On July 27 2011 11:48 eshlow wrote: Ravens cutting Kelley, Heap, McGahee, Mason was pretty surprising but makes sense for them
Cowboys cut Marion Barber, Leonard Davis, Roy Williams and Kris Brown... prolly Columbo too. Not too surprising
Ravens cuts are pretty much on par with what was expected from them. They are looking to resign some of those guys (Mason/Heap from what I remember) to smaller contracts.
Dallas cuts not surprising at all it is reported that cutting Williams and Barber alone freed up 10 million. Also they resigned Doug Free. Colombo will stay if he takes less money.
It's going to be funny to see teams that lost out in FA scrambling to get to the salary floor. Are they able to change some backloaded contracts to frontload or will they just have to overpay shitty players to get to the floor?
On July 27 2011 13:35 nemY wrote: Pretty good deal for the Vikes. McNabb was a probowler 2 years ago and I don't really think Ponder is ready to start yet.
49ers and Raiders are in a bidding war for DaShon Goldson which strikes me as odd... shouldn't the Raiders resign Michael Huff? I would think Huff > Goldson anyday so this strikes me as odd... guess the Raiders feel they can't afford Huff.
Oh yeah Takeo Spikes and his huge neck signed with the SD Chargers Gonna miss him. He was really underrated and a solid performer for the 3 years he was with the 49ers.
I think anyone was an improvement over Favre at this point, but I am not sure how McNabb pans out. Granted, he was on the skins last year, but still he did not look so hot. Accuracy was never his thing (the ankle pass above is 100% accurate), and you'd have to imagine he's playing in more of a management type of roll in Minn with AP running. AP, Harvin and Rice if they keep him is a nice core to work with though. Can't forget Dongman at TE either.
Don't get the bidding war with Goldson. We have no reason to be in that.
On July 27 2011 14:11 GTR wrote: asamougha to the jets would be like jaedong moving to kt lol i really doubt it will happen though.
The Jets roster is pretty much a glass cannon at this point. All it takes is one injury and then the dominoes start falling. It would be smarter for the Jets to fix those holes they have at safety at this point.
On July 27 2011 14:11 GTR wrote: asamougha to the jets would be like jaedong moving to kt lol i really doubt it will happen though.
The Jets roster is pretty much a glass cannon at this point. All it takes is one injury and then the dominoes start falling. It would be smarter for the Jets to fix those holes they have at safety at this point.
Don't need safeties with Asomougha and Revis! Just put in two Roy Williams types, haha. Don't the Jets have Jim Leonard and Eric Smith? That's not god awful. Just below average.
On July 27 2011 14:11 GTR wrote: asamougha to the jets would be like jaedong moving to kt lol i really doubt it will happen though.
The Jets roster is pretty much a glass cannon at this point. All it takes is one injury and then the dominoes start falling. It would be smarter for the Jets to fix those holes they have at safety at this point.
Don't need safeties with Asomougha and Revis! Just put in two Roy Williams types, haha. Don't the Jets have Jim Leonard and Eric Smith? That's not god awful. Just below average.
Even though Revis and Asomugha pair up, it isn't hard to find a hole in that defense, especially with their pretty bad safeties. The Patriots adapted pretty well drafting Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski to exploit that little loophole of the Jets. A second year in Belichick's system and we'll be seeing those guys' stats inflate whenever they play the Jets plus they have a better RB-tandem with Vereen, Woodhead, Green-Ellis, Ridley.
On July 27 2011 00:10 Mattchew wrote: The bears should go after plexico (adding height jumpball guy with all the speed receivers would be devasting to any defense) and maybe that dude from the vikings d-line. other than that I would like to stay put with the team we have
but I would always take asomugha
How do you not want another OL? Carimi is a start, but he's a rookie and the line was godawful last season. Also I'm not convinced Plaxico is fast enough to keep Martz happy. Besides, he's getting up there in age. I'm personally hoping for Malcolm Floyd and stealing a lineman from Atlanta. And resigning Kreutz, Adams, and at least 2 of Tino, Roach, and Iwuh is a must.
I think another O-Line would be nice and would help but isn't 100% nessacary. People underrate our O-Line and overrate its importance in a Mike Martz System. Floyd would be great but come on man its still plax... he would be the redzone threat we need
i hope we keep tino and roach over lwuh (personally)
Floyd has the same toolset as Plax, but he is not a tool like plax. Nor has he sat out the past two years because he was in jail for being a retard. Dunno why so many people are interested in Plax unless he is coming real cheap. Huge gamble there. Some kind of Vick effect, with people not realizing what kind of odds defying comeback that was and how most of it was a matter of coaching and personnel around Vick and not a whole lot to do with him
On July 27 2011 14:11 GTR wrote: asamougha to the jets would be like jaedong moving to kt lol i really doubt it will happen though.
