I'd be ecstatic because we'd have 4 solid corners, plus Walls & Lankster and they can explore moving Cromartie to safety if his hip doesn't fully heal or Wilson. DB could be a big strength again.
Guys - let 'others' overpay. That's the beauty of free agency. I still don't think getting Decker for 7.2M/yr deal was an overpaying of talent. Paying Revis for 12M was overpaying. Etc etc. Like I said for ever, if you fill your starters with FAs, you are destined to go 8-8 (1) and if you overpay FAs, then someone else [most likely, home-grown talents] is getting underpaid. (2) Unless the value is there, FA should be avoided like a plague that it is. Keep that in mind.
yea free agency is basically over as far as top talent is concerned so tell me who are we gonna sign on the cheap that's gonna make anykind of long term diffrence at this point.Its become tiring reading comments like these.The Patriots notoriuously don't overpay there players or anybody,that's just what Revis is worth!! That's what a lot of top players are worth these days you have to overpay a little bit for top talent its the way the buisness is designed[/quote]
For the 20th time this isn't an argument about paying champ bailey 40 million dollars. It's trying to upgrade one of our huge weak spots. Once vonte davis(sub par) got 9.5 mill per. Corner market was going to be high. Makes revis 12 seem like a deal.
I think that's what the tea leaves are saying. I think it depends on who's available at 18. Gilbert will be gone, but if Darqueze Dennard or Kyle Fuller are around, they may jump in that direction. Besides the WR position is deep..right?
I don't think so... I still think we could get DRC. The Giants just signed a cheaper corner and they're not going to get DRC as well, especially not since they are tight on cap space. They will probably need like $8m to sign their rookies and ensure that they can sign free agents to minimum contracts when guys get injured, and that's about what they have now. But the Giants are more than happy to make us sweat, and giving him a physical costs them nothing. The Browns are the more likely team to take him from us at this point. If they really wanted him, they would have expressed interest earlier, I think it's more of a situation where they assumed he was going to cost more than they wanted to spend, so they didn't bother. But if he's really cheap, they'd be interested. I think DRC will be a Jet by Wednesday.
Unless he agrees with sensible offer [which is NOT in the range of ~10M/yr] I doubt if Jets sign him. I would like to see Idzik hold on to his policy. [This is for those who keep parroting WE GOTTA SIGN SOMEONE!!!] Remember. This dearth of talent wasn't a problem created overnight, and it won't be solved overnight either. Learn to have some patience. Acquiring during free agency is not the end-all-be-all solution you guys all make it seem to be. Admit it - do you honestly think not signing DRC at bloated contract will affect the team performance so much that Jets would regret not getting him when they could? HELLO? Like I have clarified for umpteenth time, if you keep getting talents at market value [=free agency] you are destined to hit 8-8. You need to UNDERPAY your talent base to have a winning franchise. Think about why that is the case.
How far under the cap would it bother you for the Jets to end up at? Speaking for myself, I don't see how fans benefit from being well under the cap. It's not like they are going to hand out free rounds of beer at the stadium.
Fans benefit from being under the cap in that next year there are fewer cap issues to deal with. If you want to go flush up against the cap by overpaying for mediocre players then you probably should be watching the Redskins or Cowboys. They do that every year and most years wind up with the same mediocre to bad results. The Cowboys go flush up against the cap because Jerry Jones is minting money with his stadium and the merchandising and he plugs as much as he can into the product to make it appear better than it is. The Redskins go flush up against the cap because they have the worst owner in the NFL, who also happens to be minting money although not at the same rate that Jones is. I'd much rather see the Jets spend 89% of the cap on a mediocre rebuilding roster than 100% of the cap on a mediocre rebuilding roster. Short an amazing draft the Jets are just in year two of the build process. And for people who say you don't have to rebuild in the NFL any more. Yes, you do have to rebuild in the NFL when you spent 5 years acquiring veteran free agents who aged out and also bundling lots of picks to trade up for players who washed out. The Jets didn't start this process from the point that a 2 time AFC championship game contender usually does. They started this process from Kyle Wilson and Mo Wilkerson are the only players under 30 worth a damn on the roster and Wilson was maybe worth a half a damn.
