{"id":684,"date":"2006-10-14T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T00:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2006-10-14T19:21:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T00:21:58","slug":"jetting-into-the-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2006\/10\/14\/jetting-into-the-trade-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Jetting into the Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Nick Ferraro<\/strong><br \/>\nThe NFL trade deadline is Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually a non-event as very few meaningful trades have occurred in-season historically in the NFL.\u00c2\u00a0 This deadline is likely to be no different than usual.\u00c2\u00a0 If the Jets are thoughtful about the remainder of 2006, they should look a little bit differently at this deadline than in previous years.\u00c2\u00a0 The 2006 Jets should consider being active before Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nIf the Jets can win at home Sunday against the Dolphins, their record for the season will stand at 3-3.\u00c2\u00a0 A .500 record is nothing to be too excited about, but it will mean that the Jets have navigated the most difficult part of their schedule with an even record, and it will guarantee at least a share of second place in the division. \u00c2\u00a0The Jets have played the Patriots, Colts, and Jaguars in a span of four weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 No team has faced a tougher stretch.\u00c2\u00a0 It would have been nice if they could have pulled out a victory against the Colts, but at least they will not see another stretch like that in 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, the rest of the season sets up very nicely for them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c nice enough that the Jets should be very interested in the trade deadline.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<!--more-->After Sunday, the Jets will have ten games left.\u00c2\u00a0 In seven of the ten games, the Jets will be facing teams with a record under .500.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jets have home games against the Lions, Texans, Bills, and Raiders; they will be on the road against the Browns, Packers, and Dolphins. I would expect the Jets to be favored in each of those four home games, and perhaps for the road game in Green Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 They will likely be slight underdogs at Cleveland and at Miami.\u00c2\u00a0 With a schedule like that, why shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the Jets be active before the trade deadline?\u00c2\u00a0 Winning six of those seven would mean a 9-7 record and shot at a playoff spot.\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it be nice even to be in the hunt?<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nI understand that the new front office has been very careful in building this Jets team with an eye toward the future \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rightly so.\u00c2\u00a0 There are, however, moves the Jets should consider that would not be out of line with that vision for the future.\u00c2\u00a0 There are trades they can make that will make sense both this season and for the seasons to come.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Jets have the added bargaining flexibility of an extra second round pick, and despite what appears on the surface to be a lackluster roster, they have players that would have value on the open market.\u00c2\u00a0 The proposals below would stay in line with the foundation the Jets began laying last offseason, and it would enhance their position, given their remaining schedule, to take a run at a nine or ten-win season.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n1.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 NY Jets send a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round pick in the 2007 NFL draft to the San Diego Chargers for RB Michael Turner.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nTurner is only in his fourth year in the league, and he would fill the Jets critical need for RB.\u00c2\u00a0 He has never averaged less than 5.2 yards per carry.\u00c2\u00a0 Turner isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to get on the field very often in San Diego with LT in front of him.\u00c2\u00a0 The Chargers will be happy to have an extra pick after spending the last few seasons without a full complement of draft picks. They also avert having an unhappy player in their clubhouse who feels he can play full time.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n2.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 NY Jets send WR Justin McCareins to the Baltimore Ravens for TE Doug Wilcox.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Ravens have just nine catches on the season by WRs not named Mason or Clayton.\u00c2\u00a0 After being blanketed by the Denver secondary, the Ravens have to be looking to add another target for Steve McNair. McCareins does not appear able to impress Mangini, and he continues to collect dust on the bench.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian Billick may be persuaded to think he can return McCareins to his old form.\u00c2\u00a0 Wilcox has ability, is a decent blocker, and, like Turner, is only in his fourth year.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jet offense would look much different with a viable option in the middle of the field.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n3.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 NY Jets send DT Dewayne Robertson to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for the Colt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-round picks in the 2007 NFL draft.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nRobertson has not filled the bill in the middle for the Jets who rank 28<sup>th<\/sup> against the rush so far.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jets can manage that type of production with someone else on the nose.\u00c2\u00a0 Robertson will not command more in terms of trade value than he does right now.\u00c2\u00a0 The Colts have to be desperate to add a big body to the middle of their defense, as they are one of the few teams worse against the rush than the Jets. Robertson may fit better for them in a 4-3 front.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jets have a chance to take advantage of the Colt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s win-now approach.\u00c2\u00a0 The extra picks can be used to move up next April should the Jets have a player in mind they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to target.\u00c2\u00a0 Worst case, the Jets have two more chances to get better come April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nick Ferraro The NFL trade deadline is Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually a non-event as very few meaningful trades have occurred in-season historically in the NFL.\u00c2\u00a0 This deadline is likely to be no different than usual.\u00c2\u00a0 If the Jets are thoughtful about the remainder of 2006, they should look a little bit differently at this deadline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-editorials","7":"category-nick-ferraro"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-b2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}