Rocking Out With Mock's: Jets Style

Thanks for sharing that David.

I went back and forth on this one between Mark Barron and Nick Perry. Both are Pass Rusher and Safety are pressing needs, but this years Safety class pretty much starts and ends with Mark Barron, so they won’t be able to get a good one later. Whereas for a Pass Rusher they could get a guy like Jonathan Massaquoi or Vinny Curry later on. Also Aaron Maybin played pretty well down the stretch, so he plays into the picture a little bit. On a defense with so many great players like Alabama, Mark Barron seems to be the guy who gets underrated. Barron really is a well rounded, and NFL Ready Safety. He excels in coverage, playing an excellent “Centerfield”, while also quickly jumps up and attacks everything underneath. He’s a slightly better version of Kerry Rhodes, who the Jets are really missing.

That is absolutely nutty, imo, and how teams wind up screwing themselves. So there’s only one good S prospect in the whole draft, but he’s not that good (a slightly better version of Kerry Rhodes – not saying much at all) so you reach and take him and bypass better players at other positions of need that bypass, equal or almost equal the need at S. I am so glad that writer isn’t the Jets’ GM. You have to draft to the strength of the draft. You can’t just reach out of need. The best way for the Jets to address the S position is in FA. They could sign two Safeties (Dwight Lowery and another) in FA and improve the S corps tremendously. Other S prospects will be there in the middle and lower rounds. Often those players can develop and surprise you and they are a great value. Also, his idea of the best pass rushing prospects are Nick Perry and Jonathan Massaquoi? Vinny Curry belongs in that group, as well as Perry, but to ignore Mercilius, Upshaw, Ingram, Irving, Law and one or two others and include Massaquoi. That writer should be banned from writing on football. LOL

But give me a pass rusher 1st.

i would be ecstatic and shocked if he fell to us at 16.

ecstatic because he is going to be a beast, and we need a RT badly -shocked because he is a top 10 talent.

Here is an interesting scenario to consider (its completely up to chance and i havent heard anything about this, just me own thoughts)
Many of the mock drafts have cincy picking Trent Richardson at 17. My idea is that we trade up with cleveland for the #22 pick. Cleveland is most likely going with an offensive skill position player with its first, first round pick . With the #16 pick Cleveland will also pick up Richardson to equip McCoy with some more offensive weapons.
With the #22 pick we will still have the opportunity to pick up one of the top defensive prospects (Perry, Hightower, Mercilus (love the name Mercy-less)), Burfict (kid just looks mean), Barron)….Any of these players have the potential to turn into a real stud.
Not only will we be able to get a top defensive prospect, we will get them for cheaper AND get a second 2rd pick which i would love to see us use on Nick Toon, or other big tall WR, a quality RT, or another pass rushing LB.
Another thing that came to mind is that Kenrick Ellis has had a year in the NFL and will be raring to go, come training camp, and will also add some depth to the D-line which will free up our backers.