Excellent Article. I certainly hope he stays. The rest of the article along with associated charts can be read here: http://www.nyjetscap.com/edwardsvalue.php
That's a pretty fair article. I like his blocking, and ability to break tackles. He has very good WR2 production, not something you place a tag on. I also disagree with him being a team leader, which the article states. All in all though, i don't think the Jets can or will break the bank for him. Something has to give this year, and i think we will lose one of those WR's.
WR's are the easiest position to replace in the NFL, if we can't bring him back, its not impossible to replace him. My beef here though, is that without Holmes our offense was so much more simpler it seems. We had cotchery running the shorter routes. Dustin Keller was a lot more involved. Braylon was a long man. When Holmes came it definately effected our offense and the stats do show that. We failed to score a first quarter TD for a very long time, Yet week 3 & 4 we did I believe. Our 3 best offensive games came weeks 2, 3, and 4. We had a great flow, when Holmes came everything seem so complicated. The closest game to those other 3 games was probably the Texans game. But that wasn't impressive. We really didn't have another good offensive game till the Patriots game in the playoffs.
I am in favor of anyone getting as much money as they can but he's played for a terrible organization(at the time) and made alot of money, he came here and joined a winning program. Would he take a little less to have fun and keep winning or we he be happier being miserable and collecting a higher check? I want him back, he's been huge for this team and it's nice for a QB to have such a tall target.
It's not hard to find WRs but it is hard ro find WRs like Braylon. It took us 10 years to find a big target like Keyshawn and Braylon not only is a big RZ traget but he has the speed to be a deep threat as well.
Yea I agree, both him and Holmes are very one of a kind players. Holmes especially, their is no other reciever that can do what Holmes does imo. I think finding another Edwards would be easier than find another Holmes but I'd rather have Edwards than Holmes just so we can get Dustin more involved.
See the DUI might have been a god send, because that lowers his value on the market. He has a negative reputation which a lot of teams like to avoid.
hopefully he could accept a 6mil a year deal, and the jets can somewhat frontload it, so it looks attractive.
that article ignores most of the surrounding circumstances ... he had NO qb in cleveland and came to a run first team with a rookie qb its pretty unfair to judge him based on his numbers
did they quantify the fact he seals the outside perfectly almost all the time on run plays? i didnt read the full link version
exactly. Braylon sounded like a leader to me when he had to remind Rex to grow a fucking pair and go for it on 4th the 1st time up in PIT
Sanchez was 9th in passing attempts this year. Braylon is not a elite WR. He could be, but he isn't. And he shouldn't see elite WR money.
oh shit i forgot about that. isnt there a loophole though with a bonus, or something in contracts effecting the salary cap?
