He wasn't good anyway so no loss here. I didn't hate the trade at the time. Low risk move to hope he could have a bounce back year. Oh well.
I've just been scouting around trying to read up a little more on Alex Lewis. It looks like he missed all of 2017 and was pretty mutilated through most of 2018 and he's been doing (to me since I guess I was ignorant of him) surprisingly well so far this season. Maybe he's potentially better than we realize despite the fact that he's already 27 years old.
Yep, that really hurts our OL depth and not to mention Beachum will be out for few weeks too. :/ So, Shell will be the LT and pray for no other injuries there. Btw, how is our OL depth look like now? Harrison, Compton and McDermott and that's it? This means KO will not be back in next season barring a restructure. Another unfortunate thing is that Lewis UFA next season...after a good year, he can ask lot of $$$.
Well yes...protecting our franchise QB's blindside after he played as RT...that will be a tough job for Shell. I just checked our depth...assuming the starting OL is Shell-Lewis-Kalil-Winters-Edoga, the depth is: McDermott, Harrison, Compton. xD
That's really too bad. I also had high hopes for Osemele, but sounds like Alex Lewis has been an upgrade at LG. I know some people don't like PFF, but they did rank him as the #5 OG out of 88 qualifiers over the last two weeks (https://www.rotoworld.com/football/nfl/player/10936/kelechi-osemele). PFF may not be perfect, but that's a good sign. Hopefully he continues to play well and can be the answer at LG going forward as he is still in his prime. What's also encouraging is that Alex Lewis was an acquisition from Joe Douglas, so although very early, it's a bit of positive feedback on a move Douglas has actually made. Looking forward to seeing how he fares going forward.
this helps explain some things 1) helps explain why our O line was struggling 2) helps explain why we got him cheap Would certainly like to know what due diligence Macc did before the trade; after all Raiders were dumping a guy who made pro bowl the year before for a 5/6 round swap. Did Mac have someone truly look at medicals and do a physical or simply hope for the best from a guy with some name recognition?
it would be nice if we can keep lewis and maybe slide him to RG, then release KO and sign him at a cheaper deal and release winters to save money. Edoga looks good at RT so far so letting shell walk will be fine. then we just need to worry about TL and C
that's gotta be the worst group of linemen I've seen the Jets try and play with since the Kotite days, maybe worse than that
The problem is that Mac was banking on this move to work out since he seemed very disinterested in adding more pieces. If Mac took him and then brought in Paradis or Morse I would say he’s doing all he can to fix a bad spot. The year prior he did the same thing bringing Spencer Long and not touching the rest of the offensive line as if it were a already good unit that needed one more piece to become great.
He was playing like crap. Still sucks to hear. But with the way he was performing Cimini was right...he wasn't going to be out there much longer
He can but I would say at this point he wouldn't exactly break the bank. And I'm sure Douglas would do whatever he could to keep him considering he signed him. At this point it's looking like Shell, Kahil, KO are all probably goners. I wouldn't be surprised if Beachum were brought back perhaps for depth purposes. He is better than the current back-ups...ugh.
Correction. According to Over-the-Cap.com, the Jets would clear $11.7 million of the cap by releasing him. There is no dead money hit pre June 1 or post June 1.
Osemele was fine. There was no pre-existing condition. The shoulder injury was new. Where Mac screwed up was bringing in Osemele to play in a zone blocking scheme. Of course, with how little attention or thought Mac gave to the OL, he probably didn't know the difference between a zone and man blocking scheme. He probably thought that all OL could play either scheme.
