You’re blinded by Jets hatred, I get it, but it’s tiresome. They’re not drafting a player at 4 and planting him on the bench. You’re serious?
So, Brandon Scherff signed for 3 years, 16.5 mil per, while Tomlinson 3 years, 13.3 per. There is a sizable difference (24%), and to be honest I would prefer Tomlinson even for the same price. Same age (Tomlinson a few months younger), coming off very similar Pro Bowl seasons. Brandon was a Pro Bowler before at RG. This is a first season as Pro Bowler for Laken, and at LG. Usually LG is a harder position just because typically better defensive player line up on the left, but there is some adjustment period for the same plays on the right side. Laken also knows the system very well being a 49er, knows MLF very well. The biggest difference though is games played. Laken never missed a game due to injury and played every single snap in last 3 years. Brandon only had 2 first season as fully healthy. He them played 14, 8, 11, 13, 11 games respectively. That includes missing 6 games last year. I think JD really hit the nail on the head with this one.
Best signing JD has made during his tenure IMHO. All we need is Becton to take his conditioning seriously, and put down the Twinkies, and we could have an excellent O-line for our young QB to grow behind.
Left guard between Trent Williams and Alex Mack is not harder than Scherff playing between a second round rookie who got beat like a drum and a revolving door at center. Cmon now. I don’t really think Scherff was the right move either, but I’m not sold on Tomlinson being some magic bullet. He’s a journeyman guard who just got paid after a career year at age 30 in his contract year.
"Career year" in the sense that he made it to the Pro Bowl, but he's been the same player for at least the last three years.
He started his entire career, played for 2 teams total, including last 5 for one team. Performed at very high level last 3 years, playing every snap, culminating with Pro Bowl selection. This is not a definition of journeyman, who typically changes teams a lot, not a career starter, and certainly not a pro bowl level player for last 3 years. Brian Hoyer is a journeyman. Tomlinson is not. Not much of a journey there.
I hear he takes great care of his body, eats a healthy vegan diet, and wants to play until he's 45. Hold on...that may have been a different player...I'll check
Yea forgive me if I don't agree with everything our GMs do. We all know how great a track record we have. I've been blessed in my 37 years to witness so much NY Jets success (been a fan from birth btw). FOH. It's called an opinion. That's what forums are for. Discussion and debate. Learn how to handle differing opinions like an adult. I don't mind the player. I just see a lot of money and picks being invested by our supposed "OL guru" of a GM but our O Line has been sub par. I get that Becton got hurt but even that was inevitable and predictable. If pointing that out makes me "not a fan" then so be it.
So we’ve signed some free agents. Are we winning the division yet or just contending for the playoffs at this point?
I think we are heading in the right direction and if Wilson can take that next step we will be contending for the playoffs. We also have the draft to add more talent so things looking good moving forward
WTF happened to this guy? He is playing like total dog shit every game, and was the worst lineman on the field again yesterday, and this is with CMD and Herbig playing. I am thinking unless something changes, once we get our tackles back, Laken will need to be benched.
