#s in 90s: Key(62 games): 305 recs, 4108 yds, 13.5 avg, 31 TDs '98 playoffs: 16 recs, 194 yds, 1 TD catch, 1 TD rush Chrebet(75 games): 331 recs, 4148 yds, 12.5 avg., 21 TDs '98 playoffs: 12 recs, 166 yds, 0 TDs I'm sure people will bring up the 3rd down stuff. 1995-1999 for Wayne: 111 3rd down recs, 80 FDs, 10 TDs 1996-1999 for Key: 84 3rd down recs, 76 FDs, 14 TDs Key was better than Wayne, it wasn't very close.
I can't argue with this statement. It plays a little differently if you consider that Chrebet was undrafted, while Johnson was the first pick in the draft, though.
Tom Brady went in rd 6, Bledsoe was 1 overall. We judge them on what they did w/ their opportunities.
Probably will have to agree with Mo Lewis, if we're just talking 90s. He can get forgotten because his best years were with awful teams so he didn't get the recognition, then as the team got better he was slowing down, but that was mostly after the 90s were over. By 1998 and 99 he was still a key to a very good defense. Keyshawn and Chrebet were only here for half the decade, although I'd still put them high on the list, Vinny only the last two years of the 90s. You'd have to put Marvin Jones probably next behind Mo for the same reasons.
the other thing about Key was that he really did change the culture around the Jets. He thought he was the best guy on the field, and he acted like it. Before that, the Jets had a bunch of guys you'd expect to see in a car wash in Lake Ronkonkoma who were just happy to be there.
Mo Lewis was great once Parcells came to town. Aaron Glenn was just great period. Of course Lewis played a much more important position and so his impact was greater overall. Aaron Glenn was a real rarity: a cornerback that you could actually point at as winning games now and then. In their inaugural season the Houston Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys in their opening game. Glenn had a crucial int in that game that swung momentum early on. In week 14 the Texans, suffering through the usual malaise of an expansion team, went into Pittsburgh at 3-9. The Steelers on the way to a division championship got beaten 24-6 that day by the Texans. The Texans did this despite rushing for 37 yards and passing for 33. The stat line is so completely overwhelming that you have to wonder what happened that day. Aaron Glenn took back pick-6's 65 and 70 yards and beat the Steelers almost single-handed. That's what happened. People forget that not only was Glenn one of the best cornerbacks of his day but he also was a good return man and in fact returned kickoffs for the Parcells Jets despite being a pro bowl CB.
I would say this is it, and would therefore go with Lewis, since he wasn't a complete jerk like Johnson.
My vote was for Curtis Martin. Mo Lewis was my choice if just picking from the poll list. However, if you want any type of Jets integrity on a shrine wall, you don't even consider Meshawn. Short stay with the Jets, and a dueche the entire time (as well as the rest of his average NFL career).
At no point in his career was Aaron Glenn "great". he was good to very good at times never close to being great. never a guy that could shut down top WRs or even slow them down. who cares what he did playing for Houston(where he also was not great)? He was an excellent return man, better than he was a corner and when he did pick off a pass(a rarity even though QBs still challenged him) he was a weapon to score at any point. Aaron made just 2 Pro Bowls for the Jets, I'm not one who puts too much stock in PB apps but he also had ZERO all pro selections- not even a 2nd team appearance. good player, vastly overrated by Jet fans.
so we can consider Curtis who played just 2 years for the jets in the 90s but we can't consider Key who played 4 years?
Yes, because Curtis was a special player (any decade) and Key was a dueche (any decade). Namath, Maynard, Klecko, Martin all in the Jets HOF. You could make a case that Mawae, Lewis, and Chrebet may eventually be in. Key will never be in, nor should be. Having him on a Jets legacy shrine would stand out like a sore thumb. That's my opinion anyway..
but Key was the better player btw him and Chrebet- the MUCH better player and this thread is about best Jet of the 90s not most popular.
Good post. For the time period described by the OP, Lewis was overall the best, but while they were with the Jets, Martin and Mawae were the two best players on the team.
Curtis Martin and Mo Lewis were choir boys? They were my choices. Meshawn was a team second guy, never lived up to his draft selection, and was a baby. We're not awarding biggest dueche in Jets history either. If you want to hold a candle for him fine....but don't suggest him for a man cave shrine.
He definitely lived up to what we expected when we drafted him and he was LOVED by his teammates. He may have been a loudmouth but he produced. he was just getting started for us, the trade set him and the Jets back though both still had success w/o each other.
Nobody said he's a future hall of famer. But he's a much better player than he gets credit for. A much better player than Chrebet. I would venture to say that one day after many other players get in..that he has a case for the Jets ring of honor. The Jets have not had a better possession receiver since he left.Who else in the 90s was as good a WR as Keyshawn? Rob Moore? Moore could have been a special player if he could've stayed healthy..but he spent too much time in the trainer's room(I consider Toon 80's)
I don't think he'll ever make the ring of honor b/c he only played 4 seasons here. The ROH is already being diluted w/ so many honorees the first 2 seasons.
Probably right, as much as I like Keyshawn. He could have been had he stayed, but it wasn't the case. It's funny when I hear Knick fans go on about Bernard King all these years later, he was a productive Knick for 2+ seasons before getting hurt. I'm a big fan myself, named my St Bernard King, but when people put him on the list with Frazier and Ewing as all-time Knicks it makes me crazy.
