I love how everyone is talking about TE's, WR's, RB's,. Pass Rush and Safeties - OUR BIGGEST GLARING HOLE IS ON THE O-LINE, SPECIFICALLY THE RIGHT TACKLE POSITION! God forbid that is addressed... Want to make the defense better - keep it off the damned field by being able to run the ball and protect the passer - Neither Hunter or Ducasse are the answer - anyone who believes otherwise, including our front office is god damned delusional...
^But Richardson is basically a sure-thing. There aren't too many of those players coming out of college.
He are kinda handcuffed with our o-line situation tho. We already have a lot of money invested in the guys we have now. I just going to try to take the optimist route here and say that some of our less cherished linemen will thrive in the new system.
Really Disappointed Thought the Jets would have locked down some of their weaknesses by now. All we did was sign all the question marks (B.T, Folk and keeping Hunter around). They really went on the cheap last off season after the failed courtship of Nnamdi. Bringing in a WR who was just released from prison after 2 years and Derrick Mason was a precursor to how the season would go. The Jets still have needs at both safety position, WR, TE, RT, ILB and OLB. Expecting to fill those positions with rookies and UDFA is expecting alot.
Hang in there it is still very early in the FA game. The Jets will make some moves when the time is right. Tanny is lurking in the bushes just waiting to pounce.
I think we all feel the same way. If tanny and company make a few moves as we all hoped then all will be well. What alarms me is that Rex and company might actually feel as if this team is loaded with talent and under performed last year,,,,,,,most of US know this is not the case',,,,,,hopefully we address the safety issues along with the off line Sooner rather than too late
No reason to be too worried about FA yet, still early days. I'll start worrying if the players that are in the Jets' price range start getting taken. For the most part so far it's been overpaid contracts to high price players.
**** tone of players left not at ridiculous prices http://walterfootball.com/freeagents.php And you should have just used this thread http://forums.theganggreen.com/showthread.php?t=71281
I think a lot of teams are going to be releasing players that we can use in the coming days/weeks. This is probably the reason for us taking it slow. While I would have loved a Mario Williams I think maybe we are going about our business the right way and will hopefully be able to address a bunch of positions adding some starters and depth along with the draft.
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Its not an insane thought. He was brought in as a project that has for one been mistreated (asked to learn multiple spots on the line) and two missed an entire offseason. Did he attend OTA's his rookie year?
Ok say its day 5 and we are still looking at only signing Folk, B.T. Don't you feel the Jets have more pressing needs and need to be a little more proactive? Especially after not making the playoffs and watching the Giants win another Super Bowl. They are not even interviewing anyone. Why clear the cap space and not use it. Maybe they want to carry it over to next year...again.
What are the Jets supposed to use to participate in the early part of free agency? The teams signing players now have a lot of cap space available to do so and a few clear needs to attack. The Jets have some cap space, but not much, and they have about a half dozen things they'd like to get done. What happens if they attack free agency and fill a hole or two, using up their cap space in the process and then the guys that fall to them in the draft are at the same positions? I think given the needs they have they're playing it close to the vest early on and wisely so.
The Hunter non-cut looks kind of bad at the moment. 2.45 million is a lot of cap space to have tied up in a backup tackle.
