Tells Larry Johnson to "take the diapers off" (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1887031)
LMFAO :-D :-D :-D
Tough words for a man that cries.
He had me laughin on PAT-Tuesday on NFL Network. He sounded like he was gonna cry when he started talking about Priest being hurt. What a Hoyda!
Maybe if he used Larry Johnson once in a while his team wouldn't suck donkey nuts.
Quote from: FastFreddie on September 23, 2004, 06:59:34 AM
Maybe if he used Larry Johnson once in a while his team wouldn't suck donkey nuts.
Only if Larry can help stop the run...man, are the Chiefs disappointing early this season. I'm just bitter that they got me knocked out of a suicide pool last week. :boom
That's one way to react to the comment...back them up by acting like a baby.
Quote from: Zanshin on September 23, 2004, 08:53:15 AM
That's one way to react to the comment...back them up by acting like a baby.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He got pissed because DV made comments about him to the media instead of approching him privately. So what's Johnson do? He complains about it to the media. Not the proper way to handle it imo.
It's a friggin metaphor. The guy obviously hasn't played at all because he's got an all-world running back in front of him. He could have said a handful of things. "It's time to take the training wheels off." would have been the same thing.
LJ turns sour and takes it personally. Good call. Alienate yourself from your team and coach.
Curtis Enis called. He's got a spot next to him on his couch reserved for when you're exposed for being a bad football player from PennState. He really wants to watch the NFL with you on Sundays.
Quote from: Mad-Lad on September 23, 2004, 10:22:16 AM
It's a friggin metaphor. The guy obviously hasn't played at all because he's got an all-world running back in front of him. He could have said a handful of things. "It's time to take the training wheels off." would have been the same thing.
LJ turns sour and takes it personally. Good call. Alienate yourself from your team and coach.
Curtis Enis called. He's got a spot next to him on his couch reserved for when you're exposed for being a bad football player from PennState. He really wants to watch the NFL with you on Sundays.
LOL :-D
Will Curtis let LJ sit in his cushion's ass-groove? Can't use the recliner at the end of the sectional, though...that's reserved for Blair Thomas to rest his aching knees.
Quote from: jeffreyjpa on September 23, 2004, 01:36:36 PM
Quote from: Mad-Lad on September 23, 2004, 10:22:16 AM
It's a friggin metaphor. The guy obviously hasn't played at all because he's got an all-world running back in front of him. He could have said a handful of things. "It's time to take the training wheels off." would have been the same thing.
LJ turns sour and takes it personally. Good call. Alienate yourself from your team and coach.
Curtis Enis called. He's got a spot next to him on his couch reserved for when you're exposed for being a bad football player from PennState. He really wants to watch the NFL with you on Sundays.
LOL :-D
Will Curtis let LJ sit in his cushion's ass-groove? Can't use the recliner at the end of the sectional, though...that's reserved for Blair Thomas to rest his aching knees.
Thomas has his knees resting in Todd Blackledge's lap.
Where's KiJana's spot?
On the bench in New Orleans
whoops.
I cant seem to get the article without registering now.
anyway, Vermeil and Johnson had a sit down face to face and Vermeil appologized for his comments. thats about it.
Incorrect syntax in posting the url aside, could you post the text of the article so that I don't have to register?
I cant seem to get it now either without registering.
Quote from: MURP on September 24, 2004, 09:27:36 AM
I cant seem to get it now either without registering.
Thanks for the synopsis. I guess Johnson may get some action this weekend.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on September 24, 2004, 12:01:28 AM
On the bench in New Orleans
Being a Penn State fan this hurts me but Ki-Jana got cut before the San Fran game. Rashan Salam keeps knockin but he can't come in.
Carter is back, and will split carries with Stecker this week.
Oh I missed the re-signing. GO STATE
Jay Glazer just said that the Chiefs called around and are offering Johnson in a trade. Dolphins, Cowboys and Bucs. Chiefs GM confermed this, but is optimistic a deal can get done.
