I'd like to see us try to convert one of the corners to free safety, specifically Burris if he proves he can tackle. We have so many holes, and the only two free agent safeties I see that are young enough are Berry and Bradley McDougald of Tampa Bay. I don't want big money invested in the secondary. We tried it with Rex. We tried it with Bowles. Let's invest up front and maybe get a Melvin Ingram or Nick Perry on the edge and stop tossing around all this big money at secondary players. The only one worth big money is Berry, and he'll still likely be overpaid. Richard Sherman and Josh Norman aren't available. No reason to pay a free agent corner top 5 position money when they'll likely only be top 20 players at their position at best. The cornerback market is the most overvalued and overpaid position right now in free agency.
JV I agree 100%. I wouldn't go crazy with the secondary, but if I am spending any FA dollars I'd spend there and Oline. Just look at what the Jenkins signing did for the Giants. In concert with what you said about adding a pass rusher, that would be worth the money. But to spend a bunch of money on several FA DBs, I agree that would be a mistake. One strategic signing coupled with a pass rusher, that could work.
This offseason will be the most critical one for both Macc and Bowles. Anything less than perfection and both risk this team being as bad as it was in 2016 and thus losing their jobs. Bowles needs to get his head out of the defenses ass and start being a head coach. Macc needs to cut players, sign players who buy into the system and the philosophy, and Macc needs to make some great selections that provide immediate impact. A lot of high priced vets won't be on this team next season, he has to replace them with young/inexpensive talent.
Yes. We'll need to bring in at least one NFL starting caliber corner but I'd look towards the mid to lower tier to get this done. Couple players I'd call: Josh Robinson - Tampa Bay Sterling Moore - New Orleans A.J. Bouye - Houston Kayvon Webster - Denver Marcus Cooper - Arizona Corey White - Buffalo I'll add that I don't know a ton about these players other than seeing Bouye a decent among this season. The kid makes plays and might get a big contract. But they're all starting NFL corners and that's all we can ask for at this point without breaking the bank.
I agreed with everything you said until you got to the part about extending Bowles and Mac. I have seen absolutely nothing from Bowles to suggest that he will learn and develop. I know that he is supposedly highly regarded in league circles, but my question is why? He can't manage the game. He's clueless about timeouts, challenges, when to be aggressive, and making adjustments. He's clueless about putting players in a position to succeed or having answers for problem. He doesn't hold the players accountable and discipline them. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the inmates were running the asylum and he lost at least half the team this season. He doesn't have them prepared for games, and they didn't appear to be in very good conditioning shape, either. He was basically the DC and the defense was awful! Rather than extending Bowles, I think he should be told that it doesn't matter how many games the Jets win next year, but the job he does in hiring the new CS, developing the young players on the team, the job he does in preparing the team for the game each week, how he manages the game, and the discipline/accountability factor will all be areas that will be closely monitored, and if he doesn't show significant progress in each of those areas, he will be gone by the end of the season, if not earlier. Conversely, if he does a good job in those areas, he will have a chance to be extended. As some others have pointed out, I don't think we'll have any problems getting an OC. A former HC who's made Asst. HC will have the opportunity to rehabilitate his image if he develops one of our young QBs and the offense plays well. Even a young coordinator who accomplishes the same thing could put himself on the fast track to getting a HC job, perhaps even here after Bowles is fired. Woody could also tell said OC that if Bowles should be fired during the season, he would become the interim HC and be guaranteed first shot at becoming the new HC of the Jets. I'm undecided regarding Mac. I really liked him, but that is fading fast. I do think he deserves to be able to pick his own HC. I think he needs to have a very good offseason. He needs to fix our OL, not just address it. It can be a short-term fix with an older vet for a year or two, as this isn't a great draft for OTs, but the OL play must be significantly improved next season. He also needs to fix the secondary and improve the pass rush. In the draft, there should be no projects. His upper round picks must make an immediate impact.
