The Jets have six picks in the upcoming NFL Draft and rumors say the franchise is interested in trading down from the 17th pick and selecting Oklahoma State TE Brandon Pettigrew. The Jets lack depth at TE and need someone who can block. If the Jets trade down they will likely acquire another pick that can help build depth at DE, WR or QB. The Jets have a history of drafting TE’s in the first round who have become busts (Anthony Becht, Kyle Brady and Johnny Mitchell).
The Jets are thin at TE and had to work out DE Kareem Brown at last week’s minicamp. The team has not replaced Chris Baker who was released as a salary cap casulaty. Pettigrew is 6′6″, 260 pounds and is labeled as the most complete TE in the draft. He is a tremendous blocker attributed to his large frame. He caught 42 balls for 472 yards last season. However he did not score a touchdown and missed three games due to an ankle injury. Pettigrew …
The New York Jets should draft LSU DE Tyson Jackson if he still on the board at pick 17. He is considered the best 3-4 end in this weekend’s draft and would provide the Jets aging defensive line an upgrade. Currently on the roster at the position is starter Shaun Ellis who will be turning 32 years old before the 09 season. Ellis a ten-year veteran had just one sack in the team’s final eight games. Keynon Coleman is 30 years old and at best is a serviceable starter. The Jets signed former Raven DE Marques Coleman who will be a should be a backup for the team.
Jackson started his last 40 games games and earned second-team All-SEC this past season. He anchored a line that was 17th in the nation against the run and tallied 10.5 tackles for a loss. The 6′4″ 296 pound end ran a 4.95 40 which is considered slow at his position. However, his style of play is constructed around his size and power. He is not …
It was the best of times, it was the… uhhh, best of times. Thomas Jones led the AFC in rushing. Leon Washington finally made the pro bowl and achieved the respect he deserves. Both are focal points of the Jets’ game plan. Both are looking for new contracts.
The best times are going to get ugly. Or at least a tad personal.
My gut feeling is that only one of these guys is going to get a contract extension and it’s not going to be the guy who gets the tough yards or who carries the ball the most.
Thomas Jones had a great season last year. Running behind what might be the best offensive line, Jones once again looked like the runner who carried the Bears to the Super Bowl a few years back. He’s under contract for another two years but has expressed displeasure at the fact that he’s only due $900,000 next season and isn’t showing up to mandatory workouts. His thinking (or his agent’s) seems to …
On one hand, he’s the best young quarterback in the league. He’s got an accurate cannon for an arm and he can complete passes in the most epic weather conditions. Many feel that Cutler is the type of talent rarely seen in the NFL.
On the other hand, Jay Cutler is a jackass. At least he seems like one to those of us who don’t know him personally but read his stupid comments in the papers and hear him on TV. He just comes off as an egotistical tool.
That’s where we are right now. Possibly the best quarterback in the game is begging to get out of Denver and the Jets have a giant ? under center. Cutler’s an obvious solution if he didn’t resemble a smarmy used car sales man.
Since day 1, Rex Ryan has been adament that the Jet’s “quarterback of the future” is already on the roster. That was before whatever happened between the Bronco’s and …
Since being drafed out of North Carolina State in the first round in 1999, Torry Holt has amassed 869 catches for 12,660 yards and 74 touchdowns. Among active WR’s he is second in yards per game (80.1). He was selected sixth by the St. Louis Rams because of his impressive season year and strong combine. The 6′0″ receiver ran a 4.34 40 and had a 37 inch vertical jump. He was selected as first team All-American complying 88 catches for 1,604 yards and 16 Tds for the Wolfpack.
Entering his 11th year in the NFL he is 11th all time in receptions, 14th in yards, and tied for 26th in receiving TDs. He had a streak of eight 1188+ receiving yards seasons snapped last season where he set career lows in catches, yards and TDs. However, he has missed just two regular seasons game in his 10 year career.
Henry Ellard was hired by the Jets in January to be their Wide Receivers coach. The former NFL great previously held the same position for …
When the clock struck midnight last Thursday, many Jets fans turned to the internet for immediate news of the moves their team was making. Despite NFL propaganda, the Jets had created tons of room under the salary cap to play with. They had even more money to throw around then they expected thanks Laveranues Coles’ sudden generosity- he pretty much gave back the 8 million bucks he was guaranteed so he could go play ball with Chad in Miami. Problem with his strategy is a big ol’ fat man named Bill Parcells who eats little wide receivers for lunch. Thanks Coles. Only time will tell if you’ve dropped the ball… again.
Well, the Jets apparently waited ten whole minutes before descending upon Bart Scott’s house, dragging him all the way to Jersey, and signing his “violent” butt to a six year contract. Then the Jets went back to Baltimore (or made a phone call anyway) and have now signed Jim Leonard as well. Sweet.
