I got to see ASJ play in training camp over several days. He was the best receiver the Jets had and it wasn’t close. That being said, it didn’t come to fruition on the field in the reg season. Hate to see him go but he’s as good as gone.
If the Jets were to take Mayfield at the 6; I would certainly entertain picking up his TE buddy Mark Andrews in Round 2. ASJ's production can be replaced.
Sounding like he's going to Seattle; it makes a lot of sense since that's his hometown. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...xtremely-interested-in-signing-with-seahawks/ I hope they can bring Trey Burton in
I'm not so sure that's a good decision for ASJ from a personal, non-football standpoint. I mean playing in your hometown, of course, anyone would want that. And they are a good team. But I remember reading about how when he was struggling with alcoholism it kept coming back to his roots. Old friends and stuff in Washington always drinking, buyin him drinks, the temptation was too much for him. He stayed in NY as much as possible away from it all and it helped him. Now he's gonna sign up to play there?
Trey Burton is not an option, and there's no one else in FA worth signing. The Jets need to pay ASJ $7 million per season or maybe the $8 million that Burton got. We HAVE to spend something like $89-90 million. Having ASJ back is better than going with Tomlinson, Leggett and Gragg and/or having to add a TE in the draft.
since we got money to blow, and likely a young QB we could always grab bennet on a 1 year deal. the pat released him last week. not long term obviously but another solid target for whoever is at QB
The Jets don't have to spend $90 million. The salary floor is 89% of the total salary cap over the four-year time period 2017-2020. The Jets can decide to not spend this year and have two more years to spend that money, and it's looking more and more likely to me that that is what's going to happen. Here are links to a couple of articles that talk about how it's a four-year floor: https://www.patspulpit.com/2017/12/...-biggest-flaw-cap-itself-new-england-patriots http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22659375/nfl-salary-cap-teams-1772-million-2018-season And by the way, there's no penalty for not reaching the floor - the team just has to give that money to the NFLPA. It's obviously better to spend it on an asset rather than on nothing, but it doesn't actually cost you anything if you don't.
That's really interesting. In regards to the part about giving $$ to NFLPA, does that count against the cap or do you preserve your cap room in doing this?
I believe this counts the same as if you spent it on players, so it does count against the cap. Interestingly enough, if you do a bad job of managing this that can actually be a little bit of an issue - if you're too low in the first couple of years of the four-year period and try to make it up in the last two years, you could conceivably be in the position of both paying the amount you're too low (over the four years) and pushing up against the cap (because of newer big money contracts). It's never happened that way, but talk about screwing yourself every which way but loose!
OK, thanks. I was just going on what several other posters had claimed. Still, just going off of this year's cap which is only $104.8 million and assuming the cap will stay constant (which it won't, it will go up), 89% of $104+ million is upwards of $92,560,000 they have to spend over the next four seasons. Is that correct? If so, Mac better get busy soon. If they have to give the money to the NFLPA rather than keep it to spend, that IS a penalty and it DOES cost them something. You are mistaken about that. It's in effect a fine or punishment. It's money that Mac could have used to make the team better and he chose not to.
It's semantics, but I'm not wrong about anything. It's exactly what I said it was, effectively spending money on nothing. And they have three years to spend the money, not four, since 2017 is already gone.
Wow shocked that Burton got 4yr/$32M. Maybe ASJ should get $7M/yr unless he already raised his price.
It's a good point... Joe Caporoso ✔@JCaporoso It sound silly but I wonder how much watching a JAG like Neal Sterling have more receiving yards in any single game than ASJ did in week 17 with Petty influenced their perspective on him being replaceable https://twitter.com/Connor_J_Hughes/status/973968910503604224 … 1:15 PM - Mar 14, 2018 10 See Joe Caporoso's other Tweets
I just read on twitter that the Jets increased their offer to ASJ. I can't confirm this because there no details available yet. I still think 5.5-6m is fair.
They did, per Ralph Vacciano, but he's visiting with the Seahawks today and scheduled to meet with the Jaguars as well, despite the increase in the Jets offer. We probably went up to 2 and 10. He's all but gone, and that's fine. His whopping 350 yards can be replaced.
