My favorite Chad Jones Tiger moments In 2007's national championship run, it was #3's sack of John Parker Wilson in the Alabama game that is my favorite Chad Jones play. The score was tied at 34 with under 2 minutes to play when he sacked Wilson who fumbled and the Tigers recovered on Alabama's 3 yard line. Jacob Hester scored and we had our victory in Tuscaloosa 41-34 on national televsion against Satan's Crimson Tide. My second favorite Chad Jones memory is his great relief pitching during the 2009 final game CWS victory vs. the Texas Longhorns. Not too many players own a BCS national championship ring and a CWS championship ring to boot. The icing on the cake will be to see him in a regular season game playing in the defensive backfield with #23 Corey Webster, another great Tiger defensive back from the 2003 BCS national champion Tiger team.
I believe we will see him in that Giants uniform you can not stop this kind of determination. Way to GEAUX Chad!!!!!!!:tigereye:
I did a little checking. His time before the draft was 4.57. I can still picture him running Darren McFadden down from behind. He is thought to have about a 2.5 mil contract for 4 years based on a player slotted right before him who received around $800,000 guaranteed. I think he has done amazingly well based on his injuries and like all LSU fans I wish him the best. Watching the video you can see the bottom of his left leg is bowed. Being realistic, I don't think Chad will end up playing for the Giants. Hopefully he can get as much money from them as possible to give himself a good life. Perhaps he can get an opportunity to pitch an extend his sports career that way. I'll be pulling for him.
People were saying that "realistically" he would never run again, just one year ago. So I'm going to just wait and see what happens. I believe you doubt the power of the human mind.
The human brain can only do so much. Believe me, I've watched enough people close to me die before their time to know that. A positive attitude is good, but it doesn't miraculously make a paralyzed man walk that has a severed spinal cord or cure cancer. It all boils down to the amount of muscle damage and nerve damage he suffered and I understand it was severe. Keep in mind he has to back-peddle, cut, plant, pivot and stop on a dime against receivers with tremendous speed and agility. I hope he becomes a Rocky Blier type of story, but then again he will be asked to do more than Rocky did athletically on every down, not that they had identical injuries. Like I said, I'll be pulling for him, but I think we are expecting too much.
Talk about all time great athletes, the "Dread Lock of Doom" has to be up there on the short list, his combination of size, speed and athleticism were amazing, he was a 220 pound punt returner, his pass deflection in the end zone at Miss St was a thing of beauty. No. 3 was fun to watch.
