Larry Johnson Anyone?

[Nconroe]

The Texans have a few coaches who were at KC while LJ was there, so they will know if he's really trouble, or not. Seems doubtful to me we'd pick him up.

I tend to agree, OL and play calls may have more to do with our running game than the RB's we have.

[NBT]

The league has now made a book on how to keep a Gibbs coached Oline from getting openings for the RB.

[WMH]

From PFT:

Report: Texans favorites for Larry Johnson
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on November 10, 2009 8:17 PM ET
NFL Network's Jason La Canfora has an idea where Larry Johnson might land.

"The Houston Texans are showing persistent interest in Larry Johnson and it's a place Larry Johnson would be comfortable and right now they have to be considered the favorites," La Canfora said on NFL Total Access Tuesday. (Here's his accompanying tweet.)

He later said, "It seems like at this point something would have to fall apart between the Texans and Larry Johnson for him to go" elsewhere. Washington and New England were mentioned as other possibilities.

The Houston connection is interesting considering a missive from ESPN's Adam Schefter from a few hours earlier Tuesday: "And now we start eliminating LJ landing spots: No more Houston -- Gary Kubiak's team sticking with its backs," Schefter wrote.

Not a lot of wiggle room in those reports. The information man on information man violence doesn't end there.

"Some people spending/wasting time talking about LJ wanting to go to Steelers," La Canfora writes. "But they have no interest in him. Moot point."

Watching to see where Larry Johnson will land is proving to be a lot more entertaining than watching Johnson play football. (Unless you love watching 2.7 yards and a cloud of dust.)

UPDATE: Schefter is steadfast. He tells PFT: "Larry Johnson has as much chance of playing for the Texans as I do."

[WMH]

Quote from the Chronic - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...t/6714203.html

"We took all the factors into consideration — football, off-the-field issues, and we determined that it wasn't a good fit for us at this time," general manager Rick Smith said. "We've got confidence in our backs. When we come back from our open date, we expect big things out of them."


If it was me....I bring this guy in at the minimum. I find it hard to imagine that one guy, here for no more than 7 weeks, can become a cancer in the locker room full of 52 other grown men. He hasn't ran that great so far this year, but geez, we are 2 one yard scores away from being AT LEAST 7-2.....
He is the big back that Brown wants to be, but can't.

Not sure I agree with the Texans position, but that's why they get paid the big bucks, and I bitch about it on a message board....

[painekiller]

His stat line today against Cle

ATT YDS AVG LNG TD REC YDS AVG LNG TD FUM LST
22 107 4.9 13 0 2 -2 -1.0 0 0 0 0

[popanot]

What the hell, we have Chris Brown. Who needs talent?

[WMH]

While I certainly wished we would have signed him, the RB position was not our issue yesterday. They completely abandoned the run in the 2nd half. Why, who the hell knows. Both Brown and Slaton averaged over 5 yards a clip.