He acts to me like he wants out of NY. Like he is actually cultivating it. ....So trade his ass to Oakland, Cleveland or KC.
Rhodes is an egocentric adolescent trapped in the body of a gifted, talented football player. He's not emotionally mature enough to handle anything but praise and adoration. The minute that stops or, God Forbid, he's criticized, he can't understand it and can't handle it and lashes out at the source. Rhodes thought the Jets DB world revolved around him and it did, until Revis came along and started getting a lot of attention. I believe that was the start of the emotional decline for him... not being able to handle the attention Revis was getting. The underlying jealousy has gotten much worse every time Revis makes spectacular plays. So Rhodes did what any juvenile would do who can't regain the limelight... prove he's still got it by stepping up the trash talk. Surely a player with a trash mouth must be a good player on the field, right? So, the trash talk increased as his plays on the field decreased, all while Revis stood out while making his exceptional plays. It came to a screaching halt when some of the coaches and even other players noticed his lack of intensity and it was no longer to be tolerated. Ryan steps in and does what he has to do to win games. In Rhodes' adolescent, emotionally immature mind now, that makes Ryan an asshole and every DB coach a snitch who doesn't know what they're talking about. His immaturity couldn't handle losing the "starting job" to Smith, and instead of re-evaluating himself and dealing with it and quietly stepping up, he lashes out publicly. It's a shame, because his recent INTs have been excellent plays. He's ballhawking to get those INTs in a desperate attempt to get back in with Ryan, but Ryan's a bit smarter than that and said, "Let's let this play out," meaning, he's still considering Smith as a major factor in the lineup. I think Rhodes won't be able to go into the offseason with this "wait and see" situation. He needs to feel important and be the top dog. If he can't have his way, he's going to want to leave. Maybe his recent INTs will help us get a decent draft pick in return.
How do you even begin to make a comparison between A-Rod and Rhodes? Because they both play for a team with New York in the name? I'm not even going to address the stupid A-Rod comparison. But Rhodes is not being ostracized. He is ostracizing himself. He started out early on sharing with Vilma sort of a leadership role, initiating film sessions with the defense, making a name for himself in one season by making big plays, and he started improving greatly. I saw what kind of elite physical talent he had when he was making those plays in '06 and when he was putting up good numbers in '07, but in '08 he stopped getting himself in position to make those plays. Everyone thought it was Mangini's fault, that EM wasn't putting Kerry in position to succeed. He scapegoated Mangini for his bad play last season, too. What a big man. Now this year, we have an attacking defense that lets the players get themselves into position to make big plays. We see Kerry Rhodes tackling like a marshmallow. We hear that he is no longer doing film sessions with the defense. We hear that he is at odds with the secondary coach. He loses his starting job. And throughout the whole thing, he is engineering his self-promotion campaign via Twitter via live feeds to his house, via NFL Network interviews, via anybody that will listen to him incessantly talk about what a playmaker he is - in the third person, of course. Plenty of people can attest to how much of a Kerry Rhodes supporter I have been in the past. Now there is little to support. His head is not in the game, and he doesn't appear to fit in with what Rex Ryan is doing with the defense. Don't give me that shit about ostracism. If you don't see what's happening, you are either a hopeless fanboy or your head is in the sand.
Look at the team stats (screw belichecik stats are the best way to measure your team that I know). The jets are tops in defense and running the football. The jets would be sitting right where they wanted to be if not for growing pains at the Head Coach and QB positions, that's even with all the injuries they've had. So since they're are not where they wanted to be, the SOJF's look for someone to scapegoat! Why?? Cause he's not playing up to Ed Reed standards? Cause he's uses twitter? Cause he posed for a photo shoot IN THE OFF SEASON? All this to say "step off the defense and the defensive players" they are not the problem! The jets are a very good team. If Sanchez can mature and make better decisions they will be a great team. Even so, SOJF's will find something or someone on the team to bitch about.
BEcause he's playing like an un-motivated sack of shit this year, and last year, throwing teammates under the bus, blaming them for miscues, twittering his grievances with the team, showing insubordination with coaches, all the while making millions of dollars a year that right now should never find the way into his pocket. You strike me as the kind of mope who is more than content to deal with mediocrity in life. Right now, mediocrity and Kerry Rhodes are one and the same, so I can see how you would take great offense to what's been said above. Cause!
someone just asked him if he would like to come to NE, his response was "can't answer that right now"... he's already half way out the door
Chris Baker? Really? Rhodes seems to have been responding fairly well to Rex on the field. Baker has 11 receptions for under 100 yards and only 1 TD through 13 games with Tom Brady at QB. Remember everyone used to say how "under utilized" he was here?
Jets fans? Content with mediocrity? We're below average in franchise winning percentage AND playoff records. More like content with futility if you made it out of the late 80's/early 90's and are still here to tell the tale. And I understand the argument for hating on Kerry - the numbers don't lie and the soft flying body tackles speak volumes. I'm just inclined to think his issues are deeper than him just phoning it in after the big contract. These guys are always playing for their NEXT contract, or for the bargaining power to renegotiate. And he's too young to be washed up. Maybe he's distracted himself off the field with too much spotlight and good times - modeling, partying, tweeting, etc? Fine. But that's a fixable problem. And if that's his only problem, discipline is a decision we can make as fast as turning on a light switch.
Belichick seems to be able to pull off talent for next to nothing so I'm guessing that he will try to pull off a trade for Rhodes for even less.
Random Redskins beat writer: Mr. Snyder, what is your plan concerning the draft. Dan Snyder: Close the fucking window.
Rhodes to the Giants for Mathias Kiwanuka...... They need safety help and we need DE help, and he plays LB too-
So your saying the jets defense is mediocre? Or just Rhodes? Excuse me? Do you know me? Have we met? Sir since you have all the answers why aren't you running the team?
He's 6'5", 265lbs. If he did play for the Jets it would pretty much be at LB only, unless we were showing a 4-3 front. I doubt Jerry Reese would pull this trade off. Kiwanuka could probably fetch much better than Rhodes from a few teams.
I'd rather not give either of those asshats(Belichick and Rhodes) anything they want. Ship Rhodes out to the Raiders or the Seahawks. Hell, give him to St. Louis. Spagnuolo was a secondary coach.
Rhodes tweeted about giving props to Rex for coming to his charity event last night. I notice no one bothers to talk about that though. Or the fact that Rhodes tweeted that there was never an argument with he and his coach. But why present two sides to a story? Shipping him out for a late rounder, based on the story the media has presented, sounds much more reasonable.
