Your logic is flawed. Just because Gailey's offense isn't built around TEs, doesn't mean that it doesn't need one to function at its best. It's common sense to know that the more things the defense needs to worry about stopping, the better it is for an offense. The more unpredictable they can be. Why make things easy on opposing Ds so that they never have to worry about the Jets' TE as a potential weapon? Only a moron would build an offense like that. All too often over the last decade or so, the team's offense has been hurt and opposing Ds helped because they knew the Jets were limited on offense. Either the Jets have had a QB who couldn't throw all the routes effectively (so D secondaries knew they didn't have to worry about covering those routes), the Jets didn't have a WR with deep speed or a QB who could throw long passes accurately and effectively (so Ds didn't have to worry about getting beat deep and could stack the LOS sit on short routes, stop the run and dare the Jets to beat them deep), the Jets didn't have a RB with breakaway speed (so Ds knew they didn't have to worry about a Jets RB taking it to the house from 50+ yards), the Jets didn't have a TE who could beat them up the seam, or if they did, he couldn't block, so when one TE came in opposing Ds knew the Jets were more than likely going to pass and when another came in, they knew that more than likely the Jets were going to run the ball. It's made our offense very predictable. Even now, opposing Ds know that Fitz can't consistently throw the deep ball, the Jets don't have a TE who can both block effectively and catch the ball (unless ASJ works out and changes that), still don't have a RB with blazing speed, and now our best WRs over the middle are banged up. Every D is built to stop certain things that an offense tries to do, but it has certain inherent weaknesses or flaws that an offense can take advantage of. In game planning opposing DCs seek to take away certain aspects of their opponents' offense. Some OCs are smart. When they see what the opposing D is taking away from them in that game, they seek to explore the weakness or take what that D gives them. Others are stubborn. They keep trying to do what they want to do whether it's working or not, and they never change. An offense that has a great deal of flexibility and can make a D pay for certain formations, is the best. Since when do professional teams settle for OK or pretty good? Unless they're totally incompetent, they keep seeking to improve, to find new ways to give themselves an edge, to add more weapons, more speed, and more versatility. With the sorry TE corps that we have, Mac would have had to have been arrogant and complacent (or blind to that weakness or have already given up on this team) to not try to improve the TE position, the offense and the team by adding ASJ. Our offense unstoppable? Sorry, but that's just laughable. Did they have the best offense last season that they've had in a long time? Undoubtedly, but to say that they were unstoppable is ridiculous. If they were unstoppable, the Jets would have had more than 10 victories and would have been in the playoffs, if not the SB. Henderson and B. Marshall weren't with the team when Aboushi or Richardson slipped. Those happened basically on the old regime's watch. Bowles and Mac were just coming in.
The risk I see is him causing issues, becoming a locker room cancer, fuck up off the field, point fingers on the field. Stuff that could affect our season negatively in a big way. That's the risk I see. The risk (or lack thereof) other people like you see is purely financial. Does anybody really give a shit about cap space at this point? It's irrelevant. He could be making 5 million this year and I wouldn't care. What else would you spend that money on this year? It's not like we need the cap space this season. So I don't care about the financial investment, I'm worried about him fucking up and doing what he has done in Tampa. Walking off the field during a game or practice like an immature punk, cussing around, calling out his coaches, having to apologize publicly, getting popped for DUI. Money wise it's not a risk but let's not act like 30 other teams tried to claim him. Nobody wanted him.
You need to stop talking about B Marshall like this. He has his on field issues, but locker room cancer he is not.
I think Bowles made it pretty clear there's a complete no tolerance policy. If he screws up once, he's out. On top of it there are 0 financial factors to weigh in when deciding whether or not to cut him. Long story short, you're complaining just to complain.
You need to start making your posts longer.....Because nothings better then a 7,000 word message board post.
How do you know for sure nobody wanted him? The Jets were awarded him on waivers but they might not have been the only team to put in a claim right?
Thats not how Waivers works.....It goes by how bad your record is and a team either passes or decides to claim a player.No one is "awarded" anything.
It's not risky...he acts like a punk he gets cut simple as that As far as if other teams claimed him...its possible but I don't care either way. He's on the Jets now and we are one of the only teams with literally no TE threat
I don't really know what's been going on with the kid other than what's going on the last couple of weeks. Since the waiver order is based on last years standings. Jenkins went through 19 other teams before he landed with the Jets. Let's hope that 19 other teams are just stupid and Tony Gonzalez was right when he called Jenkins the next big thing at TE. It was probably all Tampa's fault for making a mess by using him wrong. At the very least we get a TE that can actually block; I give the guys points for that alone.
