Look at what the guards got last year. This is what the market for top guards has become unfortunately.
Honestly, if he is our one marquee signing of this offseason, i'd be happy. We all know the reasons, we all know we need this. lets just hope they get it done. Faneca has a few good years left in him, lets make sure he does so as a Jet.
Probably for a team that is not as desperate for O-line help as the Jets are. I wasn't an advocate for letting Kendall get his way last season but they should have prepared for that eventuality.
I dont know why everyone gets their panties in a bunch over money. With our salary cap situation and the cap increasing every year the days of salary cap trouble are virtually over.. With that said, this is more than likely a BS rumor as most pre FA rumors usually are.
I forgot about that, damn! Dockery got almost $20 mil. I guess we have put ourselves in this bad situation where we have to overpay for Guards.
No, this will be it. $20M gauranteed. 5 or 6 years at $30 to $33M for 5 and $40 to $43 for 6. That is what the top of the pile is getting in today's market.
Yup.. this is why I say DRAFTING Offensive Line is where the bargains are.. http://forums.theganggreen.com/showthread.php?t=28911&highlight=offensive But, even if they sign Faneca, they need a RT with that 2nd round pick... I hope they don't play that game again like last year "well, we just spent 2 1st rounder s that = Good OL"......
In fact, look for the structure of Faneca?s deal to surpass the cash flow Dallas gave guard Leonard Davis last season. As part of a seven-year, $49.5 million deal, Davis received $24 million in the first three years of the deal. Faneca has spent the past two years complaining about his contract with Pittsburgh, and one of several teams, including the New York Jets, Miami, Atlanta and Arizona could make a run at him with a lot of cash up front. -Yahoo He is certainly better than Leonard Davis. Although I agree we need to draft o-linemen, D'Brick/Mangold are the beneficiaries.
Kendall was a quality left guard, and this statement appears to be so true now. Mangini and Tannenbaum have to have realized that they may have to negotiate with players that have more than one year left on their contract from this incident. I mean they could've had Kendall for 2. some odd million dollars and now they are going to have to shell out huge cash for Faneca. I know Faneca is better than Kendall, but at that price Kendall looks like he was offering the Jets a bargain. If the Jets sign Faneca, I'll be happy, but Mangini and Tannenbaum will still have egg on their face from the way they handled the Kendall situation. Hopefully they learned from it.
Kendall signed a contract the year before - I think redoing deals after 1 year is a bit insane..... If Kendall got more money, Cotchery should have been at Tanny's dor the next morning looking for a Boatload of money.
The difference is Kendall says he was promised they'd rework his deal in exchange for taking less the year before when they were in a little cap trouble. Unfortunately none of us know if those promises were made but if that was the case then the Jets were wrong.
OK, so looking back on the season do you think Kendall was worth his asking price? Was he worth to the Jets what he thought he was? I think he might've been after watching Adrien Clarke get blown up all year. Every situation is different, and there obviously was nobody to replace Kendall on the Jets roster and he knew it.
Three years from now we will have one of the best offensive lines in the league and will be looking in the draft to replace the guy that was the catalyst for the turn-around. Three years from now we'll look back and say $20 million was a bargain for a future Hall of Famer. Who knows, Faneca might just be the next Bruce Matthews and play 18 years in the league and be a Pro Bowler for most of it.
Kendall got strong-armed into renegotiating his contract the year before. It was a paycut of about a million dollars including the money the Jets threw in to sweeten the deal. The threat of cutting him if he did not renegotiate was real and he renegotiated. What happened after that remains in dispute and it's he says/she says basically. Kendall says the Jets told him when he took the paycut that if he had his typical year in 2006 they'd renegotiate him and he'd recoup the money he lost in 2006. The Jets say they never said that. In 2007 Kendall chose, and it was a choice, not to play happily without recouping his money. The Jets chose, and it was a choice, not to pay him the money he claimed they had promised him the season before. The net effect was the Jets offensive line blew chunks last year and they went 4-12 at least partly because of that. I don't really care who promised whom what in 2006. I care that they sucked last year. Period.
Kendall is where he belongs -- not here. The problems in the OL are much bigger and more varied than Kendall's "hallowed" presence. We need a LG, a RT, a RG, and some more OL depth than that, too. Bender and Nicks would help if they get a lot stronger and meaner.
Alan Faneca >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pete Kendall. If we end up getting Alan Faneca AND a 4th round pick out of their handling of the Kendall situation, I'd say they did a damn good job.