Fox's Jay Glazer Reports that KC is trying to trade Johnson but they aren't optimistic that something will get done! Wow that's the fall out from the diaper comment and reply by Johnson!
wow, deisel44....that's some echo.
Rumor: LJ was traded to Miami for Arturo Freeman and a 3rd round pick (I believe it's the one they got from Chicago)...
I was listening to Bill Maas on TSN radio today he said that Vermeil has had it in for Johnson since day 1. He said in the press conference following the draft that Vermeil flat out said he did not want Johnson and that he wanted help on D instead. It seemed like Maas was actually defending Johnson saying that Vermeil has kept him deactivated because he didn't want him in the first place.
guess Vermeil doesnt have much say in KC?
Quote from: MURP on September 27, 2004, 06:34:07 PM
guess Vermeil doesnt have much say in KC?
He has enough say to not play him.
but not enough say to say... dont draft him?
They are trying to trade him, but then turn around and say these things. :-D
Quote from: MURP on September 27, 2004, 06:40:35 PM
but not enough say to say... dont draft him?
From what Maas said that sounds exactly how it works.
baby frustrated about not being traded (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/football/nfl/kansas_city_chiefs/9961569.htm?1c)
Quotes like these convince me that LJ isn't sharpest knife in the drawer...or he's got a Priest-fetish. >:D
Quote"I have no problem with being behind Priest," Johnson said. "It's not about me being behind Priest, it's about not getting an opportunity to be behind Priest.
Quote from: MURP on October 20, 2004, 01:43:19 PM
baby frustrated about not being traded (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/football/nfl/kansas_city_chiefs/9961569.htm?1c)
Trash talk LJ all you want, but the fact remains that he was drafted by a team with a coach that didn't even really want him, and he's spending the prime of his career on the bench because of it. Anyone would be pissed off in his position.
Could be that he just sorta sucks.
Quote from: Zanshin on October 21, 2004, 09:50:38 AM
Could be that he just sorta sucks.
Agree, but we may never know. 8)
oh, we know. ;)
PFT Ripping into Huggies again
QuoteHUGGIES SHOWS HIS ASS
In response to comments from Chiefs running back Larry "Huggies" Johnson regarding the team's failure to trade the 2003 first-rounder prior to the October 19 deadline, a league source tells us that Johnson's words "confirm he is the selfish icehole that most of the NFL thought he was coming out of Penn State."
"No one else wants him because was an icehole in college and he's still an icehole. His college teammates killed him. No one liked him."
So how, then, did the Chiefs not know what they were getting into?
"As is protocol at Penn State," the source said, "they don't say anything bad about a kid. They're all great kids, especially if their dad is an assistant coach on Joe Paterno's staff." (Johnson's father, Larry, by the way, is/was an assistant coach at PSU.)
So it now seems that Johnson is destined to become the next in a growing line of highly-touted Penn State tailbacks who fell flat on their facemasks in the NFL. From D.J. Dozier to Blair Thomas to Ki-Jana Carter to Curtis Enis, it's been a loooooong time since Paterno's program has created a running back who can do something/anything in the NFL. In fact, it's been a generation since Curt Warner came out of Penn State in 1983 and starred for the Seahawks.
Johnson perhaps might be the biggest of these four busts, since he has only 85 yards rushing -- all of which came a year ago -- and no prospects of contributing in the future. Our guess is that the Chiefs will shop him again near the draft, when a team with a need at the position might be willing to give up a four or a five for a guy as to whom G.M. Carl Peterson never, ever should have burned a first-round pick.
Given what the rest of the league knows about Johnson, King Carl might have to settle in the end for a conditional seventh-rounder. Or a bag of stale pretzels.
:-D
You can't blame him for being selfish at PSU. He's the only decent player to come through there since LaVar.
I still contend he'll be a good back in the NFL if he gets a chance. Kind of ironic that the Chiefs went out an got a guy who'd been stuck on the depth chart behind a star in Priest and now LJ's stuck behind Priest.
But seriously, if any of you haters really and simply want to say that he sucks, you'll be eating crow someday.
When he's 30 and finally gets a chance to start?