I think the extension is merely window dressing. Like I said, it guarantees nothing. If he sucks after 5 games, fire him. I think it would give the illusion to players and coaches that there is some stability here which I think could help build something. If he displays the things you say; hires a good staff, develops young talent, improves as an overall HC and instills more discipline then despite the record, he stays. I think extending them just gives the perception that this is a rebuild and the organization realizes it. Agreed on Mac. He's had some misses but the fact that he didnt choose the coach and the reporting structure is so asss backwards, that doesn't help. He's missed on some drafts but he's done enough in my eyes to tell me he can do the job.
I can't find much to get excited about in any of this, I'm sorry to say. Yes, a good number of the assistants are gone, but it doesn't really matter who they bring in to replace them because Bowles will most likely be fired after next season unless, by some miracle, he actually learns how to be a head coach in the next few months. I'm not holding my breath on that. After he's fired in 2017, then we're back to the drawing board again, having wasted this entire year on a guy that has no business being a head coach and the new staff that he's assembled. The young offensive players (namely Petty and Hackenberg) are now going to have to learn three new offenses in three seasons. Not really the recipe for success.
Need to shore up the OL and CB in FA(not big money guys). They have us taking that pass rusher out of Alabama in a ton of mocks in the first. I think we have a chance to have a decent year but we are far off
Just a guess here, but it appears I'm not the only one who grew tired of watching Jets RB's steam straight into a sea of bodies when there was a huge hole one gap over.
This board is unreadable sometimes. Bunch of 24 year olds who just want to "Tourette's Yell" because they can. Let's go back to the beginning of the year and our starting lineup shall we: Pro Bowl LT, misses almost the whole year due to injury, LG, plays the whole year ( only one to do so), Pro Bowl Center, misses most of the year, RG, misses roughly the last 1/4 of the season, RT, misses most of the season. What team loses 60 to 80% of their starting line and does not suck big time? Starting WR Decker, misses most of the year ( huge loss), Khiry Robinson was expected to replace Ivory in that role...breaks his friggin leg TWICE this year. Now QB...we will never exceed 8-8 until we find a franchise QB obviously, but this year we lose starting QB Fitz for periods( largely because he sucked but who wouldn't behind Rutger's OL?), replacement Smith trashes his leg, done for the year, in comes 3rd stringer Petty and HE GETS HURT too ( who wouldn't playing behind 1 starting quality OL). This is only the offense! The NY JETS tied a league record this year all time with the number of players who played ( ALL TIME!) largely due to a ridiculous amount of injuries. Don't give me every team has injuries either BS, any team with THIS AMOUNT and quality of injuries is doomed to suck. Don't get me wrong, we need to shed veterans now and free up $60mm and spend on rebuilding with a younger team going forward and hopefully find a great QB someday. But to continue to whine the head coach should get fired, everyone should get fired every year is unreadable. Do you get we also suck because of changing schemes every couple of years? TB is just as capable as any other coach the wanna be GMs on this board talk about if he can get rid of the cancers on this team this winter, which they will do. Richardson and Marshall get jettisoned, then you might see a whole new team culture that some players ( Enunwa & Revis) have referred to recently as being a huge problem this year. Macc has a huge job ahead of him this winter, starting with shedding many of these over paid, older players and getting younger. But $60mm will go a long way to buying good replacements across the team ( especially OL and DBs and OLB)and hopefully we draft an offensive threat ( like a Fournette) to give us an identity until we find a great QB someday. It would just be great if we could spend one off season not just screaming fire everyone because we are one of the other 31 teams that sucked this year...
Of course we won 10 games without a true franchise QB last year, but you do make some valid points. I don't think you can be consistently competitive without a franchise QB but you can have good seasons here and there without one.
I have no optimism about the Jets being a plus team next year. That said, if Bowles and Mac want to keep their jobs, I think one of the most vital jobs they have this offseason is to crush locker room dissent and bring in leaders and people who buy into the program. Another year of disgruntled selfish play from a bunch of overpaid losers is a definite recipe for house cleaning. Sent from my KIW-L24 using Tapatalk
