I agree with you on this. The only free agents worth signing are the ones who come with no compensation attached and are still young and have real talent and upside. Obviously there are not very many of those guys out there each year, if any. Note that the Marshawn Lynch deal in Seattle was a trade for an oft-injured guy who was still young and heading into his prime, lots of upside there. The Seahawks traded a 4th rounder plus a conditional the following year for him. The Chris Ivory deal is similar although I think the mistake the Jets made there was looking at Ivory's potential and ignoring the fact that unlike Lynch he was not a high draft pick who came into the NFL with basically unlimited potential. Ivory got passed through the same process with almost everybody looking away.
hopefully the saints salary cap situation prevents them from franchising jimmy graham and were afforded the opportunity to make a big run at him jimmy graham, ben tate, and jairus byrd would be the ideal FA offseason, imo ... and im pretty sure we could comfortably afford them then go into the draft with the only real needs being WRs, a RT, and a pass rusher (if geno shows enough promise)
The Jets wanted to go offense also. If the Rams don't trade up in front of us, we're looking at a 1. Tavon Austin 1. Sheldon Richardson 2. Geno Smith combo.
Any weapon would of been nice where-ever it be Austin, Eifert or Hopkins. A lot of people here liked Hopkins, I did also.
Where's the Kerley, Austin, and K. Wilson option? Not that it's relevant, we didn't pass over him, he was just selected before us.
JK and Austin would both be "slot guys. Unless you are running 4 wide having 2 slot guys is not an option. But moot point as Austin was snagged. If he wasnt it would have been a precarious pick IMO. I also wanted Hopkins, HUGE upside.