Quote from: General_Failure on October 22, 2004, 12:45:31 PM
When he's 30 and finally gets a chance to start?
Yep. He'll have a career of epic proportions... like a James Joseph or a Heath Sherman. :paranoid
Quote"You can't do too much when you have an offensive coordinator who doesn't trust you and a head coach who never wanted you in the first place." -- Kansas City tailback and 2003 first-round pick Larry Johnson, who has played in just eight of a possible 23 games, on his frustrations at not being dealt to another team before the NFL trading deadline
'I have nothing to contribute.
LJ had two goaline rushes behing the best Oline in the NFL. Got stuffed both attempts. :-D
Quote from: MURP on November 09, 2004, 12:12:51 PM
LJ had two goaline rushes behing the best Oline in the NFL. Got stuffed both attempts. :-D
So, he still has as many red zone touchdowns as Westbrook does this season.
:-D
Quote from: MURP on November 09, 2004, 12:12:51 PM
LJ had two goaline rushes behing the best Oline in the NFL. Got stuffed both attempts. :-D
He ran into one of his lineman (Willie Roaf) on one of the attempts. Dude is like 350 lbs...how the hell do ya not see that guy?
Also, Johnson's 2.1 ypc average yesterday is apparently due to the fact that he was running with a soggy diaper.
Blaylock looks like trash tonight (and so does that "best OL in the NFL"), and Larry still hasn't seen the field. Vermeil must just hate him and/or really think he sucks the big one. We'll see him on a new team next year.
Farging Blaylock with 58 rushing yards. I ended up with a tie this week. Would 2 more yards have killed him?
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on November 23, 2004, 07:18:43 AM
Farging Blaylock with 58 rushing yards. I ended up with a tie this week. Would 2 more yards have killed him?
You're lucky he even got that. He looked like cold vomit in that game.
Good for Larry Johnson...gets his first TD and 40 yards already!! :yay
KC was outmatched today by SD (wow), but they really did a nice job with the "two-headed monster" of Blaylock and Johnson. At least Vermeil took his head out of his arse long enough to realize that LJ brings another dimension to the game.
8) :P :-*
QuoteLarry Johnson scored two second-half touchdowns, on a 5-yard run and a 10-yard reception from Green. Johnson was given the game ball afterward, and praised by general manager Carl Peterson. "A lot of people in the media said I couldn't do what I did today," said Johnson, the team's top draft pick in 2003. "I knew if I got the opportunity, I could do something."
QuoteGAME BALL GOES TO...
Larry Johnson. With Priest Holmes out and Derrick Blaylock injured, Johnson carried the ball 20 times for 118 yards and one TD.
from MURP:
Priest Holmes year could be done (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/football/nfl/kansas_city_chiefs/10363448.htm?1c)
So, no one's going to eat a little crow and admit that LJ just might not be a bust after all?
I think it's going to take a little more than 1 good game in a career as a first round pick, against the 24th rated rush defense, while playing behind one of the best Olines in the NFL. Im sure even you can admit that Freddie.
When Larry Johnson starts for a team and is a good RB for atleast one season I'll have no problem eating some crow.
Bah, if Julius Jones can be the next incarnation of Emmitt Smith after only 3 games, then we shouldn't hold Larry to a higher standard.
Bottom line is that he IS doing better in the action he's seen than you thought/hoped he'd do.
I dont think Jones is the next Emmitt and until Larry Johnson meets the requirements I posted above he is a bust IMO. Lower your standards for PSU players all you want if it makes you feel better.
Your infatuation with this runningback is based on a physical attraction. Talk to him, and you'll realize out you have nothing in common.
How'd I come up with that? It was on one of these bar napkins.
Fair enough, MURP.
In that case, Shawn Andrews = BUST. McDougle = BUST. Freddie = BUST-A-RIFFIC.
Because... like you said... BUST until proven otherwise.
Freddie Mitchelll is a bust. McDougle is pretty close. Andrews is not due to injury, he was a starter. Larry Johnson didnt have a season ending injury. He was as low as the #4 RB on the Chiefs because of multiple reasons, none to do with injury. Hey, Im rooting for Larry Johnson, he is on my fantasy team so he had better put up some damn points.
