August 5, 2008 Clemens is No. 1... on paper With the pre-season opener this week (Thursday in Cleveland), the Jets finally released their first depth chart. Most teams do it at the start of training camp, but the Jets are a little weird that way. Whatever. Anyway, here are some points of interest from the current depth chart. Memo: Don?t take this as gospel. Kellen Clemens is the No. 1 quarterback, ahead of Chad Pennington. Presumably, that means Clemens will start against the Browns. Technically, it?ll be his turn to take the first-team reps, considering Pennington is slated to work with the starters in today?s single session. There is no practice tomorrow. Chris Baker, back from the PUP list, remains the starting tight end, ahead of Bubba (Butter Fingers) Franks and rookie Dustin Keller. Chances are, Butter ? er, I mean Bubba will start this week because Baker didn?t start practicing until yesterday. After Laveranues Coles and Jerricho Cotchery, the receivers are Brad Smith and Chansi Stuckey, followed by Wallace Wright and David Clowney. Don?t be surprised if a veteran is added before the end of camp. Not surprisingly, Justin Miller is listed as the starting right cornerback, but his backup is Hank Poteat, not David Barrett, who is listed with the third team. Hmmm. Drew Coleman is backing up Darrelle Revis on the other side. Barrett is due to make a hefty $3.6 million, so perhaps his roster spot is up in the air. Eric Smith and Kerry Rhodes are the starting safeties, ahead of Abram Elam and James Ihedigbo. Can you say, ?depth problem?? Again, try not to read too, too much into this depth chart, but at least it?s something. By Rich Cimini on August 5, 2008 12:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (14)
Probly the most sensible thing Cimni has ever written. Even a blind squrril finds a nut once in a while.
All the hate for Barrett -- but manlove everywhere for Victor Green. Never understood this -- they are/were both hit or miss guys.
I know. There definitely is a bit of excitement this year with all of the additions that seemed to target glaring needs at the end of last year. Both potential QBs have what would appear to be a very serviceable support system now - that should make a huge difference. Last year, you tried to win by the arm and it almost always led to us dying by the arm.
This should be a pretty interesting pre-season. I would say the race is still wide-open at QB. May the best man win.
If safety depth is a huge problem. Why not give Lowery the chance to be an emergency safety if needed. The kid seems to be so football savvy that I think he could adjust to the role. I'm not sold on anyone past Rhodes. I slightly trust Eric Smith, but he was hurt all last year. The dude is brilliant though, thats why he can read coverages so well.
It also has Ainge listed as our #3 qb and Ratliff not even listed. That doesn't make much sense based on TC reports to date. Only 2 days until we find out what the chart really is at this point.
I don't read anything into this. Didn't Mangini release a depth chart in alphabetical order his first year?
On our safety depth...Rhodes is a star...Smith and Elam together should/will hopefully be solid...then we have some bodies...iunno though like...how many teams really have like more than 3 talented guys at one position (and SS/FS to me is dead so its one position)? Like is the depth *that* bad at safety? The "lack of depth" knock should be changed to the "I don't know much about this guy beyond his name (if that), so how good can he be?"
We rushed for six TDs last year. Six. In 16 games. People can bitch and moan about the QBs all they want, it's amazing we won four games when we rushed for six TDs. Two of them were by the QBs. Awful.
Exactly. We had to win "by the arm" because our O-line could not knock anyone back. We had no drive or holes for any back to get through. Not a single team respected our running game nor did they have to. Hopefully the additions to the line changes this. If not we are in for another long season.
How did we go the entire offseason without adding any depth in the defensive backfield? I'd take Reggie Tongue at this point.
We also retained Poteat even though he was a free agent. We did not make any huge moves in the defensive backfeild, but at least did not get any worse. After the big moves to land Faneca, Pace, Jenkins and Woody its seems reasonable that the front office did not have much room to tinker with the DB's.
