I liked Jeff Smith last year. I felt like he wasn't used enough. That puts the Jets WR's at Mims, Davis, Crowder, Berrios, Vyncent Smith, and Jeff Smith. Much better group than recent years. Wonder if they add another free agent or draft a WR? If so, it is a solid group.
I have to laugh at the people who were totally freaking out after the first couple of GM hours of FA. Aside from it being a poor way to build your team, there are still more players being released and available for a trade as a result of the lowered cap. There will be good players floating around. I wonder what the Saints will be doing in the next couple of hours.
I think fans hoping JD builds a SB contender via the 2021 FA (or any year FA) are going to be disappointed. The closest he'll come is the FA after we get to the AFCCG. In THAT FA period he may go all in on a top guy or 2. But not now. Not yet....
Is there a place for Lawrence Cager in the squad still? I was quite high on him, we didn't get to see him too much due to injuries but he could be a good redzone target for us..
Maybe, won’t know until we see how he looks in training camp though. Remember, guys like Jeff Smith or Vyncint Smith are not guaranteed a roster spot just because they sign now
I'm more interested to see what the Rams are going to do to get under the cap, aren't they over by 20-something millions. There's going to be moves made there for sure.
Laugh all you want, but imo it was totally valid. Yes, the draft is the preferable way to build a team since you get the players when they're younger, but with all the holes the Jets have, all the cap space they have, and with all the very good/great 24-27-year old players available in FA this year, Joe Douglas would have to be a moron not to take advantage of this. With all the holes the Jets have, they'd never be able to fill them all via the draft. Douglas would have to trade down from the 1st round every year for the next 2-3 years and hit on every single pick. Even then, he probably wouldn't have a decent QB, and the only topflight players he'd have would be Becton and Q. Williams, unless Mims and maybe Huff, Hall, or John Franklin-Myers turn into topnotch players. The draft isn't the only way to build a team. To say that it is, is flat out ignorant and wrong. Trades and FA are totally valid means of adding players to one's roster.
Truth of the matter is, you have to exploit every avenue to build a winning squad, draft, trade, FA..
Given what @Snatch Catch posted below, it doesn't seem to have worked out that well to build through free agency. Not to mention there were freakouts at 2:15 by people such as yourself when literally like four out of hundreds of free agents were signed. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And in these unusual cap years where no one has any money and teams are getting smarter and looking at the big spenders who end up being big losers, there's a lot more patience to free agency for teams than their used to be. We're seeing teams throughout the league that are bogged down on team building flexibility because they've overpaid massively on players (Eagles, Bears, Lions, Falcons, Cardinals, Cowboys, Texans, etc.). It's not like we don't go through this every year though. Remember all the high fives around here when we signed a linebacker to a record breaking positional contract and a runningback on a two year hiatus to a four year deal that was top 5 per position?
Jacoby Brissett signed by the Dolphins. Does this take them out of the running for Watson, if they ever were in it to begin with.
Draft is where teams are better off selecting their 'ace' players, the expensive ones. QB, LT, Edge, WR1, DB1, etc. Those 5 guys right there will consume over 1/2 your total cap space. The 'other' 45 guys can come from anywhere, as long as they're young, cheap, good attitude, and have upside.
