{"id":11642,"date":"2012-03-23T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=11642"},"modified":"2012-03-25T01:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T05:57:13","slug":"random-offseason-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/03\/23\/random-offseason-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Offseason Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Joe Namath<\/strong>.\u00a0 In fact, he is the single reason I became a Jets fan.\u00a0 Usually I appreciate his candor, the kind that only comes from a Beaver Falls, PA\/Alabama boy who has earned the right to speak his mind.\u00a0 But Joe Willie is wrong about the Tim Tebow trade.\u00a0 While the New York Jets are certainly capable of coming across as a circus act from time to time, but nobody is that irresponsible.\u00a0 Nobody makes this move purely for the attention.\u00a0 The price was just too steep, a 4th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> and $2.5 million just to grab the back pages in New York.<\/p>\n

That being said, the initial reaction from the football pundits and Jets loyalists has not been positive, and with good reason.\u00a0 I personally don\u2019t care about Sanchez\u2019s feelings or the Met Life crowd chanting \u201cTebow, Tebow\u201d.\u00a0 If Sanchez<\/strong> can\u2019t handle it, he doesn\u2019t have the moxie to be a quarterback in New York City, or perhaps anywhere else.\u00a0 My concern is for a general manager who doesn\u2019t seem to see a value in draft picks.\u00a0 For a team that will seemingly go into the 2012 season one injury away at safety or offensive line from a dismal season, I don\u2019t see the point of a lateral move at back-up quarterback.\u00a0 Did we really give up those picks for 6 or 7 wildcat plays?\u00a0 Yes the Jets got \u201cTebowed\u201d last year, but it was our anemic offense and a final drive made up of mostly rushing yards that lost that game for The Jets.\u00a0 I wonder if they ever went back and really watched the first 3 quarters of the Denver game.\u00a0 If they did and are still willing to give away draft picks, I would love to know why.\u00a0 The fact that your only competition, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the home town team of Tebow, desperate to put people in seats, offered less than the Jets had to offer garners some red flags.\u00a0 But even as the trade hit speed bumps, Mike Tannenbaum<\/strong> forged ahead.\u00a0 I would suggest that Tannenbaums\u2019s future with the Jets not only hinges on how this plays out, but his NFL reputation could be on the line as well.<\/p>\n

I really wanted Jerricho Cotchery<\/strong> back in the green and white for the 2012 season.\u00a0 Probably for nostalgia more than anything else, but it just felt right when I first read the rumor.\u00a0 As a Jets fan, it\u2019s difficult to believe taking a flyer on Chaz Schilens<\/strong> will pay dividends.\u00a0 Not that it was a poor choice, the oft injured receiver has the tools to be a stud.\u00a0 But does anyone really see him catching 70 balls?<\/p>\n

I am a little concerned that the Jets statement that they were comfortable with\u00a0Wayne Hunter<\/strong> starting at right tackle next year wasn\u2019t just coach speak.\u00a0 I heard that and laughed, but it seems I may be crying as there hasn\u2019t even been a visit to Jets camp by a tackle.\u00a0 How about revving up the Flux Capacitor for a trip back to the future?\u00a0 Unfortunately, it appears the DeLorean will stay in Mr. Johnson\u2019s garage, Jets have told Kareem McKenzie<\/strong> they were not interested.\u00a0 I guess he was good enough for the Super Bowl champs, but not for the Jets.\u00a0 I believe in letting a guy learn and grow, but Hunter\u2019s footwork isn\u2019t good.\u00a0 Not sure you can teach that.\u00a0 Something has to be done.<\/p>\n

Is there a Jet fan out there more at ease with the safety situation today than they were at the end of the season?\u00a0 Antonio Cromartie<\/strong> recently tweeted he was moving to free safety, which, if anything, clearly indicates the gravity of the situation.\u00a0 Just go back to the 2009 playoff win against San Diego.\u00a0 Cromartie looked more like a Matador than a football player during Shonn Greene\u2019s<\/strong> late game clinching touchdown run.\u00a0 He is not a safety.<\/p>\n

By all accounts the Jets seem to be laser focused on obtaining a pass rusher with their 16th<\/sup> pick in the NFL draft.\u00a0 I feel like it\u2019s been forever since the Jets had a guy capable of 15 sacks in a season.\u00a0 I truly believe had we had one in 2009 or 2010 we may have reached the Super Bowl.\u00a0 What concerns me is if a game changer of any magnitude can still be obtained in the 16th<\/sup> spot.\u00a0 I would be shocked if Alabama defensive end Courtney Upshaw<\/strong> is available.\u00a0 The other name you hear is Melvin Ingram<\/strong> OLB out of South Carolina.\u00a0 A motor running kind of player with the ability to get up field and always seems to be around the ball.\u00a0 But again, I just don\u2019t see a pass rusher with his potential being there at 16.\u00a0 Everyone else is a risk, and the Jets can\u2019t afford another Vernon Gholston<\/strong> fiasco.\u00a0 I hope I am wrong, but it appears the Jets will more than likely settle for solving their safety dilemma through the draft.\u00a0 Perhaps with newly signed safety LeRon Landry, a near the line of scrimmage run stopper and effective blitzer, the Jets can increase their sack statistics from 2011.<\/p>\n

As usual, the New York Jets dominate the football scene in March, but unlike in previous years, they have not done a heck of a lot to become a better football team.\u00a0 There is some time before camp opens, so don\u2019t panic.\u00a0 But they have so much more to do if they want to be super.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Joe Namath.\u00a0 In fact, he is the single reason I became a Jets fan.\u00a0 Usually I appreciate his candor, the kind that only comes from a Beaver Falls, PA\/Alabama boy who has earned the right to speak his mind.\u00a0 But Joe Willie is wrong about the Tim Tebow trade.\u00a0 While the New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-31M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11642"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11675,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions\/11675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}