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This is from his remarks about Jackson gaining all his yds in garbage time so I've been taking him to task on it.
Michael,
You made a comment to Steve Wyche last night on NFL Network that Steven Jackson gains most of his yards in garbage time when the score doesn’t matter. This is absolutely untrue and a little research on your part would have been nice. While I don’t think Jackson should get MVP he sure deserves the mention. He has zero help from his team and the opponents know he is running the ball. I went and looked at the Rams games and they have been blown out 5 times. In those 5 games that were out of reach Jackson only rushed for a total of 76 yards in the 4th quarter. That doesn’t exactly back up our statement. On top of that when teams are down big don’t they usually pass the ball more to try and get back in the game? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything like that it's just troubling to hear people say this about Jackson when there is no data to back it up. Jackson in my opinion is the most complete back in the NFL. He puts up great numbers without any talent around him. Please give the guy some respect and don't make false statements like that when it's just flat out wrong.
Here is his first response.
From: Michael Lombardi [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:56 PM
To: Callahan, Russel L
Subject: Re: Steven Jackson
Here is his breakdown
1st Half - 126 553 4.4 58 1 2 2 19 15.1 10 21 15
2nd Half/OT - 112 567 5.1 48 3 0 0 26 23.2 7 14 17
Last 2 Min - 18 94 5.2 25 3 0 0 6 33.3 1 3 3
1st Qtr - 57 226 4.0 30 0 1 1 7 12.3 3 4 6
2nd Qtr - 69 327 4.7 58 1 1 1 12 17.4 7 17 9
3rd Qtr - 63 333 5.3 48 0 0 0 14 22.2 3 8 11
4th Qtr - 49 234 4.8 25 3 0 0 12 24.5 4 6 6
1/2 of his yards have come in the second half and his mist productive quarter is the third. Is this research meet your statisifaction?
I love the player, but the team stinks and he becomes insignificant...
thanks for watching
Michael,
I'm not going to get into a pissing match but he has only gained 76 yds in the 4th qtr of games the Rams are getting blown out in. The Rams have not been blown out in every game this year. He also is a big back and does tend to wear on defenses in the second half. Just because half his yds come in the second half doesnt mean the yds are in garbage time. In the 1st Seattle game the Rams were down 28-0 in the 3rd qtr Jackson gained a whopping 30 yds in the entire 2nd half. In the Packers game the Rams were only down 23-17 at the end of the 3rd qtr hardly any garbage time in that game. In the 35-0 drubbing against the Niners the Rams were down 21 nothing at the end of the 3rd qtr Jackson gained another whopping 30 yds in the second half. In the Minnesota game Jackson gained 34 yds in the entire second half. In the Colts game he gained 108 yds in the second half. So 202 of Jackson's 1120 have come in garbage time as you called it. Not really most of his yds as you stated on NFL network. Do you go over Petersons garbage yards like you do Jackson's? Afterall when your up big in games teams tend to run more so I wonder how many garbage yds Peterson has gained this year? Peterson has gained 329 yds in the second half of games the Vikings were blowing out the opponent. Way more garbage yds than Jackson and on a far better team which makes Jackson look even better. Jackson is doing it alone while Peterson had Brett favre and company to help him out. So not sure your line of thinking on this is correct, its ok to be wrong just hard to admit it.
Thats the entire conversation so far.
Michael,
You made a comment to Steve Wyche last night on NFL Network that Steven Jackson gains most of his yards in garbage time when the score doesn’t matter. This is absolutely untrue and a little research on your part would have been nice. While I don’t think Jackson should get MVP he sure deserves the mention. He has zero help from his team and the opponents know he is running the ball. I went and looked at the Rams games and they have been blown out 5 times. In those 5 games that were out of reach Jackson only rushed for a total of 76 yards in the 4th quarter. That doesn’t exactly back up our statement. On top of that when teams are down big don’t they usually pass the ball more to try and get back in the game? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything like that it's just troubling to hear people say this about Jackson when there is no data to back it up. Jackson in my opinion is the most complete back in the NFL. He puts up great numbers without any talent around him. Please give the guy some respect and don't make false statements like that when it's just flat out wrong.
Here is his first response.
From: Michael Lombardi [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:56 PM
To: Callahan, Russel L
Subject: Re: Steven Jackson
Here is his breakdown
1st Half - 126 553 4.4 58 1 2 2 19 15.1 10 21 15
2nd Half/OT - 112 567 5.1 48 3 0 0 26 23.2 7 14 17
Last 2 Min - 18 94 5.2 25 3 0 0 6 33.3 1 3 3
1st Qtr - 57 226 4.0 30 0 1 1 7 12.3 3 4 6
2nd Qtr - 69 327 4.7 58 1 1 1 12 17.4 7 17 9
3rd Qtr - 63 333 5.3 48 0 0 0 14 22.2 3 8 11
4th Qtr - 49 234 4.8 25 3 0 0 12 24.5 4 6 6
1/2 of his yards have come in the second half and his mist productive quarter is the third. Is this research meet your statisifaction?
I love the player, but the team stinks and he becomes insignificant...
thanks for watching
Michael,
I'm not going to get into a pissing match but he has only gained 76 yds in the 4th qtr of games the Rams are getting blown out in. The Rams have not been blown out in every game this year. He also is a big back and does tend to wear on defenses in the second half. Just because half his yds come in the second half doesnt mean the yds are in garbage time. In the 1st Seattle game the Rams were down 28-0 in the 3rd qtr Jackson gained a whopping 30 yds in the entire 2nd half. In the Packers game the Rams were only down 23-17 at the end of the 3rd qtr hardly any garbage time in that game. In the 35-0 drubbing against the Niners the Rams were down 21 nothing at the end of the 3rd qtr Jackson gained another whopping 30 yds in the second half. In the Minnesota game Jackson gained 34 yds in the entire second half. In the Colts game he gained 108 yds in the second half. So 202 of Jackson's 1120 have come in garbage time as you called it. Not really most of his yds as you stated on NFL network. Do you go over Petersons garbage yards like you do Jackson's? Afterall when your up big in games teams tend to run more so I wonder how many garbage yds Peterson has gained this year? Peterson has gained 329 yds in the second half of games the Vikings were blowing out the opponent. Way more garbage yds than Jackson and on a far better team which makes Jackson look even better. Jackson is doing it alone while Peterson had Brett favre and company to help him out. So not sure your line of thinking on this is correct, its ok to be wrong just hard to admit it.
Thats the entire conversation so far.
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