{"id":45477,"date":"2019-08-01T19:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=45477"},"modified":"2019-08-02T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:40:45","slug":"jets-football-new-york-jets-hope-parcells-had-it-wrong-regarding-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/08\/01\/jets-football-new-york-jets-hope-parcells-had-it-wrong-regarding-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Hope Parcells had it Wrong Regarding Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have reportedly come to terms on a one-year deal worth $8.4 million to lure recently retired center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/08\/01\/rapoport-jets-to-sign-c-ryan-kalil\/\">Ryan Kalil<\/a><\/strong> off the couch and in to Florham Park.&nbsp; One of the most important figures in Jets history is Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells, whose comments on retirement come to mind after adding Kalil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> and C Ryan Kalil have agreed to terms on a 1-year deal worth $8.4M, source said. A hefty payday and worth it for NYJ. Huge lift for that line and for QB Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1157003576222408704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>It was Parcells who once said, &#8220;If you&#8217;re thinking about retirement, you&#8217;re already retired&#8221;.&nbsp; For what they&#8217;ve agreed to pay Kalil, you&#8217;d better believe the Jets are hoping Parcells was dead wrong and Kalil is ready to step in and play at a high level in 2019, rather than hanging around daydreaming about how he&#8217;ll be spending his $8.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>While a strong season from Kalil is not out of the question, one has to wonder how likely it is that he&#8217;ll manage to both play well&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;stay healthy, an issue he has battled in recent years.&nbsp; Yes, Kalil did start all 16 games last year, but missed a total of 16 games over the course of the 2016 and 2017 seasons.&nbsp; Not good.<\/p>\n<p>The salary may be a bit bloated, but this is clearly a gamble that Joe Douglas felt he had to take in an effort to upgrade the Jets O-line.&nbsp; The smart money would have to be on the move being a net positive in terms of on-field performance, unless Parcells had it right, and Kalil&#8217;s heart isn&#8217;t in it the way it once was.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have reportedly come to terms on a one-year deal worth $8.4 million to lure recently retired center Ryan Kalil off the couch and in to Florham Park.&nbsp; One of the most important figures in Jets history is Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells, whose comments on retirement come to mind after adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":45484,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[3099,3120],"class_list":{"0":"post-45477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"tag-joe-douglas","9":"tag-ryan-kalil"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kalil.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-bPv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45485,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477\/revisions\/45485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}