DevonCardsFan said:
Thank the Lord Plummer and F'n Jones are gone. Thomas Jones sucks ass, falls when the wind blows, has no damn heart and has injury and attitude problems. I never got this whole love fest for Thomas Jones anyway. Jones Sucks and will prove it this year or will go down with an injury. I will not even start about Plummer, he needed a change in scenery.
Until this year...
If you had the chance to watch the Bears play GB, Jones was running downhill and was taking on tacklers. Maybe the Packers rush D isn't very good but when he was in AZ, Jones would falter against good and bad defenses.
Against DET, Jones was having to fight off Lion defenders 2 and 3 yards deep all game long yet still managed to get a couple TD's, one on an amazing second and third effort.
Bears have a pretty good road grading OL so Jones is getting some room cleared out for him and Terry Shea (Bears OC) wanted Jones LAST year in KC and rumors were that one of the conditions for him taking the OC job in CHI is that the Bears would actively pursue Jones in FA. Shea envisions Jones as his Holmes and is using him to the best of his ability. Forget that he is averaging over 100 yards in his first to games. He has shown the blitz pick-up ability that everyone raved about here in AZ and has shown his ability t catch the ball out of the backfield.
Two games does not a career or even a season make but the early returns are very good for Jones. I think the biggest thing was him getting separated from Boston's influence and I think he has finally realized what it is to be a football player. Simple fact is, he is the undisputed RB (he was never undisputed in AZ since it was always a competition) so he came in confident of his role with the team and is running the best of his NFL career right now.
I hate projecting stats but Let's just project his going forward and tell me what you think about these numbers:
352 rushes 1752 yards 4.98 avg 24 TDs 56 catches 360 yards
before the season, I would have said (and did) that I would be happy with 1200-1300 yards rushing and 35+ catches. If he can even come close to the projected numbers, he will have had a sick season.