The roster still is terrible, and most of the FA we signed can be cut next year. It was nice to replace Wilkerson’s salary with Johnson and upgrade the secondary, but now the Jets are woefully thin on the DL so robbing Peter to pay Paul right there. The only other real upgrades from last year would be Crowell for Forte (minor upgrade), Long for Johnson (minor upgrade), Enunwa for Kerley (big upgrade if Quincy is healthy but who knows). Next season is all about obtaining that long term solution at QB which is why the trade was perfect. In 2018 the team is going to have another high first round pick and ton of cap space. Hopefully they can take their high pick and trade it for a kings ransom.
A decent quarterback makes your entire roster better. Let's wait until training camp before destroying any hopes we have prematurely.
I expect the 2018 Jets to be at least 2 games better than the 2017 team. The draftee and Teddy Bridgewater are both likely to be better than the typical Jet's QB recently and Josh McCown can clearly play at an acceptable level on a middling team. The defense will have had another year to jell and will have a real competition to fill the slot that Wilkerson vacated. To go better than 7-9 or so we're going to have to get lucky, either on the rookie's 1st year performance or on TeddyB.
in theory our D line looks worse, but in reality it wasn’t good to begin with so once you get past the loss of names it might actually be a push. My guess is we should be about the same.
Nice sig. Guess what? My blood type is B Negative. This is a true story. And all of my stories are true.
To be fair, I think it should be mentioned that Trumaine Johnson is a huge upgrade over Justin Burriss and Bridgewater is a huge upgrade over Petty and Hack. But because the coaching is so bad and because the OL sucks, a thousand other holes on the roster, this is still a really bad team. Right now this team is no better than 5-11
It's looking like a very tough schedule this year. I wouldn't expect much beyond an opportunity to trade down and recoup picks next year.
Well first, we were never trying to fix all problems in 1 year. this is a rebuild. we are in year 2. Second, we don't suck ass to begin with. Last year we damn near won 4 more games but they slipped away in the 4th quarter due to inexperience. We upgraded at a bunch of positions this offseason, and have the draft to go and a few more signings coming out way. Will we win the SB next year? No. But that was never the plan year 2. What we will see is a more polished team making progress, with eyes to make the playoffs in 2019 and 2020.
We do not have any faith in Spencer Long? I feel like having a center who can make the reads and adjustments will pay huge dividends. That is like 2 extra wins right there if our QB isn't running for his life.
I really believe the Jets strive for mediocre, even when they have some talent. So yes. Until they bring a coach and GM in here with actual vision, they will rest in the middle
C is a good start. But we need another one. And two starting Guards (Carpenter isn't a good fit for the new scheme, and Winters is still below average, although he rarely gets called out as such because the rest of the line is even worse). Shell has a lot of growing to do, and probably shouldn't be a starter at this point. Beachum is alright, but he's a bridge player, not the long term answer at LT. I wouldn't put a rookie behind this joke of a line, but Mac just signed two QBs with serious injury histories to put back there, so I'm guessing he'll draft Rosen, who is one concussion away from retirement and put him back there.
