Don't Blow Your Wad

No I am not going there, and this is not some Internet ad.

OK I have heard this and even read this on some Internet sights, everyone thinks that we should just give Ryan Grant that 8 year 40 million dollar deal now. I think Grant is a good hard runner, minus last week not a fumbler, and seems to do OK in blitz pick-up. The most over-rated position in the NFL is running back. With the rare exception of people like Barry Sanders and to some extent Ladainian Tomlinson the league is full of 6'0" men that can run sub 4.6 40's. Green Bay runs a cut-back running scheme similar to that in Denver. Remember the names Terrell Davis, Olandis Gary, Mike Anderson, and Clinton Portis. Even this year Travis Henry and Selmon Young had good years.

Ryan Grant really never played in college, the Giants did not see his potential as well. Ryan Grant was not even on anyones radar when Morency, Jackson, and Wynn were the starters. What happened this year was this young (minus tackles) line started to gel, they open holes that you could get 4 yards through, I would slip a tackle and spin ahead for 8. There is a lot more in the near future we will need to lock up. Kampman, Jenkins and Tauscher are near the end of their contracts, and those are positions a little harder to fill.

Look this team is great the D-Line is deep, they are fast at Linebacker and our Corners make up for some mistakes at Safety. On the other side you have a 38 year old looking like 28, a line that is a bank vault and a receiving core that top to bottom would be compared to only the Pats. The last thing we need is to talk contract status with someone that will touch the ball 35 times Sunday.