not a huge surprise as you could tell he just wasnt himself the whole of last season but I can see anyone wanting to take him on that salary or willing to give him a longer contract.
not a shock, it seems both parties want to move on, but the Jets can't just outright cut him because we owe him 4.2 million regardless...
Scott is still an above average IlB, with the state of our front 7, especially our LB's, can we afford this? I mean really? Yea we save cap space, at the cost of what?
I would hate to see him go, hate to see the '09 & '10 version go. I want to see that old fire back, this defense needs that.
i wonder what we'd get in return. i'm kind of surprised by this only because i assumed bart was a live for rex, die for rex dude.
Yes he is. The story made this sound like the Jets want him gone, and perhaps after next year they will, but this year? Imo they've got no one to fill his slot, and too many other holes to fill. Meanwhile what would they get in a trade for him? As in my earlier post can see another team willing to pay his guaranteed salary for this year, and perhaps at the right price for another year. But in addition to picking up the salary, what would they give the Jets in a trade? If it's not significant, I would just as soon Scott stays one more year. The place to upgrade the LB's is at Thomas's position.
This, you think teams ran on us alot last year? See what it's like when the jets draft an OL or WR in the first round while we again have holes at OLB while we can't set the edge and Scott is missing in the middle. We need some foresight here.
It's almost certainly no great stretch to say that kind of thing is overrated, probably very much so.
Not much, he's older and expensive. Cap relief would be the benefit of the trade more than a pick in return.
I doubt the Jets would be looking for much, they're probably just hoping to find someone to take the bloated contract off there hands. Conditional 7th or so sounds about right to me. Bart is a good player but severely overpaid for his position in this defense. Rex should be able to find some crazy fucker in the late rounds to take out lead blockers.
What would the cap ramifications be? The Jets Cap numbers don't make sense to me (he had a 3.5 million signing bonus in 2009 and a 7 million option bonus in 2010 so you would think he'd create about $6 million in dead money (1.75 from the signing bonus, plus 3/5th of the option bonus, or 4.2 million) so i would think it would be about $10 million if they cut him and $6 million if they traded him.
He's as good as cut. He has no trade value. The Jet's will eat the 4 million just like they did with Faneca. The defense needs more speed. Maunga is ready to play.
It's a lot more than $4 million, and when they cut Fanecca there was no salary cap. Other than that you're right on sport.
I don't follow you at all. My point is just that cutting or trading scott is going to fuck up the salary cup big time-$5 million or more. Mauga looks like shit but you can create schemes where you only use 1 ILB and extra DBs most of the time; I figure that's what Rexy does rather than turn Mauga into a full time player.
