Lazard is a JAG with experience. The Jets just aren’t in a place roster wise to cut him loose. So logically I understand why they’re keeping him just like I can understand the frustration among the fan base. Everybody needs to keep in mind they can’t fix every position at once.
The Commanders are signing RB Donovan Edwards to the practice squad, per source. Edwards, a standout at Michigan, signed with the Jets as a UDFA. He was released this week, despite leading the NY team in rushing during the preseason. Washington did not have a RB on the PS. Neither do we!
It's a smart choice. Jets are deep at RB. Washington's RB depth chart is a disaster. No idea what their GM is doing there. He could end up getting playing time
I'm telling you! This year is going to be "Student Body right" and "Student Body left" operating right out of the "I"
would have been smarter for US to sign him and trade Breece for something rather than lose him for nothing after this year.
We will never have a GM worse than Douglas. His 6 year stretch here was miserable each and every year. Literally it would be difficult to have worse results if you tried to.
Moogje signed at least 8 of his UDFA’s to the practice squad so far, and kept every draft pick on the 53. A little bias creeping in? Probably yes, but the depth of this roster was (and still is) so awful that it doesn’t matter. If he does that again next year I’ll have a problem with it though. Keeping 8 of your UDFAs in a single year is a whole lot.
Idzik was worse - he couldn’t even hit on the first rounders. He was so bad Woody canned him after only 2 years - that says something.
With Tyler Johnson back on the practice squad looks like we’re going to do that whole “sign him after week one so we don’t have to pay his guaranteed salary“. Which makes our week one receiver room one of the worst I’ve ever seen and I’ve been a Jets fan since the early 90s. I just don’t understand the strategy. Also we can save $1 million? I really hope it’s a trade or signing happening and Tyler Johnson isn’t being stashed so we don’t have to pay him.
We are talking about practice squad. There are actually no UDFAs on active roster at all. We do need to improve depth, and JD left a lot to be desired there. He did hit on some 1st round picks and top of the second (where we always ended up picking since the team sucked every year he was here), but very little to show beyond that. That does impact roster depth. Mooge needs to prove he can do better in that area. So far the two 5th round picks do not look promising, though there is still time. The good news is there is some hope for Arian Smith and Moore, taken in the 4th. If they develop along with Membou and Mason Taylor becoming really good, that's not a bad draft. I also hope AZ Thomas will be a decent player. He was taken high in the 3d where there were a lot of DL avail. So far he was not great in camp. Let's see how it all plays out. Also having AZ on the roster probably cost us JBC as well, who started to look decent. Very important that AZ develops.
By all accounts AZ was having a very good camp before he got hurt. Where are you getting that he wasn’t good? If we hit on four of these guys that’s a victory. The problem is the strategy was terrible. Completely ignoring positions of need on day three where you can find some gems to focus on depth and those depth guys barely look competent so far. On a better roster they would’ve been cut two days ago.
We need someone better than Tyler Johnson at WR to move the needle. Whether Johnson is on PS, active roster or waived and replaced by one of our PS guys like Skinner or B Smith will make very little difference if any whatsoever. Our WR room is just as weak with or without him. We need another good WR. It's a glaring need and I don't know if Mooge can address it at this point. I am just not sure a 6th round swap will get us a good enough WR for an upgrade and whether he is willing to give more. People don't exactly don't line up to give away #2 caliber WR for very little. This might need to be addressed in next year's draft - if WR class is good. Or we hope A Smith develops. It sucks, but that's where we are at. And Johnson is not making a tad of a difference there.
That one draft was epic. Give him that. But as time passes it does get harder to defend his body of work.
Very true - he did hit on every high pick, and on top of that CB Carter turned out very good and DT Clemons, though not great, is now on active roster with the second regime as well, so you have to count that too. It was a great draft, even though to be fait he had A LOT of high picks there plus other munition used to trade up. Still credit where credit is due. Beyond that it is slim pickings though. Can't feed off one draft for 6 years.
Well we’ve had a long list of turd GMs, but to me, Idzik was the worst of the worst. His team building strategy sucks. His use of draft picks was horrendous (12 picks in one year when you know you can’t keep them all?). He blew picks. He had no business being a GM and was a huge head-scratcher when he was announced as the guy. Mac was also worse…he had plenty of time and just blew on everything….strategy (first round safety anyone?), decisions (pass on a QB for yet another safety, anyone?), just bad bad bad no matter what you look at. The only thing of any value he left was Q, and he’s a DT! Not exactly the most important position on the field, but yes, at least he’s been an all pro. JD also sucked … he had 5 drafts and 5+ years and we ended up just as bad when he left as when he got here…but he at least left us a few pieces. So when you have so many years of bad GMs back to back to back, you are looking at a roster like ours. but to me, Idzik was the absolute worst I’ve ever seen.
I believe John Idzik was THE SINGULAR WORST GM in the history of the NY Jets. The "Idzik 12" had become a running joke for years and I'm not real sure any of them are still in the league wasting roster space.
I love it when random threads devolve into another Idzik vs Macc vs Douglas debate. I swear a “what’s your favorite Fleetwood Mac song” would only take 12 posts to get there. Oh, and it’s Douglas, by a fucking mile (worst GM, not best Fleetwood Mac song)
Perhaps you are right, I read he got beat a few times by likes of Arian Smith and then got hurt, so I am bit down on him, particularly given his speed is slow to begin with. We had bigger need of DL in a very deep draft there, and they still took AZ, since they thought he was absolute steal and might even challenge Stephens. Right now I am not seeing that, but yeah, jury is still out there, he may turn out OK.
