Charlie Klein
Say Dungy and Mangini, have you seen them yet? But they're so spaced out, La-La-LaDanian and the Jets. So goes my awful re-phrase of Elton John's masterpiece "Bennie & the Jets."
The New York Jets announced yesterday the signing of LaDanian Tomlinson to a two year, $5.1 million contract to bring the future Hall of Famer to that concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
LT will hope that he can get his career back on track behind the Pro Bowl left side of the Jets offensive line (Sirs D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Alan Faneca, and Nick Mangold respectively) and the Jets expect Tomlinson to help in the tutelage of their young core of Shonn Greene and Leon Washington.
This move puzzles me for a few reasons. Beat writer for JetsInsider.com Dan Troisi told me that Thomas Jones was cut for salary reasons (Jones was due $3 million in 2010) and yet Tomlinson will cost the Jets $2.5 million in 2010. Other reports on the story have commented on there being a bit of dissatisfaction within the team in allowing a proven 30+ running back to leave and signing a back that appears to have lost a step or five.
Rex Ryan & Co. must be hoping that playing ball in the city of New York (actually New Jersey, but who cares) will make LT feel brand new, that the big lights will inspire him, the way Alicia Keys sings in "New York State of Mind."
But for now, allow me to leave you with Elton John.
You know, I read it in a magazine. La-La-LaDanian and the Jets.
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