come on you cant be serious about half assin hes a pro and hes also not a center and never was good at it. i would have liked to keep him at least one more yr to help the younger guys along.
They way they handled this situation will be in the minds of other F/A in the future that want to come to the team as well as our own players that have to be signed. Im sure the Kerry Rhodes Camp was watching this debacle closely.
No he isn't. He will get paid, and he knows it. Are people going to seriously start comparing Kerry Rhodes to PETE KENDALL?!?! This site has lost its collective mind.
What choice did they have Kendall negotiated like a nazzi. We can't have players hitting up the team for $$ at will. The are making the best of a bad situation. At least we got some value for him.
OK, so last year Kendall renegotiated his contract, a contract that put over $5,000,000 in his pocket. As part of that deal, he was to make $1,700,000 this year. HE claims the Jets promised him that they would give him a raise this year. I don't buy into that for one second. They may have said they would look at it, but promised him a raise? BULLSHIT. So, he calls the HC a liar, bashed the organization in the press every day, refuses to stand with his team mates on the field, and it's Tannenbaum and Mangini's fault? Please. This os not new behavior by Kendall. He did it in Seattle, then Arizona, and now here, but it's the Jets who are at fault. :rofl2:
Im saying other players will watch the way the Jets Front office handled the Kendall and Revis situation. Tanny and Mangini are a little arrogant to have won nothing.
You really think we would be willing to babysit our youngsters while being disgruntled? If anything, he would probably convince the young guys to get out of here when you can....
And what did they learn? My guess they learned that if you go to the media airing your dirty laundry they will let you hang. They've been saying it all along but nobody has been listening; they are going to do what is best for the NYJs. If they couldn't get a good value pick for Kendall he would be sitting here all year. They made this move because all things considered it was the best move for the team at this time. If Rhodes has another good year they will start negotiations with him next year. I don't buy this idea how somehow this makes the team look bad, quite the contrary in my opinion. They will always do what is right for the team...
An NFL job is an NFL Job.....Players will recognize that an NFL team is approaching them and will gladly accept whatever in order to live their dream. Besides this is NY we are talking about...You play real well and you set yourself up for millions upon millions of dollars based on advertisements. Look at Tiki Barber, Jeremy Shockey, Johnathan Vilma........Hell look at Eli and hes done nothing major thus far.
He's played center before...i think when Mawae went down...he wasn't the best @ the position but he didnt mess up that bad IMO
And players will always do what's best for them. As mean as Parcells was his players loved him and showed loyalty. I don't disagree with what they did with Kendall I disagree with how they went about doing it.
I dont agree with the original premise of this post. I think both sides handled this situation poorly. The only thing left to do was trade him -- he was going to be locker room poison and a constant source or bitching that would feed Cimini and other vultures. However, I think Jets fans have to acknowledge that the Jets lost an important piece of the team when Kendall left (which in reality was several months ago). He is a good, experienced offensive lineman who will be difficult to replace. If better guards were out there and available the Redskins would have probably gone after them. Whoever the Jets replace him with will not be as solid unless the Jets get really lucky. *If Clarke were the answer then Bender wouldnt be getting 1st team reps. *If Bender wins the job it would be unreasonable to expect him to play at the same level as Kendall. *If the Jets trade for someone it will probably be for a guard of less ability, etc. than Kendall unless they are willing to give up more than they got for Kendall. * If the Jets sign someone else's cut I think it would be unreasonable to assume that they would be as good as Kendall. Losing Kendall is not the end of the world. Its not the difference between making or not making the play offs. But, just because as Jets fans, we dont like the way Kendall handled things doesn't mean losing him wont set the offense back at least a little.
You're joking, right? The Jets got trade value for an aging guard who is a known lockerroom lawyer. A guy they picked up in FA and didn't even have to pay an initial signing bonus to. Is Kendall experienced? Yes. He's also a malcontent and not likely to put forth much effort for a team he's unhappy with. The fact that we even found a trading partner for him this late in the offseason is astounding in itself, considering all of the press.
How exactly are they arrogant? Tannenbaum managed to get his 6th year, albeit with some fair concessions, in the Revis situation. It must not have been that hard a sticking point after all. Mangini had nothing at all to do with the Revis situation except to say that other guys were out there proving themselves while Revis was sitting home. Tanny traded Kendall for a decent draft pick, rather than simply release him and allow him to play for DIVISIONAL RIVAL Miami. Mangini had nothing to do with the Kendall situation either, unless you honestly believe he is the one who assigned Pete to the rookie dorms. (But then why would Pete have been so amicable with EM on his way out the door?) There's no arrogance here. I don't know people are thinking. Maybe it's all the doom and gloom associated with Jets fandom. Maybe it's the 68 Pete Kendall threads finally getting to people. I don't know. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that we have a front office who is actually taking care of the TEAM first, rather than the individual. This is a night and day turnaround from the way they've conducted business over the past few regimes (excluding Parcells.)
Yeah...Rookie guards NEVER start in the NFL, and IT;s horrible to have gotten an Inch Taller, 24 lbs heavier and 12 years younger
I guess you didn't watch any Jets games in 2005. In the first two games Kendall played center, there were 5 fumbles on snap exchanges. He didn't know who he was supposed to block, never mind making the blocking assignment play calls. Kendall became a cancer. No team redoes a contract in the second year of a four year deal with a 34 year old lineman.... EVER.
