

LT and Norv Turner care more about winning games than helping your fantasy teams, sorry.

Putting Sproles in for that drive was the right call.

And are people missing that he still averaged 4.2 YPC on a night where everyone was saying how much trouble they were having running the ball?

SD as a team only had 23 rushing attempts tonight. That will be an abberation. They will be up around 35 or so per game, and I guarantee LT will still get 2/3 of those. Sproles is too small to be an every down RB, but he can be great as a change of pace guy and catching passes, like we saw tonight.

Sproles is playing on passing downs now because he is faster and quicker. Tomlinson's burst is gone. So if you want to dump a pass off to your RB in the 2-minute drill, you want it to a quick back who can scurry out of bounds quickly to stop the clock. That is no longer LT. That is Sproles.

Tomlinson will still have a good season. No, he isn't the dominant player he used to be, but he will still be good for 1,100+ yards and double digit touchdowns. He just won't rip off big plays and catch as many passes as he used to.

I see it the same way. If you drafted expecting to get middle of the decade Tomlinson, you're going to be very disappointed. If you drafted expecting to get 2008 Tomlinson with the possibility of slight bumps up in yardage and TDs if he doesn't get as injured and SD leads/wins more games, then you are likely to be satisfied. I got him late in the second round and I'm just hoping for 80-100 yards most games and a TD virtually every game. Mildly disappointed tonight, but few RBs would have done much more. Sproles basically didn't do anything (outside of great runbacks) until the 4th quarter. It's not like he lit it up in the "normal" offense.

What kind of league was LT going late second???

That's where I got him and I'm worried. This is a competitive league with 12 players and relatively hefty entry fee. If you own LT and didn't handcuff with Sproles you have problems. I think Sproles is more important that Chester.

 

[Jason Wood]

He hurt his ankle on the fumble.

Total downer

 

[Hedgehog]

Time to trade for Tomlinson from panicking owners.

 

[Bad_Mo]

Surprising...doesn't LT usually carve up OAK?

 

[zamboni]

For LT and Sproles owners, the tough decision may be looming if LT is indeed banged up, but not enough to sit out.

 

[3C's]

If LT is out for a while (just speculating, no real info) do they bring Johnson back (and does he get playing time)? Or do they roll with Sproles and Hester?

 

[Brutis]

It's sad to see that the coaches clearly don't feel comfortable putting LT in when the game is on the line. If it is an important series... Sproles is in the game.

Im getting used to seeing LT on the sidelines watching when the game is on the line

 

[Da Beers]

Time to trade for Tomlinson from panicking owners.

wait another week -- they have Ravens next week

 

[thedudesdude]

I am no San Diego homer and I own LT in 2 of 3 leagues this year but in watching this guy last night it looks to be like he is pretty close to being finished. He is showing no patience and is not using his blocks well. Ever time he darts up to the line he seems to pitch himself forward in kind of a dive just to get a few yards; thus blowing any chance for a homerun. That one run he broke to the outside he was chased down by a LB who fought off his stiff arm. And watching this sissy go out ever other play to rest is just killing me. The guy picks up 8 yards and has to go to the sideline for a breather? He has no fire and I'm seriously considering dropping him in my dynasty league where he has the biggest cap in the league. What do people think about him? It's the first game of the season and Sproles is already getting more touches.

 

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Week 1.

 

[SharkBait]

I'm not ready to deliver an eulogy for the guy just yet, but with the game on the line having Darren Sproles in there making runs inside the 10 yard line was very disturbing for LT owners. I bought into the whole "got something to prove" angle, and hopefully some of what I saw last night will be an anomaly...

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

If LT is out for a while (just speculating, no real info) do they bring Johnson back (and does he get playing time)? Or do they roll with Sproles and Hester?

Since LT was healthy going into the game, Michael Bennett was inactive last night.But if LT sits out, I think Bennett would step into the LT role while Sproles would keep the Sproles role.

 

[thedudesdude]

Exactly week #1 and he's already hurt again. What happened to all the off season conditioning? He is on the steep downside of his career, I'm convinced. He is showing no balance at all between the tackles. Surely other people couldn't have watch last nights game and thought he played well.

 

[sho nuff]

Sproles had 9 caries for 23 yards. 2.7 per carry.

He was in late with LT getting a bit nicked up and at this point in their careers Sproles is the better receiving back.

 

[zadok]

When the end comes for RBs, it comes fast. I think it probably is nearly over for the great LT.

 

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[GoldenBear]

The good news: LT isn't completely healthy, so he could improve his cutting, strength, etc. as he gets better. Also, Sproles isn't really big enough to be a feature back, so they won't bench LT completely as long as he can play.

The bad news: God knows when that injury will get better...

 

[sho nuff]

Exactly week #1 and he's already hurt again. What happened to all the off season conditioning? He is on the steep downside of his career, I'm convinced. He is showing no balance at all between the tackles. Surely other people couldn't have watch last nights game and thought he played well.