What about eli on New York? or taylor in washington? They're busty too, and they costa lot more money.
Quote from: MURP on December 09, 2004, 10:17:56 AM
Hey, Im rooting for Larry Johnson, he is on my fantasy team so he had better put up some damn points.
You had to hate making that move, but it will continue to pay off for this season.
He's playing up so he can get traded, get a nice paycheck, and bust elsewhere. ;)
oh sweet irony, my getting into the fantasy playoffs in one league depends on LJ having a decent night. ;)
Quote from: MURP on December 13, 2004, 09:27:24 AM
oh sweet irony, my getting into the fantasy playoffs in one league depends on LJ having a decent night. ;)
And, because Vermeil is a crybaby deuschebag, Blaylock will start.
It is indeed cruel irony for you, but deserved cruel irony.
frustrated with Vermeil are we? lol.
Quote from: FastFreddie on December 13, 2004, 10:24:18 AMAnd, because Vermeil is a crybaby deuschebag, Blaylock will start.
Isn't Blaylock sharing the load with Johnson? Here's my dilemma. I have both of them, but I can only play one. Which one do you think I should go with?
yes they are sharing the load. toss a coin to pick which one to start. LJ might get the goaline carries because of his size, but its all a guess at this point.
Yeah, I'm leaning toward Johnson at this point...but if I can hear a compelling argument to switch to Blaylock, I might do it.
I also have Green as my QB, and I'm down by quite a few points...so I'm hoping for a big night for KC.
Tough one. I would go with Blaylock, he is the more explosive back and is listed as the starter tonite(even though they will probably split carries).
Quote from: joneszilla on December 13, 2004, 11:13:52 AM
Tough one. I would go with Blaylock, he is the more explosive back and is listed as the starter tonite(even though they will probably split carries).
I would too, because Vermeil will try to play him more. The only reason they'll be "splitting carries" is because Blaylock is still banged up. LJ will have only a handful of touches maximum unless Blaylock reinjures himself.
Okay...I'll put Blaylock in, and keep an eye on the situation.
What's really eating at me was that I dropped Duckett to pick up Johnson. Atlanta should thank me for that.
Okay...now I'm pissed Larry Farging Johnson. :boom
im gonna go buy an LJ jersey. :D
Quote from: MURP on December 14, 2004, 08:17:35 AM
im gonna go buy an LJ jersey. :D
:-D Well, I was right that he only had a handful of touches (9 total). I've seen him rack up more than 123 yards and two touches on that few touches in college, but didn't think it would happen anytime soon in the NFL.
MURP, at least wait until we see who trades for him. ;)
Well, I lost my game by 11, and I'm out of the playoffs. :( The difference between LJ and Blaylock was only 8, so I can't beat myself up TOO much, I guess. But as usual, I look at the people on my bench, and kick myself for not playing the right people.
LJ's looking pretty good. I don't think Vermeil's going to want to trade him now.
Oh, how times have changed.
Larry Johnson is already the best PSU RB in the NFL since Curt Warner. Ha.
Quote"I don't know if [Chiefs coach] Dick Vermeil is crazy for not having played [tailback] Larry Johnson sooner, or wise to have let the guy develop. Whatever, the guy really is a heck of a back, a lot different than [starter Priest] Holmes, not quite as downhill a runner. The teams that could have traded for Johnson a year or two ago are all probably kicking themselves now."
Good 'ol Meatsicle Vermeil.
I could run for 250 and 5 TD's a game behind that line. ;)
Quote from: MURP on September 12, 2005, 03:18:02 PM
I could run for 250 and 5 TD's a game behind that line. ;)
Yeah, but you are an NFL fullback.
LJ is going to be a stud in that offense. I bet that Peterson secretly wishes he wouldn't have blown his wad on signing Holmes to such a big deal.
lol @ dick
dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick
how many dick's is that?
alot
Larry Johnson accussed of assault (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/12634250.htm)
QuoteChiefs running back accused of assaulting woman in bar
By CHRISTINE VENDEL and JOHN SHULTZ
The Kansas City Star
An Overland Park woman filed a complaint with police this week alleging that Chiefs running back Larry Johnson shoved her and tried to drag her out of a Kansas City bar early Saturday.
