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Long-time Boston sports talk host, WEEI’s Dale Arnold, stated this week that the Jets may be interested in signing QB Tom Brady?
What should we make of this?
Before we continue, it must be pointed out that Arnold said 11 teams would be interested, including the Giants.
Brady’s wife would probably love for her husband to play in New York. She loves Manhattan. They have a place there, and also have looked at estates in Alpine, New Jersey, just 17 miles from MetLife Stadium, and 44 miles from the Jets’ training complex in Florham Park. They are also looking in Greenwich, CT, not to far from the Jets’ stadium and training complex.
Should the Jets be interested in signing Brady? Considering they have missed the playoffs nine years in a row, perhaps.
He might be the greatest QB of all time. Why wouldn’t they be interested?
Interested doesn’t mean they’ll act on it.
In NFL personnel meetings you should discuss all scenarios, all free agents. Discussions don’t mean you are going to do anything.
Recently, Jets GM Joe Douglas was asked about whether he would be open to trading running back Le’Veon Bell.
“Like I said before, if teams do call, I’m going to listen,” Douglas said. “How those conversations go, I can’t speak to that, that’s hypothetical. But, when teams call, I will listen.”
So theoretically, the same would go if Brady’s agent Don Yee called the Jets about his client.
“11 teams have indicated to the Brady camp that there is some interest, three of those teams are the Redskins, Jets and Giants,” tweeted the twitter account that represents Arnold’s show on WEEI.
This is what Arnold is saying, so please don’t kill the messenger here. I’m just writing about what Arnold tweeted, and not lobbying for anything.
But one thing you need to keep in mind about the Jets’ new football brass led by Douglas, Adam Gase, and to a degree, high-ranking personnel guys like Phil Savage, Rex Hogan and Chad Alexander – none of them had anything to do with the Jets picking Sam Darnold in 2018.
I’m not saying they didn’t like him, but just saying they weren’t part of the Jets’ regime that picked him.
We have no idea what kind of grades Douglas, Gase, Savage, Hogan or Alexander had on Darnold coming out of USC.
Remember, some in the scouting community weren’t comfortable with his throwing motion, which is kind of elongated.
2020 is a huge year for Darnold. That’s not rocket science. He’s has tremendous potential, with a big arm and an inate ability to make plays off-schedule that’s special. But some people, who don’t own pom-poms, and don’t blame everything on his weapons and line, know he has some things to work on, especially going through his progressions better. He has a tendency to lock on his first read a lot, which is common for young quarterbacks. He’s only 22 – man is that young for an NFL QB – so he should continue to grow.
Will the Jets sign Brady?
Highly unlikely.
Should Douglas talk on the phone on Yee for a few minutes about his client.
Probably.
It’s called “due diligence,” and there’s nothing wrong with that.
January 30, 2020
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