His ability to recover after a quick move, he will struggle at, but not all of the time. He's very powerful so 1 trick ponies that like to use their hands on defenders will have a tough time winning. Conklin will put you on your ass. The Maryland game, the one edge rusher that is entering the NFL - Ngakoue was beating him early, but Conklin found a way to recover and win matchups. It's a good game-tape to evaluate Conklin.
"Very real chance" is quite subjective considering the Jets were picking 8th that year. Parcels would have had to have to pull ten rabbits out of 1 gallon hat to get to the number 1 position. Jets had little talent to use to move up that year. No one fan or beat writer a that time was banging there heads against the wall for mis-deal. It was an impossible dream.
We picked 8th because we traded down. Try to pay attention dude. We had the number one overall. We were 1-15 in '96.
Jets had the 1st overall pick following Peyton's junior year. It's been widely reported that the Mannings wanted assurance that Parcells would pick him, when he wouldn't give them that they decided to return for senior season and the rest is history.
We traded down because there was no chance that Peyton was coming out his Junior year - Parcells tried to persuade him but he decided to stay in school. You have it backwards. Why would Parcel's not commit to drafting one of the most touted QB's to ever come out of college? He knew and realized Peyton was going to stay in school. here's the article: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...made-peyton-manning-jets-qb-article-1.2556313 "But it’s Jets fans who should be crying because it was exactly 19 years ago Peyton Manning elected to return to Tennessee for his senior year — even though he was graduating in just three years with a degree in speech communications — rather than declare for the 1997 draft with the Jets holding the first overall pick." “If Bill had come out and said, ‘Peyton, you’re my guy, I’m going to pick you,’ it may have made it a little bit harder,” Archie said. “But I swear he wanted to be a senior.”
