Leon deal done soon ?

4.5 a year sounds fair to both sides.

 

That's good for him.. I thought they were going to try to force him in the 4 mill range... probably those 500k depend on performance related bonus.
IF this offer really went thourgh I think the Jets have offered the right amount of money. If he doesn't accept it then we play hardball until next year's free agency.
I'm hopeful

 

We need Him He's such a great change of pace RB especially with Greene in the mix

 

I will be happy when this gets done. I definitely would like Washington to be with the NYJ long term. Dynamic player.

 

The rumor that a deal is close keeps rearing its head. I've had a feeling it would stretch out to training camp, but hopefully we're finally going to see a deal done. If it ends up being $4.5 million per, I'll have to wonder what the holdup was.

 

Gotta agree. Leon has the talent, but needs to prove he can handle the workload full time. This deal getting done would be the begining of the end of the Thomas Jones as a Jet era. I could not be any happier.

 

be nice with all this distraction out of the way. we need to rely on leon heavily this year.

 

According to that link, it's Cimini's opinion that it will be $4.5mil. Nothing mentioning any source. Pure speculation.

 

Get Mangold locked up. Thats what I want.

 

All of Cimini's articles are pure speculation.LOL


If Leon takes 4.5, Good for the Jets. In year 1, he'll already be a bargain. I would bet that a 4.5M deal will be laden with LTBE incentives that will push his take to over 5.

 

A blurb on the radio, I heard it could be wrapped up on Friday. Haha, abyzmul, KO, first play of the game in November '07. I left a message in real time: "Here we, go opening kickoff. Leon fields. OK. Go! Go! Go! Ahhhhhhhhhahaha!!!!!! Breakking away! Hahahahahahaha! Touchdown, hahahahaha!" You can't make it up. And don't anyone put a dirty spin on that. It was awesome. I held my crappy ass phone to the crowd. "That was the best phone call ever." Of course it was!

 

Best voicemail ever, I remember it well.

 

2007 sukked, but you can't make it up. Am I riggggggggggght.

 

I'm just hoping the Jets handle this better than the Lavernues Coles fiasco in 2003. All offseason we heard the Jets were working on this proposal and that proposal and that Coles was looking for a figure significantly higher than what they had in mind. It wasn't until the very end that it became clear that the Jets had never had a prayer of actually signing Coles at the figure they wanted and that the Redskins were going to pay his number without flinching. I really thought Coles would stay a Jet in the end right up to the moment he was a Redskin.

Obviously we have a bit more lead time here, but the result will be the same if the Jets set a figure they won't go above and it's not in the neighborhood of the figure Leon can actually get in free agency.

 

If I remember correctly, Bradway completely mismanaged the Coles thing - something like providing a tender offer that was way undervalued so it was relatively cheap for the Redskins to grab him. Then the arbitrator admitted he was a Redskins season-ticket holder and Bradway had no problem with that. It felt like we were getting completely screwed. So, how does our idiot GM compensate? Get drawn into a sucker trade to move up in the draft to select Dewayne Robertson. What a moron! I am so glad he is no longer our GM and rather shocked he still even has a job in the organization.

 

oh, also, hope the Jets sign Leon soon! Good news!

 

I've gone back and forth on this one. Part of me thinks that Bradway screwed things up in how the situation was handled and we paid the price. There's a little voice though that tells me he really wanted the first round pick more than he wanted Coles so that he could move up in the draft and make a splash for himself. He'd moved up to draft Moss the year before and that was his guy. He may well have decided the Jets couldn't pay two WR's top dollar and effectively decided to trade Coles for a first round pick.

Both of the moves, trading up for Moss and letting Coles go were bad though given who the QB was likely to be moving forward. Before Coles got hurt he and Chad really had chemistry, the kind that makes the QB and the WR better than either of them were individually. Chad and Moss really didn't have much going for them, which became apparent when the Jets traded Moss for Coles two years after letting him get away.

I'm not a huge fan of WR's at this point. I don't see a lot of them having the kind of impact you want your first round picks to have, and none that aren't matched with a very good QB. That said, I'd have never drafted Moss and never let Coles get away. Once you saw the kind of play that Chad and Coles were capable of it became kind of dumb to break up the combo for less than excellent compensation. When the Jets traded their original first rounder to promote the acquired pick into D-Rob it became just stupid.

 

and thomas jones? ........what about him? coming to training camp with mouth closed (without a new contract), unlike kendall?........

 

i think the TJ knows he's never going to get the Jets to budge, so he said fuck it.

he has 13 mil from the last two years, he's 31, and he'll have less carries this year. he must also know that at the end of this year he's a FA.

It might work as a win-win... TJ honors the end of the contract and plays his heart out, and gets one more big payday before he retires from a different team in need of a RB.