Now I've seen everything. I really have seen everything possible that the NFL could offer in this horrible football season. This guy was a LOSER in a JETS uniform. Always hurt, always nicked up ---- and thats for a guy who never played except on Special Teams. A total waste of a good 3rd round draft pick. Now today I read that he is headed to Hawaii to back up Tony Richardson of the Vikings at FB!!!!!!!!! For the first time of my life, I felt genuinely ashamed to tell anyone I was a JET fan. We dont have anyone going out there, yet this clown was chosen as an alternate. This guy did absolutely zero, zilch while he was playing for us. I f--king hated him. Why we drafted him - I had absolutely no idea at the time. Looking back it seems that he was drafted to play special teams ---- F--K YOU BRADWAY!!!!! I will be so happy once this entire 2007 season, playoffs, pro-bowl is over so I can just bury it somewhere like it just never happened.
He didn't even play the last 3 games of the season and he only had 18 catches in the other 13. I don't know, maybe there are just very few fullbacks in the NFL these days? Sounds like the answer to me.
Askew had a very good year leading the way for a surprisingly strong running game, and FB is still an important position for teams trying to build a running game without a great OL; a point sorely missed by our CS. I'll never understand why we prefer pedestrian H-Backs like Kowalewski, who are only okay blockers, and not much of a threat in the passing game, to excellent FBs like Sowell , who can pave the way for the RBs, and need to be accounted for in the passing game coming out of the backfield. It's baffling to me.
It is possible that Pro Bowl voters just checked the TB FB position thinking it was Alstott. After all, the Pro Bowl voters seem to just vote the same people each year who are popular.
How do you F--K YOU Bradway on this one? He picked a furture pro bowl player in the 3rd round. Just bc the Jets CS did not utilize and develop him this is TBs fault?
wewantsapp, why are you blaming Bradway?!! We lost Richie Anderson after the 2002 season, one of our best receiving options at the time. Presumably, BJ was drafted to fill that hole as he was drafted in 2002. If anything, blame the coaching staff for not utilizing what was given to them by the FO.
Because the f--king idiot picked a FB in the 3rd round. I dont think its HIS credit that he picked a player that everyone had projected to go in the 3rd round. We already had Jerald Sowell on the team that year! There were so many other needs at the time & he up and chooses a f--king FB. We needed OL that year. Remember?....The knock on Bradway? He never chose an OL. The fact that Askew made the Pro Bowl is more of a credit to Gruden than anything. And just because Gruden gets credit, doesnt mean its a knock on the CS of the JETS (who are not w/o blame on this -- I agree w/you on that) who missed a "ProBowl" player.
No......we let Richie Anderson go because we knew that Jerald Sowell was ready to play/take over the position ---- which he did. And he had a breakout year.
The key is not having a pedestrian H-back, but a good one. The days of the dominant FB are over. The size of the game has caught up to them and they need to be in the 255-265 range to manage the matchups they get in the blocking schemes. At that weight very few FB's are effective at much else. Put a 270lb 6'3" TE back there and you at least have a right-sized blocker who has some experience catching the ball.
I really don't think Askew really got a chance to do anything, he was never thrown the ball, and never got any carries. People forget he was a RB when we drafted him. We made him a FB.
Obviously they were not sold on Sowell. Actually, Parcells was not sold on him either. Considering the role the Richie Anderson was playing it was an important position for the team. It was a fairly logical pick at the time and now the guy has made the pro-bowl. If anything this is an accomplishment rather than a fault for TB.
What I remember is the following year that OL was the line that blocked for the NFL's leading rusher.
Living in FL, I've seen some BUCS games on the local FOX broadcast, and I recall the announcers raving about Askew's performance this season (mainly as a lead blocker) and how Chucky likes him, on more than one occasion....... maybe Herm not using his potential talent again (Cotchery comes to mind)
Although I like the idea of the H-back, there are very few that are really dual blocking/receiving threats. Chris Cooley comes to mind, but there really aren't a ton of guys with that kind of ability. Give me a versatile 250lb FB any day over a slightly bigger converted TE with stone hands....
Yeah, and we had real depth at OL during that whole time. 2004 season J. Fabini 30 P. Kendall 31 K. Mawae 33 B. Moore 24 K. McKenzie 25 Zero backups. And we know that McKenzie is leaving via free agency after this season because we are not going to pay him. Following year 2005. Fabini --- got hurt halfway through the season, we had to pick up Scott Gragg 33yrs old off the garbage heap. Kendall had to move to center because Mawae got hurt after 6 games Jonathan Goodwin steps in to replace Kendall at G --- oooohhh. I’m shaking. B. Moore played all games again Adrian Jones took Kareem McKenzie’s spot because he left for the Giants and we didn’t have a replacement. Yeah, hats off to Bradway for drafting Askew. And then hats off to Bradway again, because HIS coach Herm didn’t use Askew properly or didn’t even use him at all. Call me crazy, but I could have sworn part of the GM’s job is to discuss personnel w/the HC to see/advise/make sure that the personnel are being utilized correctly. So in retrospect, it looks to me like instead of wasting a pick on a FB which was not a need at the time, maybe we should have taken an OL. Ya think?
