3 yrs ago we had an aged team with bloated contracts. Our only true bright spot was Revis, the best DB in football. Now Idzik is moving to a draft centric model: Avg $/yr Dee Miliner $3,156,250 Sheldon Richardson $2,513,500 Quinten Couples $2,200,699 Calvin Pryor $2,140,813 Mo Wilk $1,717,750 Geno Smith $1,294,901 Jace Amaro $1,073,248 Demario Davis $704,490 Jeremy Kerley $556,063 Snacks $482,333 $15,840,000 Building a 10-player core like above through the draft left Idzik with Cap$ to look to the FA market: Eric Decker $7,250,000 Breno Giacomini $4,500,000 Chris Johnson $4,000,000 Michael Vick $4,000,000 Dimitri Paterson $3,000,000 Chris Ivory $2,000,000 (plus 4th round pic) Willie Colon $2,000,000 Antwan Barnes $1,350,000 Jacoby Ford $740,000 $28,840,000 Plus vet DB to be named during TC cuts Plus vet OL to be named during TC cuts For TGG discussion, are we moving in the right direction? If Cap $ were tight and it was one or the other, would you trade the top10 players above for Revis? How many of our young players can we afford to keep...which ones will still be a Jet in 5 yrs? Thoughts?
You've missed the point majorly. I don't know why I feel like wasting the time and keystrokes, but: The NFL is a business. A multi-million dollar business. Everything is relative to the money that is generated by the product that is put on the field. Jeremy Kerley, although the fraction is small, is a whole lot more of a reason for the Jets revenue than say, Jacoby god damn Ford who has never had a meaningful role on ANY NFL team, let alone the Jets. Jace Amaro has yet to play an NFL down and he's doubled Kerley's salary. Try and relate it to your job, if you have one. Would you be content, three years into your job, making half as much as a guy that has never done the job before when you have done nothing but produce when called upon?
Kerley signed a contract, he agreed to the amount he's making and was happy with it. His payday is coming, but I wouldn't expect him to get a lot more, certainly not multiple millions. To the OP, only time will tell if Idzik's plan pays off. It does make a cheap team, but they have to win to call it a success.
He signed his contract 3 years ago when he first came into the league as what, a 6th round pick? I'm sure he's not going to raise a stink about his contract, but it's absurd. And he's absolutely worth at least 6 times what he's making. Hopefully we are the team to give it to him.
I get Dierking's humor, but in the scheme of the NFL, I think we both know that Kerley deserves more money than he is getting when compared to other players. I'm hoping that JeriKerl gets a contract he deserves early in the season. It won't be a bank breaker, but it should be something that makes him a happy enough man to want to earn more.
Why would I want to help them win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed."--Latrell Sprewell, former NBA player, rejecting a three-year, $21 million contract
Compared to other players who have provided much less to the Jets, no doubt Kerley looks very underpaid. Good observation by Mo96.
The trouble you run into for not rewarding those who clearly outperform their rookie contracts is they may not be considering their home team come free agency. This is reason for extending Mo before he harbors such thoughts and additionally, you can actually save before the market drives up one's price. In this case, they did draft Saunders who can play the slot so there's no real urgency from John's perspective.
Yeah, but I would contend that a serviceable veteran who knows the game can command higher dollar value than an incumbent rookie who could bust. I would compare by using the professional work environment with a kid out of college not knowing contacts or how to proceed other than referencing his books and theories from his professors. The kid may turn out to be a dynamic keeper but an employer doesn't know until he goes through his probationary period, if you will. I think it's a fairer system unlike the previously totally over-inflated rookie scale that was in effect. Do you remember how much Gholston got? It still makes me cringe.
