The Lawless Jets? The Numbers Don’t Back It Up By KRISTIAN R. DYER The Jets made headlines with the signing of Braylon Edwards, Antonio Cromartie and Santonio Holmes — players with troubled pasts. The news that Edwards was arrested early on Tuesday morning in Manhattan on suspicion of drunken driving seemed to confirm for many that the Jets were and are the bad boys of the league. But is that just a feeling or is it based in fact? In November 2008, defensive end Shaun Ellis was arrested in Whippany, N.J., for possession of marijuana. This past spring, after being traded from San Diego, Cromartie avoided a court date by paying off child-support debt, after the Jets fronted him $500,000. Holmes is sitting out the first four games of the season for a substance-abuse violation. The weekend before last, some Jets engaged in what the league called unprofessional conduct with a television reporter from Mexico, with catcalls and rude comments when she was in the locker room. Combine that with Edwards’s arrest, and it looks like a team that is out of control. No excuses for lawlessness and bad behavior, but let’s put it in perspective. Since 2000, according to research on N.F.L. arrests by The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Jets have had eight players arrested, including Edwards on Tuesday morning. Three stemmed from bar fights and three on charges of drunk driving. Over the same stretch, the Jets’ neighbors in the New Meadowlands Stadium, the Giants, have had 11 players arrested, with seven in just the past two years. This is a Giants franchise often hailed as a model team and noted for its character players. Cincinnati has had 32 arrests over the past 10 years, four times the Jets’ number. The league-wide average for arrests is slightly over 16 per team over the past 10 years, so the Jets are at half the average. There is no correlation between winning and having a lower arrest number. Three of the last four franchises to win the Super Bowl — New Orleans (18 arrests ), Indianapolis (18) and Pittsburgh (16, including two arrests of Holmes and another two by former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress before both players were shipped out of town) — all have numbers equal or above the league average over the last 10 years. And all five of the most recent franchises to lift the Lombardi Trophy, adding the Giants and New England to that list, have had higher arrest counts than the Jets. In short, the Jets are not the first and won’t be the last team to make questionable personnel moves in an effort to win. http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/...-jets-the-numbers-dont-back-it-up/?ref=sports
those numbers are slightly misleading. It really should be tallied since Ryan arrived. In the Mangini era, if anyone even attempted to break a law, they were fined a bazillion dollars and then shipped out of town. Hell look at what he did the Braylon the moment he showed up in cleveland. Braylon was the guy who got fined $1700 for a bottle of water.
If that's the case, then that's the first arrest of a jet on ryan's watch. So i don't see how that proves any point
too be honest the whole article is flawed. First because it obviously doesnt take into account the arrests of the players the jets acquired, because Holmes has been arrested twice, and braylon now at least twice, Cro I don't believe has been arrested. What they would have to do is add up the arrests of the players currently on the roster. Since they didnt do that, this analysis is moot. By doing it since Ryan took over, then you at least can determine the discipline of the team since he took over. By looking at past eras, you just established the Jets have been cleaner than the Bengals over the past decade, whoop-de-doo.
Jesus, did you even read the freaking thing? Why would a players arrest elsewhere have anything to do with the Jets, other than being on their roster? By your logic, if the Jets acquire a player and they had Td's playing for another team, those TD's then become Jets TD's? WTF kind of stupid argument is that?
I guess LT is getting his own statue in the ring of honor or as the greatest jet ever. Yeah baby ! Same with Jason Taylor
