I see you're point, and I'm an advocate of drafting BPA, but I just don't see them drafting a corner when you're two starting corners are pro bowlers and the next guy on your board is a guard which is a position of need. Even if those pro bowlers have contracts coming up. It's not like either are in their mid 30s. Agree to disagree. It could net us Clowney lol. Did not think Tampa would be this bad....hindsight is 20/20.
Not like Ghost did though. With DL set, I would probably fortify LB corps before looking there if I were Idzik, frankly speaking. And I would have a serious look at BVG - if I can find a good replacement for him, I would at the first chance.
"We selected two of our Top Four players on our board,” Idzik said. “Period.” Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...ive-nfl-draft-article-1.1327920#ixzz2hKjvc8bB http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-have-taken-tavon-austin-if-he-was-available/ can't find the back-up to where I saw Warmack, may have been just speculation
I have seen it. The FO said Sheldon was 4th on their board with 2 offensive and 2 defensive players in the Jets top 4. Right there its obvious the two defensive were Milner and Richardosn. It had allegedly been confirmed by one of the beat writers that Cooper was not on the Jets board. Leading speculation that the two offensive pretty much then had to be Austin and Warmack. If the Jets do not trade Revis the 9th pick would then have either been Warmack or Richardson. Very unlikely it would have been Milner. It is also possible the Jets trade back. The FO did say they had offers and they were close but did not pull the trigger on the trade. If they traded back 5-13 spots before Minnesota's 23rd pick there is a good chance that Richardson is still there. That being said trading Revis was a smart move and the only move. The damage to Revis was done with the bad 2010 contract and unreasonable demands we made when we drafted him poisoning future negotiations. By 2013 we had no choice but to move him. I am a big Revis fan but it had to be done and I am happy with the trade. Although I could be a lot happier with Milner. Hopefully that will change once he regains his health. Who knows maybe in a year or two TB may decide not to pay Revis $16 million a year for a CB that our misusing in a zone scheme, cut him and it will be time for him to come home where he belongs at a much more reasonable salary. Assuming we still have Rex.
Is it just me, or does it seem that almost every rookie (like Milliner) who holds out and misses time, ends up having a difficult, injury-addled, first season?
I'll agree to disagree. I do think nobody in the Jets draft room was going to go against the board this year in Idzik's first draft. There's no percentage in doing all the work to put together the value matrix that a draft board is and then breaking from it due to positional need. That's what a mediocre franchise does. A great franchise sticks to their board knowing that if they get the best players available they'll win more games in the long run. I see no chance at all that Sheldon Richardson is a Jet without the Revis deal. Even assuming that the Jets might have passed on Milliner for some reason the board listed above would suggest they'd have gone Warmack on the 9 and then done with the first round. I think Sheldon Richardson has a good chance to be the Jets best 1st round pick of the last decade and I say that with all due respect to Darrelle Revis and Muhammad Wilkerson. Richardson looks special right from the start and it's easy to see him as a completely dominant player in his third season, where Mo Wilk is right now and where Revis was in 2009, if he survives the meatgrinder.
Next season, when the Jets have 10s of $millions to spend on free agents and a ton of draft picks, you won't be missing Revis.
Maybe one of the tackles was the other offensive player? I doubt the Jets had either of the guards in their top 4.
I get the feeling that Tampa will realize its idiotic to pay a corner $16 million per year. Two to four years down the road, a new regime will be in place that asks Revis for a pay cut, and he'll decline. Maybe I'm a very optimistic Jets fan, but I don't think Revis has played his last game as a Jet.
I could see Revis coming back to a strong Jets team that has already won a Super Bowl. He'd be coming back well below market to play for Rex in a defense that showed him off and to get his ring before he retired. He'll have earned upwards of $100M by the time he is 30. Time to go get that ring and play some where he likes playing.
So that means Darrin Walls has almost half of our PDs despite only starting only 2 games. That's pretty impressive by Walls.
Would love to see all the numbers at this point. Rex puts his corners on an island and expects them to hold their own.
Everyone needs to give Milliner a break here. He will be good. Did anyone watch him at Alabama? I like what he has. Just hasn't quite learned the NFL yet. It will click, like it did with Revis.
