Yes, lets cut Cromartie and take a $17.8mil of dead cap hit. Lets also trade/cut two more starters...to do exactly what?? To fill holes? I see us creating holes this way. We still have 10 draft picks to fill atleast 3-4 holes. And we'll have about $3mil of cap space to sign one more starter or a couple of decent backups. Lets also release Sanchez and take on a 24 mil cap hit. Tebow for the win!
It seems like this is the popular route and I agree here. There has to be a RT somewhere in the additions though.
I don't even know why Cumberland is even in trade discussion. He's making half a mil. He will need to be replaced. Even if his replacement is an undrafted rookie, he'll make like 400k. Yeah, lets save a 100k and cut Cumberland. I see a lot of potential in Cumberland as a backup. No way we cut him, and he hasn't done anything to build a trade value for himself.
I like Cumberland too I was talking about Keller. People want to trade Keller when we have no TEs. Cumberland is completely unproven and coming off of injury. Trading Keller would take away Sanchez's only familiar target of 3 years and his safety blanket.
I didn't realize Cro had that much dead money. I guess it'll be one more year at least until we can peddle him if we want to. I never said trade 3 starters. I didn't say to cut any. I don't know what cutting any of these guys would possibly accomplish. Cap is the least of our problems in most hypothetical trades. We could have about 35 picks and the chances would be pretty good we wouldn't find a starting FS from day one so I don't know what that's all about. We can't take a RT anywhere but the first because we'll be wasting another pick on Vlad Ducasse's bench buddy way too frequently. The whole issue is that some of these needs CANNOT be addressed in the draft. Not that they all can be. They can't be. Face it. Now you want to sit around and wait for someone to fall in your lap to sign? Fine, no problem. But don't act like there are no reasonable alternatives to that course of action. Certainly don't act like there's no problem because we've got that shit covered in the draft. You say Cromartie and Cumberland aren't real viable candidates? Great! That's what I started the thread for. Who is then?
One thing that's yet to be discussed-- because Tebow has been brought in shouldn't the Jets focus on the RT, followed by FS and OLB as opposed to a WR? While the Jets are still very shallow at WR the Tebow acquisition makes this offense more run-oriented. By prioritizing the RT position, we can solidify the O-Line, and then by addressing the FS and OLB, we can fill other big holes. If in the end the Jets happen to luck out by not acquiring one position I'd much rather see the Jets not acquire a WR as opposed to a RT, FS, or OLB.
I dont expect the Jets to sign another RT because we resigned Hunter and it looks as if we are going all in on Ducasse. I think its really sink or swim with Vlad because he can't do any worse then Hunter. His run blocking is good if he can learn to be average at pass blocking it will be a success at this point.
Next year there are quite a few players to cut: Pace ($8.56 mill) Scott ($7.15 mill) Hunter ($4 mill) Smith ($3 mill) Cro ($1.25 mill) Holmes ($1.25 mill) Hopefully Cro and Holmes work out well enough in 2012 to stay through the 2013 season-- if cut after the '13 season their cap savings go up to $9.5 and $8.25
My premise, (not sure about everyone else's) is that we should be spending our first or second on OLB. Third at the absolute least but we'd have to get some pretty tempting picks in the first two rounds to be led into that. OLB seems to be the easiest need to address in the draft (next to WR which is pretty easy to address in any of a number of ways) so I think we should be looking to address it there clearly. Why not take advantage of the best pick for your money if you can help it? Take OLB out of the free agency/trade equation and you make sure you're focusing there on only the positions that you can't address in the draft (FS and possibly RT.) Efficiency gained.
We are going to do what we should do and that is wait and see what players become available as cap casualties and stuff like that. I'm spretty sure the FO/CS knows how desperate we are at positions of need and they will do what they can to address them.
Do you think there will be a significant enough amount of activity between now and the draft to potentially offer us a player we want or give us extra information to act in advance? A move a day before the draft or whenever it presents is the kind of thing I'm looking at here. I understand that there is a lull at the moment, but couldn't that change over the next month?
I don't see the pressing need for a receiver unless you don't buy into the ground and pound this year. They have Holmes and Kerley and can pick up somebody else in the middle of the draft.
But we don't have our fourth which would be ideal for that pick. I think taking a WR in the 5th or later is a good way to get another #3 or #4. Since our team is one #2, one #3, and about 4 #4's already it just doesn't sit right with me. I think we have to be looking to spend at least a 3rd otherwise we better start looking long and hard at Braylon again. I think the main issue with WR is just that it's another issue. We've got a few spots to fill and it's just another position that takes our attention up this offseason.
Trade Cro? Are u guys crazy? Then who steps in to take his place? Wilson? HELL NO..not in this pass happy league these days.
I didn't know that it was such a crazy idea to expect our 3rd year 1st round pick to be able to competently handle playing CB2. I'll have to write that one down I guess. Cro only CB alive who can play opposite Revis. Do you really think that Wilson will never be near as useful as Cro? If he's not ready to step into those shoes by next year I for one will be disappointed.
http://www.ganggreennation.com/2012/3/31/2916092/whats-left-in-the-bank-and-on-the-market I feel like they took my thread and copy pasted a chart and made it into a post. Although you could argue I should be outraged, I'm strangely pleased with myself. Perhaps I should begin writing articles for TGG like Abyzmul. And to think I beat them by FIVE days! I'm so ahead of the curve. 4Realz. Big it up. I'm here with my main man Mr. Boutros Boutros Gali.
