So we should never make any splashes just because it didnt work out for one team and then just because it may hurt the cap in a few years, just groom a bunch of question mark draft picks and average receivers? Welcome to 8-8 again buddy.
The offense has been the downfall of this team for quite awhile. The defense has been miles ahead of the offense and if management expects Sanchez to improve, they need to get him some more weapons. Not Vincent Jackson type money but Braylon can be had for a lot lower of a price. If they settle with players like Cotchery or Schillens and draft some unproven WR in the 2nd or later rounds, they need to take just as much blame for this teams failure as Sanchez if they fail again this upcoming year. Sanchez is in year 4 now, enough babying the baby.
What are our choices we do not have much cap room? We have enough to sign a safety, maybe a RT or some OL depth , the rookie draft picks, a low budget WR, a back-up QB and maybe one or two other low budget players. Keep in mind we need as much cap room as possible to re-sign Revis before the season starts next year. Otherwise he can walk and we cannot franchise or restrict him in anyway. I don't see the money there to make a big splash and fill our roster. Bot to mention its hard to get value on FA's with everyone bidding. The good players like Nicks are getting 9 million a year. Something we cannot afford. When you have players like Laurent Robinson making 6.5 million per year over 5 years one can see how difficult it is to find good value when people are overpaying that much. It seems to me they are doing the right thing focusing primarily on Safety considering the lower salaries of safety, our need there and the poor safety class in this years draft.
Its not goign to hurt the cap in a few years, its going to kill it today if we try to sign a big name guy. The space is not there. Keller's deal expires after this season. Tying up a big ticket guy for a few years eats into what is available to resign players like him and Shonn Greene. We are trying to patch several holes on a short term basis in FA while heading to the draft. If that is accomplished you can take the BPA without having to draft to fill a hole. Its the Way Tanny operates every year. This year he does not have the cap space to fill the holes with top flight guys and is doign the prudent thing by getting secodn and third teir players, some of whom will be upgrades any way( liek almost any signed aftey). If we were to go your desired path of a big name signing every summer we'd be looking at a perpetual sub .500 team like say, Washinton or Oakland. Spending crazy moeny is not the way to NFL success.
The Jets Stream Mike Tannenbaum remains confident that Bryan Thomas will be ready for Opening Day: "We missed him a lot last year." #nyj about 1 hour ago
