I think we should try and get Kevin Smith from Detroit. Very capable with good hands and was a healthy scratch this week....could probably get him for a conditional late round pick...I would say wait for him to get cut, but we are pretty thin right now
Greene + Grimes would be average at best, Greene hasn't showed much outside of the Colts game. I would approve of signing Addai, or any other available vet RB.
he's big and elusive, he can give us 5-10 carries a game as a compliment to Greene especially while the other guys are out.
I'd like to see Tebow play RB. He's shown he can run the ball effectively. He 250 pounds and can make moves in tight spaces.
One of the main reasons we are in the position we are in is the constant trading of draft picks. This needs to stop if we want to improve long term. Street FA, pick a young guy off another teams PS, or go with what we have. No trades.
I completely agree with this, however this team has showed on a consistent basis that they make terrible late round selections. So to give up a conditional 7th rd pick isn't that big of a deal to me, considering the jets would waste that pick anyway...
Antonio Allen got a sack last week. Jordan White is still on the PS. McElroy is on the roster. That's three 7th round players taken in the last two years who could have value down the road. There are a ton of FA RBs out there and we should not be trading picks for a gap filler. We traded away our 7th rounders in 2009 or 2010, as well as a bunch of other picks, and our depth has been compromised. We should sign a guy off the street.
they better sign someone today if they plan on bringing someone in...hes gonna need all the reps he can get!
He's not elusive when he's being handed the ball with people focusing on him. He's elusive when he has the option to give the ball to somebody else in someway and when he has an extra blocker in front of him to give him an edge. Tim Tebow would be a bad NFL running back. He'd probably be ok in short yardage for a couple of yards but he'd be bad in the lack of space that an NFL running back usually has.
It's not trading the 7th rounders that is killing us it's trading the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th rounders. The Jets have had 3 2nd rounders in the last 6 drafts. They've had 3 3rd rounders. That's 6 picks in the 2nd and 3rd round compared to the 12 they should have made. How many 4th rounders have they had over that span? I'll let you guess but the number has already been seen above. 5th rounders? A fish rots at the head and it rots consistently.
Agreed. Bottom line - We shouldn't be trading draft picks for short term RBs. We need the depth in the long term, and judging by this year's draft, I think the days of us trading most of our picks are over . . . I hope.
There's no way the days of trading up are over. The pattern is too consistent at this point for a draft run by Tannenbaum and Bradway to be anything other than a freewheeling Bingo game with the two of them scheming to trade for the 47 they need to make Bingo. The Jets will not succeed at building a strong deep team through the draft until they push the guys who do not believe in doing that out the door and find somebody else to take over the process. This is both a talent and a methods problem. The Jets don't have enough talent in the front office to have good drafts and their methods blow chunks as well.
I'm not so sure they will sign someone especially someone that couldn't pass a physical 2 months ago and now hasn't played. I think they will go with Greene, Grimes, Tebow and Hilliard.
Great post Byz, you beat me to it. SG is still not the answer as he showed he can only play big against mediocre teams. We need an explosive RB who can turn a three yard gain into a fifteen yarder. That is what makes the difference in besting the better teams.
I agree, on draft day, Tanny gets like a fat kid in a candy store. If he sees a player he wants available a few slots above where we pick, he'll give up anything to get that player.
So, instead of giving a yooung guy like Grimes a chance and see what we have, most of our fan base would rather bring in old mediocre talent taht has proven to be nothign special? Yeesh...
