First Post - First Mock Offseason

They really can’t cut Pace. His contract is guaranteed. They’d take a cap hit of $1,763,335 million. Who would start in his place? Even if the Jets had a suitable replacement, if the Jets take a dead money hit of that much, there’d probably be no signing of Griffin or Hill, much less both of them.

I watched his whole tape vs WVU in particular and he didn’t generate a QB hit if I’m correct. He could never generate pressure at all.

For the very reasons you stated in the first line of your post. The Jets have too many other needs. Look at the stats. No SB winner in the last several has had the leading rusher in the NFL. None of the top RBs have made the SB recently.

I don’t know that Richardson is such a difference maker or someone the Jets can’t pass on. If I was GM and some team offered me a great deal for them to move up and take Richardson and I thought I could still get at top pass-rushing OLB, I’d do it in a NY minute. There are other good RBs in this draft. If the Jets feel like they need another RB, they could take David Wilson in the 2nd. He has great vision, speed, cutting ability, and can run inside or outside, just as Richardson can.

You don’t draft players because they can become stars. You draft players because they can be a difference maker on your team. I don’t think the difference between Richardson and Greene is as big as the difference between Westerman and Upshaw or Ingram, or the difference between Turner and some of the top WR prospects in this draft.

The Jets MUST get a topflight OLB prospect with Thomas gone and Pace set to leave next year. There are very good RBs in the draft every year. You don’t have to take a RB just because you think he could be a star. That’s silly, imo, and sounds like a fan’s perspective, rather than a GM’s.

will be an impact player. That’s simply not true. If the Jets get the right OLB or WR, either could have just as big an impact and be just as much of a playmaker as Richardson, yet make the team much better overall because there will be a much greater difference in their play and the person they replaced than there would be between Richardson and Greene.

1) I’m still reeling on how you forgot to include that critical piece of information from that posting 6 yrs. ago. Its been kind of nippin away at me. Thanks for clearing that up.

2) Regarding this year’s drafting of a Punter. You said that the Jet’s “should”. I think the situation is more than that now. Our whole ideaolgy seems to be based on “Fix every need with Band-aids or just bloody well ignore them and hope they will go away or that nobody will notice”. Boy did that come home to roost this year. Two clear examples: OL + Secondary. OL has you have so properly laid out should have been addressed right after Texans pre-season game with Turner being IR’d for the season. I quibble here as you did state that they gave Hunter a few games to see if he could find his jock strap and he couldn’t but still Tanny just turned a blind eye. The OL play was somewhat brutal in the 1st two games capped off with Mangold getting hurt witha high sprain of his ankle. We saw what happened next – a 3 game losing streak. A severe pounding on Sanchezz and a stalled running game. It would be pretty much be our trademark for 2011. The Secondary…..Teams started to figure it out finally that you just can’t pass with any long term success against Revis Island. At the same time Cro is getting much better. He does pull a few stunt games ie. Oakland. Forwhatever the reason the flags find him but overall he has gotten himself turned around theire. So our opposition is looking where those 2 guys aren’t covering and hitting our Nickel and Safeties. Kyle Wislon did a pretty good job this year for himself at nickel but the Safety play was attrocious. It was on too many hi-lite packages for other teams. Specifically New England. In the past it was Moss or Welker or Branch….not now. Those two freakin big studs for TE’s just tore up the ground with the ball in their hands. To be fair our Defense was overmatched by Brady this year. He got the right match-ups on the field that he wanted and played no-huddle and we couldn’t substitute until they were kicking the convert. That ‘s what i mean about band-aids…Eric Smith is a fine High School Safety but has no right to be on the field starting for the Jets. If that is not changed this year then they have just re-applied a new band-aid over a veery bad sore and it will not get better on its own. Sorry about being long winded. But I’m so tired of this Jet FO approach…it needs to stop now…..and no excuses about the Cap please.

So drafting a Punter is a Must this year. let’s get us a guy that can kick for us for 10 years.

His problem is that he will sometimes try to catch it in his body. When he uses his hands, he’s fine, but sometimes he’ll look like a fool when the ball bounces off his pads. If he can fix that though, he could be a great WR. I thought it wasn’t a good idea though to come out because he could’ve made himself a 2nd rounder next year and maybe a first rounder.

It’s not often you find a 6’5 WR that can run a sub-4.4 40. That is very enticing.