Would Cro have come back on a 1 year contract? Perhaps he was looking for a longer contract and turned down a one year deal at the same price? As others have said, how much is guaranteed? There are plenty of other factors that played into this yet everyone just sees 1yr/3mill and compares it to what Cro accepted and bashes the deal.
3 million that comes off the books after one year, which will have absolutely 0 impact on our ability to sign players in the future. Some people just crave something to cry about.
First off, IMO, this signing does not in any way,shape, or form negates the fact that the Jets will go corner on the early rounds as like some of you have implied. This is a depth signing for one year that will have to prove his worth in camp. If healthy, he could even start. Second, for all the hate mail as to why we did not offer Cro the same deal, well sure as hell no one knows, specially the media, if we did or did not. I can see 3 scenarios. 1) Cro was not happy with the lower offer from the Jets feeling disrespected and over estimating his present worth, , 2) the Jets believe Cro has lost his closing speed period, injury aside, and considered a liability at this point, or most likely albeit we don't know that either, the timing was wrong when we thought we had an agreement with one of the top free agent CB early on and back fired. So now we have some back up depth as a minimum.
This guy can play the slot or the outside which makes him somewhat more valuable. Cro is strictly a guy who can run with the deep threats and shut down the deep ball and can't play inside. Rex may not have stud high end corners anymore but he needs to coach up the guys he has. There is plenty of depth and some hidden talent that has been held back because of injuries in Patterson and Dowling. Walls showed some nice flashes and Patrick has contributed to an NFL team in. Wilson has been serviceable to OK at times but he has one last chance for him to have the light turn on and he needs to ensure Millner keeps progressing. He should be able to mold these guys together and get enough production out of them to vastly improve the secondary. It's easy to stick Revis out there and go about your business but Rex has to earn it now. The cupboard isn't barren in the secondary. It's time to be finished with guys like Lankster and Trufant.
Tough to make heads or tails of this. On one hand, he has skills. On the other hand he's not played double digit games going on 3 years. Weird stat: of his 8 seasons played, he's only recorded interceptions in 3 of them (1 his 1st season, 4 in 2010, 4 in 2013 [2 vs. Weeden - 1 a deflection]. $3 million for 1 year - makes sense as he's going to turn 31 in June. Draft-wise, not sure what impact it would have should Dennard be the BPA left at #18 (assuming Gilbert's already gone and Fuller goes in the 2nd). Stating the obvious, only hope he can stay healthy. The 'silver lining' in his recent injury report is that it didn't involve a knee (ankle in '12, groin in '13).
If both Cro and Patterson are healthy, Patterson will be much better next year IMO. If Patterson can stay healthy, he has tons more upside for 2014 and it's not even close.
LOL. Upside? The guy is gonna be 31. He's had 8 seasons to prove himself as a player and prove he can stay healthy. You talk about him as if he were a 2nd or 3rd year player previously buried on the depth chart of a stacked team like the Seahawks. If your idea is Cro is over the hill and washed up, Patterson is older.
Cro relies on athleticism, and has pretty bad instincts, mechanics, and intangibles. As you grow older, you deteriorate much faster. Patterson is a lot more fluid to his game, and had a much better season than Cro last year. If Patterson can stay on the field, he will play far better than Cro would have for 2014.
temporarily fills the hole at cb but heard he got injury problems. and if he's going to be the top cb then we're in trouble
Patterson is talented, but saying he can't stay healthy is an incredible understatement. He's played 79 out of a potential 144 games. He's missed 45.2% of his 9 year career with injuries. His games played in seasons, in order from 2005 to 2014 are: 3 13 7 11 16 14 7 2 6 The Jet's just gave 3m (assuming max val, incentive laden, very little guaranteed) to a guy who hasn't played a full season in 5 years, and it happened to be the only full season of his career. He hasn't played double digit games in 4 seasons, and his last 3 seasons combined add up UNDER one full year. It temporarily fills a hole all right.
What a piece of shit signing this was...Idzik is a disgrace. As Cimini points out he is willing to give 3M to this bum who can't stay on the field to save his life over giving 3.5 to Cro who has never missed a game in his career.
He's a good corner when healthy. He has only played in 15 games the past 3 seasons, and has played in all 16 games just once in his 10 year career. Just one of those guys that seems to always be hurt.
The big difference between DP and Cro (to me), is that when he's on the field, DP is a solid corner. When he's not on the field, you only lose the skill arbitrage vs. the next guy up. When Cro is on the field (post injury), he is a liability. There is an important difference there. I'd rather have a good corner that is on the field 50% of the time than a mediocre to bad corner on the field 100% of the time.
