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Birds Pick Up Michael Turner

By Brinson | March 3, 2008

At least, if we’re not going to see Turner in a Cats uniform, we get to find out if he’s going to be LaMont Jordan, Jr., I suppose. We’re talking about an (over?)hyped career back up running back, a bowling ball type with explosive speed, that’s going to a team that could be stuck in rebuilding mode for the better half of his five year, $34.5 million dollar contract.

Turner was smart - by all means take the money that you can get and roll, son. It’s not often that a team in desperate need of, well, everything tries to make the big splash. Atlanta is of course, gambling that Turner can extrapolate his statistics while backing up LaDanian Tomlinson across a full season (all the moronic people who thought Turner might actually be better three seasons ago and who have long since gone quiet aside, it’s relatively easier to gash a defense when LDT has softened them up) and become an All Pro. This also effectively ends Warrick Dunn’s career, at least in Atlanta, although he should probably consider hanging it up anyway.

It stinks that we (Cats) have to play Turner twice a year, as he’s in division, but thinking about it as us whiffing on a free agent signing is silly; isn’t it easier (and smarter) to think about the concept as us getting good odds on playing a team that is being mismanaged, particularly if Turner doesn’t pan out the way the Falcons think he will? Shouldn’t matter