Thomas Jones came to the sideline with one demand: “Don’t take me out.”
“I was in this zone,” Jones told me last week as we discussed Super Bowl XLI. The gameplan was to alternate playing time between he and Cedric Benson, but early on, Jones felt he had the Colts defense figured out.
“I had broken this long run,” he said. “I really felt that was going to be a game where I would go for 200 or 250 or something crazy.”
He had a great game, but he left the stadium wondering if he’d done enough.