Johnson acknowledged he was at the bar at the time but denied that the altercation happened.
The assault allegation comes less than two years after another woman said Johnson slapped her and threatened her with a gun in his Leawood home during his rookie year. In that case, Johnson struck a deal with Johnson County prosecutors in 2004 to avoid domestic violence charges. Part of the deal required him to stay clear of trouble for two years.
Kansas City police issued Johnson a municipal ticket for assault Monday. Johnson refused to sign the ticket. He was given a Sept. 20 court date in Municipal Court.
Johnson could face up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $500, police said.
Police interviewed the 25-year-old victim and photographed her bruises about 10 hours after the alleged incident.
When asked by a reporter Monday about the events, the victim called the police report "faulty" and questioned some of the sequence of events.
According to the police report filed Saturday morning, the incident happened at The Drink, a Country Club Plaza bar, about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The victim told police that she had an ongoing relationship with Johnson. She said she saw Johnson at the bar with another woman, who was an ex-girlfriend.
The victim told police that Johnson sent a text message to her cell phone, asking her to meet him downstairs, the report said. Once there, the two argued. She accused Johnson of then grabbing her by her right arm and pulling her to an exit, where he told a bouncer that he was a Chief and wanted her removed, the report says.
A bar manager, though, said the woman could stay, and she went upstairs.
While upstairs, the victim told police, she confronted the ex-girlfriend, an act which "enraged" Johnson. In the report, the victim accused him of then shoving her backwards with his hands, knocking her down, and then grabbing her by her right wrist. She soon left the bar but didn't call police right away. The woman told police she told her sister and some friends and then realized, "making a report was the right thing to do," according to police reports.
In a phone interview Monday night, the victim did say she was injured and that an altercation happened. Asked about her statement to police in the report — that Johnson pushed, grabbed and pulled her to the door — she said: "No, Larry Johnson did not push and grab and pull me to the door."
When told of the complaint before receiving his ticket Monday, Johnson said "I don't know anything about it. I was there. I was there with a friend. What you said was not me. If it was me, I wouldn't be talking to you right now because it would be a violation of my probation and I would be in jail."
Johnson agreed to enter into a domestic violence diversion program in February 2004 after he was charged with aggravated assault and misdemeanor battery in an incident that allegedly took place during the previous NFL season, his rookie year with the Chiefs.
Johnson County prosecutors had alleged that the then 24-year-old Johnson slapped his girlfriend and threatened her with a handgun in an early-morning argument at his home in December 2003.
The terms of the deal he reached with prosecutors required him to receive anger-management counseling and do community service and to stay out of trouble for two years. In return the charges against him would be dismissed.
Memo to women in the Kansas City area:
Larry Johnson is a bastich. Stay away from him. But he sure can run with a football.
He's the 5th Chief to get arrested since the start of TC
And they had a guy on house arrest during the summer for 3 DUI's.
Are the Chiefs the new Ravens?
They need class acts like Freddie Mitchell to balance things out.
link (http://www.theredzone.org/news/showarticle.asp?ArticleID=3164)
Larry "Diapers" Johnson arrested for domestic abuse.
Quote from: Diomedes on September 14, 2005, 08:15:22 AM
link (http://www.theredzone.org/news/showarticle.asp?ArticleID=3164)
Larry "Diapers" Johnson arrested for domestic abuse.
See above.
See above for what? I don't see any link to a story about an actual arrest. There's a story about the woman making a complaint. Phreak says he was arrested. But no link.
My bad. He was arrested about 30 minutes or so after the story broke.
From Lenny P's week 2 column:
Quote"I know one of your guys told you this last week, but I don't mind repeating it. The teams that passed on a chance to trade for [Kansas City backup tailback] Larry Johnson last year ought to be shot."
Watching that game last night, Larry looked better than Priest.