Played well? No...he looked ok.But what does conditioning have to do with getting your ankle rolled?

 

[Johnny Ice]

LT is going to get respectable stats just because they will feed him but it's easy to tell his legs are shot. He has some loyal followers that try to give you a bunch of excuses but it's not only those on a FF board that hold that same opinion. When he has a bad matchup, don't expect nothing more than about 50 yds rushing and maybe a fluke 1 yd TD. Sproles is also getting most of the receptions. LT is now good, not great.

 

[3C's]

If LT is out for a while (just speculating, no real info) do they bring Johnson back (and does he get playing time)? Or do they roll with Sproles and Hester?

Since LT was healthy going into the game, Michael Bennett was inactive last night.But if LT sits out, I think Bennett would step into the LT role while Sproles would keep the Sproles role.

Ah, right. Forgot all about Bennett.

 

[jon_mx]

He is thirty, rushed for nearly 12,000 yards and had 9 very tough years....yes he is on the downswing, which was fairly apparent last year. Still a good back, but in no way an elite RB. He will be splitting time all season. He may still break 1000 yards and get 8-10 TD's.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

High ankle sprain.

"It wasn't bad enough where I couldn't play," Tomlinson said. "Toward the end it really got tight on me. We were in two-minute (offense). Darren is very good at that, so it was a no brainer."

 

[BusterTBronco]

Lot of FBG staffers were really drinking the LT2 Kool Aid this summer. Looks like he is going to be even worse than he was last year!

 

[Ray_T]

He has no cut anymore...

he has a cut, but you cant cut back when there is no cutback lane. The raiders are completely clogging up the middle, so LT has to go wide on his carries.he still has the speed and cutting ability. I saw him go wide on a play, and go right around an oakland defender to stop the team from taking a loss when Oakland got someone in the backfield.what they need is some halfway decent playcalling.the idiot coaches in San Diego are fools. You dont put Sproles in the backfield to block on third down when he cant block worth a lick. if anything, he should go in on 2nd & medium when the defense thinks theres a legitimate chance he will run the ball.

 

[4 - Digit Shark]

I think LT looked OK, but what is OK for most is a lot worse then LT used to be. I felt coming into the season he'd get enough carries (around 300) and score enough TD's (as a result of getting numerous opportunities on a good team) that he'd be a lower RB1 this year. It's clear from last nights game that Sproles should be on the field more, especially on 3rd downs, so LT just won't be on the field like he used to be. He's on the way down, I just don't know how quick he'll hit the bottom.

 

[EdwardCat]

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[Ray_T]

I didnt think he looked bad at all.

what looked bad was the San Diego O-line. They were MANHANDLED by the Oakland Defense.

the Oakland defense closed the gaps, and forced LT to run wide, they got pressure on Rivers, and they did almost everything right.

the reality is, the Raiders deserved the win, but San Diego got lucky, and earned themselves a mulligan.

 

[EdwardCat]

Surprising...doesn't LT usually carve up OAK?

Not for at least two years. Last year he got a 41 yard TD at the end of the game to pad his stats (clearly because of a confused defense as there wasn't a single person on the right side of the field).

 

[3C's]

High ankle sprain."It wasn't bad enough where I couldn't play," Tomlinson said. "Toward the end it really got tight on me. We were in two-minute (offense). Darren is very good at that, so it was a no brainer."

Will be interesting to see what the tests show.

 

[timschochet]

People keep saying, well he may have lost a step, but they will feed him the ball plenty, and so he'll still have good numbers by the end of the year.

Don't bet on it.

Like the Steelers, this offensive line can't run block. And Phillip Rivers has really improved. I think this becomes a passing team, and Sproles is perfectly suited for that. LT will still run between the tackles, but think Willie Parker here. He is not an RB1.

 

[timschochet]

I didnt think he looked bad at all.what looked bad was the San Diego O-line. They were MANHANDLED by the Oakland Defense.the Oakland defense closed the gaps, and forced LT to run wide, they got pressure on Rivers, and they did almost everything right.the reality is, the Raiders deserved the win, but San Diego got lucky, and earned themselves a mulligan.

Wasn't too long ago that forcing LT to run wide was about the worst thing you could do as a defense, because he would beat you to the edge.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

it looked like as soon as he hit the line he would just fall down foward..like he was being tripped...but i didnt see him fighting to stay upright or fighting for yards...something didnt look right

 

[ScottyDog]

yes

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

guys the SD Oline stinks, and now with 2 starters injured will be even worse. I preached this all pre-season.

So given LT's legs are tired (thanks marty). and the Oline stinks.

Time to looks elsewhere. If he cant light up Oakland anymore he's in trouble

and this all kills me to say

 

[Ghost Rider]

I wouldn't say he is washed up, but he is definitely on the decline. However, some keep talking about how bad he looked last night, but he still averaged 4.2 YPC! He won't catch many passes anymore (Sproles is more dangerous catching balls out of the backfield), but he should still crank out 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns or so.