Mo Wilkerson was a first round pick and has done a great job for us under Rex Ryan. This year we lost some DL depth with Ellis and Douzable remains a free agent. If we do nothing Wilkerson, Snacks, Coples, and Demario Davis could all walk as free agents next year. Needless to say our defense will change and we have some tough decisions to make with limited cap space (especially if we want to use some of it to fix the offense). While I would be as happy as any of you if we locked up Mo for $10-11 mil per year it does not seem that it is going to happen. We are not actively shopping him but it is reasonable to expect that we could receive offers from other teams. Assuming that resigning Wilkerson means giving him $14.5 mil per year (there is a reason we haven't extended him yet), how much would it take for you to let another team have him and save the cap space in the process?
Roto projects near 40 mil guaranteed. I want wilk extended but not at a ridiculous price. I can't help but speculate, that since wilk hasn't been extended yet it suggests they are keeping trade options open for him. If he's extended post draft I would lean toward this theory. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Draft picks are ridiculously overpriced right now. As good as Wilkerson is now, I doubt he'd be able to pull in the second pick. Probably could have gotten Tennessee's first rounder before the season started.
Teams hold draft picks dear but there is a reason for that. If we traded him to the Raiders for a high second rounder and were lucky enough to draft an equally good replacement we would only have to pay him about $1 mil or less per year for the next four years. That would leave $13.5 mil per year to fill other needs.
If we have to let Mo walk because we blew our cap space on a couple of 30+ y/o corners on bloated contracts, I'm gonna loose my shit.
We can ride Wilkerson out for another two years including the franchise tag. At that point we'd be losing Cromartie and Harris off the cap as well as a much lower cap number for D'Brickashaw if he's not cut all together. We want to reasonably extend Wilk now but if it were reasonable it'd be a done deal already. We have all the leverage and if he's asking for a bigger contract then he deserves he's essentially in the wrong coming off pretty much his worst year as a pro including an ejection and missing a couple of games to injury along with questions of his motor. That will be the full evaluation point for Coples, Richardson and Wilkerson where we decide which of the three deserves the $14.5 million which looks like Richardson at this point. Given the likelyhood of us taking an edge player at 6 if Mariota's gone Wilkerson suddenly becomes a lot more expendable. If a team is willing to trade a first round pick, Coples moves inside to a more natural spot along with Richardson and Snacks, flanked by what could be a dynamite edge rusher from the draft.
We could also trade our entire team for seventh rounders, and hope that we'll be lucky enough that we'll be able to draft just as good players in return with all of our picks! Then we can put together a team that is about 100 million dollars under the cap! I swear, people that say things like this do not understand how hard it is to draft elite talent, and conveniently ignore how mediocre the Jets drafting has been (especially in the second round) in the past half decade. I wouldn't trade Wilkerson for anything less than a top-5 pick, which would never happen, so the point is moot.
He is worthy of a Top 10 pick imo but the thing that bothers me is if we trade him for a pick, what type of message will that be sending to our homegrown talent? I hope we can find a way to keep our DL intact next 2 years.
I think it largely depends on what's going on with negotiations. If his camp is dead set on a JJ Watt deal then I'm ready to part with him for a 1st rounder. If it seems like we can lock him up for a reasonable figure based on his level of play, which is excellent but not elite, I don't want to trade him. I fear Bradway is right in speculating he wants the Watt deal and that's why he hasn't already been locked up. That's why I believe he could be on the table draft day.
If you give Wilkerson $14.5 mil now you will have to give Richardson $20 mil later or he will consider it an insult. Trading away Wilkerson and giving Richardson $16 mil in a couple years would probably make him happier than keeping Richardson and offering the same $16 mil to Richardson then.
Mark Sanchez, Dee Milliner, Vernon Gholston.....3 first round picks (top 10 I may add) that couldn't hold Wilkerson's jock strap. You don't trade a young elite player to gamble in the first round. The guy hasn't complained at all about his contract, but let's not piss him off and make him want to leave NY. He's going to have a monster year with our talented secondary buying him more time to get to the quarterback, and he will be even more expensive to sign next year.
I think Wilk would take a hometown discount. Woody should just pay Wilk under the table like Kraft does with Brady.
I would be ok with applying the franchise tag to him, this way he can get paid the average of the top DL in the NFL, and it will give the jets an opportunity to sign him long term. But I would not trade him, the draft is an unknown commodity and we have a known with Wilkerson. This is why it bothers me that they gave Revis such a big contract and are penny pinching with Mo.
A bird in your hand is worth two in the bushes. If he's coming under 10M/yr, just pay up and keep him. [My preference would be about 8M/yr or less, but that's me.]
I'd love to keep him for all the obvious reasons (and especially because he's a Jersey kid), but at this point it appears that Sheldon may actually be the better of the two, and if both are looking for that Watt-money I'd rather keep Richardson. I have my doubts about the ability of an NFL team to pursue a championship paying two non-Watt DLs that level of money. With this in mind, I'd be ecstatic if they could pull a top-10 pick for him in this draft. Or any other pick package of considerable value, really. Now is his peak value on the trade market, so while losing him would hurt, the return should be fairly substantial.
