Lions are open to everything that helps improve team

The Detroit Lions finished the past 2009 season 2-14 and had totally 30 losses in the previous two seasons. They were bad enough and eager to have improvements. So it’s no surprise that they are willing to offer the No. 2 pick in the draft as the price for a trade and they have intention to pursuit free agent running back LaDainian Tomlinson.


“We’re open to just about everything,” Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said Thursday at the NFL scouting combine. “Whether you keep the second pick or whether you trade down, it doesn’t change what you have to do—that’s make good decisions in the draft. There are blue chip players available a lot of different spots in the draft.”

Ranking 24th in the league with 101 yards per game and improving from 0-16 in 2008 to only 2-14 last year, the Lions are in need of upgrading their running back. Having Tomlinson put on Lions jersey is not a bad idea, so we can expect the two sides to start negotiation in near future.

Chargers RB L.T. set records

All San Diego Chargers fans can keep their No. 21 LaDainian Tomlinson jerseys as valuable collectibles as the running back has moved into eighth place on the career rushing list and become the fastest player to 150 career touchdowns during Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns.


By rushing totally 12,315 career yards, Tomlinson passed Hall of Famer Jim Brown and St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk in the career rushing list, just one week after he passed Marcus Allen and Edgerrin James to take over10th on the list. His total rushing yards is three more than Brown’s 12,312 yards and 36 more than Faulk’s 12,279 yards.

And he reached 150 touchdowns in his 137th game on Sunday. The previous record was made by Emmitt Smith, who had 150 touchdowns in 160 games. So we can be assured that L.T. will keep making more records by rushing more yards and carrying more touchdowns, opening a road to the Hall of Fame.

Chargers RB Tomlinson not to play against Dolphins on Sunday

After missing last Sunday’s home-opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson is ruled out for a second straight game at home because of an injury he got in season-opening win against the Oakland Raiders.


“It’s hard because you’d like to have all your guys,” Coach Norv Turner said Friday. “It’s crazy, because on Sept. 1, when people were asking me what I thought about camp, I said it was great that we were healthy and had all our guys, because that’s something we haven’t had in a while.”

The Chargers will play against the Miami Dolphins this Sunday, and Darren Sproles will start instead of L. T. Sproles, who also returns kickoffs and punts, has 524 all-purpose yards in two games.

According to Turner, L.T. is getting better and will likely return to field next week or no later than the end of Chargers’ by week after playing against the Pittsburgh on Oct. 4.