The Jets roster is pretty much a glass cannon at this point. All it takes is one injury and then the dominoes start falling. It would be smarter for the Jets to fix those holes they have at safety at this point.
Don't need safeties with Asomougha and Revis! Just put in two Roy Williams types, haha. Don't the Jets have Jim Leonard and Eric Smith? That's not god awful. Just below average.
Even though Revis and Asomugha pair up, it isn't hard to find a hole in that defense, especially with their pretty bad safeties. The Patriots adapted pretty well drafting Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski to exploit that little loophole of the Jets. A second year in Belichick's system and we'll be seeing those guys' stats inflate whenever they play the Jets plus they have a better RB-tandem with Vereen, Woodhead, Green-Ellis, Ridley.
I don't really have a rooting interest for either team, so I don't see how the Patriots work into this discussion. And it isn't like the Jets play the Patriots every week of the season. The point is, Revis/Asomougha would be very very fearsome. Easily better than the Bengals with Hall and Joseph(who I think is a Free Agent?) Besides, I'd rather pay Asomougha a boatload of money than Antonio Cromartie three-quarters of a boat of money.
On July 27 2011 14:11 GTR wrote: asamougha to the jets would be like jaedong moving to kt lol i really doubt it will happen though.
The Jets roster is pretty much a glass cannon at this point. All it takes is one injury and then the dominoes start falling. It would be smarter for the Jets to fix those holes they have at safety at this point.
Don't need safeties with Asomougha and Revis! Just put in two Roy Williams types, haha. Don't the Jets have Jim Leonard and Eric Smith? That's not god awful. Just below average.
Even though Revis and Asomugha pair up, it isn't hard to find a hole in that defense, especially with their pretty bad safeties. The Patriots adapted pretty well drafting Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski to exploit that little loophole of the Jets. A second year in Belichick's system and we'll be seeing those guys' stats inflate whenever they play the Jets plus they have a better RB-tandem with Vereen, Woodhead, Green-Ellis, Ridley.
I don't really have a rooting interest for either team, so I don't see how the Patriots work into this discussion. And it isn't like the Jets play the Patriots every week of the season. The point is, Revis/Asomougha would be very very fearsome. Easily better than the Bengals with Hall and Joseph(who I think is a Free Agent?) Besides, I'd rather pay Asomougha a boatload of money than Antonio Cromartie three-quarters of a boat of money.
The point he is making is that Asomougha and Revis would almost never be covering the TE/RB because that responsibility falls to the safeties and Lbs on occasion, and the Jets safeties are slow and shitty. Many teams carry at least one fast, pass catching TE to exploit this match up from time to time, and some times have flat out dominant TEs who will feast on it. Similarly, any team with a Leon Washington or Reggie Bush type of player coming out of the backfield on a passing route is gonna skull fuck their safeties all day if gameplanned right.
Not to mention it's kind of nutty giving franchise money to two CBs when not many teams carry two top flight WRs, trying to just air it out all day to them.
There's much better places for them to spend the money
That's fine, I understood that. But that's effectively saying that some team is signing a strong wideout, but they still don't have a someone in that halfback slot! It's two different issues. Every defensive scheme has holes because there are only 11 people on a field that's 40 yards wide and 100 yards long, it's not an argument.
Leonard and Smith are slow and shitty? Fine. Then sign....Roman Harper? Dawan Landry? Atari Bigby? C'mon. You wouldn't pay those guys and be happy about it. Now, if you could get Tanard Jackson, that's something. But I don't know if the Jets have shown interest.
If the Jets want to spend money on a player who is clearly the best or second best at his position and pair him with another player who is clearly best or second best at their position, that's a philosophical thing. It might represent a loss in potential value and inefficient allocation of financial resources but at least it has a high percentage chance of working out the way the Jets imagine it, which is all you can hope for in a Free Agent signing.
Using up your entire cap space on two cornerbacks pretty much guarantees a hole in every part of the defense that cornerbacks don't normally defend. That's just too much redundancy on that position at the expense of the rest of the team. That pretty much guarantees that the Jets need to find a way to get a lot of awesome cheap deals on the rest of their roster.
In a cap season, it's really not two separate issues though, especially with a team like the Jets who are pretty high up against it right now.
