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OT: 2024 NY Jets Off Season Thread

Favorite Jets Uniform?

  • 1) White Helmet Super Bowl III Style

    Votes: 7 53.8%
  • 2) Green Helmet 80's Sack Exchange Look

    Votes: 5 38.5%
  • 3) Something Else

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • Total voters
    13
I get the idea of acquiring more weapons, I just don’t get the obsession with getting one of the top three WRs.

This isn’t a situation like Arizona or the Giants where they desperately need a WR1. The Jets already have Wilson and there are lot of guys available in rounds 2-4 of this draft who can be very good WR2s or WR3s.
Could trade back a few spots in rd 1 and still take a T (my son likes Fautanu from Wash, very versatile, can play anywhere on the line), then pick up a 2nd rounder. The APP has them taking the T Fashanu from Penn St, but if Fautanu is not a real drop off, picking up the extra pick is a interesting idea
 
Unfortunately I heard on coverage late today that Fautanu is a candidate for dropping because the medical evaluation of him showed something with his knee that is likely to shorten his career.
 
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Could trade back a few spots in rd 1 and still take a T (my son likes Fautanu from Wash, very versatile, can play anywhere on the line), then pick up a 2nd rounder. The APP has them taking the T Fashanu from Penn St, but if Fautanu is not a real drop off, picking up the extra pick is a interesting idea
Can't trade back unless there's somebody available at 10 whom somebody is willing to trade up for. Which there probably won't be.
 
Trading down is IMO only possible if one of the top four QB's is available at 10, which is highly unlikely.

Unless one of the top three WR's is still available, I think it's a lock that they will take Bowers. Long term, they'd probably be better off with an elite OT. But I doubt that anyone in the Jet organization is thinking long term. Least of all their President of Football Operations, who is also their QB, who is also their Chief Medical Officer.

(Just kidding about the Chief Medical Officer part.)
Ok I am an idiot.
 
I’m good with the move. The PSU T is among the top 3 OTs in the draft. I was hoping they would get a 2nd rd pick for the move down but it was only 1 spot. They got a 4th and 5 th rounder in this draft. They can get a WR in rd 3.
 
I was looking at 1980 draft and saw Jets took Johnny "Lam" Jones at #2.
I knew he was kind of a bust but figured he must have had some killer stats at Texas

Then I saw this:

WKarxLu.jpeg


Who looks at those stats and makes the player #2 in draft?
I know he has track speed but he couldn't catch
Jets wanted Munoz but doctor told Jets his knee wasn't good
 
I was looking at 1980 draft and saw Jets took Johnny "Lam" Jones at #2.
I knew he was kind of a bust but figured he must have had some killer stats at Texas

Then I saw this:

WKarxLu.jpeg


Who looks at those stats and makes the player #2 in draft?
I know he has track speed but he couldn't catch
Jets wanted Munoz but doctor told Jets his knee wasn't good
Totally different game back then. That yds per reception was from to catching long bombs, not YAC after catching short passes in an offense that is spread out.

Teams didn’t try to spread out the defense by spreading out the offense, they just tried to go over the top of the defense or go wide with the triple option . Jones was a good deep threat in college, but it did not translate for the Jets at all.
 
I was looking at 1980 draft and saw Jets took Johnny "Lam" Jones at #2.
I knew he was kind of a bust but figured he must have had some killer stats at Texas

Then I saw this:

WKarxLu.jpeg


Who looks at those stats and makes the player #2 in draft?
I know he has track speed but he couldn't catch
Jets wanted Munoz but doctor told Jets his knee wasn't good
The college game was completely different back then. Offenses spread the defense by option based runnng attacks. Darrel Royal invented the “wishbone” offense at Texas back in the 1960s. By the late 70s, Texas was running a hybrid wishbone offense, with Johnny “Lam” Jones at RB/WR and Johnny “Ham” Jones at RB/WR. Lam Jones had blazing straight line speed, I believe he clocked a 9.2 second 100 yd dash. One small problem- he couldn’t catch very well, especially when he wasn’t 10 yds behind the coverage.
 
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I was looking at 1980 draft and saw Jets took Johnny "Lam" Jones at #2.
I knew he was kind of a bust but figured he must have had some killer stats at Texas

Then I saw this:

WKarxLu.jpeg


Who looks at those stats and makes the player #2 in draft?
I know he has track speed but he couldn't catch
Jets wanted Munoz but doctor told Jets his knee wasn't good
He had olympic speed, was a big home run threat, and that was the allure. He had a lot of those TD's in college, the problem was 1) that was college and he couldn't just blow by guys in the Pros for a 5 yard cushion, and 2) was soft, the one-on-one home run pass was all he wanted to catch, and even there didn't want to fight for the ball. And forget about going over the middle where there might be contact or getting hit - had a rampant case of "Alligator Arms"
 
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On the topic of stuff that didn't happen: Conner Hughes of The Athletic reported that Olu Fashanu was the Jets Plan B. Plan A was Rome Odunze. Reportedly the Jets tried to trade up to get him, starting with the Giants at Pick 6. They were no takers, probably because the Jets had no tradable currency (i.e no second round pick). They tried to offer their second rounder next year, but no deal.

Apparently Brock Bowers was not a consideration.
 
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