Off topic, but I think you left out Jerious Norwood from your top 25 back up RB's column...good column by the way.

I have to side with Johnson on this one. This knee blocking stuff is way out of control and considering how damaging that could have been to a player, in no way should you go that low. If that was a CB would he have done more damage to his knee? Trent laying there on the ground only diverts the attention away from the issue and if he got up instead of laying there motionless this story has a different feel to it and Green gets the bad rap.

Trent caught a good case of Karma.

He looks bigger than ever. It worked last year, but its not this time. The line isnt helping but 2.9 ypc is ugly.

Excellent point. I'm sure Trent prefers a career-ending injury to a reputation that he doesn't know how to block correctly.

Gregg - are you saying that Ron Dayne is, well, tubby butter?

This is all so ridiculously stupid. Green delivered a legal hit. In the same way that a defensive player diving into the side of a RB occasionally hits him in the knees, Green's hit to take down a much bigger player hit the guy in the knees. This is football. There is a reason QBs and RBs are always hurt. It strikes me as ludicrous that people always love the big hit by defenders, but when offensive players put on a vicious hit, the defensive players act like they can't believe it.
Offensive players have defenders diving at their knees 20-30 times a game. If you think they can see all those hits coming, you're crazy. Green's hit wasn't any dirtier than the vast majority of the hits that end the season of QBs and RBs. Two say there's two sides to this story is to pretend there's a bad guy every time a RB or QB goes down with a knee injury.
There aren't two sides. Trent Green's career is over on an unlucky play. Travis Johnson is a coward.

If that was a defensive player making that hit, he would of been flagged for spearing as he led with the crown of his helmet.

i'm sorry, but how can you justify what Johnson did? he may have been excused for a heat-of-the-moment reaction, but he had the rest of the game to realize what happened, and what he said in the locker room was inexcusable. trent green is a small quarterback, he was not doing anything malicious, he was trying to help a teammate. i think that this article is ridiculous, he compares trent green with someone who viciously attacked someone's knees behind the play. trent green made a LEGAL block on a player twice his size. this article is a biased defense of a hometown player, and he tries to paint trent green as some malicious cheap shot artist with his comparison to the barrow incident.