I will disagree with Neil O'Donnell. At the time, it was a good signing. Who could of predicted that he would get injured warming up before a game?
For crying out loud, they gave up all that money and hung their hopes on a guy who threw HOW MAN interceptions in the Superbowl??
When your team MVP of last year is your punter, that says something about the gusy who came before him.
But yet he still got them to the SB. Who else would of QB'd the Jets that year? Jack Trudeau? You would have been satisfied with Frank Reich? Boomer should have been the choice to come back but would he of really led them anywhere?
As soon as there was free agency the Jets made a bunch of bad signings, someone mentioned Art Monk also. Don't forget Tony Casillas and Leonard Marshall. That was all within a year or two.
that was when we went for big names and that's a big reason we sucked. We got Lott, Marshall, Monk, Boomer(trade) all too late in their careers.
Neil O'Donnell (to replace Boomer Esiason), Rick Mirer, Art Monk (a future hall of famer but well past his prime by the time we signed him).
How could nobody mention Donald Evans? Am I he only one that remembers when they signed this guy.... he had a history of mental health issues and about 3 weeks into his career with the team he goes AWOL.... and was missing for about 2 weeks.
<Groan> I remember all that crap. The big joke was "Aw don't retire, the Jets are running a geriatric/last chance team" hmy:
Yatil Green. We watched this guy play Dainty Pamper Boy for the Phins for years, and then went and signed him.
Roman Phifer was kind of a bust. he was supposed to put our D over the top...and he was slightly above average at best.
