I haven't labeled him a bust, he was sfrated to take leon's place and he's shown nothing so I'm a bit disappointed. We could have gotten a 5th rd pick and given up less than leon. heck we could have trdaed back w/ that 4th rd pick we used on McKnight and gotten another pick and Connor. The organization had plenty of monry, he wasn't getting big money especially coming off that injury and once he is 100% he's much more than just a return man. ok on broken leg many agents are difficult his wife did nothing wrong great return man you don't have to give every player what they want and he wasn't getting close to what he wanted coming off the injury. I need to say this again, Tannebaum has made very few mistakes so we can live w/ this one but this was a mistake.
He was NOT drafted to replace Leon this season. That's LT. McKnight was drafted as the future replacement. Leon was on Sirius yesterday and reiterated that he loved his teammates in New York, but he couldn't stay there. We wouldn't have been able to re-sign him. That's really the bottom line. We got something while we still could. Again, he didn't want to stay here, and he would have been gone after this season. Check what I posted about Smith. He's not nearly enough of a step down from Leon to keep Leon around just for STs.
Hindsight is 2020. Leon was coming off a major injury so you can't blame Tanny either. McKnight was supposed to be decent, but so far he's not. I too wish we could get Leon back, but that meant we had to pay him a lot of money, even more than he got from Seattle.
we would have had to trade someone. but your missing the main point, and that is money. leon wanted 5 mil a year and was coming off a big injury. we had to worry about paying brick, mangold, revis, harris, cromartie, holmes, and BE. all of those players are players that are better then leon. If letting leon go gets us 1 extra of those guys its more then worth it. even if we kept leon in this uncapped year we wouldn't resign after the 1 season anyway because there will be a cap again next year and look at the list of 7 guys who need to be paid first i posted. we took care of gold, brick, and revis but still have harris , BE, Homes, and Cromartie. We can't even afford to resign all of them probably only 1 or 2 at best so how could we even think about paying leon?
Didn't we trade up for McKnight in the 4th round? And we traded our fifth for Santonio Holmes so we had no fifth round pick before trading Washington right?
People really need to take into consideration that Leon would have been here for ONE more season PERIOD. The argument that we could have retained him for less money after the injury holds no water when Leon himself is saying that he COULDN'T stay with the Jets.
I would have been fine having Leon for one more season and he would have helped this team greatly. We got nothing for him by trading him this year, no big deal losing him for nothing next year.
we had no 5th rounder, we had a 4th and we used a 6th i believe to trade up in the 4th and grab mcknight then traded away leon for a 5th where we took john connor
