Offseason ideas if we draft defense and get offense in free agency

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  1. NJJets

    NJJets Well-Known Member

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    The sad thing is you can’t even tell who’s actually awful on our team vs just being poorly coached. Just about all of our players regressed this year under Glenn. Are McDonald and Jermaine Johnson really trash now? Is Quincy Williams now just terrible? Has Sherwood’s promise just disappeared in thin air? Brandon Stephens is suddenly awful? I’m not so sure honestly. The sooner we bring in a coach with experience to evaluate the team, the better.
     
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    jcass10 Well-Known Member

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    I think the top four picks will be split amongst offense and defense. Third pick will most likely be the QB, and I think WR will be addressed in the first two rounds as well.

    I think you could throw a dart at the defense and find a position of need. I'm picking the best available defender as often as I can. I don't know that they have one position group on defense that I would even consider average. I don't even know how many individual players on that defense that I would call average lol.

    I think offense has a little bit to work with. This has to be the best offensive line the Jets have fielded in years. They could make an attempt at Linderbaum, but I doubt thats happening. A lot of teams have money. I think they'll bring back Breece one way or another. Garrett, draft pick, Adonai and Metchie feel like a solid group of WRs.

    Its weird to say after one of the most embarrassing seasons I have ever watched, but I feel like this is the best position the Jets have put a rookie QB in since Sanchez.
     
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    NJJets Well-Known Member

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    You’re not wrong about the offense. With a great offensive minded head coach I actually think we’re in great shape as a team overall. While I definitely see areas for player improvement, I see far more evidence of a poorly coached team.
     
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  4. JetFanInPA

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    Malik Willis is probably the best free agent option for a veteran QB who could still take a step forward. If defense is the focus early on, I'd go Willis, a veteran backup and a rookie QB to develop and then take a shot in 2027 if needed.
     
  5. WoodyHarrelson

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    We are in a position where we need so much talent, we can't afford to bank on any of the Qb's falling to 3. We can't trade up, we need every pick. I hear Simpson is Mac Jones 2.0.....so go trade for Mac Jones then.

    I would love to address defense in FA..Quay Walker is one.

    Malik Willis would be great here, no rooki QB is ready on Day 1 anyways but a lot of people will be bidding for him.. Lucky of rus, we have cap space.

    Malik Willis
    Quay Walker
    The DT from Baltimore.

    We may need to make them highest paid at their position lol
     
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  6. Murrell2878

    Murrell2878 Lets go JETS!
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    I'm 100% on board for trading for Mac Jones. Use the 3 pick for Marvel Reese or Caleb Downs, use the 2nd pick on a receiver and a 2Rd on a DB or DL (depending on who we take in the 1st).

    The offense is closer than the defense so using FA and the draft to rebuild the D while adding a veteran QB rather than a rookie is not a bad idea, considering the options available to us with having 3 firsts for 2027 in a draft that's loaded at QB.
     
  7. FloridaMan

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    We can debate this all day, but if the coaching is bad again, it won't matter.
     
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    No coach is winning with this roster and Justin Fields as your QB
     
  9. FloridaMan

    FloridaMan Well-Known Member

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    The roster is bad, but they are playing well below their talent level.
     
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    I guess, so what, they should have won 5 games this year? Probably better they are imploding and starting over..
     
  11. FloridaMan

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    Maybe, but they are getting blown out as if they are a college team. That's an indication that the coaching is really bad.
     
  12. JetsNation06

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    There's no style points for losses or wins in the pros. A loss is a loss whether it's by 1 or 50.
     
  13. REVISion

    REVISion Well-Known Member

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    The Steelers started 4-2 with Fields last year. We started 0-6 with him. Really tired of hearing this as an excuse for Glenn's awful coaching when it's so easily disproven by just looking at last year.

    It's impossible to defend Glenn objectively because we aren't just bad this year, we are historically bad. One of the worst teams in 40 years by combined offensive and defensive DVOA, one of the worst teams in decades by schedule-adjusted point differential. There's just no leg to stand on. Good coaches don't produce seasons like this one.
     
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    This makes zero sense. Point differential is much more predictive of future W-L than simple W-L is. Of course it matters how much you win or lose by. You don't even have to be deep into the numbers, it just intuitively makes sense.
     
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  15. Jonathan_Vilma

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    If you’re losing by 30 every week, it likely means almost no one had a good game. If you’re losing by 7 every week, you probably have a decent amount of players playing well enough to make the game competitive.
     
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  16. JetsNation06

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    No, it makes perfect sense what I said. You just have a hard-on to replace Glenn so abruptly after 1 season because the Jets sucked at the end of the year whenever everyone on the free earth knew they would suck. What you're saying isn't based on merit, it's just your over the top, emotional opinion.

    Why are you acting so shocked by the results? They have the worst QB crew in the league. No coach is winning with the QB's on the Jets roster. Not a one. You act like this team was supposed to be a .500 team when no one had them there going into the season. So stop trying to move the yardsticks and act like that's the case. You're completely wrong.

    If you're so sure that so many problems will be resolved by getting rid of Glenn, you're not only clueless but you're also not a fan of recent Jets history if you think that's the cure.

    Serious question: Name your top 5 candidates to replace Glenn. If you and your band of merry nihilists on here want to crucify the head coach, then surely you have a plan for his successor.

    Who is that successor in your world? If you say Kliff Kingsbury, I rest my case. He's another shill. Stop acting like it's all one guy who the problem is with. This problem is a cancer and it's wayy bigger than Aaron Glenn. Open your eyes.
     
  17. JetsNation06

    JetsNation06 Well-Known Member

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    Guess what? It makes not a bit of difference as I said. An L is an L. There are no moral victories for close losses.

    Furthermore, the Jets have the worst QB room in the NFL. No one in their right mind would expect the Jets to be more than a 4 or 5 win team with their QB room. That's the elephant in the room. Not a first year HC. Gimme a break with this fall guy story.

    If you're so adamant that Glenn is the main problem with this team, then surely you have 5 candidates right off the top that you'd like to replace him with, let's hear them. Otherwise all this grumbling is pointless.
     
  18. JetsNation06

    JetsNation06 Well-Known Member

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    That's just flat out wrong. Jimmy Johnson and Parcells are two glaring examples and they were GREAT coaches.
     
  19. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    You didn’t offer a rebuttal to what I said, you just added cliches. Our players are playing terrible football.

    Klint Kubiak
    Josh McCown
    Mike McCarthy
    Jesse Minter
    Matt Nagy
    Brian Flores

    It’s not hard to find names I’d be interested in. I was ok with Glenn but a lot of this also isn’t revisionist for a lot of folks here. Very little in the Jets fan base wanted the Jets to hire Glenn.

    You also never responded to my rebuttal on you saying “no one gets fired after one year unless they’re banging the owners wife.”
     
  20. Borat

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    This was last century. I don't remember anyone losing this badly recently getting blown out by 21+ points at the end of 1st season and actually regressing rather significantly from previous year to historic level of ineptitude and still succeeding. And if there are is a unicorn here or there, there are just too many examples of failures to make it statistically improbable.

    You a die hard Jets fans like me. I understand you don't want to pull the plug early, but look at the odds. We are setting team and NFL records of ineptitude. The odds are almost non existent to succeed. Why would you want another season of this? I would like to have SOME hope. With Glenn there is none.
     
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