Keeping drob is a great plan, if we can afford him. 1- 20%-40% or our defensive alignments will be a standard 4-3. keeping drob will make the jets the only team in the nfl with BOTH 3-4 AND 4-3 d-lineman. 2- playing coleman, drob, jenkins, and ellis in a true 4-3 part time would be huge. teams would have no idea what to game plan for. hell, ne played us in a true 4-3 the entire game. 3- drob can rotate in the 3-4 to give the 3 starters a breather. 4- drob can provide valuable insurance against injuries to the starters. 5- if drob really does have a bum knee, then the thought of taking fewer snaps but having a greater implact has to sound pretty good to him. the man can take just so many needles. 6- even with a restructured contract, drob would make more with the jets playing part time than he could ever get as a starter from the broncos.
Looks like this issue is academic now but I'm sorry we couldn't keep D'Rob. Sure he was a reach at 4 a few years back but he has worked away often out of position (NT) and we never heard a cheap out of him about his bad rap. I would love to see him alongside Jenkins, I still think he is a very good DE and wish him well.
denver plays at mile high stadium, which has the highest elevation and lowest air pressure of any nfl stadium. players NEED oxygen just to complete the game. anyone with an old injury, such as bone on bone knees, knows first hand how much weather change (low air pressure cells) can cause joint and muscle pain to worsen. if drob moves to denver, he is jumping from the frying pan into the fire. his knee will kill even on his best days. he will cherish 'away games' where the air is thicker and air pressure more normal, just so he can walk to the urinal without his cane.
That pretty much sums it up perfectly... If there were some way that he'd restructure, and cut that salary down big time, he's a really talented player who could help out our weak talent group on the DL... That said, it doesn't seem likely at all, and I don't want him for what he's making...
