Cro is making sure he doesn't get traded by destroying any value he had. If the Jets had any sense, they should have traded him immediately after he made the Pro-bowl. History tells us there was no way in hell he would follow that up with another good season. If there is one thing we know about Cro is that he is consistently inconsistent.
The interesting point about Cromartie to me is he likely weill be a player who will get worse with age. He is such a physical beast and depends so much on his athleticism I wonder how well he will do as he ages. The reverse goes for a guy like Revis who does not depend upon speed or athleticism as much. But in regards to today Pittsburgh feasted on him all day. I applaud him for playing through an injury and hope he gets back to full health quickly. We need the good Cro back not the guy we saw today.
Whats the point of this thread, the guy was hurt, should we attempt to trade every player after a bad game. We know what Cromartie is, a very good player who gets by for the most part by his freakish athletic ability. Would u actually rather Wilson and Milliner starting... i dont think so.
Id honestly try to trade Cromartie before the deadline. Yeah he's injured, but he most likely won't be here next year with his contract for next year, he would have to take a huge pay cut, even of he steps it back up. I would roll with Walls and Milliner for the rest of the season, unless we can trade Cro and maybe a pick to the Cowboys for Morris Claiborne, since they benched him and since he's a bad for for their scheme.
Totally agree. As I've said it before if Milliner gets burnt, at least we can chalk it up to a learning experience. There is no silver lining when it's Cro; it's bad on all fronts.
The Jets are not going to make any tanking moves. If they got blown away by an offer for a veteran player they'd probably look at it hard but they're not going to trade further away from this year in the absence of a great offer. Woody Johnson likes to win games.
And I don't see starting Milliner and Walls as tanking moves. I rather have the rookie or Walls getting burned than Cromartie getting burned. They could even help those two out by changing the defense up a bit and leaving safety's backed up helping the corners.
:rofl: You consider "better than above average" to be contradictory to "great"? Cro takes too much flack. He was playing with pain. Plus that one PI call really should have just been holding. Great plan guys, let's trade Cromartie while his value is at its lowest!
There was a real argument for trading both Revis and Cro this off-season. It was a hard thing to do though because stripping Rex Ryan of his CB's, even in a good cause, was a bad move for overall morale. For everybody saying the Jets should have kept Revis and traded Cro, the Bucs are 0-5. With one of the best secondaries in the NFL. CB is not an impact position unless you can't find anybody who is average to play the position. This year the Jets CB's have been below average and the safeties have been really bad in coverage. Adding Revis to that just means somebody else's guy is torching the Jets all year long.
This is the craziest out stat ever when you consider on any given game this season there was either an un-drafted FA, an at best, average nickel or rookie CB opposite him. Yet QBs choose to attack him.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see a Revis reunion in a year or two, he must be hating it down there in Tampa Bay. Playing in a zone is really limiting his superior man coverage.
Cromartie's problem is that he's hurt. He shouldn't have played sunday.. and Pittsburgh took advantage. Sometimes even if you are good and you know the team needs you - you need to sit if you are hurting the team out there.
thankfully the jets didn't trade cromartie cause wilson has been somewhat of a dud and milliner aint on the field..... geez could u imagine.... if wilson had panned out as hoped for it would have gift wrapped the decision and cromartie would likely not be here, given the right trade.
not really, i chalk this up to scheme in revis' historic 2009 season, he was the most targeted cb in the league and he had a shell of what was once lito sheppard playing across from him
Good point. I guess it's time to roll coverage his way or play it even as we our getting diminishing returns on this approach.
