From Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column on cnnsi.com: "After three days of free agency, I have one word for you. It's the same word I use every year for this weekend, when, say, a non-Pro Bowler coming off a two-sack season and an ACL surgery (Tommy Kelly, Oakland) gets a big contract because of free agency, as do a pair of pockmarked defensive tackles (Kris Jenkins, Jets; Shaun Rogers, Cleveland) from teams that start thinking such players are different than their former teams saw. "Wow!" Jackass!
In our situation it IS different. Jenkins is going to a compleetely different scheme which he maybe better suited for...and he obviously needed a change of environment from a HC he did not see eye to eye w/.
Yet that fat slob didn't seem to have much of a problem when the Pats thought Moss would be different than he was in Oakland, oh yeah with the Pats they can do no wrong, with other teams especially the Jets its always wrong. By the way Peter King is a sox fan, so his love for the Pats should be no surprise to anyone.
In fairness, he goes on to say in the same column that last year the Pats used a lot of money to get Welker and Adalius Thomas. Welker was great but Thomas did not excel like he was expected to, so "buyer beware"...
I think my first reaction to Kris Jenkins with the Jets was that this is a guy who has had back problems, whom the Panthers have been unhappy with because he's been overweight and out of shape. I didn't like the move. But I talked to one general manager, one cap guy and one head coach in the NFC South, who over the past two years have had to deal with playing Jenkins, and all three said that they didn't think, in this market, that it was an outrageous signing. I still have some skepticism about Jenkins staying healthy and making the change from the 4-3 to the 3-4 as the nose man, but I'll reserve judgment on this one. Everyone knows Peter King is a Patriots homer. The interesting part of the column was this tidbit. Most guys in the NFC South seem to think it's a good deal, it's just Peter King that wants to put a bad spin on it. I love the last sentence about "reserving judgment" despite saying it's a dumb move.
King makes it sound like any player traded was judged correctly by their former team..which is absurd. What he doesnt say is that you have to take a risk sometimes. If you have the money, what the hell do expect to do..draft a dt and hope it works? So now you sit there and have this new rookie dt and 47 million in cap space. Of course Jenkins was overpaid. He still fits the bill. When you have the money you go out and get good players and pay them great sums if the market says you have too. Big deal.
We could have removed all risk and doubt if we just assumed his old contract with 2yr remaining at about 3.5M/yr. We could have evaluated him for a year and if was no good we could cut him with NO cap implication. The decison to redo his contract and give him 20M guaranteed is what makes it suspect.
Well, like I've said since he got here - Mangini's Career could hinge on getting that 3-4 NT.... At some point they needed to swing for the fences on one.... What were or have been better options??? And even for a 4-3 Defense DROB needed a big body next to him and his balky knees...
Bingo. Thats the bottom line. Except for some around here that think Mangini should have been more flexible and gone against his philosophy to gear the team with the personal he had, what the hell did anyone want them to do. Draft a DT? Do what they did last year and bring in 5 veteran DE's and hope if you threw enough crap against the wall something would stick? When you have the money you take your chances. Thats the NFL these days.
Peter Kings gotta stop eating those Tom Brady Hoagie's and start working out a little , Fat piece of shit. Jenkins would beat his face in.
What a diok.. PK is such a freakin loser, I am so tired of hearing him rip on the jets just because he and kraft are butt-rangers.... He never has one good thing to say about us. Jenkins has a lot to prove but i think he is going to work out..
Pfft. I've subscribed to SI for years. Peter King has never said one positive word about the JETS that I can recall. I'm surprised he didn't have something negative to spin about us getting Faneca.
Iunno...I kind of agree with him. Jenkins is a good player and what he had to say in the Star Ledger yesterday was encouraging BUT...he just hasn't been the same player he used to be the past couple years. Now he'll be playing arguably the most challenging position to play on the DL in any front. I like the fact that he's talented, relatively young, and I do agree that in this market the deal he got isn't crazy (the market is)...but I'm taking a wait and see approach on this move.
He writes pretty good for a guy who is giving Belacheet a reach around at the same time he is trying to type
And he doesn't even mention Alan Faneca signing because he can't find anything wrong with it. He Blows the pats and Farve. MMQB is not what it used to be. Him and Costas brought dwon Inside the NFL
