SJUFAN2" post=411779 said:
austour" post=411773 said:
MCNPA" post=411712 said:
IMO Jets should keep Darnold, go grab a seasoned QB from somewhere to compete for starting job. Start rebuilding by hiring a great coach and using all those great draft picks for the multitude of other needs. Can always part with Darnold in a year or two if it doesn't work out, but he's got talent and it's be a waste to trade the farm for somebody that's not Trevor Lawrence. QB's are often hard to forecast. The jets have a ton they need to rebuild. Most important is having a good front office and good coach who has a plan.
I agree there are a multitude of needs to justify holding on to the picks. But Deshaun Watson is one of the top 5 QBs in the league under the age of 40, IOW with more than another year left on their career. And he's only 25. His only downsides are what it would cost to get him and his impact on the salary cap. Trevor Lawrence has proven nothing.
So if you trade for Watson, what are you willing to give up?
In my very uninformed opinion, if you are the Bears or the Rams or the Colts you give up a lot of draft picks (2 1s and a few 2s/3s), your present QB, and one star to become a Super Bowl contender. Saints have their Brees successor if they do the same. If things get bad enough in Texas and they tak calls those teams might have enough assets left behind to maybe make the sacrifice worth it. And it might cost less. Texans need draft picks after sending them all to you guys for Tunsil.
But if we are exclusively talking about the Jets as I said I agree that it's hard to justify. They'd need to offer Sam, #2 and all the Seahawks picks the next 2 years to get them to pick up the phone. Jets need too many things to do that. Personally I think the Jets should hold on to Sam, build the OL, DB and skill positions in the next 2 drafts and pick up a low cost vet if Sam can't succeed with better parts around him. Jets are in win 2024 mode anyway.
Austour, this makes a lot of sense to me. The Jets are not a good QB away from being competitive. They have too many holes to fill on both sides of the ball. Look what happened to Burrow at Cincinnati. A QB needs a line that can protect him and competent skill players to be effective. To me, the jury is still out on Darnold. He really hasn't had an opportunity to show what he can do. The problem is that, if he stays, the Jets will have to make a decision about his future with the team next season.
I like Douglass so far and think he can get the team on the road to recovery. But I'm glad I'm not in his shoes. He has some very difficult decision to make in the months ahead that could impact his future as an NFL GM.