a $9.1 million dollar team option for next season, according to Schefter. link to the article http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=schefter_adam&page=10spot/10week14 So we want Vernon to get a sack, a fumble recovery so we can be rid of him next offseason! C'mon vern you can do it!!
Presumably he can just be cut anyway, so this actually doesn't mean anything at all - either way he's sure not going to be getting paid $9.1 million by anyone to play football next year.
This is a kin to the Ferguson bonus that kicks in if he blocks 5 punts or something like that. Gholston doing any of those listed things is only SLIGHTLY more plausable.
He's leaving the team no matter what. That is an interesting clause though. Little fun fact on a friday. Waive bye bye to him next season. Thanks Mangini for the miss. Thank you to Gholston for restructuring. Look for the Jets to be pass rush happy next offseason with their LBs.
He was an enormous bust at #6 but really his contract never really prohibited us from making any moves in FA. Good work by Tanny.
Unfortunately for Vern, he'll be gone after this season. I've seen him make tremendous strides this year - creating pressure, stuffing the run, getting off blocks - but this is likely the end for Vernon. of course, he'll go to Pittsburgh and become a sack machine...
hahaha, it would be best from him to go to a 4-3 team and have his hand in the dirt for the rest of his career.
So if he gets the sack/fumble recovery/20% playing time, he would get a $9.1m bonus and obviously be gone. If he doesn't get one of those, what's his cap number?
Well, the Jets won't have to worry about the option cuz this bitch will never see a sack in green and white. I'd love to see if there was a front 7 defensive player picked in the top 10 of the draft to never record a sack over the first 2+ years of his career.
Taking a look at the top 10 only one of the picks after Gholston turned out to be worht it. Mayo at #10 with the Pats. To defend Tanny and the Jets that was a pretty lousy draft especially at what number they were drafting at.
I agree. At pick six they really were in a terrible spot. Ryan and McFadden were supposedly 2 guys they coveted and they were already off the board. McKelvin and Rogers-Cromartie were the only other picks that might have made sense at 6. In hindsight, I really wish they'd been able to trade down. Part of me thinks that they were afraid to let Gholston fall to the Pats because they thought he could be a beast who would haunt them for years. Gholston was just one of those boom or bust prospects. Unfortunately for the Jets he was a bust of epic proportions.
