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Dan checks in with more of “The Good Stuff” – a myriad of Jets notes on a number of topics. Don’t miss out. Enjoy.
This DUI trial for Braylon Edwards is a huge break for the Jets.
Don’t get me wrong. Nobody should drink and drive. But this indiscretion (and the nightclub fight in Cleveland) by Edwards is going to significantly lower his price, and should allow the Jets to keep him . . .
I’m a little surprised the Jets are going to pull the purse strings, as much as they are, if there is a lockout. Quite honestly, the stock market has been terrific over the last year or so, and Woody Johnson has a lot of money in the market, with very good money managers handling his account.
Does he really need furloughs for non-football people and 25 percent pay-cuts for the coaching staff?
Who knows?
But like I’ve said before, the stadium debt and the $75 million spent lobbying for the NYC stadium, are preying on his mind, and are two reasons for the lockout strategy.
Also, he’s trying to safe a little money to bring back as many of the Jets key free agents as possible . . .
Kris Jenkins free agent visit to the Redskins was just window-dressing. The Redskins are attempting to get younger this off-season, so signing a nose tackle, on the wrong side of thirty, and with myriad surgeries in his past, is the last thing they are going to do.
Jenkins is from Maryland, and would love to play close to home.
But the Jets are still the clubhouse favorites to bring him back, at a much lower salary with playing time incentives. He’s also one of these players that could get cut before the opener, and then brought back after Week One.
This would allow the Jets to avoid guaranteeing his entire salary for 2011, and they could pay him week-to-week . . .
John Connor destroyed his I-Pad by leaving it in his pocket and going into a hot-tub.
The Jets can only hope that his decisions, as the starting fullback next year, are better than that.
But seriously, it looks like the Jets are going to give the job to Connor next season.
One thing he needs to improve upon is consistency. He tends to go for the kill-shot all the time, and sometimes whiffs. He needs to sometimes take some speed off his fastball, and block more efficiently. You don’t need the knockout punch every time.
Plus if he doesn’t back off a little bit, you have to wonder if he will be able to stay healthy. He had a neck stinger issues last year, and this could be an injury that rear it’s ugly head again if he doesn’t take a more pragmatic approach . . .
A player who could be perfect for the Jets, at the 30 spot, is Baylor nose tackle Phil Taylor. He’s the best pure 3-4 nose tackle prospect in this draft.
He’s 6-4, 330-pounds with great feet, and is really, really strong.
As Pat Kirwan put it at the Senior Bowl – “Taylor was forklifting offensive guards.”
The big question about Taylor is what happened to him at Penn State, why he was thrown off the team.
He did seem to mature a great deal at Baylor, graduating on time, and not having any off-the-field issues.
But his time at Penn State, certainly will be put on the microscope.
As we have mentioned many times, Purdue’s Ryan Kerrigan (pictured above) is the ideal pick for the Jets, but he likely won’t be around.