hightower is one of the few NE players I like. I wish we drafted him in 2012 instead. He is built like a brick shithouse and he creates turnovers. Idk about making him the highest paid MLB in the league though
There is no way that Hightower will sign with the Jets. He's a good player, and the kind of a one we need. But enough on defensive players, line men then cornerbacks and safety's. That's where the Jets should go. The free agent market is poor right now so the draft is the logical way to play things.
There is no way he signs with the Jets, I said that at the beginning of this..he only might have considered it if NE didn't want him back.
its all about the guaranteed amount in NFL contracts...if the Jets offered 4 or 5 million more guaranteed, a player would SERIOUSLY consider that over some extra wins
He's going to re-sign with the Pats for guaranteed money that is all due as a roster bonus the day after the last cut and then Belichik is going to cut him at the last possible minute to warn the rest of the Pats what happens to guys who fuck with Mother Nature.
Surprise! He signed with the Patriots. Don't know what the Patriots put in the coffee of these players but it is difficult at best to compete when players are willing to take less to play for them. Brady is surely one of the greatest QB's to ever play the game, if not the best, although I wonder what Rodgers would have done with Belichick? Anyway, what makes him even more amazing is that he is willing to take less money in order to make sure the Patriots have enough to pay everyone else. Then they drop the other players as soon as they feel they can improve the team and they don't give a shit about these guys and yet they come running back. I give Kraft and Belichick a lot of credit. Kraft seems like a really good guy and Belichick is an asshole who I hate but admire as the best coach in the history of the NFL (Lombardi included). But everyone else is dealing with the greed of the athlete except them.
Did I miss something? I mean I know common sense says he will, but I haven't actually seen it reported anywhere yet.
Kraft is an absolute piece of shit. His own son is suing him over a business deal gone wrong. He left his wife on her death bed to handle the lockout (cause 31 other owners couldn't do it). He hand picked GODell to be commish and pushed for him then spent almost two decades having hsi teams shady behaviour covered up by league office. And Brady doesn't take a pay cut. He owns a large portion of a "health" company that has a massive deal with the team. Every "pay cut" he takes to keep the team competetive gets made up for elsewhere.
I haven't met the minimum replies here to be allowed to copy the article but it is reported on Google by SB Nation. Actually, did any of us really truly believe we were going to get him?
A new member saying Dont'a Hightower signed with the Patriots. It's more probable than not it's a Patriots fan.
No I don't think anyone did actually. Read this whole thread. Reality was very much in play the whole time.
Yup. Apparently "reported on Google but superbowl nation" picked up this scoop before anyone else. I'm guessing he makes a decision this afternoon /evening. Still think it's inevitable he goes back to the gaytriots.
i wouldn't say that, i am sure there are soem fine people somewhere within the organization. i also assume there are so good people doing shitty things because they are being instructed to. But i will not sit quietly while people try to further the innocent choir boy image that Kraft has tried to construct that is proven tiem after time as coempletly false.
There have been no big free agents worth tapping this year because the Jets aren't one or two players away at this point, they're one or two squads (offense, defense) away. Signing a 27-28 year old star just means he'll be 30 and aging out when everybody else is getting up to speed in 2019 or 2020. In a way the Revis signing was the perfect antidote for what ails the Jets. He was the most obvious example of the perfect signing to fill a glaring hole with a veteran star and yet two years later he is toast and we got nothing out of him last year and we're still paying for him this year. That's the proverbial hot stove you hope your kid won't get burned on but if he does, well at least it is a lesson never forgotten.
I think the Jets are really making it a tough contract offer to refuse. Perhaps he wants a new challenge and the Jets have him convinced with their short-term and long-term plans during the rebuild.
I think the more likely scenario is he's deciding whether he wants to play for money or rings. Jets provide one and not the other. Patriots provide a little less of one and a whole lot more of the other.
