With what has gone on in the past two years, I feel that the science to building the Jets under Tangini is to draft "now" players, guys who will excel by week 8 in the system and hopefully make pro-bowls in year 2 and beyond. To do so, they do not stockpile picks, they will trade up and down, solely for need rather than BPA, acquiring their guys (Revis, Harris of last year).. So instead of drafting 8 guys in one year, cutting 3, 2 are career backups, 2 and good players and one is a borderline pro-bowler... They will draft 3-5 players, knowing that at least 2 or 3 will be 12 year starters that may become future HOFs, while filling in holes through Free Agency. This is just my opinion.
Yea i think your right. I think Tannenbaum likes to draft players who are high character, intelligent, able to start relatively soon and have the talent to become a perennial pro bowler. Think Revis and Harris. D'Brick was definitely a mistep but to be fair, it was Tannenbaum's first draft.
D'brick is a work in progress..Everyone and I mean everyone thought Brick was a lock..From draft experts to most every NFL team.There was no mis-step by Tanny..really
You might be right and if you think about it the tactic makes sense in a league where if you do not produce in a year or two you are fired.
This is exacly where they are going. It is a philosophy that will work as long as you you have a good grunt base. The 'grunt base' litmus test is the special teams - which is pretty good for the Jets. However, next year, 2009, with shrinking cap room the draft may play a bigger role for the Jets - hence the conditional pick for Vilma. As an example, the Pats have been very good at stockpiling draft picks. I believe they had 10 picks last year. All except one or two are gone. They built their team around key FA selections. Last year they got caught with 'too many' draft picks.
Not a bad call and so far you seem to be right that we've gone after reasonably sure picks, then tried to uncover some diamonds or projects through the undrafted ranks. I do think they've done a great job exploiting the relatively new trade market and done an excellent job getting quality players in the draft. I'm not so impressed with their succes in the undrafted players department, which is clearly a necessary part of making your propsed methodology work
