Yes there is a formula but which players count of how much is an inexact science. Go back and look at it year by year from the beginning and then tell me that the scant few picks we have gotten are all that we deserved. You could make a good case that we didn't deserve any this year but looking at all of the years when we got shut out is a much different story, especially when you look at all of the picks that certain other teams have gotten year in and year out.
Let's look at the Patriots: They lost: Aqib Talib CB - Broncos played 15 regular season games as a starter Brandon Spikes LB - Bills played 16 regular season games but only started 10 Dane Fletcher LB - Bucs played 15 regular season games started 4 LeGarret Blount RB - Steelers (who they got back in time to win the Superbowl, do they get credit for losing him???) They got Darrelle Revis CB - started 16 regular season games, won the SB and was the best defensive player this side of JJ Watt Brandon Browner CB started and played 9 games, won the SB Brandon LaFell WR played 16 regular season games started 13 and won the SB Patrick Chung S played 16 regular season games started 15 and won the SB Alan Branch DT played 8 regular season games started 2 Clearly they deserve the highest comp pick in round 3, what the hell let's throw in a seventh rounder too.
The only people we could've got a pick for was Austin Howard or Josh Mauga. Josh Cribbs, Vlad Ducasse, and Kellen Winslow lead the group that wouldn't get us a soda machine in return. Howard was replaced by Breno and didn't do anything special in Oakland. Mauga actually played good in KC but never did anything of value here. Not surprised we were not one of 14 teams.
New England lost Blount, Fletcher, Spikes and Talib and signed Browner and LaFell. That is why they got a 3rd and a 7th. Jets signed Vick, Johnson, Decker and Giacomo and did not lose more than 4 unrestricted FA's of note. Why should they get picks? They did not deserve any according to how comp. picks work.
See above, I removed the players that did not count. If a player is released by their previous team then he does not count.
They also got Chung (starting safety), Branch (starting DT for about half of the year), and oh by the way Revis. Also, Blount was only backup for the Steelers and was on the Patriots roster in the Superbowl. Do they really get credit for him?
That's because other teams have lost more players in FA.....the Jets haven't" been screwed". It's a fair system, that doesn't favor any team. If you're upset be upset at how our front office has been run over the years.
The Picks awarded this year were based It was no surprise. People also need to realize these picks were determined by last year's FA, not 2015's. BTW, it's very clear we won't get any comp picks next year too.
This forum is harsh. It's often difficult to know at any one exact time if you are in with a shout of a late round comp pick (unless you've just let Talib go). I've always checked (http://overthecap.com/projecting-the-compensatory-draft-picks-for-2015/) prior to the awarding of picks just to see who is in the running. Admittedly, the trades that the Jets have made over the last 12-14 months means that any pick was going to be unlikely.
The compensatory pick system favors perennially good teams like NE and Baltimore. When they win, their middle of the road to very good players get overvalued in the FA market. Smartly, they let those guys walk and simply replenish either from within or from the draft with better value. The rule where signing a guy who has been cut doesn't factor into the calculation is dumb. NE signed Revis as a FA. I can understand it not counting for the team cutting the player loose, but it shouldn't matter for the team that ends up signing the player whether he became a FA through being cut or through an expiring contract.
Didn't they lose Welker last year to Denver? That probably justified it at the time. Wait to see what they get next year after losing Revis, Browner, Wilfork and Vereen.
