Regardless of our crappy 0-Line..What's up with Ryan Grant?

[Gunakor]

Right..he couldn't WIN the starting job...guys with big time talent actually get the job back when they are healthy and even get drafted when they were hurt in college. You're right about the injuries being an ongoing theme, but that only counts to dis TT when its Justin Harrell...when its an unheard of back who put together 8 good games injuries don't matter....TT needs to pay him and get him into camp.

OK, I'm not going to keep going in circles on this. He DID win the starting job at ND, except when he was injured. When he wasn't injured he was the starter, but he ended up splitting time with, respectively, Julius Jones and Darius Walker as a Junior and Senior. Grant had a good, solid career at Notre Dame, and yes, was the starter when not injured. Started ahead of Jones and Walker when he was healthy.

Again, Grant did not miss significant time due to his contract. Just a few days. He was signed a week before the first pre-season game.

I understand what you're saying and I don't discount it...all I'm saying is there are a lot of RB's with enough talent to put together 8 good games on a team that is playing well. No matter what we argue back and forth about his career at ND you can't deny not one GM would waste a 7th on him. He strung together a nice run and held out instead of proving it through another training camp and part of another season. I didn't like giving him 5 million then and I like it even less now. People can say its hindsight, but I can bump 4 threads from may/june/july where I was against caving to him then.

If you follow my posts I ALWAYS say you can't judge a guy on half a season..read the jennings thread. I hope grant turns it around and is the guy we thought he was, but right now every time he runs into a lineman and doesn't notice a huge cutback lane I get more pissed. At this point I would be much more in favor of giving jennings a big deal because even though he hasn't put 1k in a season, he has shown brilliance over 3 seperate seasons.

How is that 5 million he's getting this year hampering our ability to squeeze talented players' contracts under our salary cap? You realize that he doesn't get 5 million next year unless he meets certain performance marks, same with the year after and the year after that. He got his money this year because of what he did last year, but if he does nothing this year then he doesn't get his money next year. There is nothing at all wrong with his contract.

[SnakeLH2006]

Wow..Obviously it's as easily saying Brett made him last year. Another newer thread said as much so QFTl