great move now we need favre to leave and before you know its 16.7 million less on next years salary cap
barrett will not be sorely missed, he was a decent corner a few years ago but is not the player that he was and was never the player that this team needs right now. he is not a guy who can play up in a wr face, he is a stand 10 yards off the line guy who drops into a zone. good luck to him but i personally will not miss him.
www.jetsdaily.com Everyone's favorite whipping boy in the secondary, David Barrett, is the first cap casualty of the Rex Ryan era. The move saves almost $4 million dollars and brings the Jets closer to getting under the 2009 cap. More moves are sure to come. Barrett signed in 2004, playing in 69 games with the team (37 starts), playing mostly cornerback. This past season he was phased out in the secondary as he appeared in just 11 games. His lone 2008 highlight was a pick-six against Philip Rivers on his first pass against San Diego in week three. You wonder how Jets fans would remember Barrett had Doug Brien made his second field goal against Pittsburgh in the 2004 AFC Divisional Playoffs. Remember, it was he who intercepted Ben Roethlisberger to give Brien a second chance at a potential game-winning field goal. If that team goes to the AFC Championship (and possibly beyond), Barrett's perception is likely much more positive.
Besides the pick in the 2004 playoffs against the Steelers and the pick-6 against the Chargers this past season, he has been less than spectacular. He will not be missed.
This is a very good point but I think everyone knows we were going to get handed the following week even if we did win. (Still that was the hardest loss I've ever seen.) .. Which probably shows I'm only 20. I can't imagine some of the older guys here.
What money? They are still 12 million over and if Favre retires they will have exactly 1 million to spend on all of their draftees and FAs. If he doesn't, well you figure it out.
He was pretty good the first couple of years with us making a good amount of INT's but his age got up there and he started to get injured. He wasn't a terrible player for us but definately would of been this season.
Thank you. Later today my second Football 101 will be getting posted (I know, it took a week and a half rather than a week), which will once and for all explain to this board the even 2-gapping 3-4. I may also get to the zip 2-gapping 3-4, the 1-gapping 3-4 and the variant that the Chargers use (which is like a 1-gap but is actually closer to a 5-2), but for now it'll be the basic even package.
They will be releasing more players. And just off the top of my head, there are 4-5 players that can restructure. And that is all BEFORE Favre retires. They will easily get well below the cap. For all the possible complaints about Tanny, people should never worry about the cap.
I know Barrett made some good plays now and then, but on the whole he was a liability. He couldn't play corner, and did not make the move to safety with any promise. See ya.
Poteat was alright at safety, though. He's good veteran depth, though I feel he may be a casualty with the regime change despite being cheap.
Who cares what he will save in financial aspects? He would free up a valuable slot immediately available to a REAL football player. I think the rewards of that is more then enough.
only good thing he ever did was that pick to the house on MNF against the chargers haa...then he dropped an easy one later that gm....HES A TRASHBAG glad to free more cap...
