Okay folks, its not a hot young QB we need. Its a championship roster we need. Maybe some rebuilding teams can draft a stud and win, but not us. (I'm serious about this - the Jets cant succeed this way. Its just who we are. Do we need to see it run over again?) We need a great team before we draft a high QB. If we do it the other way around we are going to ruin the QB and waste the draft capital. Don't be fooled into thinking we got more talent than we actually do. Most of our roster should be backups to great starters. Especially the linemen on both sides. This draft is core positions - linemen, WRs, LBs, a great TE would be nice. Lets build a championship roster with all the picks so the young QB can come into a good situation. And, hopefully, lets not draft lemons like we have been doing. Hopefully the new guy has a good eye for talent, and a vision for how to do this. We gotta have at least a 75% hit rate in the first two rounds and mine some gold in the later rounds. If we do that - look out! Go Jets.
There are some pieces in place, the offensive line has promise, Taylor looks good, Garrett Wilson IMO is a very good 2. The defense feels like shambles but they have allowed core players to leave or traded them away. That's part of the formula when you're the Jets and you have a new GM every 3 to 5 years. Their first instinct is to build their own team and cast away the players from previous GMs. So you have no continuity, especially when you're also changing HCs at the same rate and are constantly changing personnel needs. Sauce and Quinnen weren't playing to their ability, but they both have elite skills and have displayed it on the field wearing a Jets uniform. Even when the first round picks they've selected weren't abject busts, they always cast them off like plague carriers. You can only build a championship roster with competence and continuity. Maybe they hit on picks they have this year and next but will those players even be here in 5 years?
I would still take a shot on Chambliss if he's there at 44. If he ends up entering the draft I have a feeling his stock is gonna rise like crazy from all these lazy, dated projections that he's a late round pick. He's solidly a 2nd round pick if he comes out and maybe higher. Beyond that, the GM can really add some dynamic weapons at 2, 16, and 33. They can get studs on D and O. If they don't come out of this draft with a Bain and a Surratt who are both impact guys year 1, then they will never, ever learn. No more projects or potential. You need proven commodities out of this draft from the best programs in the country.
I liked Chambliss based on his on-field play, but do you really want a guy who doesn't even want to be in the NFL?
He does seem intent on going back to college for another season. With the chance of the Jets claiming you, I think I'd sue to go back to school as well lol
