Well Chris Johnson did say he was having a blast watching the team win 5 games last year and put a no playoff mandate on the CS. How did he think this was going to affect the players? Players are professional athletes that want to play for an excellent organization with high standards. Very few guys want to just milk it through their career. Jets are reaping what they sow!
Not really. Henry Anderson (tied leader in sacks) for a 7th rounder was a steal. And free agent pick ups Andre Robert's and Jason Myers both made the Pro Bowl.
Johnson might be an issue. Let’s see. The team was bad. Everyone knew Bowles was going to get fired over a month ago. Let’s see what he does with a new staff. Can’t say I loved him this year but I’ll give him more time. That being said I love how Bowles rarely ever disciplined player. Look at Wilkerson and Richardson but in his last game he did. Lol. Awful I hear the cards are interested in him. Maybe we can do a herm Edwards type trade with him. Can you imagine if we get something for him crazy. I think I’m dreaming on that one
Unfortunately no. He has an 8 million dollar guaranteed salary for 2019, and his cap hit would be 20 million dollars if we cut him.
No.. His contract given by our genius GM, is cap heavy if cut. Best we can hope for is he smokes joints, punches a woman and robs a bank.
Johnson was the #1 press corner in the league in 2017 with the Rams (23rd in off-coverage), yet 2/3 of the time the Jets play off-coverage. Why did Todd covet press corners so much when he schemes off-coverages 67% of the time? Makes no sense and certainly doesn't play to the strengths of the player. This is what Pepper Johnson was talking about - the coverages did not match the pass rush. The scheme was screwed and the coaching staff had no idea. Let's see what Johnson does with a coaching staff that has a clue (hopefully).
Obviously Mehta plans on hitching his wagon to the new coach, since he's burning any bridges he might have had with Macc.
No big deal - there's 32 GMs out there and some are in a position where they never need to take a chance on somebody with a couple of clouds in their past. Maybe that guy is one of them; we know MacCagnan has to stick his neck out.
Or maybe he was given a player he didn't want and wasn't going to change his system for one guy. I'm not defending him, but if the coach and GM were never on the same page, that's not good. I got the sense that may have been a broken relationship by the second offseasons. No HC wants a roster meltdown, no matter how much money it puts in the bank. There had to be a lot of frustration for Bowles, and having to go out there and coach the guys you didn't have any say in whether you wanted them. Bowles never opened his mouth about that, but Jamal Adams has said what his coach was thinking. Discipline was nonexistent when the coach doesn't want to be there either...
"Hey, did you hear that Trumaine Johnson was rated a Top 5 cornerback?" "That's amazing. Top 5 cornerback in the league! That should quiet the haters!" "Ummm, not the whole league." "Well, Top 5 in the AFC ain't bad." "Errr, not the AFC exactly." "Huh?...Top 5 where?" "AFC...East." "Fuck my life."
Supposively was a move made to appease Bowles who is still looking for Giant press corners who wont mind being asked to play the run & play off coverage 60% of the time.