I do agree that the safety market ain't so hot now (there was even a bidding war for Goldson lol)
But I don't think that means you go sink such a huge cost into a second corner. I think he's a damn good player and will work out wherever, but that doesn't make it a good decision based on the team's financial situation and the holes they have elsewhere on the roster. The opponents offense dictates whether or not the 2nd lockdown CB is worth it, not the D. Most teams don't bring someone worth shutting down in that position
Frankly, I think they'd be better served by putting that money towards bringing back Edwards (or another one of the good young receivers out there) to help develop Sanchez and give them some sick balance on offense. Find a good but less costly CB and then gameplan for getting a good S either the following offseason or the one after.
On July 27 2011 14:11 GTR wrote: asamougha to the jets would be like jaedong moving to kt lol i really doubt it will happen though.
The Jets roster is pretty much a glass cannon at this point. All it takes is one injury and then the dominoes start falling. It would be smarter for the Jets to fix those holes they have at safety at this point.
Don't need safeties with Asomougha and Revis! Just put in two Roy Williams types, haha. Don't the Jets have Jim Leonard and Eric Smith? That's not god awful. Just below average.
Even though Revis and Asomugha pair up, it isn't hard to find a hole in that defense, especially with their pretty bad safeties. The Patriots adapted pretty well drafting Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski to exploit that little loophole of the Jets. A second year in Belichick's system and we'll be seeing those guys' stats inflate whenever they play the Jets plus they have a better RB-tandem with Vereen, Woodhead, Green-Ellis, Ridley.
I don't really have a rooting interest for either team, so I don't see how the Patriots work into this discussion. And it isn't like the Jets play the Patriots every week of the season. The point is, Revis/Asomougha would be very very fearsome. Easily better than the Bengals with Hall and Joseph(who I think is a Free Agent?) Besides, I'd rather pay Asomougha a boatload of money than Antonio Cromartie three-quarters of a boat of money.
tl;dr? All it takes to beat that Revis-Asomugha duo are quality receiving TEs, slot receivers, and RBs. Wouldn't be surprised if Antonio Gates puts up 150 yds against those two just because those Jets safeties are pretty garbage
Ok. I have to organize my thoughts very clearly. Not to give the impression that I am arguing for the sake of arguing, but if I ran my own team, I would not spend that much money on two cornerbacks. This is, effectively, an argument of allocation and value - what Hawk is talking about. But what yrba1 is saying is totally different.
You are implying, that a team with Revis and Asomougha is beatable with a good strategy and strong execution. This is a completely pointless statement. No team isn't beatable with a good strategy and strong execution. There is NO safety out there that the Jets could sign that would make their scheme that much stronger against Antonio Gates. They have to take the parts they have and scheme appropriately for a game plan that they know is coming. THAT would be the benefit of a Revis-Asomougha duo.
Frankly, it would be a huge strength. What downside(aside from the opportunity cost of the money) is there to having this combination? That Tight Ends are somehow BETTER against you because you signed Asomougha? Ridiculous. Your opportunity cost, assuming its on defense, would be linemen, linebackers and safeties. The Jets linebackers corp is strong. The line is strong. The safeties are weak.
Now go look at the 2011 Free Agent class for safeties. Very few of them are good. I guess Gibril Wilson is okay...Quintin Mikell is not bad. Weddle has been resigned, I think. Tanard Jackson is a young stud. Bernard Pollard? Daniel Manning? Yeah. These guys will save you from Antonio Gates, Jermichael Finley and Vernon Davis.
Getting cromartie for 1/3rd or less the price of Asomougha would make more sense to me. Nnamdi is insane, theres no doubt, but I'd be hard pressed to throw that cash on a CB when i already have Revis.
If he does end up on the Jets that would definitely be a sight to see though.
My biggest problem with the Jets getting Asomugha (besides the fact I want the 49ers to get him ofc) is that I don't see how Revis + Asomugha stop Rashard Mendenhall from rushing 120+ yards against them in the AFC Championship game... AGAIN. That and I think signing Asomugha puts the Jets in a 2 year period of dominance followed with some serious cap problems (2.5 million in the first year of Santonio Holmes 50 million contract? How'd they pull that off?).
There's very few teams with the personnel to handle Gates...
Don't think the Jets will sign Asomugha though. Secondary would be good, butlike sly said who else is there to get? There's decently strong DL left which may help since you could probably get pressure and have some LBs drop back to help in secondary. Rex Ryans problem though I'm sure he can come up with something decent