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Westborough, MA – Why is Haason Reddick on the Jets right now?
What is the point?
Why was it so important to end his head-scratching holdout in the middle of the season, with the team at 2-5?
How was he really going to help turn it around?
The Jets’ biggest problem is their tackling and run defense. Yes, you can always use another good pass rusher, but the run defense is the Achilles heel of this football team, and Reddick has never been great against the run. At 6-1, 245, he’s not exactly built to set a strong edge.
And in a contract year, you know darn well amassing a lot of sacks is on his mind, to help him get the bag next off-season, so this isn’t exactly going to enhance his run defense
He clearly came back so he could salvage some of his 2024 salary and also get an accrued season, so would be a free agent next off-season.
Why even give him makable incentives to earn back the fine money? By holding out, and not honoring his contract for the first seven games, he screwed the organization, and perhaps contributed to the hole they are in right now.
He was so irrational in his holdout that the powerful agency, CAA, dropped him as a client a few weeks ago, and he signed with Drew Rosenhaus.
People will say Rosenhaus got a deal done to end the holdout. Was there a big difference between what CAA could have got him, and what Rosenhaus did? Reading the tea leaves, it doesn’t look that way.
And then the nonsense that when on Thursday in the locker room when he was finally supposed to address the media, and after a negotiation for about 10 minutes with a Jets PR guy, he said he wouldn’t do it, but would after the game. During this “negotiation,” a phone was being passed between Reddick and the PR guy. Perhaps it was Rosenhaus on the phone. Bizarre. Never seen this before in a locker room – a player negotiating about whether he would talk to the media with a PR guy and a third party on a phone.
But you didn’t need to be Albert Einstein to surmise that after the game, he would say “I don’t want to talk about the holdout, I just want to talk about football,” and that is exactly what he did. Who didn’t see that coming?
“I have nothing to say as far as the holdout,” Reddick said. “The only thing that I’m worried about right now is what can I do to be better, what can I do to get myself fully up to speed. We got a Thursday night game and that’s the only thing I’m focused on right now.”
What a team guy.
If the Jets don’t trade this guy, they don’t get culture.
Why would you want this guy around your team?
It’s like dating somebody who is not into you?
You think he digs being a Jet?
Decisions like this, like ending this guy’s holdout now, instead of trading him, is an example of why the Jets are in a bad place right now.
As Mike Tomlin said on more than one occasion about disgruntled players, “I want volunteers, not hostages.”
And the BS he pulled after the game, acting like this quintessential team player, was ridiculous.
Just like reporters going along with the request to not talk about the holdout and asking him other stuff, like how he felt out there.
Honestly, from a journalistic standpoint, there was nothing else worth asking him about aside from one of the most bizarre holdouts in NFL history.
The Reddick holdout is probably a contributing factor to the Jets season being in the toilet right now. What a distraction this has been since March.
Why would you want him in your clubhouse at this point?
October 28, 2024
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