just wondering....when does the Woodhead Christ thread appear and then stickied next to the Revis Christ thread?
My point is, this Coaching staff failed to use him in ways to exploit his talent. Prior to his Injury Leon was Woodhead on Steroids. Andy Reid forged a career out of utilizing Brain Westbrook. Schitty seems incapable of utilizing unique talents.
Unless he play's safety I still don't see where he would be doing anything besides maybe playing on the kickoff team.
You act like we have spots for 70 guys. wtf do we need another RB for? We need a safety, a place kicker and someone who can rush the QB.
I agree that Leon was a much better talent than Woodchuck, and I would have liked to have seen him get the ball more, but he did have a lot of success here. I don't care for Schotty, but a lot of the times when you guys criticize him it's for the sake of criticizing him IMO. Hopefully we can get McD.
All valid points. However...what I see is a guy with great hands, and a skill set similar to LT that's 10 years younger and could have provided continuity on offense when he was done. (am I saying he's the same player...NO...but NE uses him exactly like we do LT,) And while arguing the point, remind me again how much we needed David Clowney.
Christ I wasn't literally saying that Woodhead is going to rush for 1200 yards every year until 2020, but I really love the guy, he just fits in a Pats uniform. I'm just saying he's got a very good chance to be a weapon that fucks with the Jets twice a year for the next couple years and he'll always be one who got away. Woodhead won't be a HOFer, won't be a franchise back but watching him help out the offense is so much better when you know he's only wearing those colors because the Jets made a huge miscalculation. He's got good hands, good speed, is really shockingly good at blocking for his size, and being so small actually seems to help him on carries because half the time guys on defense behind the line literally can't see that tiny motherfucker.
As someone just said, there is limited room on an NFL roster. How would keeping Woodhead around be helping us at any of the positions of need on this team right now. He doesn't play defense and we have at least two maybe even three guys who can return punts and actually contribute to the team in other way's.
McKnight is taking up a spot that would have been better taken up with Leon or Woodhead. I didn't like the Leon/McKnight draft day move, they could have kept Woodhead and saved it, they kept McKnight. Of course they can't keep all three or even two, but they kept the least productive of the three. Tell me more about 2012, we're in a dogfight now.
Unless the Jets could calculate Kevin Faulk's injury days before it happened than it wasn't so much a miscalculation as a series of unfortunate events. Which is basically what this silly discussion always comes down to. It sucks that the chain of events lead to Woodhead helping out a division rival but does anyone really think that if it wasn't Woodhead that it wouldn't be someone with similar attributes doing the same thing?
What role would Woodhead be playing right now? Everything that he can do to help this team right now is being done by someone that is better than him. Those guy's suffer from the unfortunate circumstance of not playing with Tom Brady though.
Similar attributes? With two years of NFL experience. Are you really suggesting this is not a talented football player?
Tell me more about how much more awesome Woodhead would look than McKnight sitting on our fucking bench. We have 4 guys (5 before leonhard) that can return punts, and Leon wasn't even a punt returner before he left here. The bridge with Washington and his r'tard agent was already burned. We made an investment in the future. I know it's difficult for you to wrap your head around that, but I'll keep repeating it hoping that one day it sticks. And why do you think we need another RB at this point?
This is the crux of the argument, not many people have Woodhead's similar attributes. Not many guys his size can play football at any level, he has the brains, speed, hands and talent that lead the country in rushing in college, and when he finally got a chance is now productive in the pros. They don't grow on trees, even if he doesn't look like anyone special to the naked eye. I'm not putting him in the Hall of Fame either, my I'll stand by the Wayne Chrebet comparison I made while he was still here.
