With Jolley's trade we see again what a great GM we had in Boobway. His move-down to get Jolley ranks right up there with his other stellar moves, all of which make sure we stay door mats for years: 1. Jolley trade 2. Thomas over Reed 3. McGraw picked after Thomas (to address the need at safety since we passed on Reed 4. Martin contract thru 2009 5. Chrebet contract thru 2008 6. Loses 4 of our best YOUNG players (Moss, Thomas, Jordan, Kareem) 7. Steve White signing; Lance Legree signing which costs us a comp. pick 8. Coles debacle 9. Morton debacle 10 2 1s and a 4 for Dwayne (this year he WILL make the pro bowl) Robertson Thanks for the memories and the GOOD moves, Terry
Chrebet and Martin were both signed because of Parcells. Who cares about Morton? His career consists of one game.
He shouldnt get all the blame. I liked the Robertson move at the time. It would have been nice to have Reed at safety though.
Bradway took over an old aging franchise that was in cap hell. Before the 2002 season the team was $28 millon over the cap and the team had to be gutted. Bradway did not have the luxury of signing any high proiced free agents. Rather he only had the choice of choosing which players of his own he could sign and which he had to let go. What he chose to do was to extend some player contracts and push the Parcellian cap problem into the future. He did this each year until finally this year we were able to wipe away Parcells defecit thanks to the new CBA. Bradway certainly made many mistakes but his drafts were not terrible nor were they great. He brought in good quality players and got fairly good value with his draft picks. He was a great improvement over any GM the Jets have had in 20 years in that respect. Where Bradway failed was in getting proper value for trades. It seemed that almost every trade the Jets made whether it was trading up with Pittsburgh to draft Moss or the Jolley trade we got loss than fair value. I doubt anyone thinks that Bradway would have gotten as much value for Abraham as Tangini did. It could also be argued that Bradway overpaid in contracts for his players but most of that rather was just pushing money out into the future so the team could meet the cap each year. Overall we have little to be upset with Bradway. He guilded us through 5 years of cap hell. He helped rebuild the defense. He didn't have money to replace the players we had to lose because of Parcells but he resigned enough of our own players to give us a chance to be competitive each year. It is hard to be dissapointed with the results. Compared to 2001 the Jets are younger, have amore talented base and finally have a sound cap situation nowl. All thanks to Bradway. It would have been quite easy for Bradway to have done what Parcells did and overspent to get immediate results and let the next GM pay the bill. Between 2001 and 2004 with the exception of Cowart the Jets brought in zero FA's that were not bargain basement unwanted long shots. But he didn't do that rather he managed the cap for the future and future is a lot brighter thanks to Bradway. Bradway could have been a better talent evaluator and certainly could have gotten better value in trades but he guided this team through its Parcellian unduced cap hell. There was a reason Belichick refused to take the Jets job and tahts ebcause the Jets had no future because of Parecells cap problems. Bradway was the one that paid the price. I am not advocating that we rename the stadium ofter TB but that we actually look at his accomplishments and failures realistically. I understand that people hate anyone that has been around longer than a few years but if you put that hate aside you can see that he took over a team in a very bad situation that had no future guided that them to arguably the best 5 year period in this franchises history, and he left the team a lot better off than he found it .
Can we seriously just give this a rest? He's done with, Herm is done with...Ok forget about it, move the hell on. We know their were some messups, but after every little transaction that occurs, a thread on this or Herm comes about... And i'm not even a defender of them, this is just getting old.
you forgot another: not re-signing James Farrior. He winds up in Pittsburgh, wins a super bowl, and we get BUBKUS.
Bradway is a joke, but that post is a stretch. I doubt Farrior was a big factor in the Steelers SB. The refs...yes...Farrior....no.
Seriously? Farrior turned into one of the best LB's in the game, if not the best. What hasn't he done the last two years? He makes every tackle, he's tough, he's a leader. He didn't show that here, that's for sure, but you can't deny what he's done on Pittsburgh.
Great post. I really never analyzed Bradways career in my head, but everything you said really did make sence.
James Farrior is also destined to be in a 3-4. He's not nearly fast enough to play the MIKE in a 4-3, nor is he good enough in coverage. We didn't need him at the time, plus we didn't lose much production with Sam Cowart.
Great, great post, Buttle. Bradway wasn't as horrible a GM as tomdeb and a few others like to point out. Neither was he ever in the running for GM of the year. I wasn't a big fan of his because of his stance on the OL being a minor unit on the team. Under his leadership, the OL never received the attention that it should have, and we saw the outcome of that last season with the complete lack of depth. Overall, he did a good enough job to get this team to the playoffs 3 out of 5 years, and had to deal with the mess Parcells left on his way out. A lot of Bradway detractors like to forget about that whole mess.
