But Richardson is such a better fit on the Cowboys. He's a beast but a questionable character with off field issues. He's also in a contract year. The Cowboys are notorious for bringing in players like this. Yeah I'm biased toward Wilkerson, but I think he's the wrong dude to trade. In their eyes, Sheldon is a low risk, high reward, whereas with Wilks they'd have to give up more and take on a big salary that's mostly guaranteed for another 2 years hoping that he returns to form. If Sheldon doesn't work out, they simply let him walk and likely wouldn't have lost more than their late 3rd round pick. I still suspect a draft day trade up with Sheldon at some point, but who knows, it may actually work out great with him playing for a contract.
Concerning the Cowboys... if you're considering parting with draft pick(s) for a veteran, do you move them for Sheldon Richardson or Richard Sherman?
The Cowboys could use a solid citizen in the front 7. Somebody they didn't have to worry about failing a drug test or beating his wife. Mo is that guy.
Can't believe this thread went 7 pages. There is no way the Jets are trading Muhammad Wilkerson, even if they wanted to. First they would take a 12 million cap hit ( dead money) if they traded him. source ( OTC) Second what team in their right mind is going to trade for Wilkerson coming off the season he had.( pay that salary. Let's put it this way Ryan Fitzpatrick has a better chance to be the Jets starting Qb, than they aren't going to be able to move Muhammad Wilkerson. Sheldon Richardson is another story, and I expect him to be moved for the best offer possible.
The Jets get $6M in cap relief if Mo is traded. He's got an $18M cap hit this year. More importantly his cap numbers for the acquiring team are $14.75M, $16.75M, $15.25M and $16.25M - which is a more manageable cap figure. It's where we should have been after the deal was struck. Jets should have let Mo hit the market last year, not franchised him, just let him hit the market. He wouldn't have gotten the kind of huge offer that makes him an albatross on our cap until he is released next year.
He is untradeable with his contract and how he played last year..hurt or not doesn't matter..it's a show-me world. Just one more feather in Maccagnan's hat.
He's not un-tradeable. The Jets can get value for him if they look for it. He was never going to bring a 1st round pick plus back anyway, which is why the Jets couldn't trade him last season. He's a good player, not a great one, and good players don't bring huge returns in picks, only great ones do. If this was not true more franchised and tendered players would move in free agency and they never do. A future 1st is a real possibility and a 2nd and a lower or future pick is also very real.
I was all on board with a trade for either guy but I think it was Cimini I read who had a solid point. 2017 is the last year of guaranteed money in Wilkerson's contract, so the Jets can get out after the season prior to march 2018 fairly easy. -2017 is also coincidentally the last year of Richardson's contract. so you let it play out in 2017, the best man gets a contract. You get a chance to see who will motivated even if the team is bad. and lets be honest, we're probably looking for a new head coach in January of 2018 and he might have a different idea/system for a guy like Richardson, who I believe has been playing out of position with Bowles.
The Jets have had a glut of big men since Rex got the chance to put his imprint on the team along about 2011. Richardson got caught in that glut and also by his behavior and he's been a fish out of water for both years of Bowles coaching gig. At this point the Jets should resolve the glut one way or the other and get him back to a productive space on the field, either here or elsewhere. Having him disgruntled in the locker room was bad last year and it will be worse in a down season this year. It's a manageable problem but it needs to be managed to reach that state. Just doing nothing isn't going to fix things, it will just cause more drift in directions the Jets do not want to go. Richardson's career is pretty toasty at this point also and he's got a lot of work to do to get it back where it looked to be headed after 2014 before the suspension. He's not going to get that done shifting around all over the place and making it hard to evaluate his progress (if any) year over year.
