2018 NY Jets: Darnold > Namath

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Jay Cutler is the perfect QB for a franchise that wants to tank but has to pretend to their fan base that they are actually trying to win.
 

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Cutler to the Jets would be the Jetsiest thing ever. Please let this happen.
 

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Jay Cutler is the perfect QB for a franchise that wants to tank but has to pretend to their fan base that they are actually trying to win.
I'm sure Kristin Cavilliri is all sorts of psyched about a move to NYC.
 

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IMG_5588.JPG This is oddly ok with me. Better than Geno, Fitzpatrick, or Petty.

Bring on Smoking Jay Cutler
 

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I just don't know what the Jets are supposed to do to entice a player from New England, at this point, besides throw money at them (and, to be fair, that's more than enough for most guys).

I mean, joke about the cupcakes, but they were probably thanking their lucky stars it was Hightower's birthday so they could put up some kind of credible welcome-wagon bit. What the fuck else are they supposed to do? Tell him that they need him to "put them over the top?" "become part of a great tradition?"

It must be humiliating.
 

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Hightower could be doing the Jets a favor by stopping them from spending a ton of money they don't have.
 

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Here's the money quote:

One eyewitness simply said Wilkerson was “looking absolutely terrible.” When I pointed out that the defensive lineman has never been mistaken for Jack LaLanne, the person texted: “LOL He’s always looked terribly out of shape?”

2017 has $15m guaranteed on his salary. Jets can't part ways before 2018.

It's a far cry from the fearsome DL that once featured hungry Harrison, Wilkerson, and Richardson.
 

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espn: The Jets were very interested in wooing Dont'a Hightower away from the division-rival Patriots. But whatever his physical revealed scared them away.

Uh-huh
 

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LOL Jets - so all we hear pre-signing is how much they love Hightower and how big of a contract they are going to give him, then only after he re-signs with the Pats we get stories about how concerned they were with his physical? This is like the "smear departing player on his way out of town" tactic taken to a whole new level.

(In any event even if the story is true I have much more faith in the Patriots medical staff, which has had five years to monitor and treat Dont'a, than I do with the Jets staff that gave him a single physical. Plus, you know, they're the Jets.)
 

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The Twitter has Jets signing Clairborne (Dallas corner) for 1 year 5 million bucks. We need all the secondary help we can get so I like the deal. This guy can't stay healthy but maybe he's due (that's how it works, right???)
 

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The Twitter has Jets signing Clairborne (Dallas corner) for 1 year 5 million bucks. We need all the secondary help we can get so I like the deal. This guy can't stay healthy but maybe he's due (that's how it works, right???)
Getting veterans signed at short money/years is a wise strategy.

Despite what happened, I still "like" Mac & Bowles duo. We'll see how much patience Woody has, but those PSLs aren't selling themselves.
 

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Even mild mannered Mike Reiss can't resist a cupcake rim shot:
5. Reports of the Jets having concerns with linebacker Dont’a Hightower’s physical after he re-signed with the Patriots seem convenient. Something tells me those concerns would have never been revealed publicly if Hightower had said yes to the Jets' five-year, $62.5 million maximum value contract proposal. Sounds like a case of sour cupcakes.
And well done on the thread title, well done....
 

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Another interesting bit from Reiss' article:

Did You Know: With the Colts now checked off the list, the Patriots have made at least one trade with 30 of the other 31 teams in the NFL during Belichick’s tenure (2000-present). The one team the Patriots haven't struck a trade with under Belichick? The Jets, of course. The last trade the Patriots made with the Jets brought Belichick to New England.
 

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How often does tanking work in the NFL? It's not the NBA, where you can get by on like 2.5 good players; you need like 20.
Well, tanking for one year doesn't really work that often in the NBA either...but what other options do they have? Plus there's no lottery to contend with so winning 3 games is a lot better than winning 6 or 7.

If you get a franchise QB it's worth it.
 

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Well, tanking for one year doesn't really work that often in the NBA either...but what other options do they have? Plus there's no lottery to contend with so winning 3 games is a lot better than winning 6 or 7.

If you get a franchise QB it's worth it.
Part of the problem is the same problem as the NBA - sometimes you get a Manning or Cam, but sometimes it's just a Stafford or Alex Smith, and sometimes it's a JaMarcus or David Carr or Tim Couch. The other problem is, now what? Indianapolis got a generational QB prospect in Luck, but they've struggled to put a consistent winner. Ditto Cam's Panthers. Peyton's Colts were a .500 team in his first four seasons. You put a franchise QB on a crappy team, and all you have is a mediocre team.

You want to get better? Get better. Get good players, develop, and retain them. Getting worse to get better is a backwards attempt to shortcut building a winner, and at the end of the day it only really buys you a lottery ticket.
 

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This is just about the best move Mac could have made under the circumstances.

McCown throws 1.2 TD/GM as well as 1.2 INT/GM. This is a certain upgrade over Fitz, who killed the Jets over and over again with 0.86 TD/GM while allowing 1.2 INT/GM.

The only questions is whether the OL can keep him healthy for any length of time.