I don't think it's devoid of talent, but I do think there's a great drop-off. I wasn't particularly pleased with the likelihood of selecting from Ross and Houston at 25, which is why I love - well, part of why - the Revis pick. I'd suggest that, this year, the unfavorable run in the eyes of many of these teams might be a round or two long. I think the Jets did go for best available player here. They chose the BPA at 14 over the likely BPA at 25, and at 47 they simply selected the BPA, period. If the suggestion is that we're too thin to absorb great injuries without falling apart, I don't think one or two picks in this draft would've solved that. We've got a ton of depth (or at least bodies) at DL and LB, and it seems to me OL is the only place where we're truly thing. But then, it seems everyone is passing up OL help this year. And if we can get a Beekman and Ramirez through some voodoo, then we're in a better position.
Some, but I'm not really worried about that if the talent truly is thin. This explains, somewhat, New England's cheap price for the 28 - they didn't want garbage picks back this year.
For what? That was my point eralier. He's worth more then any picks we could get now for this year's draft.
My biggest complaint with the draft this year is what Tannenbaum said last week. He said the teams that get in trouble are those that make a reach for need in the draft. What did we do today in the first round, made a reach for need. So....
I dont think we reached for Revis. If we can get the same talent he has on 25th, im pretty sure that we would have stayed. After Revis and Hall, the talent for CBs dropped. Aaron Ross taken 20th is not as talented as Revis and Hall
I cant beleive Ryan Khahil is still avialble. I saw him at USC and he reminded me a little of Nick Mangold
A reach is drafting a player too high. Revis was taken at the perfect spot. How's that a reach? Schlegel and Pouha were reaches.
He went on to say that the teams that were most successful were those that let the players come to them. So I assume he meant those that traded up for a specific need which is what we did.
On second thought, we may be able to get picks for a McCareins/ Barrett deal. Tennessee has 2- 4th rd picks and 3- 6th round picks. That combo fills a huge need for Tenn. You have to ask yourself is it worth the gamble...
I just wish we cold get another pick somewhere, Moss has no value so how do we expect McCariens to have any
Francis just got picked...It's looking like we would've been screwed at 63. If we hadn't traded up, Francis's selection would've thrown this board into chaos.
makes me kind of feel better that both Abiamiri and Alama-Francis, the two players I was hoping we'd draft in the second, were both gone before either of the jets' picks.
I'm sure at the time he expected Buffalo or another team to take Revis. When some angel came and knocked Marv Levy on the brain and he took Lynch instead, that seems to me to be the definition of "letting a player come to you". We don't know that everything Tannenbaum said before the draft wasn't a smokescreen. And beyond all of that, you can't hold a statement like that above an executive's head in the face of the dynamic, unexpected events of the actual draft. Revis is not a reach, and I vastly prefer a bold, surgical strategy rather than waiting for the privilege to choose between Chris Houston and Daymieon Hughes.
