Excuses, excuses

Brandon Jacobs says he doesn’t make any excuses. Just ask him.
"Right, but you know, I’m not one to make those excuses and blame my non-success on injury. That’s never been me. You guys know that. I’ve never made excuses for anything," Jacobs said when interviewed in between radio spots promoting underwear (yes, underwear).
Jacobs, of course, was talking about that knee that he says he injured in Week 1. After the season he underwent surgery to repair a partially torn meniscus that he says bothered him throughout his miserable season (884 rushing yards, 3.7 yards per carry, five touchdowns.
Jacobs says he wishes he got his knee cleaned up after Week 1, missed about a month, and then came back at 100 percent.
“As the year went on I thought it was going to get better, it was going to get better, it was going to get better," Jacobs said. "But when I figured out it wasn’t going to get better, it was too late. So I just kept going."
Are we really buying this as the reason for the Jacobs 2009 disaster? Sounds like a bunch of excuses to me, and I’ll let someone else gamble on him as a bounce-back candidate in 2010.






