You know it's a good thing you have me on ignore (presumably) because now you don't have to deal with me destroying you on this comment. Apparently ignorance is bliss. Anyway, what was also overlooked when considering your comment was that Wilson was probably the BPA on the Jets big board. He definitely wasn't a pick of need because Revis and Cromartie were the starting cbs at the time.
Wilson was considered a middle round pick in his senior season. He worked his way up into the top 100 prospects in the pre-draft runup and was the third CB in that draft by the time the smoke settled. Everything that had gone wrong with him as a starting CB was already known at the time he was drafted. People specifically said that he had issues getting his head turned around in coverage and that would have to get fixed for him to be a good CB in the NFL. The Jets definitely took him as a reaction to getting beaten by Manning in the AFC Championship Game. They wanted a good young nickelback who might have some upside outside. They never stopped to ask themselves if that was good value with a late 1st round pick.
This site had Wilson ranked at #21 overall http://profootball.scout.com/a.z?s=127&p=9&c=12&nid=83&lnid=124&yr=2010
I didn't think I was being that subtle. I'll be more obvious from now on. BWay, stop making up shit and the revisionist history. _
Can't disagree with this post, although I have seen you justify players due to early draft position ranking before. You should hedge your bets and stop looking at mock drafts from people who don't know shit about football.
Heh. Imo the whole line of analysis that the Jets take a pure BPA approach is nonsense, or that they should. But ftr that extends to my view that the Wilson pick was not pure BPA, either. Sure they had Cro and Revis on the squad at the time, but they were almost certainly looking forward to the next go round of negotiations with Revis and wanted to have some leverage there, as well as a fall back. WHich they would have more of both if Wilson was picked and turned out to be an up and coming Cb who could play man and outside. Even Cro's situation was up in the air, so imo Wilson was not a pure BPA pick.
Ftr I think Brad is on balance a good poster here, but sometimes I wonder what he thinks he is trying to accomplish, and whether he is aware that his cred now and then just flat out disappears. On the latter, I have to think the answer is no, and on the former, it is so inconsistent it is hard to find the logic of it. But he adds more than not.
Wilson was drafted to bolster our secondary. It was the Jets counter to Peyton Manning picking us apart in the AFC Championship game. Rex loves DBs, the more the merrier. In today's league you need a few decent corners. Look at Seattle. Rex wanted 3 CBs with starting potential. Some people keep erroneously thinking of it as a linear thing, like there is a set #1 and #2 corner, and anybody else is less talented. That's not how Rex operates. Sometimes he'll throw in as many as 6 DBs on a single play because QBs these days throw to TEs, FBs, RBs. You need pass coverage. I have no problem spending a late #1 pick on a top nickel CB. Folks don't always realize this but Wilson is one of the big reasons, we beat QBs like Drew Brees and Tom Brady. When we had weaker slot coverage, good QBs exploited it.
Brad adds alot, but sometimes he gets something so incomprehensible stuck in his craw that he feels compelled to scour the internet to find the most remote and imbecilic blog to prop up his idiocy that he ends up looking likke a fool. Most of us don't take ourselves that seriously and we can laugh at our own folly. Not Brad. _
