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You could build your team around Jones.(NFL)(Walter Jones)
When I think of the best players in the NFL, I think of Peyton Manning. I think of Ray Lewis. I think of a handful of other guys. But the name I keep coming back to is Walter Jones.
I'm not the only one. Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren has told me more than once that if he were to start a franchise from scratch, the first player he'd take is Jones, his left tackle.
When I watch Jones--and I've seen every one of his plays this year--I'm mesmerized. He never gets beat. Not once this season has his man beat him. Shoot, the guy never even gets knocked to the ground. (OK, he hit the ground once when he fell over a pile.) And he does more than beat his man. He destroys him.
Physically, Jones is incredible. He's 6-5, 315, and every part of his body is thick and strong. Yet when he runs, he's light on his feet, and his balance is incredible. He has such great body control that he could have been one of the Flying Wallendas. Or a gymnast on a balance beam. I'm not kidding.
When the ball is snapped, Jones' left foot moves. Some guys are slow off the ball and have to catch up. Not Jones. He's never behind. His goal is to stop the pass rusher's feet by jamming him ...
- LT Walter Jones has successful knee surgery
- News wire article from: AP Online GREGG BELL August 21, 2009 700+ words
...nine-time Pro Bowl left tackle Walter Jones has removed loose fragments, including...to imagine the Seahawks without Walter Jones, understudy Ray Willis said in...the last 18 months. This is the Walter Jones succession plan. It's just that...
- Walter Jones: 'I still want to play this game'.(Seattle Sports Blog)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 28, 2009 700+ words
As Walter Jones sat down to meet the media on Wednesday...I won't be talking that long." Walter Jones speaks with the media on Wednesday about...make you a better player and person." Walter Jones has manned the left side of the Seahawks...
- Walter Jones's Orchard.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Pratt, Charles W. November 9, 2001 700+ words
...wondered, As I wrote the check, was Walter Jones's orchard? The farm was small...use The trees he did have? Was Walter Jones surprised Like me by the expected...wood. For his widow to sell. Walter Jones had built his boxes well. No nail...
- UNSUNG HERO; SEATTLE TACKLE WALTER JONES; The top player on the field won't...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Seifert, Kevin February 5, 2006 700+ words
...Game, when Seahawks left tackle Walter Jones placed his big mitts on Carolina defensive end Mike Rucker. Jones got textbook position on Rucker...to control a guy." ABOUT `BIG WALTER' Jones skipped training camp in 2002...
- Walter Jones Has Promising Future: Former Power Ranger
- Newspaper article from: Precinct Reporter Willie Ellison October 26, 1995 700+ words
Willie Ellison Precinct Reporter 10-26-1995 Walter Jones Has Promising Future: Former Power Ranger. His is a story that can truly be classified as an American dream. Walter Jones went from being a little kid from the inner city in Detroit...
- Walter Jones placed on season-ending injured reserve.(Seattle Sports Blog)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 28, 2009 700+ words
...nine-time Pro Bowl left tackle Walter Jones on injured reserve Tuesday. The move ends any hope of Jones returning this season and while...veteran who will turn 36 in January. Walter Jones In a newsy day at Seahawks headquarters...
- ROAD GRATER: WALTER JONES RUSHING OFFENSE: DOMINATING WALTER JONES IS THE BEST...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Farnsworth, Clare September 7, 2006 700+ words
...CLARE FARNSWORTH P-I reporter Walter Jones is a walking, blocking contradiction...lineman on the planet. Not that Jones hasn't gotten his due since being...one scouting service puts it: "Jones is the best offensive tackle in the...
- Walter Jones could play Sunday for Seahawks.(Seattle Sports Blog)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 18, 2009 700+ words
Seattle Seahawks All-Pro left tackle Walter Jones did some more work in practice Friday and is being...both of whom have been out since training camp. Walter Jones Jones hasn't played since Seattle's Thanksgiving day...