You wrote my 4rkin post. I totally agree. The best business move is to have Clemens start and possibly have a real nice season. I think that's the best case scenario. It would be like Anderson up in Cleveland. How they signed that guy over Quinn is beyond me but one year wonders have value. Sanchez will push Clemens. Plus your telling Clemens this is your chance to, borrowing a phrase from our beloved Pete Kendall, to put together a good can of film. Loosely paraphrased of course.
As was brought to my attention last night by WSW and Don (*barf*), Clemens will be a UFA following this, his fourth season. Unless we franchise or re-sign him, he will be worth nothing to us.
And why would he want to sign that exactly? Unless you mean at 10 times the 500 grand he is making now and the Jets can't afford that.
$5 million is about the going rate for a good veteran backup these days. I wouldn't mind paying him that if he shows he is capable and willing to accept his inevitable backup duty. Tanny'll work out the details.
I'm not sure they can afford it..maybe. He surely wouldn't want to sign anything for what he is making now. The real problem is if he wins the job. If he does there is no way in the world they can sign him because he knows the Jets have just committed 60 or 70 million to Sanchez and he will go back to the bench next year. The second problem is he may pull an Abraham and not want to play because he knows how much money he can make from another team next year if he stays healthy.. All of that seems to say the cards are already stacked in so far as who will win the job at the end of camp.
Nothing is stacked, my guess is they have a plan to develop Sanchez that either gets speeded up or slowed down based on his development and probably has little to do with Clemens. If by chance Clemens shows himself to be a pro bowl type of QB the plan will change and with the lack of decent QB's in the league and the fact that we will own the rights to both of them would make this a pretty nice situation if Clemens does show up. It really doesn't matter if we can sign him or not because if he is great the demand will be there by numerous teams and we still own the rights and can turn it into an auction with some clever cap moves which is not beyond our GM capability.
hahahaha. that was always my knock on Chad. It was frustrating to watch that out route get pick 6'ed time and time again
Clemens won't stay here if he feels he can be an NFL starter at any price. The only way he's here next year is if he plays so well that we use the Franchise tag on him. I feel this is highly unlikely
