The problems along the offense line could be crippling. There's a bunch of question marks and an older albeit solid D'Brickashaw. This is the most questionable unit on the field outside the quarterback. I think we'll see a big revamp of the offensive line or at least one has to hope we do. I think Carpenter was simply a "well he's the only guy left" type of thing when we weren't getting Franklin or Iupati yet you HAVE to sign a guard. Giaciomini is a good player if he's your versatile swing 6th lineman making $950k a year. He'll be gone after the season and right guard is a question mark with some "well if they pan out they'll be good type of guys." Building through the draft is the best way to ensure some sustained success outside of hitting the jackpot of a quarterback in the draft. Hopefully we made the right offensive line moves but I'm not so sure.
Jets have done an awful job in regards to the offensive line. The QB will more than likely struggle big time when we go up against Miami and Buffalo.
Yes sir. I meant to include "building the trenches in the draft is the best way etc.." Luckily the offensive lineman we did bring in is supposedly a pass blocking ace. We'll see. Suh & Dareus are monsters. Good in pass protection or not they need to be doubled.
it's scary just thinking about it. Add the fact that Geno Smith holds the football longer then any other QB in the league not named Russell Wilson, it's a recipe for disaster. Next 2 or 3 seasons we should see a major overhaul in the offensive line.
It's scary that we have to deal with it, but I'm very much looking forward to Suh engulfing Tom Brady through phagocytosis. Emphasis on the 'phag'.
If the Jets don't find a guard soon from among all the picks and free agents of the last three years we're in real trouble. It was guard problems that collapsed the 2003, 2005 and 2007 teams and the play last year contributed heavily to the problems.
I don't think it adds up to equate the OL play of last year, even focusing on the Guards who were a real problem to be sure, with the disaster that was Clarke/Bender. I still count the unloading of Pete Kendall with those two clowns as the "replacement" as one of the top five blunders of the last 15 or so years. Mabye higher.
The real disaster was losing Kerry Jenkins and Randy Thomas in back to back off-seasons with nobody waiting in the wings. That's why the Chad window got blown out. Yeah, he was injury prone but the Jets were rotating guards in front of him like a Times Square hustler shuffling cups and the pea never wound up where they thought it would.
I focus on the Kendall deal because unlike players getting injured, which happens, replacing Kendall with Clarke and Bender was a self-inflicted wound.
Mark wasnt the problem during those title games but he was below average more often than not in the majority of the games he played for the Jets. He was definitely a problem during his tenure here.
Randy Thomas departure was a self-inflicted wound. The Jets low-balled him for a year and then let him hit the market and found out that the offer he got was unmatchable. Chad Pennington broke his wrist in a camp scrimmage 6 months later and the career that could have been went away and was replaced by "he's like an egg back there." The guy in front of Chad when he got hurt was a JAG named Brent Smith who had bad knees and got to start 16 games just once in his career, 2003. The other options were a rookie who the Jets were converting from DT, in Brandon Moore and J.P. Machado who was in his last NFL season at that point. I've done this before but it's worth repeating again because it's an important point of information: 2001: LG Kerry Jenkins, RG Randy Thomas 2002: LG J.P. Machado, RG Randy Thomas 2003: LG Dave Szott, RG Brent Smith 2004: LG Pete Kendall, RG Brandon Moore 2005: LG Jonathan Goodwin, RG Brandon Moore 2006: LG Pete Kendall, RG Brandon Moore 2007: LG Adrien Clarke, RG Brandon Moore That's what Chad had to work with in his career with the Jets and he didn't play in 2001, when the Jets best pair of guards over the span were working.
Now if you're Tom Brady, you can add the Sons of Anarchy to the list. His old bones are gonna feel it this year
Mark was solid, but wasn't elite. Those comments are fine by me. Coming from a guy who just won a Super Bowl with Tom Brady as his QB, it makes complete sense.
we still need to win games. This is why I disagree w/ those that say you don't take an interior lineman high in the draft. We should've taken Chance Warmack over Dee Milliner. So many opportunities to build the line, down the drain.
You draft interior OL high in the draft, and you wind up like the Jets did with NO offensive playmakers. Have you already forgotten? We still don't have either WR corps or RB corps that we need to have, and you're wanting to waste high draft picks on OL grunts? SMH
Remind me again who Dee Milliner is? What are play-makers when you can't protect the QB? You get Holmes bitching in the huddle, that's what you get. Timing is everything when it comes to the draft, if you can get a young talented interior lineman that are durable, I am taking him over the often injured CB. This is me talking specifically about that draft. I know we are hurting w/ skill positions, but we got a little bit of young talent. Ridley had 1300 yards not too long ago, he has talent. Devin Smith, maybe Amaro. All are 26 and younger we got a little something to work with.
