I doubt we pursue both LB's. Which one would you rather have in our team to add depth and tutor our young players. I think we must have one of both next year as this is a position of need for us.
at this point I'm guessing we'll go into the season with Pace an an OLB drafted in rd 1 or 2 as starters, B. Thomas as a back-up and Westerman as a reserve. If Gholston steps up (haha) or if A. Thomas gets cut (likely on final cuts) I'm guessing we let B. Thomas go (trade?) and the 4th roster spot goes to one of them.
Gholston and I believe we will draft at least one DE/OLB this april! Why not? he will get cut by the pats because of his contract and I bet he will be glad to play for rex again and play the pats twice a year! Oh I forgot the jets I have a great chance to be a killer team too!
Don't you think that in Rex's system we need more than 4 OLB, I am thinking depth is extremely important in this position to rotate and confuse defenses with different blitz packages!
B Thomas isnt gonna be a backup for us. Odds are well draft an OLB in middle rounds and at best rotate them in so they get used to our system and have a chance to learn from the vets on the team. And id rather A Thomas over Taylor. Hes younger used to rex and will fit in our system better. Although id totally be behind signing Taylor if we put him on the end in the trenches and then added Thomas.
I would think four is more than sufficient, especially with the Jets running some mix of 4-3 and 3-4.
If Thomas ever gets cut, I don't care if we sign Taylor and draft a LB, I want him here. Obviously that means I'll take Thomas over Taylor if I had to choose.
This... we can confuse teams by having the same OLB doing different things... it's not that 1 OLB only knows 1 kind of play . I prefer to have more depth on the DL (7 guys) where injuries and age are more of a worry. In a perfect world we have 7 DL, 8 LB, 10 DB. That's 25 guys.
Both. Although i hate Taylor and really don't want him i know it will help us get to the QB without blitzing. Then in the draft i want us to get another monster rusher to groom for next season which i'm sure would be Taylors last. Thomas, as has been stated, excelled in Rex's offense in Baltimore and i'm sure with all the talent the Jets have it will motivate him to elevate his play, especially against the Pats twice a year.
I would much rather draft a pass-rusher in the first or second round than sign an older player with not much left in the tank to a big contract... A tutor for Gholston?? He backed-up Calvin Pace and Bryan Thomas, two experienced 3-4 OLBs. His coaches are defensive geniuses such as Rex Ryan and Mike Pettine.. These guys helped make undrafted free agents Bart Scott and Adalius Thomas into stars... There is NO WAY we need someone else to try and save this guy. He'd better put up big this year or in camp or he's gonna be out fast. Personally, I wouldn't be too upset if they cut him loose now barring the cap hit and what not...
haha sorry about that still kind of hungover from last night. english is not my mother tongue too so i tend to make dumb mistakes sometimes.
AT no question. He was a stud under Ryan and he probably still has enough left to make a big impact here. And then there's the whole part about him not hating the fans and team...
I'd rather have Thomas, and I think the Jets fans could deal with him a lot better than Taylor. I'd take Taylor if we couldn't get Thomas, but I don't know if the timing will work out for us to wait until Belichick cuts him (if he does at all). http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/21705/thomas-mystified-by-patriots-rift Adalius Thomas remains confused about his status with the New England Patriots. Scant few observers believe he will play another down for the Patriots, yet the outside linebacker remains on the roster and rather bamboozled about how everything turned out so poorly after he signed a five-year, $35 million contract on the first day of free agency 2007. Boston Globe reporter Shalise Manza-Young traveled to Hattiesburg, Miss., to catch up with Thomas and talk about his peculiar stay with the Patriots and his fractured relationship with coach Bill Belichick. The story rehashes Thomas' broken forearm and subsequent rehab, his one-game suspension along with teammates Randy Moss, Derrick Burgess and Gary Guyton for showing up late to a team meeting on a treacherous winter day when the roads were clogged and a meeting last summer in which he was told his role would change because he was "not a good pass-rusher." "I look at it like this: There are only six [active] outside linebackers with 50-plus sacks. I'm one of them," Thomas told Manza-Young. "To say after the injury that, 'OK, you're not a good enough pass-rusher,' I just can't ... I can't buy that. I'm not saying I'm the best in the world or anything like that, but ..." Thomas raises an intriguing point when he revisits the game for which he was benched for a poor performance the week before. Belichick scratched him for the Week 6 game against the Tennessee Titans, three weeks after he was given a game ball for a victory over the Atlanta Falcons. "I know a lot of people that had more than one bad game," Thomas said. "It was shocking. That was like a turn." If the Patriots do cut Thomas, then you have to figure there's a good chance he winds up with the New York Jets. He earned that monster contract for the Patriots for the way he thrived with the Baltimore Ravens, where Jets head coach Rex Ryan was a defensive mastermind. As for the possibility he has played his final game for New England, Thomas replied, "I wish I really knew. And that's the honest-to-God truth. The only person that knows that would be Bill. I don't have a clue what's going to happen, what their plans are. So it's kind of uncertain. It's uncomfortable, too, because you don't really know where you're going to be. "I've had a great time. If this is the end, I've enjoyed myself. The fans have been great. It was fun playing there. If it's not, I'm fine with coming back."
