{"id":62322,"date":"2023-03-15T23:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=62322"},"modified":"2023-03-15T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:38:53","slug":"jets-strike-out-in-bid-to-land-orlando-brown-fletcher-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2023\/03\/15\/jets-strike-out-in-bid-to-land-orlando-brown-fletcher-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Strike out in bid to Land Orlando Brown, Fletcher Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left tackle Orlando Brown and defensive linemen Fletcher Cox have inadvertently given the Jets and their fans some good news, and some bad news.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is, the <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2023\/03\/15\/aaron-rodgers-on-the-pat-mcafee-show-i-want-to-play-for-the-ny-jets\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>anticipated arrival of future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers<\/strong><\/span><\/a> isn&#8217;t the magical elixir some had hoped it would be in helping lure players to MetLife Stadium.\u00a0 The good news is that it appears the Jets believe they can clear enough cap space to make a significant signing if they believe there&#8217;s a player who warrants it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Among teams that showed interest in Orlando Brown, per agent Michael Portner: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Steelers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a>. Bengals put deal over the top with strong guarantees over long term. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TomPelissero<\/a> 1st on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/1636199079284822016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, the Jets were in on former Chiefs offensive tackle Orlando Brown while Mike Garafolo of the NFL network said Gang Green made a run at Cox, who landed a 1-year $10 million deal to return to Philadelphia.\u00a0 In the case of Brown, he got a 4-year deal worth up to $64 million from the Bengals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fletcher Cox back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eagles<\/a> on a one-year, $10 million deal, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AdamSchefter<\/a> said. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> were willing to go higher, but Cox wanted to stay in Philly for another season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/1636131941668859906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>With virtually no cap space to speak of if they earmark the $15 million necessary to add Rodgers, it was unclear as to whether or not the Jets would be able to offer any deals to highly coveted free agents.<\/p>\n<p>While it seems that&#8217;s no longer an issue, the Jets now have to find a way to convince the players to take Woody Johnson&#8217;s cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left tackle Orlando Brown and defensive linemen Fletcher Cox have inadvertently given the Jets and their fans some good news, and some bad news. The bad news is, the anticipated arrival of future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers isn&#8217;t the magical elixir some had hoped it would be in helping lure players to MetLife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":62328,"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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fletcher-Cox-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-gdc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62322","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=62322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62329,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62322\/revisions\/62329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}