The Jets need to bring someone in to play NT or we can write off the season. The latter may happen anyway, but the effort must be made to make a trade. While draft picks would normally not be something that should be given up, they may have to be. Still, perhaps someone on the roster can be traded away for a decent NT, but the Jets just traded Stuckey, who was the best trade bait they had who they could afford to give up. I don't consider Jones to be that easily replaceable. I know he has his detractors here, but as great as Leon is, imo he's not an every down back. I don't talk about Gholston much because I find it too painful, but if some other team wanted him, I make that trade in a heartbeat.
Our draft picks (whichever ones are left) in 2010 NEED to stay intact.....trading them away for a stop-gap NT is sheer lunacy. Tanny needs to get understand that our depth is in the shitter....let's build through the draft. The 2010 draft is a great place to start....with the projected talent pool available.
cleveland would never do that. how much does mangina want gholston? did he change his mind after he inactivated him down the stretch last season?
This regime basically is going to live and die based on what they do this year and next. There's no reason not to make another trade and double-or-nothing in that situation. It goes completely against how I think a good team should be built, but that horse left the barn long ago and then the barn started burning. If it burns to the ground we'll have a new regime in here come January 2011 and be starting over albeit with hopefully a few core players to build around. I think Tannenbaum should go out and make his best deal today to beef the team for the year. It's his job that is on the line, not to mention his entire theory of how you construct a championship caliber team. BTW, my knee-jerk critical reaction to what he has done is being suppressed at this point by the fact that nobody but Parcells has actually managed to put together a great single season Jet's team over the last 20 years. For the Jets at least you can argue that Tannenbaum's solution is no worse than the more traditional builds that Jets management has managed to totally screw up over the years.
If Tanny goes out and trades away the rest of his 2010 draft picks for stop-gap players......this franchise is FUCKED for the present AND the future. That's really the bottom line. I like Tanny...but he better tread carefully with his line of thinking.
I can't speak to other prospects, since I'm usually at games on Saturdays, but Cody is playing better this year than last year. He slimmed down a little bit and he's been in more and has had a bit more stamina so far this year. His individual stats are down, but all you have to do is see the team stats and know his effect. Bama leads the SEC in total defense, rushing defense (by a wide margin), interceptions and sacks. Yes, the team is full of NFL prospects, but Cody is such a disruption in the middle at his size that it causes huge problems. He also comes in as a fullback at the goalline, and I think we're 100% getting a TD on plays where he lines up back there this year. He just mows people over and opens up gigantic holes to run through.
At the moment, given Jenkins loss and our drafting over the last few years (lack-of numbers) and our signing of aging free agents this franchise is fucked for the moment and the future. I think going and trying to recover the moment is not a bad strategy in that situation. I mean, basically we're the Redskins waiting to happen the way things sit right now. I can't think of a worse situation to be in for the long term. The only things that could get worse right now would be a Mangold injury that affects his future (and the present) and mangling Sanchez beyond recognition by continuing to just drift along as the currents gets stronger, as they always do in November for the Jets. If Tannenbaum goes out and makes a move to try to recover the year and gives away picks next year then we're starting over in 2011 regardless of what else happens in the interim. If he doesn't do that? Odds are we're starting over in 2011 regardless of whatever else happens in the interim. He's played a high risk strategy over the last two years. You can't back away from that when it starts to go sour. You need to double of nothing or you're likely fucked. That's just life.
agreed. It would be one thing if the team was 6-0 or 5-1, but the past few weeks have shown there will be some bumps in the road and should bring everyone back to reality. No one they get will be on the level of Jenkins, so unless they somehow scored an absolute STEAL of a trade, a "stop-gap" player would be a bad investment.
I think we have to go with what we have even if we have to adopt a more 4-3 based defense for the rest of the year.
if we were discussing this 2 seasons ago....I would be on board with what you're saying. But next year's draft pool is chock full of potential....the Jets need to take advantage of this. Trading for "band aids"..at the expense of what draft picks we have left in 2010... isn't the answer, IMO.
2 seasons ago I was screaming at Tannenbaum on this board after the Revis tradeup. I screamed after the Keller tradeup. I screamed after the Shonn Greene tradeup. I'm done screaming. I want Tannenbaum to prove out or get out. I'm not interested in watching the same continuum that we've had since Parcells pussed out and left. I want Tannenebaum to prove 30 years of good NFL organizations wrong or I want him gone. Along with Bradway and all the detritus that Woody has accumulated over his near decade of ownership. I don't believe that what Tannenbaum tried to do works, for the reasons we've just seen with the Jenkins injury, but I do want him to have his full shot with it so we can move on cleanly if it fails.
if that's the way you feel.....you should be on board with the stockpiling of draft picks as opposed to trading them away (like in the Jenkins case...although I loved that trade).
