Since you have been right about so many other things what makes you think ANYONE is going to listen to you? The Jets may wind up drafting a QB. I am not stupid enough to say there is zero chance we draft a QB nor am I dumb enough to say we will draft a QB 100%.
If we keep Pennington, we almost have to give him another chance to win the job. If that's what we're going to, and say we trade Abe for the 15th pick, then we have to trade down from 4 and pick up another 2nd rounder. 1. Haloti N'gata/Mario Williams/DeAngelo Williams 1. Winston Justice/Lendale White/Vernon Davis (if he slips this far) 2. Eric Winston/Marcus McNeill/Davin Joseph 2. Brodie Croyle And then we'd have a 3rd, 2 4ths, and a couple late picks, mixed in with some compensatory picks to completely remold our team. I personally think Croyle is about as good a prospect as Cutler is, except, obviously, for injury concerns. If we can get him in round 2, we have someone to play if Pennington goes down or gets hurt. If Pennington can't play, Jon Kitna is not the long-term answer at all. If Pennington can play, we have a very, very capable backup. It's never a problem to have 2 good quarterbacks, especially when your starter is as fragile as Chad has seemed to be.
i like your thinking but psychologically i cant stand another defensive linemen with a first round pick
Well, psychologically doesn't matter. Right now, putting DeWayne Robertson at NT is a waste of a good talent. Putting him at DE in a 3-4 at least gives him a chance to use his size and speed to his advantage. Ngata fits our team perfectly. He's a DT who can tie up linemen (plural) and push them back. He can make your 3-4 defense work and free up our LBs to wreak havoc. Are we even switching to the 3-4 for sure, though?
IF the Jets keep Chad and sign a Kitna I agree with you that you don't draft a QB at #4. Honestly with the money involved with Chad, if you don't trust him enough that you'd draft a Cutler at #4 Chad should not be kept to begin with.
No way he will be back to Pro Bowl caliber form next year he wasnt a pro bowler in 04 but his play was worthy enough to go. You saw what he did that year he dominated. This year he was slowed down by injuries.
I hope you're right... He's got the talent to do so, certainly, but he's been inconsistent. If he plays NT, he has no chance of recapturing any magic. DE, he has a chance.
If he plays DE i think he will dominate. NT he wont because hes more of a playmaker not someone whos does the dirty work so other people could make plays.
I'm not really sure either, because if you're going to bring in a QB to compete with Chad, might as well wait to draft one . I think they really love Cutler though and don't want to pass him up, but don't feel he's ready to come in and start, and I don't think they think Chad is starter material either.
Yea but what I think is if we draft Cutler it would light fire under Chad and force him to step his game up and if he does thats great and he will be a great player for us. Then if it goes good the next season after this onewe could explore trading Cutler if Chad has come on. If Chad does bad we pull him out and hand the show over to Cutler then he will be our starter the next season and Chad will be cut.
We have too many needs to draft Cutler to light a fire under Chad. If we draft Cutler, he's our quarterback for a long time, unless he's a big bust. Chad would basically be out of the picture in that scenario.
We will only draft Cutler if we sign Shaffer to play RT. Then we could draft Cutler and with our other 1st rounder we will draft a RB and then with our next few picks well draft Oline along with Nick Mangold to play Center for us next year. NT either Pouha could start or i think well sign one.
If the Jets aren't confident enough in Chad as the QB of the future that they would invest a top 5 pick on a QB, than they should dump him now. There are plenty of QB's out there who are better options for 2006 (due to Chad's injury) and you might as well get the cap hit from Chad out of the way now.
right now the jets couldnt just dump chad. the cap hit was just to much. chad also knows if he gets cut his career is most likely through cause he wont have a market.so by lowering his # to 3 million a 9 million doller drop. he stays on the roster for a year and try for the miricle. in the mean time the vet qb would start and the drafted qb is the future will sit till the coaches thinks he is ready.
I'll admit they probably couldn't if there is no CBA. However if there is an extension to the CBA and the cap truly is increased by $10 mil that excuse goes out the window IMO.
I honestly can't see a team with a franchise QB, restructured or not, signing both a mid-tier veteran and drafting a QB in round 1. That would make absolutely no sense.
Excellent point. That would be a massive amount of cap space eaten up by the QB position. For a team with holes on its o-line, that would be silly.
