For what we would have to pay him, as a rebuilding team, it's not worth it. His health was an issue and his hands seemingly got worse as the years went on. No doubt a player with his skillset would be nice in the WCO, but I honestly feel like there will be a TE available in the draft that can semi-fill that void for this year and evolve into what Keller once was for us. Also, the way I think about it is... who cares? If we rebuild the RIGHT way, we are going to be bad for at least two years. Who cares what the Dolphins do? If the way to play second fiddle for the Pats for the next two years like we have for so long, be my guest. It's not about what the Dolphins do because as constructed, they aren't a title team. It's about what we do to make sure in 2-3 years we are good enough to beat the Pats who will probably have a very small window at that point.
We are the 2nd youngest team with a rookie QB heading into his 2nd year, 5 draft picks in the first 3 round, all of our notable FA we signed are long term. You're kidding yourself if you think this is some win now and no plans for the future kind of thing. We're heading into the right direction.
Don't know yet. He hasn't signed yet - they are going to start negotiating once the physical is done. This is a player we could have kept w/o a bidding war. In fact he should have been re-signed last year.
You're kidding yourself if you think you're the only young team in the league. My point is in the NFL, two years is like ten years. We saw Keller drop off big time, Mike Wallace is most likely not going to be the same guy he was in Pitt, hell Sanchez had a pretty good first two years, didn't he? My point is, when you're rebuilding, you don't care about what the Miami Dolphins are doing.
It should be. Tannenbaum's complete mismanagement of the offense was good enough reason to can him. Bringing in Tebow was just the icing on the cake
The bold you just pulled out of your butt because I have no idea how you could possibly think that actually thought that or said so. He had 1 drop off year in the worst possible jets season and with sanchez being horrible, and holmes going down aka horrible offensive talent surrounding him and he missed half of his games due to an injury. Keller has shown no sign of decline over seasons but to have a drop off season this last season was no shocker to ANYONE IN THE LEAGUE when you look at what happen to the jets. Please be logical at looking at keller situation last year. Wallace/Sanchez situations are not similar or worth discussing if you are trying to make such a comparison.
Why is anyone surprised by any of this? We are the NYJets this is what we do. Ever wonder why we havent been to a Super Bowl in 44 years.
There's no way you could have possibly thought I was trying to compare Sanchez and Wallace. Why would you think that, rather than the comparison between your QB heading into year 2 and Sanchez who still looked like an NFL QB in year 2? You are talking statistically with Keller. Did you watch games? First, he couldn't stay healthy. Second, he was dropping balls. It's not all in the numbers. He hasn't been the same Keller since Sanchez' first year.
John Idzik is cleaning house. DeVito left. Greene left. Keller will leave. Landry will leave. Moore will leave. Slausson will leave. Good-bye. The Jets $15.7M in cap space will be slashed by $3M with trading Mevis. $12M cap hit VS $9M. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Good riddance. Ciao.
Oh oh, I know, I know! Is it because we allow mediocre -> slightly above average TE's who want to be paid like top TE's to walk?
64 games straight before pulling a hammy not acting like he's injury prone and I've seen him kill us several time and catch great balls. He's got triple the hands that rookie WR of yours has. He wasn't "Sanchez security blanket" for nothing.
