Voth talks with Jonathan Stewart

[philp]

When healthy he's a beast, no doubt Stewie causes opposing defenses lots of trouble him and DWill together causes ...

Double Trouble.

So your saying the trouble doubles? Hopefully his music career will take off when we eventually cut him.

[philp]

He'll probably be around for two more years. Eventually we're gonna need to suck it up amd pay guaranteed money.

[Mojo]

Believe it when I see it.

[bleys]

I hate to say it but I'll be glad when this franchise is finally able to move on from both DWill and Stew...  Neither are worth such large cap hits.

[Captain Obvious]

 

 

J Stew training devices

[Clicheking]

In a perfect world he would just retire, he was injured when we got him and has got progressively worse. I feel even if he ever gets "healthy" well never see the 2008 Jonathan Stewart again.

[rayzor]

they mention his base salary like it's supposed to make us feel better about him being here, but the truth is we just have no choice but to keep him here and hope that he miraculously gets and stays healthy and productive. we are trapped by his contract.

 

williams isnt great, but he's at least been useful. it's a shame that between the two if them, if either one was to get cut it would be the one who wasn't relegated to permanent bike riding.

[BerryLoMein]

Well on the bright side his legs should be fresh, and he hasn't taken the same beating most 27 year old backs have. So maybe we get some value out of him.

 

[pantherclaw]

I'm looking forward to see him run wild again!

[Coug Girl]

Pointless to dump money in running backs nowadays. When we're finally out of this, I hope we never make the same mistake again.

[panthers55]

So how is a 6 million cap hit for Deangelo Williams that horrific.  And Stewart's cap hit this year is only 4,585.000.  Together than is less than 1/13 of the cap.  It is not the reason we are hurting for cap space this year but is always the same tired reason fans say we are so hurting.  As far as cap hits go among running backs- Williams is 8th on the list and Stewart is 11th.  For a team which is committed to running as much as we do, how would you not have a significant amount of the cap devoted to running backs.  We need 2 guys who can start not a starter and a backup.  What makes Stewart cap hit so bad is that he hasn't played much in 2 years but if he comes back with a vengence his money will be well spent this year.  The last 2 years, not so much.......................

And no with Cam running he is not the running game or the reason to not have a starting caliber type guy or two. 

[L-TownCat]

 

Stewart, also an Oregon native, was intrigued enough to give ADAPT a try during a recent visit.

Among their innovative methods — treating clients like babies.

 

 

lol

[rayzor]

I'm looking forward to see him bike wild again!

fixed.

[Coug Girl]

I think it's not the cap hit, but what we have to pay if we wanted to dump J stew. He can technically sit pretty and injured an be safe for a job simply because if we cut him we'd be in horrible shape.

Running backs have one of the shortest life spans for being serviceable. Dumping $$ and giving a long contract is stupid in my opinion. Even if we are a run first team. We're a defensive team overall anyways.