No sign of the Jets doing anything

Just look around this forum, there have been visits scheduled for today and tomorrow.

 

there isnt one. there are so many threads about how the jets havent done anything yet in FA...there are still players left out there! i.e. tully banta-cain, joey porter, chris brown, travis henry...we dont need the big names...the jets FO is all about adding depth. i honestly dont think they are preparing themselves to win a championship this year, i think this is another rebuilding year.

 

yes there meeting bowens today and i think chris brown today and tomarrow.

 

Wow when I was a kid if I got hurt it was rather difficult to cry after shedding that first tear. Yet we have grown adults that are doing nothing but cry for 3 whole days.

This front office does not post their intentions all over the internet. The beat writers hardly know the wheelings and dealings even hours before an announcement is made. This is a complete 360 to the tell them everything herm edwards regime, get used to it.

 

don't you mean complete 180? a 360 puts you right back in the same spot you started.

I've never cared about free agency, until I came to this board -- the whining is far more entertaining than scouring newswires hoping to the see words "Jets" and "signed" in the same sentence.

 

um, i think you should listen to him.

 

LOL how do you type with tissues in both hands? I may run out and get visine stock................. your crying may actually come in handy.

LOL, it would help being a wiseass if I could get my geometry correct.

 

Although I am in no hurry to sign the next big name on the market I do see the point of those who are tired of sitting watching others do all the signing. A few years back when Mr. Ed was coming of his first successful(?) season as our coach we sat here and said the same crap. "Trust in the FO." "I'm sure the new staff knows what they're doing"..."Build through the draft"....ect. We have sat here for years now seemingly watching the same team have the same overall results....WC team with an early PO departure. New CS or not we seem to be using the same approach we have used for quite some time. What do we really know about Mangini and his boys? it was only 1 year. His first year. Last place schedule and so on. This has all been played out before and always with the same results.
I'm for the patient approach as well but just for once it would be nice to target a need. Target a guy. Work him out and sing him. And for those of you who are so quick to jump on those of us who want something diff. for the team than the same ole same ole and tell us "If you don't like it then go follow the Giants" I say screw you. We as a franchise are now the #1 team on the list of years since they last won the SB. I am a fan of no one player. I am a JET fan. I want a Championship.

 

The purpose of free agency is to add players that fit and make sense financially. Nobody has ever won a Super Bowl by adding a big name free agent. The teams that have tried have always paid top dollar and fallen short.

The closest thing to a Super Bowl winning free agent was Reggie White. He signed with the Packers in 1993 and spearheaded their defense to a win finally in 1996.

The players that win Super Bowls are the players a team has drafted who then turned into gamebreakers. Terry Bradshaw, Mike Webster, Franco Harris, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Jack Lambert, Donnie Shell, Joe Montana, Dwight Clark, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, John Elway, Terrell Davis, Tom Brady, Richard Seymour, Tedy Bruschi, these are the guys who win multiple Super Bowls in the NFL.

Right now the Jets don't have any of those guys although Cotchery and Rhodes and Mangold and Ferguson and Thomas maybe have the look of guys who could get there.

 

Dallas and SF did when they signed deon.

 

Dallas was one year removed from a Super Bowl championship, so Deion was hardly the piece that turned that team into a chmapionship team. I suppose you can say Deion was the player that put the 49'ers over the top for one year, but if that is your only example of free agent success in 10 years, you have only negated your position not supported it. that is the anomoly.

 

Everyone has to step back and take a deep breath and remember that we already have the core of our team. All you people who are out there whining about how we aren't doing anything should look at some of the contracts that have been given out and our positions of need. If you look at our team we only have two starters who have moved on. This means that our only two open holes right now are RT and FB. Did you want to give Mughelli or whatever his name is 5 million a year to be our FB!! That is absurd money for any FB much less one that only does one thing. Or did you want to give money to Leonard Davis who is a fat lump who has never done anything in his whole career. Why would we give a contract to a guy who turned one of the best RB's in the league to a complete dud.

What the hell do you people want? Sure, we could have gone after Adalius Thomas. We could have given him all the money and signing bonus and had ourselves a pretty great OLB. However, where would we have gone from there. We would have been forced to lose depth at other positions.

There are plenty of FA's still available so stop crying about who the Pats, 9ers, or Cowboys are signing and focus on what our team actually needs. We don't need some fat ass lump to sit at RT or a 30 year old OLB who will kill our cap for years.

The overall message, settle down.

 

um, because hes right. everyone needs to stop crying.

 

It happens every single offseason here man. Just a big, whining cry-fest for the first week of FA every year, the usernames change but the threads remain the same. Just ride the wave.