I literally cannot stand or understand your point of view. Since the Jets have a shit Qb, why not just forfeit the season, right? You have no idea what the record would be with decent Cb play. In fact you don't seem to understand the game of football. What point are you even trying to make? How about if Mangold and Ferguson had been cut it wouldn't have made a difference, either, as you define a difference? So why didn't the FO cut them along with Cro?
As far as I'm concerned you're just looking for an easy answer to a lot of problems. Almost every team in the NFL is using back up Dbs due to injuries. I've seen other teams make adjustments on both sides of the ball and deal with injuries or lack of depth at certain positions much better than the Jets. Not re-signing Cro wasn't a bad decision after a poor season when he consistently got beat. He is not a no. 1 cornerback. He isn't with Arizona either. They smartly didn't want to pay elite money to mediocre players. They did offer Vontae Davis and DRC competitive contracts. The fact is: they didn't want to come here. They preferred other teams over Rex.
Really, that is a fact? We know for a fact we got outbid on DRC. As far as Davis, i don't believe our offer was ever known, but its safe to assume it wasn't as much as the Colts. In terms of not wanting to pay elite money for mediocre players......well only Revis, Davis, and Talib got big time money, and they are all earning every bit of it. you wanted to know which of these FA CB's are doing well: Revis, Davis, Verner, Corey Graham, Flowers, DRC, and Cro are all rated in the top 15. can also mention Talib, Grimes, Munnerlyn, Browner.....all making a positive impact. instead we went into the season with a shaky #1 option, and nothing else at all, despite the need and means to address it. injuries suck, and they do happen. But you don't head into a season without quality starters or depth at a position that easily exposed. you cannot hide an entire secondary, so i'm not sure what scheme you'd like to see more of. I've seen just about every coverage formation tried this season, and i've seen them all picked apart by good QB's. What scheme do you think we should be running? The one thing i will agree with you on.....there are certainly other roster problems beyond the secondary. The QB play killed us just as much, and the Oline is not very good for a team who needs to control the LOS to have a shot. While the QB position is difficult to solve in a short period of time, Idzik could have improved the team in other areas to help compensate that short coming. The easiest thing to solve this year was CB, which is why so many people are harping on that.
I am not sure why I bother responding to your posts, they lack any logic, insight or awaremess of the game. Perhaps you were not a Jet fan in 13 and did not follow their games, but everyone who did knew that Cromartie was suffering from injuries, which affected his performance after a great year in 12. Yes there was some concern that those injuries might have been chronic, and the notion that they were was offered here by FO Homers justifying his being cut. Obviously his performance this year in AZ shows they were not chronic. He is not getting beat this year, and is again highly rated. And your saying Cromartie does not play for Arizona confirms you know next to nothing (I am being kind) about football. You can reply to my post, but your ignorance is a more than adequate basis for me to ignore you from now on.
I didn't say Cro doesn't play for Arizona. I said he isn't their number 1 corner. Peterson is. Cro's playing ok so you can say "I told you so." After the fact. If we had Cro our record would be the same.
His father returned to being a DC. I don't get the hyped up visions of RR some folks have. Better coaches than RR have been HC and then reverted to being OC/DCs in their careers. Bill Belicheck anyone?
Big, did you even finish reading the post you replied to? I'm not a binary thinker and I already acknowledged in the post that you quoted, that the Ravens offense offsets their defensive shortcomings. That's why I blame Idzik for the Geno pick, because while its true that the jets secondary is not good, the Ravens secondary is worst than the jets secondary, but the jets don't have the QB to help move the offense, to make up for their defensive shortcomings. Another point to consider is the Ravens defensive philosophy, Ozzie and Harbaugh don't build a defense tha relies on having elite talent at the CB position. They focus primarily on LB, DLinemen and safeties. That could be the reason that rex did not get the job as their HC, because Ozzie was not going to prioritize CB over other defensive positions.
From post 82 on this thread, you said: "The Baltimore Ravens have lost 5 CB this year, they are 9-5 and will probably make the playoffs. If the jets want to have that kind of consistency as a team then they need a GM and a HC who don't build their defense around CBs." That quote to my mind clearly implies you believe there is a connection between the Ravens being 9-5 and a virtually willful effort to downgrade their Cb roster. The net effect of that may well be 9-5, but such net includes their O being top ten, and their run D and also one of the best special teams in the league. In other words they are 9-5 despite having downgraded their Cb's. There is nothing NECESARY about looking elsewhere than Cb on the roster to achieve a winning season. You also mention a focus in Baltimore on safety. That focus has not prevented them from having an awful pass D. Teams need not make a binary choice between having good Cb's and having a winning record. Look to this weekend's opponent, for example, of a team that has invested in their Cb's and is currently probably the best team in the league. I fear we are about to witness that upgrading of their Cb roster as the missing piece that will give them their first SB after they got caught cheating. In short that is why I said you were stating a binary choice. I am not sure why you say the Ravens have a worse secondary than the Jets. Not statistically they don't. As for what "could" have been the reason Ryan did not get the HC job, that is pure speculation on your part, and imo quite a reach.
It isn't that the Ravens didn't prepare at the CB position the fact is like many other teams they were hit with injuries at CB. You can run a reasonable defense esp with the talent the Jets have on the lines, etc. without an elite CB. Sure you'd love to have one. Or two. BB who usually doesn't overpay in the secondary thought he got Revis at a bargain price (compared to his Bucs salary). Browner isn't elite he's good.
