The fact of the matter is we won't be good until we improve our passing offense. I think we're currently 32nd in the league there. This isn't baseball where you can just buy up all the talent in the world. If you're going to focus on improving one area of the team, you're going to have to make concessions in another. We've tried the focus on defense thing for 15 years and we've been rewarded with the worst team in football. Enough.
It worked for the Detroit Lions. Gardner is our Matthew Stafford trade and at a far less impactful position than QB
It worked for the Lions because they traded for their franchise QB. We have to pray we find one which we haven't been able to do in my lifetime.
Cmon dude... they packaged in an athletic WR prospect, not a starting qb Not sure what people would expect as compensation in today's NFL. This is a good haul for the JETS (if they don't blow the picks) Glenn obviously prefers more spice in his sauce.... and remembers trading Keyshawn away for 2 picks worked out pretty well
when they traded for Goff he was very much not a franchise QB. The draft picks were the move but ok you wanna bitch go ahead, virtually everyone out there believes the Jets made out big here
On the one hand, I'm all for the trade. I'm on record as having wanted to trade him a full year ago, at least year's trade deadline. On the other hand, I'm not sure how I feel about a GM who goes from handing a guy a contract that makes him the highest paid at his position to shipping him off in a trade after just 7 games. I haven't felt overly great about this new regime and this extreme flip flopping on Sauce doesn't make me feel any better about their ability to get the job done here.
I'm not going to argue the value at all. It was a great call from Mougs to make a bold move. Where I hate it is on the actual field. We have to try to find a QB (which we can never do) and now replace top tier talent with two dart throws, albeit good ones.
Sauce definitely regressed the last 2 years, but was still good. He got a lot of BS DPIs called against him (that one vs KC sticks out). Good teams generally don't get flagged as much by the zebras, so with the Colts at 7-2, it'll be interesting to see if the penalties against Sauce drop.
Glass half full interpretation of this is that Mougey is quick to change his opinions in light of new circumstances/evidence. Much preferable to the Douglas move where he'd scapegoat everyone possible to avoid admitting he screwed up.
This makes it significantly easier for us to acquire a QB we want and surround him with playmakers...
Crazy happy we traded a non-tackling corner who was fading away for 2 firsts. Pretty upset that the team that got robbed was my home town team Colts. Wish it was another team that gave us 2 firsts.
What franchise quarterback? Goff is not that good and Lions are stupid to trade Stafford for Goff and Stafford won a Superbowl
And this is again where I'll bring up the trust in the talent evaluators. Forgive me for not throwing all of my faith into Jets decision makers.
Per NFL "Sauce Gardner has not allowed more than two receptions to a single receiver in a game this season He has forced a tight window on 52.0% of his targets, the highest rate of any player targeted at least 20 times in coverage, per @NextGenStats" A good team traded for him and a bad one traded him away, hmm wonder who could be right. When most of the league can rebuild in a year or 2 apparently we take decades and every time we make a move like this we are "geniuses" and we "fleeced" the competent team while we are the laughing stock of the league. We are on a 20 year rebuild apparently.
Yeah but it's not like you avoid taking a QB because you don't know if your GM is good at picking QBs yet. We have no idea how good or bad an eye Mougey has for QBs. His first draft has been pretty good so far though.
Douglas left the Jets completely devoid of draft picks to try to fill holes at linebacker, edge, safety, guard/center, WR2, WR3 and quarterback. We have what might be a surplus of corners (oh and investments at the position). Like @REVISion said, you have to give up some to get some. And the defense was great for two years with Sauce and friends and got us nowhere near the playoffs.
Goff is an extremely good QB, that's not debatable. Youre basically saying there is only a handful of good and the rest are not good which, no offense, is idiotic. This is a common sport fan trope where they think they can call a guy who's playing at the highest level, better than 90 percent of his peers, not good.
If Goff is an extremely good quarterback then how come he choked against the Redskins in the playoffs at home last year then?
