Sanchez didn't live up. It's as much on him as it is the rest of the team. At #5, you should be a guy who can pick the team up and carry them when need be. Will Sanchez ever do that? Can he? I say no to both questions.
Or maybe they thought "Hmm, I would like a young talented offense like Seattle's considering ours is the polar opposite."
'Gamble is a done deal'. Once the official website says this, I'll be happy. Until then, he's no different than any of our other beat writers.
Idzik would be a really good hire. The talent acquisition model would change, the cap model would change, we'd get a fresh pair of eyes on the day to day operations. It'd be a new day for the Jets and going into 2013 that'd be very welcome.
I have no idea if he'll be a good hire. Did he have a hand in the scouting/drafting process or just work on contracts, salary cap, etc? Hope he brings some of "his guys"
This is a "good pick"...why? Does he have any personnel experience? How close did he work with Pete Carroll in shaping the Seahawks' roster? Those are the questions I want answered. What this team doesn't need is another suit who knows nothing on how to build a winning franchise.
I wish him the best I hope he builds this Jets team into a championship caliber team. Assuming this report is true of course.
Below is what SB Nation's Seahawks blog, Field Gulls, wrote yesterday. In addition to all this coaching carousel talk, Seattle stands to lose a central figure in their front office, VP of Football Operations, John Idzik, as he interviews with the Jets for their vacant GM position for a 2nd time today. Idzik, from what I understand, has been an integral piece of Seattle's rebuild and the man behind the salary cap management over the past few years. The Seahawks have been tight with their money, but this frugality has led Seattle to become one of the best-managed franchises in the NFL over the past two or three years, a stark contrast to teams like the Raiders and Ravens, for instance, who face the possibility of dropping key players because of cap overages. According to the Seahawks' website, Idzik "oversees player negotiations, the team's compliance with the NFL salary cap, player personnel transactions, all football operations budgets, staff and team contracts, team travel and most aspects of the day-to-day football operations while also remaining active in player evaluations." Albert Breer also pointed out yesterday that the final sentence up there is true, Idzik has a role in scouting players, and the Seahawks have sent him on the road with this function of late. This dual ability - a business management acumen plus an ability to evaluate talent - is what makes him so valuable to the Seahawks and attractive to the Jets. I don't know if it's warranted, but I'm almost more worried about losing Idzik than I am about losing Bevell or Bradley.
I think this could have had its own thread instead of merging along with a ton of other threads. Pretty sure this is news worthy of a thread. I am not going to dig up 50 pages of posts that aren't relevant anymore.
