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Post by Frank Reynolds on Mar 10, 2015 14:37:02 GMT -5
Where's the D?
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 11, 2015 12:29:27 GMT -5
Tedy Bruschi : Patriots might need to change defensive concepts ESPN NFL analyst and former New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi thinks the Patriots might have to abandon their man-coverage scheme in the wake of losing cornerbacks Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner.“If they don’t get corners in there that can play the type of quality man-to-man that those two players could do, you’re talking concept change now,” Bruschi said Wednesday on "SportsCenter." “This was a predominantly man-coverage scheme in the secondary because they trusted those players so much, with [Devin] McCourty over the top. “You still have McCourty over the top, but if you don’t have those [cornerbacks], coach Belidick and this defensive staff, they realize that if you can’t do something, you just don’t do it anymore. So your concept changes, you start coaching differently. You become more of a zone scheme, which they were a few years ago. “You have to change the way you call defenses.That’s how big of a signing this was[for the Jets].”Bruschi also weighed in on the loss of versatile running back Shane Vereen, the now-former Patriot who signed with the Giants on Tuesday. “That type of player doesn’t grow on trees,” Bruschi said. “Do you go to the draft for that type of player and develop him? And as you develop him, there’s going to be that one or two years of growth that even Vereen had early on. Now you’ve developed him and had him where you wanted, and now he’s gone.” > espn.go.com/b...ensive-concepts
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Post by Bing© in Buffalo Chairman on Mar 11, 2015 12:31:43 GMT -5
Looking good in your Red Dress Kelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!must be warming up in Denmark now
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 16, 2015 12:56:05 GMT -5
Updating Jets' needs after a wild 10 days of trading, spending The New York Jets have added six potential starters in the past 10 days, addressing their most glaring needs. But we all know you can't fix a 4-12 team in 10 days, so there is more work to be done. Here is our revised list of Jets' needs : 1. Edge rusher: They bought cheap insurance by exercising inexpensive options for Calvin Pace and Jason Babin, but they still need a dynamic pass-rusher on the edge. They'll have to find him in the draft. 2. Quarterback: A long-term answer. 3. Running back: Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell are a nice start, but where's the home-run threat? This, too, likely will be addressed in the draft. 4. A No. 4 wide receiver: There have been some rumblings about Stevie Johnson, who knows Chan Gailey from their days with the Buffalo Bills. What the Jets need is a vertical threat to put with Brandon Marshall, Eric Decker, and Jeremy Kerley. They probably will have their choice of Amari Cooper or Kevin White in the draft. 5. Defensive-line depth: They need some help behind the Big Three. Last year's backups, Leger Douzable and Kenrick Ellis, are free agents. There is interest in re-signing them, but there are players on the market with connections to Todd Bowles -- Chris Canty, Randy Starks and Tommy Kelly. 6. Offensive-tackle depth: They could use a swing tackle to play behind D'Brickashaw Ferguson and Breno Giacomini. Last year's swing, Ben Ijalana, is a free agent. > espn.go.com/b...rading-spending
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 16, 2015 12:58:39 GMT -5
Looking good in your Red Dress Kelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!must be warming up in Denmark now thanx !..
... cheers ~ ~
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 16, 2015 13:02:48 GMT -5
Looking good in your Red Dress Kelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!must be warming up in Denmark now thanx !..
... cheers ~ ~
oh ,..yes, we did get some..