The Jets even came up …
Laveranues Coles has been the Grumpy Smurf on offense for awhile now. He wasn’t happy with Mangini’s training camps, he hates having to catch balls that are thrown too hard, and he missed his good buddy Chad Pennington. I think his sensitive hands miss Chad’s lobbed passes more than anything but hey that’s just me. After meeting with Rex Ryan this week, they’ve agreed to part ways amicably. Coles has been released and the Jets no longer owe him the 7 million bucks he was guaranteed (if I understand it correctly we’re now going to take a 1 million dollar hit). Halleluja.
This off season is off the hook. The list of recent non-Jets reads as such: Brett Favre, Mike Nugent, Chris Baker, Brandon Moore, David Barrett, Eric Barton (probably anyway), David Bowens, and now Grumpy Smurf. We’re clearing cap space faster than Bill Belichik can grab our unwanted players. You gotta know Chris Baker’s been targeted by the Pats …
The 2008/2009 football season refuses to end for the Jets. To be honest, the past few weeks of the offseason have been more fun than that winless December when the Green Folk were underachieving on a monumental scale. First, there was the immediate firing of Cangini, followed by the hiring of D-Rex, and now Brett Favre has announced his plans to retire. Finally, all of our questions have been answered right? Not so much actually…
By retiring, Favre released the Jets from paying him 13 million buckaroos next year. Last week we were about 4 million dollars over the salary cap. Now, depending on who you’re listening to, we’re somewhere between 5 and 17 million under. That’s a pretty big swing and I wish I had D-Rex’s ear for an hour or so. Free Agency is suddenly fertile ground for a Jet fan’s imagination what with all those corner backs, all of those Ray Lewis’s, and all of those veteran quarterbacks milling about.
Debates on the Jets quarterback situation …
We now have our Super Bowl matchup – Steelers vs. Cardinals. The Cardinals proved everybody wrong (including their parents and spouses) by making it to the big game. And can’t we just get it over with and make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday, so we don’t have to go to work tired and hungover? We also have a new coach for the Jets. And NHL All-Star weekend is here, which we all know is a time for quiet reflection. The prize for this week’s Hot Stove Player (ok, Coach) of the Week is a brand-spanking-new president. When is Gary Bettman’s term over with, by the way?
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Rex Ryan: The new coach of the Jets made a splash at his introductory press conference. He’s already proving to be the anti-Eric Mangini. There was some speculation around the Jets the last few years that Mangini was actually a robot, programmed by Bill Belichick. All that animosity and non-handshaking was just a way to throw us …
The Jets officially have a new coach and while his pedigree is fierce, he lacks chops when it comes to head coaching experience. Jets fans got what we wanted- a fire breathing quarterback killer who’s defense promises blitzes from any postition at any time. We can expect kitchen sinks, safes falling from the sky, cornerbacks hiding behind referees, and hopefully a tenacious ball hawking D. By all reports Rex Ryan is ecstatic about this opporunity and he floored the front office when he interviewed. Despite being in the AFC championship game, Ryan not only came in prepared- the man came in with a full on PowerPoint presentation. The next few weeks will be interesting for Rex, he’s got lots of stuff on his plate to deal with and some of it needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
First of all, Rex will have to bring in a new Defensive Coordinator. Bob Sutton’s been as good as gone for months now and Ryan surely will be bringing …
Putting aside regular season records, what teams made the playoffs and the last quarter of the season, how can anybody justify Brett Favre going to the Pro Bowl in 2009?
You can make the case after the first half of the season that Favre could have been considered above Matt Cassel and Chad Pennington. However, being chosen in place of Philip Rivers at any point this season would have been a complete travesty.
Rivers’ numbers are even better the other two players who were chosen to represent the AFC in Peyton Manning and Jay Cutler. And instead Favre is chosen?
One can not argue with the selection process that the NFL has in place where the players, the fans and the coaches all count for 1/3 of the overall vote.
But what I can do is question, how does this happen? Credit is due where credit is due, but at the time when the Pro Bowl votes are calculated (around the last quarter of the season), Rivers, Pennington and Cassel in …
Mark Sanchez, a four year junior, declared for the 2009 NFL Draft yesterday. He and Georgia’s Matt Strafford are considered the top two QBS with Oklahoma’s Heisman winner Sam Bradford opting to return to Norman. USC finished 12-1 and number two in the college poll. The 6′3″ 225 pound QB had an outstanding Rose Bowl, completing 28-of -35 passes for 413 yards and 4 TDs. The Trojans easily won the game 38-24 victory over No. 6 Penn State. He became just the third QB in Rose …
