Idzik, you rock!!! We got CJ3K and we cut Sanchez. How could you ever beat an offseason like that? Our offense will be legit now.
2 years, 8 million with 1$ million in incentives Kimberley A. Martin @KMart_LI 2m ~~> MT @ProFootballTalk: Chris Johnson's two-year deal has a base value of $8M, w/ another $1M available in incentives based on yardage.
Curtis Martin was a different type of guy, a very special guy. Johnson at his peak was better than Curtis as were many RBs but over time very few had the consistency of Curtis.
more and more its looking like we finally have an offense. No excuse no more to whoever is the starting QB.
I wouldn't be surprised if the details come out by later today. The NFL is kind of at a standstill in terms of news and this is definitely the biggest thing going on. EDIT: lol.
I said I'm happy about the signing but he couldn't have known conclusively that a guy like CJ2k would definitely become available later on and he could actually bring him in for a feasible figure if so. It's still good luck on some level even if he viewed the possibility as a favorable calculated risk while he sat back and did nothing at the start of FA but one of the main points is that as an outside observer we couldn't have known that he would actually step up and make an aggressive move like this later on even if it presented itself. It shows that he is willing to spend if he views the situation favorably and the point I'm making is that's very different than the justification that Br4dw4y and others used over and over again that not signing anybody significant was the only sound way to approach FA because spending money on players that you haven't developed from within is a unilaterally losing strategy. Obviously that looks completely ridiculous now with the subsequent signings and the compulsory flip flops that they've made to their positions as a result of those signings. I never said that I wanted a high profile CB early on. The only time I wanted a CB at all were after the good young safeties and guards were gone, as well as the cheaper chancy WRs and TEs with baggage and even an OLB or two then I thought a play for DRC would've been prudent and that was the only time. Between Decker, Vick, Pace and now Johnson that's well over $40M in contracts and whether you want to hide behind a few of those deals being only one or two years or not that's in no way consistent with the things you said about not spending on FA 100 different times. What makes it even funnier is that the offseason isn't even through yet and he might make another identically high profile signing yet again which would make your whole premise of blind support which you somehow tie into your own actually independent feelings of overreactionary fiscal conservatism look even more ridiculous. Furthermore you jumped on the DeSean Jackson bandwagon when that started to look like a real possibility but of course now that it didn't pan out you just flip flop right back on that one, and calling Chris Johnson not a high profile signing is almost equally laughable.
Manish Mehta @MMehtaNYDN 4m $4M/year in line w/market value RT @ProFootballTalk Per source, Chris Johnson's 2-yr deal base value of $8M (+ $1M incentives based on ydg)
Potential 9M deal..right where it should be for the best RB in FA. Are the Idzik fans now going to say we overpaid?
You should ghost write Idziks hall of fame speech,let's stop acting like he just pulled of the negotiation of a lifetime.He signed an aging RB to a two year deal,should we clear times square for the parade?and give the kids the day off from school.He isn't the same player he was that's why the Titans cut him,I like the move but our RB core wasn't a major hole
When did I do this? I recall posting that it would be a mistake to bring a guy like that into a young locker room and that taking other teams problems off their hands was something that had not benefited the Jets in the past. Maybe you have me confused with somebody else?
Idzik didn't cave in.... Very fair deal for everyone. 4 mill in this RB market isn't bad at all for Johnson.
that's not what he, or anyone, has said and if that is your interpretation it isn't those people you are referring to it isn't them that look silly. you don't like the claim that the solution isn't to spend wildly on any player that is available simply because they play a position of need, and interpret that as not wanting to sign anyone or spend any money. value and flexibility have been the keys to those defending Idzik's strategy, not simply an opposition to spending money on players.