...snow
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 17, 2015 11:47:12 GMT -5
Free agency is a week old, which means it's time for everyone to judge every move that's getting made, never mind there won't be any actual football that counts for another six months.Bill Barnwell of Grantland needed a mere two days to weigh in with a verdict on the worst free agent contracts out there (so far), with inside linebacker David Harris' new deal to remain with the Jets making Barnwell's list. You can read all of Barnwell's analysis over yonder, but I'm pulling out these two paragraphs just because : At 31, you would expect him to be on the downside of his career, but it still seemed logical for the post-Kiko Alonso Bills to target Harris as a [Rex] Ryan acolyte in free agency. The Jets ensured that wouldn't happen by massively overpaying to keep Harris in town. Harris' three-year deal pays out $15 million in guaranteed money over the next two seasons, a deal that stands out as an outlier among similar players. Harris comes away with the fourth-largest guarantee for an inside linebacker, and no veteran with a contract as big as Harris' has a larger percentage of his money guaranteed. And this comes for a guy who was declining! On the surface, this isn't an unreasonable opinion. Harris is on the decline. But Barnwell also overlooks a few factors : 1. The Jets wanted Harris back. Badly. General manager Mike Maccagnan and head coach Todd Bowles came right out and said as much at the combine last month. Barnwell himself noted that Rex Ryan's Bills would be in play, especially after the Bills shipped Alonso to the Eagles. The Jets did what they could to hang on to Harris before the Bills would even get a chance to make an offer. 2. This deal sends a message. Harris is one of the most respected veterans in the locker room. In eight prior seasons, he rarely came off the field. He knows the system, knows the surroundings. Remember, Harris and the Jets reached an agreement just before the start of free agency. After all the negativity generated by previous GM John Idzik's tight-fistedness, this was a way to let the roster's young players know productivity and leadership would be rewarded. This was true even though Harris had just played the duration of a lucrative contract. 3. This deal doesn't break the Jets. The Jets had to spend in 2015 and '16: The league's cash spending rules required it. And the salary cap went up 7.7 percent from where it was 2014. Salaries, in turn, are going to rise, too—which is why it's a bit disingenuous to say simply that Harris has the fourth-highest guarantee for an inside linebacker. In another year or two, that likely won't be true. 4. The fine print isn't that bad. On its face, $21.5 million for three years with $15 million guaranteed looks like a lot. But forget those first two figures; as with most any NFL contract, especially for a player over 30, the guaranteed money is all that matters. And Harris' $15 million in guarantees is entirely front-loaded into the first two years of that deal. If he continues to show his age and the Jets have to release him (or "part ways" in the current kinder, gentler NFL parlance), they can do that after next season and owe Harris nothing. 5. This deal fits a pattern. The details on Antonio Cromartie's and Marcus Gilchrist's contracts haven't yet been made available, but the guarantees in the Jets' other major free agent deals—Darrelle Revis, Buster Skrine, James Carpenter—are pretty well tied to 2015 and '16, when, as noted above, the Jets had to spend: Skrine's and Carpenter's guarantees run out after 2016, and the last $6 million of Revis's guarantee stretches only as far as 2017, when Revis will be 32. Why is this important? Because the Jets still have to get an extension done for Muhammad Wilkerson and (eventually) Sheldon Richardson. But by front-loading all of the deals they've cut this spring, the Jets still have plenty of flexibility to hand out those extensions with large signing bonuses that can be pro-rated to spread out the cap hit. Harris' deal, in particular, does nothing to affect that. > www.nj.com/je...y_one_of_2.html
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 18, 2015 9:29:31 GMT -5
ESPN Jets reporter Rich Cimini explains why the team bothered to embark on a pricey spree in free agency despite having nothing more than a question mark at quarterback... > espn.go.com/b...ach-makes-sense
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 23, 2015 14:24:48 GMT -5
The NFL Owners meetings kick off this week and the two big things to track are, 1) the potential rules changes and 2) the dispersal of 2015 NFL Draft compensatory picks. The latter typically happens today (Monday). The comp pick formula is an NFL proprietary secret and it's apparently very convoluted, but over the past few years, analysts have gotten better at predicting which teams get picks. The very basic idea is that teams are awarded bonus draft picks for losing big free agents (as compensation, get it?), and the size of each free agent's contract, and their subsequent performance and post-season honors are all taken into consideration for which round the departed free agent is worth (Round 3 is the highest possible). The comp pick formula then crosses off potential comp picks when the team in question signs a free agent to an equal or similar contract to that of their departed player (APY). Cut players don't count. Your own free agents don't count. "Street free agents" signed after June 1st don't count.Teams can receive a maximum of four comp picks, and the Seahawks are projected to be one of the teams that get the maximum four picks. According to OverTheCap's projection, those four will be a Fourth, two Fifths, and a Sixth. These picks result from the Seahawks losing four "big" to "mid-level" free agents on the open market last year while they concentrated on re-signing their own guys to extensions. Gone were Golden Tate ($6.2M APY in Detroit), Brandon Browner ($5.05M APY in New England), Breno Giacomini ($4.5M APY in New York), and Clinton McDonald ($3M APY in Tampa Bay), and after those guys, the Hawks also lost Walter Thurmond, Paul McQuistan, and Chris Maragos, but again, you can only get four comp picks. Because Seattle made no big-time outside signings (Kevin Williams was post-June-1st, as was Eric Winston, and Terrelle Pryor was acquired in a trade), all four should go through. Now, John Schneider had been saying that the team should have ten total picks so he's only counting on three comp picks -- and I believe that's because he doesn't want to count his chickens before they've hatched, so to speak -- but Seattle should really have 11 total if these projections end up correct.Their draft would look like this, going in, if OverTheCap ends up correct: a Second Rounder, a Third, three Fourths, three Fifths, two Sixths, and a Seventh. The Hawks lost their native Sixth Round pick in trading for Marcus Burley last year but gained New York's by trading Percy Harvin. They added New Orleans' Fourth Round pick after trading away their First and Max Unger to the Saints. Of course, this is all projection. The Seahawks could conceivably receive only three picks, or on the other end of the spectrum, the haul could be two Fourths, a Fifth, and a Sixth. We should know by the end of the day. >
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Mar 24, 2015 9:23:47 GMT -5
just an fyi ; -- The ink has dried on cornerback Antonio Cromartie's team-friendly contract with the Jets. The bottom line is, the Jets have no salary cap commitment to Cromartie past this season, when he will count $7 million against their cap -- the entirety of his guaranteed pay.Now that Cromartie's deal is on the books -- along with recent contracts for safety Marcus Gilchrist, offensive guard Willie Colon and long snapper Tanner Purdum -- where do the Jets stand with their remaining salary cap space ? According to overthecap.com's latest estimate, the Jets have $12,283,974 in cap space left. This should be plenty of room to pay their draft picks and also work out a high-dollar contract extension for star defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson. Here's a look at the 2015 cap hits for the Jets' recent free agent signings/re-signings/trades, as the organization took a large chunk out of its approximately $50 million in cap space : • CB Darrelle Revis: $16 million • WR Brandon Marshall: $7.7 million • MLB David Harris: $7.5 million • CB Antonio Cromartie: $7 million • CB Buster Skrine: $4.25 million • QB Ryan Fitzpatrick: $3.25 million • S Marcus Gilchrist: $3.125 million • OG James Carpenter: $2.375 million • RB Bilal Powell: $2 million • LS Tanner Purdum: $877,500 • OG Willie Colon: $665,000 And here's a look at the Jets' updated top 10 cap hits for 2015 : • CB Darrelle Revis: $16 million • LT D'Brickashaw Ferguson: $11.698 million • C Nick Mangold: $10.407 million • WR Brandon Marshall: $7.7 million • MLB David Harris: $7.5 million • CB Antonio Cromartie: $7 million • DE Muhammad Wilkerson: $6.969 million • WR Eric Decker: $6.5 million • RT Breno Giacomini: $5.125 million • CB Buster Skrine: $4.25 million > www.nj.com/je...l_how_much.html
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Apr 4, 2015 10:15:39 GMT -5
Former New York Jets first-round pick Kyle Burnt Toast Wilson found a new home, signing Wednesday with the New Orleans Saints. It's quite obvious the Jets had no interest in re-signing Wilson, judging from their spending spree at cornerback. He was a disappointment for the Jets, whom they drafted 29th overall in 2010. He never developed into anything more than a nickelback, and not a very productive one. It didn't take long for him to become a target of the fans' ire. Looking at the big picture, Wilson's expected departure means the Jets have no players remaining from their 2008 to 2010 drafts. They had only 13 picks over that span, only one of whom still is a full-time starter -- guard Matt Slauson, now with the Chicago Bears. That's a big reason why the Jets were 4-12. The players from those drafts, now with five to seven years experience, should comprise the nucleus of the team. Now you know why the Jets suffered from a dearth of talent.To refresh your memory, the Jets' first-round picks in those years were Vernon Gholston, Dustin Keller, Mark Sanchez and Wilson. Other immortals from that era were Joe McKnight, Vladimir Ducasse and Shonn Greene. In New Orleans, Wilson will play for Rex Ryan's brother, Rob, who was smitten with him before the '10 draft. At the time, he was the Cleveland Browns' defensive coordinator. > espn.go.com/b...raft-is-history
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Post by Bing© in Buffalo Chairman on Apr 9, 2015 15:54:33 GMT -5
Where the hell is Kelly? Rockin and partying on spring break I guess.... perhaps she can tell us about her teenie bopper adventures in the sun and sand......
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Post by Bing© in Buffalo Chairman on Apr 14, 2015 6:57:51 GMT -5
10 days without a post? Send out the search party in Tarnby... Maybe Kelly settled down with the man of her dreams and is starting a family of little Jet fans....
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Apr 15, 2015 10:15:51 GMT -5
Where the hell is Kelly? Rockin and partying on spring break I guess.... perhaps she can tell us about her teenie bopper adventures in the sun and sand......
don't fall asleep at the beach..
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Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Apr 29, 2015 14:12:18 GMT -5
If the Titans are sold on auctioning off the second overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, they have an opening bid. Via Pat McManamon of ESPN.com, the Browns have offered the Titans their two first-rounders, the 12th and 19th overall picks, for the second slot.But it’s never too soon for a little ESPN-on-ESPN crime, as McManamon’s Nashville-based co-worker Paul Kuharsky says a Titans source told him no offer has been made.(Who’s right? ESPN of course.) Naturally, any deal would be with designs on getting Marcus Mariota, who would become the third quarterback drafted in the first round of the last four drafts by the Browns.Of course, that there’s no deal done makes it clear the Titans think it’s worth more than that. So if the Chargers, Eagles, Rams and Jets are also in the mix, they all know what it’s going to take to get a deal done, unless the Buccaneers jack it all up by taking Mariota themselves. >
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