I really want us to sign Nelson... We need a safety badly, and hoping a rookie can come in and contribute more than he f*cks up is very hopeful. Im not sure about Merriweather though. If he came really cheap, than I could live with him and Smith platooning SS.
We should eventually be doing some addition by addition :up: I think the Jets are feeling out the market and making sure they hit on their free agents. Seeing some numbers the WR are getting, I see why they are holding off currently
i mean i think the FO will make moves to fill in the holes, but if all the good players are signed within the first 48 hrs, only the scrubs are left after, y do we want scrubs on the team??
What the hell is going on? I don't really care about signing a big FA but damn day 2 and all we sign was our kicker back. What the hell is going on?
The Jets appear to be taking a conservative approach. Maybe they are looking to fill their needs via the draft? I'm sure they will make at least 1 or 2 solid, but unsexy FA signings.
we are waiting for some team to release their ball boy, and sign him to a mega deal like Mega-trons! That my friends, will put us over the top!
A friend of mine just said there not spending because there going to sign Manning. He a redskins fan so need I say more. Lol
You guys are spoiled. You are used to those instant signings. Patience seems to be the tone this year. Mike T knows what he's doing, he's the best GM in the league.
He's the best CONTRACT MAKER in the league... not the best GM by a mile. Has to rely on other people too much in terms of talent evalutaion.
If Carlson got 5 a year, I have to belive the Jets brass are saving some of this cap space to give Keller a new deal. He's not going to come cheap.
While probably true to some degree, this isn't really an exploitable weakness in this situation at least. As long as Tanny recognizes your statement as plausible, he can play free agency essentially perfectly by allowing the market to be set and then doing what he's best at anyway which is making the sick contracts with the remaining market. A contract maker doesn't want to set the market THAT much even if he is a good talent evaluator. He gains his value out-negotiating his colleagues, not by beating them to the punch. Don't believe me? What happens when the market gets set on the first guy and it turns out the other guys don't get contracts even approaching that first one? Guess what it was always a risk and when it happens you destroy a lot of the value you find the other times that you actually do get a good guy locked up quickly for a reasonable price. By sitting back and watching at first he just avoids all of these troubling factors and just let's the market come to him.
