I hate it when my own examples are used against me! I have to admit - grudgingly - that you're right. I still want Barkley though!
There's no way the Jets should release Bilal and then sign another vet. He still plays at a very high level, doesn't have that much wear and tear on his body, is a great citizen and Jet. There is also no way that they should sign a vet FA RB instead of drafting one. This is a great class of RBs. Rookie RBs can come in, start day one, and play at a high level, and they're cheap. Why pay a lot more for some vet who isn't even as good as the rookie you could have drafted? The only way the Jets should sign a FA RB is if they plan to keep 4 RBs, and the vet they sign is either a power/short-yardage back or is also a PR/KOR.
I don’t disagree. I rather draft a RB than pay one in FA because of how stacked the draft is. Let’s see what Maccagnan decides to do though because it wouldn’t shock me one way or another Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The only problem with this is that I'm not sure there will be a pass rusher worth taking in the 2nd round unless Harold Landry or Ogbonnia Okoronkwo or some other OLB is rated at the top of the 2nd round. I've seen them projected as 1st rounders and also lower. If they want one of the better RBs like Michel, Guice, Chubb, Penny, or Ronald Jones, then they'll probably have to take them early in the 2nd round, and Michel and one or two of the others could go in the 1st round.
I want to draft a RB...NO FA Jets take Penny with 3rd round pick I think he will fall to third round he hasn't been getting much love When I see lists of best RB Penny doesn't cracked top 5 An excellent special team KR Draft picks 1-QB 2-OL/OLB DEPENDS ON WHO WE SIGN IN FA 3-CB 4-RB 5-ILB 6-BPA 7-BPA 8-BPA
Agree he's been a great jet but he's not great singular talent per se Good solid guy but not like he is all pro 1500 yard workhorse Agree with all else
He was tagged. Still would have passed. Guy wants QB money , said he wouldn't play for $15 mill per year guaranteed. Great back but injury and drug history don't add up to the money he wants.
We can't go into this season with just Powell and McGuire. Powell is not durable and McGuire is a change of pace back. Adding a nice move the chains power back is what is needed. Let's develop our own. Our most pressing need is scoring and this regime keeps drafting like its 1975.
Bell's no longer an option because he's been tagged -- http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-place-franchise-tag-leveon-bell-2nd-year-row -- not sure why Pitt is crying about the 14-15M/yes ask. They rely on Bell a lot and he's the best at his position right now. Maybe it's years or guaranteed money that's holding it up? That leaves the Jets with draft options primarily. And it's a good thing that this year's draft is very deep at RB.
Bilal is a great RB IMO, but he is not a workhorse. He's one of the best in his roles in the league IMO. Very underrated player.
Led the league with runs of 40+ yard runs I believe it was 4, not to mention 2 more were brought back for holding
It is standard NFL business to have as many as 3 quality running backs. Powell and McGuire fit that description. A home run hitter would make sense in this stable, and can be had in the first two rounds in this draft.
Lol i'd be all for taking barkley if we land cousins and he falls to 6 since he is a "special" talent. I actually wanted fournette last year pretty badly. A lot of it depends on landing cousins or not because if we don't our 1st pick needs to be a QB, which rules out barkley. If we can't get barkley though i'd rather look at building the o-line and adding maybe a WR, CB, and pass rusher before thinking about RB.
I disagree on so many levels. 1st off on powell, how is he not durable? he's barely missed any time in his career. a few games (like 5) in his 6 year career. on top of that check out this article https://empirewritesback.com/2018/02/28/new-york-jets-case-bilal-powell-every-back/ here is a snippet Powell is very underrated here and again he can split with maguire now onto maguire. he's young and going into his 2nd season but far from a change of pace guy. he's a hard runner with power and speed. He looks like he can be a split back easily. He's also a guy we drafted so we are developing our own as you want. what has maguire done to make you think he can't be a feature back? it's funny how some here want to draft players then write them off for no good reason and want to draft another now you have the 3rd back, obviously we'll carry one but really 3rd RBs are nothing more then in case of injury. we have langford on the team currently we are also looking at darkwa a guy who ran for 751 yards and 4.4YPC last season. both are more then capable in that 3rd RB role. there are also late round picks (5th or later) and even UDFA we can bring in. The least of my concerns going into the draft is a number 3 RB. RB isn't like QB you don't draft them and let them sit to learn. they start right away. look at fournette, cook, hunt, and kamara last year. 4 rookie RBs who all played great. then there was zeke 2 years ago. We can easily draft a RB in 2019 to start right away with a higher pick, we have more pressing needs.
McGuire look good and then he didn't see the field as much. They kept going back to Forte. Powell has played 16 games twice so I retract that comment. I don't think he can be a workhorse type back for the Jets. Maybe he's getting better as his last two years he's ran for over 700 yards.
He doesn't need to be a workhorse. most teams use a RBBC approach. look at the final 4 teams from last year eagles - had blount and smallwood and clement. smallwood got hurt they traded for ajayi as well and ran blount/ajayi and used clement in the SB to the tune of 100 yards recieving Pats - burkhead, white, lewis Minn - cook went down so it became RBBC with mcciknon, murray, and asiata NO - kamara and ingram both had 1500+ APY in 2017 So essentially for the jets we could easily run a RBBC with powell and maguire. no reason to think powell can't stay healthy doing that. darkwa and langford and maybe a late pick or UDFA can battle for the 3rd spot and we can look to add a better RB in 2019
Too bad Bowles didn’t play McGuire more to see what we had in him. Eeking our a few more meaningless wins and shunning the young players was great.
I just watch video of 10 running backs coming out this year. 4 of them were nice size and exactly what we need. Guise, Michel, Harris and Barkley. But Barkley will be long gone.
Guise could be available in the 3rd, if he is i wouldn't mind it. I just don't want to use one of out top 3 picks on a RB when we have more pressing needs
