the dude is a douche, doesn’t mean he can’t still play. I would like to believe there are smarter people than me running the team so if they approve I approve.

What everyone forgets is what a leader truly does for an organization. People had no respect for Zorn because he did not demand respect, just like Johnson had no respect for Haley because he did not demand respect. But there is one thing that every player respects, and that is a super bowl ring.

This is a good move in my opinion. Signing a guy to give us a more balanced attack. One way to keep older guys going is to take pressure off of them, and that’s what we’ve done here. While this is no game changing move, I think Johnson is going to be good addition to the running back corps, and I expect him to get a lot more carries then people expect.

As long as we can dump him if he steps out of line then great. He seems enthusiastic. Deangelo is a good example. Welcome LJ.

but we need some SPEED! Aldridge maybe…?

To me it now looks like LT and QB in the 1st/2nd rounds and whatever is the best leftover, a LB or RB in the 4th/5th rounds. Strictly opinion.

I still don’t see the rationale behind this move. You’ve got an aging running back who has never been very good for locker room chemistry. So we shouldn’t expect him to rack up many yards, and we shouldn’t expect him to be a team leader. He seems like a cheaper, older version of Clinton Portis. His best days are behind him and the number of carries he’s had in his career indicate neither a likelihood of durability nor effectiveness. Sure he might behave himself here (although being lined up next to a guy like Clinton Portis probably doesn’t encourage you to keep your mouth shut), but behavior isn’t going to make his performance any better.

LJ is not washed up.I grew up in KC and if a Player does not kiss behind the fans hate him.I will miss him on the chiefs but I will still wear is number.

Sad.

Boooooo
I hope it works out, kind of surprised and the draft will most likely entertaining.

Although LJ’s career seems to be on the downside he still has major upside even at his age.

I don;lt even think Vinny would have done something this dumb, A 30 year old malcontent running back? If you gave me a list of free agents and asked me to rank all of them in terms of which ones I wanted to weae brgundy and gold, I would have ranked him DEAD LAST. How did that Maurice Clarett move work out for you Shanny? Why pay a RB (the most replaceable positiion in football, the positiion with the least dropoff in production from 1st string to string IMO) especially one who complains about not carrying the ball is a wife beater and a homophobe who has no idea how to deal with the media to split carries in DC on a bad team???? SUPER DUMB. I don’t care if he runs for 1,000 yards this is still a bad signing, you could have definitely gotten someone cheaper to give similar production, and someone who isn’t a spoiled brat that disgraces this proud franchise.

I never root for injuries but LJ I hope you blow your knee out the first day of camp.

this move. It’s only 3.5 guaranteed, it isn’t a “big name signing”, I mean when Chad f’n Clifton is making millions more, you are not a big name signing. This is just to push LJ and Portis to see what they have left, we’ll probably still draft a rb in the 4th or 6th. It’s just an insurance policy that we can cut without much headache if we need to. I agree, he isn’t remotely close to a likeable guy on paper, but I’m sure Shanny feels good about it; and I don’t think he was a problem in Cincy last year. Also, on a side note, Jamal Charles got those yards against some of the weakest run Ds in the league, while LJ was going against mostly playoff teams. I think Charles is definitly the best runner at this point in their careers, but you can’t really say they had equal opportunities either, you have to factor in the opposition.

  that Shanahan knows what he is doing and what he is getting. He’s been the opposing team to LJ many times and had to defend against him. Also, I’m sure he knows about all the baggage. And some of it probably was BS anyway. Any of of the long-haired , liberal, lefty, lay-about ,media freaks would have villified the man and made a Mother Theresa out of any femme involved. Oh, BTW, I voted, No!, Dont wan’t him, but here I’m playing Devil’s Advocate.

He’s not always right, but Davis, Portis, Anderson, and others were nice evaluations

You can not predict a season. It is a gamble. The sport is a gamble. The draft. The right person in the right system will flourish. And no one here can. New coaching staff in town will have growing pains. Let the guys that get paid to make personnel decisions make them. Not disgruntled “internet GM’s” playing fantasy football making the same foolish arguement about the talent on the Skins roster. 4-12 can easily happen again with or with out LJ or whoever. And if I misspelled something or missed a comma…I dont give a Fcuk cause this aint English class or my Thesis for my Phd.

I really don’t expect to see anything out of LJ that they couldn’t have gotten out of a 6th round draft pick. I hope the plan is too merely use LJ to push CP and to use up whatever little they have left. To me both of these guys are like the tube of toothpaste that you have to roll up and squeeze to get that last little bit – they’re both about done and we’ll be lucky to get another year or two out of either of them.