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Do You Play Defensive Tackle? We May Be Interested
By Brinson | September 11, 2008
The offseason shipping of Kris Jenkins to the Jets was a necessary evil (it was evil, right?) but it left us with a touch of a whole at defensive tackle. And while our line was good enough to contain LaDanian Tomlinson, it was primarily because we let Philip Rivers beat us if necessary. And because our linebackers are ridiculous. But we do lack depth.
So we may be interested in your services, unemployed defensive linemen of America.
Such off-day tryouts are nothing new, as teams constantly work to update their emergency lists. But Tuesday’s visitors were of a more accomplished variety than the normal spare parts and practice squad hopefuls.Highlighting the list was 12th-year veteran Michael Myers. The 32-year-old was last with Cincinnati, but has also played with Dallas, Denver and Cleveland in his career.
They also looked at former Jacksonville and Houston contributor Anthony Maddox, along with Amon Gordon (last with Baltimore) and former second-round pick Junior Siavii.
In other words, back ups, but back ups with potential. We’re not looking to blow things up by any means; Lord knows we looked pretty good on Sunday, but this is a long season and obviously being ill-prepared for injury potential can lead to something like David Carr as your starting quarterback.