Jets Given Carte Blanche Thanks To Rex

by David_Wyatt on Apr 23, 2010 12:02 PM EDT

The New York Daily News's Gary Myers ran a nice piece today with plenty of interesting quotes from a league GM on how the organization has such faith in Rex Ryan's ability to control his players, that they have been given free range to bring in some 'problem' players:

"They think Rex Ryan is a warden, the best warden there ever was, he could take anybody's problems and fix them," one general manager said yesterday. "As a personnel guy, you want to believe that. If you do, then you have carte blanche now to do all these reclamations on these very talented players that for whatever reason were misfits in their place. They believe so strongly in Ryan's ability to handle these kinds of players."

Obviously they are referring to Holmes/Cromartie and Edwards. However like we have said here all along, these are short term deals, our future is invested (or at least it will be) in players like Sanchez, Revis, Mangold, Harris, Brick. Those are the keystones that will hold the structure together. The likes of Holmes/Cromartie and Edwards are the paint samples on the wall. If they fit and look good, they will stay there, if they spontaneously combusted, they will be painted over with a color that fits.

Think of Rex Ryan as the pied piper, if he plays his flute to the right tune, everyone will follow in line, if he goes off note, it could go horribly wrong, the Jets are relying on Rex, and I'm going to as well.

"Obviously, they are loading up to win now," the GM said. "I don't see anything wrong with that thinking. They were close last year. The silver lining with Holmes, Cromartie and Edwards is they are playing for contracts. They've all been embarrassed and humiliated and will be on their best behavior. In the short term, it has a good chance of working. They didn't mortgage their future. Everything they did was calculated. If it backfires, it's not going to sink the ship."

What about chemistry?

"Rex will take care of the chemistry," the GM said. "They figure Rex will keep the inmates together."

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JETS DRAFT OSAMA BIN LADEN

Dumped Edgar Renteria and adopted Buster Posey. Biggest upgrade since George Jefferson moved up to a deluxe apartment on the east side!

by rxmeister on Apr 23, 2010 12:11 PM EDT reply actions

Hey, the dude is more elusive than Barry Sanders

by Exystence on Apr 23, 2010 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Some reports say he’s also a pretty explosive guy.

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I've tried to email Revis, but it just shuts down my computer.

by dvdvil on Apr 23, 2010 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

LOLOLOLOL

by Exystence on Apr 23, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah but major character issues

can never track this guy down. Also has more children than Cromartie. You guys sure you want him?

by Togaman7 on Apr 23, 2010 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions

This all came from the fact that Kyle Wilson has an attitude, not a bad one, just an attitude, in the same mold as Rex Ryan’s swagger. Going to be a loud locker room next year, and they were just saying that Rex Ryan’s voice needs to be the megaphone if you will.

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by David_Wyatt on Apr 23, 2010 12:28 PM EDT reply actions

I wonder if it’s that attitude that made him drop so far to us?

by Exystence on Apr 23, 2010 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions

I was talking to Will Spencer last night, and he said they heard rumors that when he had his medical, they found some issues with his knees, not sure if that’s true or not, but that could be a reason.

Also while were on that point, our choice to use Will and Draft Brakdown for draft interviews this year seems to have been a good one, they came first in predicting the first round mock, better than Mayock and Kiper and McShay, and every other draft orientated website on the web.

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by David_Wyatt on Apr 23, 2010 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Speaking of knees… Read earlier that Kindle might need micro-fracture surgery. Hope we avoid him like the plague.

by Crackback on Apr 23, 2010 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions

I KNEW there had to be a reason why people were avoiding him. Also I heard he’s had off-the-field issues. Two major negatives on him, wow.

by Exystence on Apr 23, 2010 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions

I wonder who that league GM was, by the way. Ozzie Newsome?

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by dvdvil on Apr 23, 2010 1:02 PM EDT reply actions

I thought it was either him or because they were speaking to Myers, Jerry Reese also popped into my mind.

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by David_Wyatt on Apr 23, 2010 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Good point about Reese. Both teams must have had a lot of communication with the whole stadium scheduling thing, and probably have some sort of good insight on each other’s thinking.

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I've tried to email Revis, but it just shuts down my computer.

by dvdvil on Apr 23, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions