New York Jets | Randy's Radar Blog | LT, Greene Team Up to Ground …

The Jets are expected to have a more balanced offensive attack in 2010, but don’t expect them to go away from Ground & Pound anytime soon. in the final summer dress rehearsal for the starters tonight, the Green & White’s run game looked to be in midseason form against the Redskins as LaDainian Tomlinson, a shifty and explosive future Hall of Famer, and Shonn Greene, a bulldozer in just his second season, proved to be a prolific pair.

In three quarters of work, Tomlinson and Greene combined for 142 yards on the ground. They were effective immediately as the 5’11”, 226-pound Greene rushed three times on the Jets’ opening drive for 18 yards. that helped them get out of the gates with an early lead as Nick Folk was true from 45 yards.

But it was Tomlinson who electrified fans with a charge of his own, displaying his legendary footwork and vision as he got free off left tackle for a 43-yard boost.

“We’re going to work well together,” Tomlinson said of him and Greene. “As you can see, he comes in and runs over people and pounds people, and I come in and slash, so we’re thunder and lightning. That’s what we’re going to be.”

That 43-yard chunk was Tomlinson’s 15th touch of the preseason — the most ever for the former Charger in his 10-year NFL career.

“It was a zone scheme and I cut it back. The line did a great job of pushing everybody back. Once I cut it back, I had the safety coming downhill and I knew he was coming too fast to be able to tackle me once I made a move on him,” he said. “I made the move on him and kind of hit my receiver a little bit, trying to get behind him and kept my balance and was able to get up the field.”

Despite turning 31 in June, Tomlinson is a man on a mission and he brings a big-play capability the Jets didn’t have in the backfield when they opened the 2009 regular season. with less than five minutes remaining in the opening half, LT got low and bounced out to the edge while gaining 16 yards up the left sideline. Then with just seconds before intermission, his 14-yard scamper out of a shotgun draw allowed new York’s AFC representative to attempt a 62-yard Folk field goal.

When the Jets signed Tomlinson in the offseason to join an emerging force in Greene, many wondered who would start. but it looks like the Jets have two No. 1 backs capable of doing damage and sharing the load. in the first half, Greene carried eight times for 36 yards and Tomlinson also got eight carries for a scintillating 85 yards.

“What we did today was great,” Greene said. “I think we can do a lot better than that if we played the whole game and wore the defense down. We’ll be a dangerous combination.”

Trailing, 9-5, with 6:46 left in the third, Rex Ryan elected to keep his first offense in for one final possession. The result was the starters’ second TD in the preseason as a 15-play, 72-yard march took the home team into the fourth quarter and ended on a scoring hookup from Mark Sanchez to Dustin Keller. but Greene and Tomlinson figured prominently once again with Greene rushing twice for 16 yards to get the drive going and then No. 21 getting exactly 9 on a third-down catch to keep the chains moving inside the red zone.

“That was a big play. we obviously needed that to put points on the board. Anytime you’re in third-down situations, we’re thinking first down and continue that drive,” said Tomlinson as the Jets got to the ‘Skins 11. “I knew that the guys had kind of got out of there and they were going to leave me room to work. Once Mark threw it to me, I turned around and saw a couple of guys but I was able to get to the first-down marker before I got tackled.”

Even though the running game got on track, the Jets’ ones turned the ball over twice in opposing territory and the Green & White didn’t throw the ball consistently. but they can again hang their hat on another solid rush performance as last year’s No. 1 ground attack — which didn’t used slash weapon Brad Smith in the backfield in preseason play — averaged a healthy 5.0 yards on 32 carries.

“One thing I think people need to understand is we’ve been very vanilla this preseason,” said Tomlinson, who called the Jets line the best he’s been around. “We’ve run basic plays, and I know at times it doesn’t look like we’re doing very good, but these are basic plays we’re running so we’re executing them. we won’t really game-plan until the season starts, so we’re doing fine.”

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