Can We Afford to Lose Sione Pouha? Can We Afford to Keep Him?

But he definitely earned a new contract with us, on and off the field.

I hope i’m wrong… because sione is a workhorse, and a presence down low. Signing him back at the respectable price should be rex and tanny’s priority.

Ropati Pitoitua also could hold his own, but his lengthy frame may not make him as well suited as others to man the NT position.

i don’t think he’s a otion at NT. i hope we can keep pouha, but i have the feeling that mike t’s plan of getting a replacement in the draft a year before might tell us that he’s not coming back. the question is, how many years will we have to offer pouha. i think ellis is our NT of the future, and pouha is 32. i have a bad feeling he’s not going to be brought back. we don’t have a lot of money and we need help elsewhere. we appear to have a number of solutions to the NT problem, unlike saftey and rt.

I think we’ve probably got a max of $13m in cap space of which half needs to go on our draft picks

Ultimately if Pouha asks for too much we won’t be able to keep him.

Something with some signing bonus money to sign, but only a $800k salary next year. It will probably also have some giant roster bonus a few years down that will let Pouha know that he will be cut before then.

Effectively, we’ll take the cap hit for Pouha in 2012 and 2013 in 2014 or so.

a 3 yearr 20m contract would probably be the max i’d offer and i think that would be a good contract for a 32 year old guy .
this is also the last year we could have cap problems with lots of big paid guys on the chopping block next year so maybe something like 4.5m this year 6.5 next year and 9m the final year would be way i’d break up the 20m .
cutting hunter and smith would pay his contract this year , cutting scott next year will pay his contract next year then we have the option of cutting him the year he is due 9m and hope ellis is ready to take over

I feel that it’d be smart to move Devito to NT and rotate Marcus Dixon and Ropati at DE until Kenrick Ellis comes into his own.

As a 32 year old FA I don’t trust Pouha’s season as being legit. He’s bound for a drop off after getting his money. Paying him is not an option for me. He’s not good enough over the long run for me to warrant the money that would be spent. No way.
NT by commitee will have to do I guess.
I have questions about Ellis. He’s been blown off the ball more than I would like to see in a prospective NT. Rex is great with teaching D-lineman tho so I have no problem being patient.
Pit will never have a healthy season. I spoke about him a while back and my opinion is that his size is more curse than gift. He’s too tall to be able to play the game and still be able to protect his legs from injury.
Dixon and Devito are great guys. Slightly above average talent and the ability to make one or two big plays in a game when it counts.
Wilk… Hmm. I’m gonna say possibly but only in really short spurts . After a full camp and a carry over year on a weight training program we could see a bigger Wilkerson by about 10 or 12 pounds. I see him as a probowl talent. I still remember Kiper saying that Wilk could have been a lock for a top ten pick if he stayed anouther year at temple. NT isn’t really the perfect position for his ability. He likes to keep himself clean and keep his legs moving. But like I said, I don’t have a problem with small spurts.
Long story short. I think there is enough here to not cave to a big contract with Pouha. Too bad tho I really like him.

Sure there are a lot of people who perform really well in their last season, but there are just as many who perform poorly. I don’t expect Pouha to perform to this standard next year, but not because he has been paid, but because this was a career year for him, and so a decline next year would be expected. He is going to regress towards the mean.

we need him back, and he deserves it. hes 32 but hes a young 32..he should have made the pro bowl this year but somehow Paul Soliai went..

hes a big part of our defense and this team needs to stop letting players leave just to get someone new. re-sign him and move on to the next guy.

honestly i might. id say 3 year 24mil. who would be his replacement? i don’t see them throwing in Ellis when he was inactive for 90% of the season. Devito is good at end, and Wilkerson as well. Dixon i like but hes a perfect backup player, and Ropati i don’t think is anything more than a backup. so why let him walk just to fill another hole? now im not saying just pay him whatever he demands but i think we could definitely give him a decent contract that fits both sides.i just dont know about any guy that would be cheaper and just as good a Pouha.

This is a dicey decision we have on our hands. Pouha’s performance over the last two years doesn’t guarantee that he will maintain or exceed those performance levels in the next 2 or 3 years. However, it doesn’t automatically make him an unreliable NT coming to camp for 2012. Its like anything today in the world of Sports……it’s all about the Dollars.

If the two parties can’t come up to a reasonable settlement then the only recourse will be to part ways. As pointed out here by many of you here at GGN. Pouha has been a beast for us at the NT ever since Kris Jenkins fell not once but twice for the Jets. He has gotten better and better at the position. He’s become a Plumber’s Dream – A “Clogger” – he just collects OL’s and jams up and stacks the line. By doing this he’s allowing the players around him to be better at what they are doing….especially our ILBs in stopping the running game. It all starts with the man up front.

So yes Mr. Pouha is very much an important part of our Defense and our Team. I think every effort should be made to sign him at a reasonable and fair contract to both parties. If it can’t happen…then it wasn’t meant to be(just don’t sign in NE). We’ll survive and move on because thats what JETs do.

Pouha has a great work ethic. That he learned from Jenkins, which is why I wish the Jets would get smart and hire him as the DL coach. IMO Carrier is not really that good, since he has come aboard the DL play has gone down. Jenkins would teach the young guns how to be a high level pro, he also knows all the DL assignments.
So what to do about Pouha It’s a toss up really? He, and Devito are the leaders of the DL losing Pouha could be more of a loss than just his play. With Jenkins in as a DL coach, it will solidify that void, now it’s just a money thing if Pouha go’s with a high number let him walk.
The Jets have many more important holes to deal with. The Draft has some deep prospects that could fill his role, which would be cheaper. If the Jets were to trade back in the first, then get second #2in a high position maybe just maybe Poe would still be sitting there. If not their are some other day 2 as well as day 3, Alameda Ta amu, Nicolas Jean-Baptiste, Brandon Thompson, Akiem Hicks even Ethan Johnson