Dreadful? Did you not bother to look at the list of available CBs last year? Idzik was an idiot and we will be paying for his mistakes for awhile longer.
Idzik fucked up at corner, but injuries are a part of football and there was no way of knowing Milliner was going to fall victim last season. The billboards and airplanes were a shame. Idzik was trying to win, but his plan was more long term; which doesn't suit today's flashy NFL. I would have liked to see what Idzik would have done with all the money this off season (wide open statement for insults), but I'm happy to see what Mac has done so far. The defense is going to be nasty again and we finally have legitimate weapons at wide receiver. The rest of the money should really be committed to the offensive line, running back depth; and God have mercy a quarterback.
I am not half the board. A franchise QB is worth 50 safeties and tight ends. He fucked as at the most important position in organized sports. Fuck him. _
I'm not going to rip on you, as I agree. Having said that, any dumb ass could have come in and slashed money/talent. Idziks blunder was in the draft and not admitting to a rebuild. I think if he had said from day 1, "we're going to have a rough couple of years, then make noise." he and Rex would still be here.
Idzik made some mistakes, but he helped this organization far more than he hurt it. If anyone deserved the airplanes and billboards it was Mike Tannenbaum who basically buried the organization on chumps like Holmes and Wayne Hunter
Idzik had the right game plan. He just executed it terribly. Good teams are built through the draft. You use free agency as a tool to add compliment pieces. This was Idzik's approach. However his downfall was his drafting. Had Idzik slam dunked the last 2 drafts, then his penny pinching 2014 off season would have been justifiable since this was a deeper fa class. So far Mac is off to a good start. Hopefully it continues.
The premise of this thread is spot on. We went super cheap last year and as a result, we have a lot of money to spend. The problems with this approach are that (1) Our drafting wasn't very good - In a WR rich draft, we got nothing (Sorry Shaq); (2) Our team had MAJOR holes, most notably at CB, and we knew it and didn't address it; (3) Idzik appeared paralyzed and didn't make any significant moves - no trades, no FA signings. That type of approach might work in a small market, but it won't fly in NY where you've got to make a splash, even if it hamstrings your team down the road.
Santonio, Sanchez and many other big contracts expired when Idzik took over. 2013 was a cap clearing year. Plus he let Revis walk (leaving more room). Idzik inherited that. It's not like he restructured a bunch of contracts and brought in savings. He inherited a great financial situation just like Mac did. The only difference is that Mac actually did something great with the cap. Idzik blew it horribly and deserved to be canned.
What fucking Idzik did last year was WASTE ANOTHER FUCKING JETS SEASON and a YEAR of my life watching a garbage team, Sorry you shit your selling does not hold water
Had he done a better job drafting and signing free agents, we wouldn't have had to spend as much money this offseason. A lot of this is fixing his mistakes.
I'm not going to flame you, but seriously? You're praising him for being too cautious, too deliberate, or too afraid. There were FAs he could have signed last year that would have helped this team and then Mac wouldn't have as many holes to fill. There were certainly a LOT better players in the draft he could have taken that would have fixed some of those holes. IMO he deserved to get fired. The only thing I thank him for is getting Richardson in return for Revis. That was his best and only good move imo.
Which is one of the chief reasons that I despise Rex and have nothing but contempt, disrespect and animosity for him.
I'm sorry--I can't forgive him for passing on those 2 QBs so as to create a perception that his earlier pick wasn't a failure. I just can't. _
AYFKM??? Revis wanted to be a JET last year and IDZIK didn't even call him back!!! Big Mac made the move that Idzik was too dumb/scared/stubborn to make.
I don't follow why that would mean he was too cautious or too deliberate or too afraid. Because he didn't try to turn a garbage season into a slightly less garbage season to save his skin? If anything, I think he was the opposite. He didn't overpay for overrated players in a poor FA class last season. Again, I'm not saying he's good, but of the guys that signed big contracts last year, not a whole lot of superstars were in that mix. MacCagnan landed in a very good situation for himself because of the flexibility Idzik left behind. I'm not saying that means Idzik deserves to be here, just that Idzik deserves the recognition for us having this flexibility.
Also Idzik hedged everything on the draft. Most gms spend a ton in free agency but have mediocre drafts. But they're able to sustain some success because of the FA signings. Idzik went all in with the draft and failed. He had nothing to fall back on and pretty much dug his own grave.
Well, at least one of the 2 picks has Rex's initials all over it (first round defense, like a broken record). Geno closed out 2013 on a pretty high note (3-1) and winning 8 games as rookie; while we were widely predicted by sports writers to win "at most 3". Idzik signed Vick; and Vick didn't really care too much to learn the offense or prepare...Apparently MM didn't care too much to teach Vick either (that's Idziks fault). Idzik wasn't as bad as people make him out; but his strategy has no legs in a New York market; and I'm happy with our new GM.. sooo moving on.
Just like so many people can't forgive him for "missing on a WR heavy draft", which I still don't see. By the time we picked a WR, anyone that was actually any good was gone, and most of those players' stats were inflated by their teams. I went through that in detail in another thread a while back, but people get so hung up on the "success" of players like Martavis Bryant with Big Ben, or Jordan Matthews in Chip Kelly's offense. The only WR in that draft that lit the world on fire was OBJ. Evans and Watkins had a few great moments, and every other guy that people are touting showed some promise, but not much more. But we're a "sky is falling" franchise so all the good elsewhere gets grossly exaggerated.
