Jets organization reacts to Tomlinson's retirement

Here's what members of the Jets organization had to say about LaDainian Tomlinson and his retirement

"We were fortunate to get him at the end of his career, but he was still outstanding. He still had that great wiggle. (He) almost gained 1,000 yards the first year he came here and he would have had we played him in that last game. However, to his credit, he was like, ‘No, I would like to be rested for the playoffs.’ Then he turned in a great performance in that first playoff game in particular. He was a great guy to have, a tremendous leader, and I feel very fortunate and blessed to have coached him.”

"He’s a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer, but he was highly intelligent and worked extremely hard. Coming out of high school, he didn’t have a lot of scholarship offers. At TCU, he developed as he went on, but his first couple of years at TCU, he wasn’t even a starter. This is a guy that has worked his way into the position that he’s in. Sometimes that gets overlooked because people think he is just so talented. He’s very intelligent and he’s a hard worker before being talented. He’s just a pleasure. The game is going to miss him. It’s going to miss him tremendously.”