Rex pretty much admitted early on that Landry was the odd man out. You are apparently the last one to know.
I don't care about the spending so much as the lack of playmakers. It's pathetic. Keyshawn Johnson and Rob Moore are among the best receivers this team has had over the last 30 years. Other teams can draft and hit on talents like Alshon Jeffery, Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson while this fan base is forced to slum it with Eric Decker, Jeremy Kerley, and a bunch of scrubs. Idzik's eye for offensive talent is a joke. As a Jet fan I have to accept Jace freaking Amaro as my GM's answer for an impotent offense so clearly lacking weapons in the receiving game.
Every response of yours is so douchy; the sad thing I don't even think it's intentional..LOL. My post was in direct response to the 2 posters that felt Pryor would be more of a SS than a FS. I do think Rex/Idzik would prefer and will try to play Pryor play FS. However, if that doesn't work out in that role, he will be our SS; thus, making Double A the odd man out in that scenario.
I've seen you say a number times that Pryor starting means Allen sitting. Rex likes to use two rangy SS in his system since he's been with the Jets. Safeties that can rotate between SS and FS. It makes the defense more elusive. You are apparently the last to know about that too. As far as douchy goes, you don't seem to realize how close to home it hits for you.
It's like talking to a tree stump. Rex shifted Eric Fucking Smith into FS a number of times. Get a clue.
Safety's are weird in Rex's D as far as I can tell, not sure FS and SS are easily defined. Its not even specified on the depth chart as to who is plying "Free" and who is playing "Strong". http://www.newyorkjets.com/team/depth-chart.html theres just two starting Safeties. Hell even if there IS an actual distinction, something tells me the players will be ready to play one role or another at a moments notice. Pryor will play… safety, thats all we can know. and anyway wasn't this a WR thread?
Landry is the best suited S on our roster to handle interchangeable duties. considering he is also our only experienced player in the secondary, i'd hardly consider him the 'odd man out'. He'll be on the field, and i fully expect him to start week 1.
Going into OTAs, Rex was asked directly during a press conference what Landry's role would be after they drafted Pryor. Rex said that he wouldn't be a bench player, and that when he first took the job, he used Eric Smith in the role of a 3rd safety, filling a vital role. He likened Landry to Eric Smith.
Landry's interchangeability vs. Allen's lack of interchangeability between free and strong is precisely why he was the odd man out last year when we picked up Reed. Allen is pretty good at a lot of things but playing centerfield is not one of them at the moment.
I do expect all 3 safeties to see time. Landry having that experience, will especially be leaned on more in the early part of the season. If Pryor and Allen prove ready for the jobs, as well as versatile, then i'd expect Landry to see less time. but not until then.. and Landry is nothing at all like Eric Smith. has much more range and isn't white
I felt the same way you did, but hearing Rex speak about the position, I think he feels otherwise. Of course, with Pryor's concussion setback, things have probably changed, but likely only in a temporary fashion. As far as likening Eric Smith to Landry, I'm not the one doing it, the head coach did, but only in terms of the roles being played.
Totally agree with regards to Rex's D; ideally he'd prefer 2 safeties that he can move anywhere. However, Allen does not not play centerfield well. His strengths are in the box and playing man to man; that's how Rex has predominantly used him with the occasional 2 deep zone sprinkled in. This is why Allen would likely be the guy with a specific role rather than Pryor and Landry who can play either positions.
You may be right, I'm not exactly paying a lot of attention to the lame arguments going on here tonight. I'll give you your feeble autocorrect victory.
The Jets have two choices with Amaro. They can either shoehorn him into their ideal vision of a TE coming from the Marty/Rex/Idzik perspective or they can use him as a split out/slot receiver - which is the role he played in college. The first path may well work out in the end but there are likely to be serious growing pains as Amaro makes all the transitions necessary to do the job the Jets envision him doing. The second path is going to require some modification to the Jets base offense to incorporate a 3 WR look more often and to create a set of routes for Amaro to run out of that formation that are easy to learn and rely on his ability to create physical mismatches against whoever covers him. The first path is the one the Jets are on at the moment. It's not clear whether they are satisfied with Amaro's progress or not. If they're not sure that Amaro is going to be able to do the thing they want him to do it's probably wise to have a plan B that lets Amaro make the contribution he is capable of making.