You may need to adjust your idea of what QBs are worth today. Bortles is now worth 18 million a year. That's not an opinion, it's a contractual fact.
2-1. That's a bit surprising. Based on comments I had seen, I expected that the margin would be wider, maybe more like 3-1 or 4-1. I'm glad to see that not as many Jets fans as I thought are willing to take a short cut and forget about the rebuild, and want to see us draft and develop our own QB who can be here long term.
When I hallucinate our SB appearance, Kirk is not behind center. Unfortunately, Jonathan E is, and we're facing Tokyo.
Look, the Jets have been looking for a true long term Franchise QB forever, why not sign Cousins and draft Mayfield? Rookie contracts are slotted, so it's not like they can't afford both. Cousins is 30, in five years he's either going to be on the down side of his career and the Jets are going to have a 25 or so year old QB ready to go, either way it opens up all kinds of options in case one of them fails, or even if both succeed.
You can't sign Cousins and then waste the 6th pick on someone that, if all goes well, will not play a single down throughout the course of his first contract. There will be immediate impact players available... you have to take one.
I completely disagree. For one, who says your wasting it, who says he's sitting for 5 years, and even if he did, but ended up developing into a legit franchise QB, do you know what that's worth? Either to the team on the field or draft capital? How many Darren Lee's have the Jets drafted early to be an "IMPACT"? How much value and impact have those picks given the Jets? The fact is that there are no "Immediate Impact players", that are going to put the Jets in the Super Bowl this year or most likely next. What I'm talking about is long term, putting the team in a position to compete for a Championship every year for a decade, and that doesn't happen without legit top 10 QB play. First of all Cousins, or whoever else is behind center is going to get the shit kicked out of them for the first couple years with that O-line, you want to through a high draft pick into that? Secondly, the Jets aren't some middle of the road team looking for a few pieces, they are easily bottom 5 in roster talent. So signing Cousins and drafting the best QB at six makes all the sense in the world.
So the jets don’t have a lot of talent and you want to use a high first rounder for the bench? O line needs help. It makes more sense to use that pick on the o line. If cousins does not work out for some strange reason odds are we will be high in the draft again. That’s when you take his replacement. Right now,every addition should be for helping the starting qb, not hedging against him.
LMAO, yea let’s draft a QB that won’t see the field for the life of his rookie contract instead of using that high pick to support the QB we just gave the highest ever contract to. Makes a ton of sense.
One pick isn't changing the fate of that o-line, and even if that pick pans out, it's not changing the fate of the O-line this year. I simply believe that in today's NFL , without a top ten QB, you aren't doing much, and you certainty aren't doing it consistently. The stats back that up, and how much impact did the those high pick safeties give the Jets last year, how many wins did they bring the Jets? There are far worse things than a team having two quality starting caliber QB's on the roster, that's not hedging against one or the other, it's called insurance. Do you think the Eagles regretted having Foles on their roster this year? Also, just because you start with them doesn't mean you have to have them both on the roster indefinitely. You can disagree all you like, this is just my opinion, but I believe in today's NFL, if you don't don't have the QB position thoroughly covered, then it really doesn't matter what else you have.
That's fine, with all the success the Jets have had at identifying and finding Franchise QB's in the past, I'm sure they'll get it done with one player.
I'm sure they'd get it done in two as well... while spending a boatload of money and the 6th overall pick within two months of each other.
What has the Jets money gotten Jet fans in the last 50 years? Disagree all you like but it's a rare opportunity for a Team to be in a position to sign a top 10 QB, going into what should be the prime of his career, and also be in a position to draft the top 3 or 4 QB prospect in the draft to control at reasonable money for the next 5 years. There are no guarantees it will work, but I'd rather my team put the risk at the most risk in the most important position on the team rather than say, use two consecutive high picks on Safeties, or and under sized LB that can't even cover RB's on check downs.
You don't have to agree with me, I won't lose any sleep over it. Especially since you're probably a guy that thought drafting a Safety in the top ten was a brilliant move, only to follow up that genius with another more brilliant move by taking yet another safety directly after that.
