WFAN: Jets 'close" to signing Lynch (Merged) - New England Patriots Forums

***BigMike*** · 09-01-2008, 01:29 PM

Lynch must belive he is still a full time starter, with NE believing he is a situational player at this stage of his career.

I would love to know the Jets salary cap at this point and how Lynch will look playing full time inthe backfield for NYJ.

***ALP*** · 09-01-2008, 01:31 PM

owww...i wwould hate to be the jets front office in the future....those guys need to get out while they still can

***pats1*** · 09-01-2008, 01:31 PM

Just were $1.9M under the cap as of August 25:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/...-of-august-25/

Rich Cimini has also been talking about this on his blog:

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jet...dolphin-w.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jet...er-run-at.html

***jmt57*** · 09-01-2008, 01:32 PM

According to this site, it's $1,164,429. I had thought it was less than that, well under $1mil after the Favre signing and Pennington release.

http://www.nyjetscap.com/salary.html

CheerforTom · 09-01-2008, 01:33 PM

Hopefully if he does sign for a larger role he won't stand out; not that I dislike him, but he's poised to make Bill look very stupid here if he excels.

DefenseRules · 09-01-2008, 01:34 PM

Good for them. The Broncos released him for a reason. I was surprised that we picked him up. If the Jets get him, good for them obviously he thinks that he can still be a full time player and they feel the same. He has to do what's best for his career. I'm still trying to figure out why the Pats cut him in the first place.

wdkantro2 · 09-01-2008, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by CheerforTom

Hopefully if he does sign for a larger role he won't stand out; not that I dislike him, but he's poised to make Bill look very stupid here if he excels.

How? He would be our fourth safety. It's not like Lawyer Milloy where he was the #1 guy and got cut.
Considering the only way Lynch would sign there is if he had a fairly big role. And to be quite honest, from a Patriots perspective, I'd be very happy if the Jets threw a lot of money at him and put him out there next to Rhodes.

***Leave No Doubt*** · 09-01-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BigMike

Lynch must belive he is still a full time starter, with NE believing he is a situational player at this stage of his career.

I would love to know the Jets salary cap at this point and how Lynch will look playing full time inthe backfield for NYJ.

I can't blame him for making that move if the Jets are offering FT starter. Personally I thought he would look better in situational plays and in that regard I liked having him back there. It'll be interesting to see how he fares full time.

This whole thing with the Jets is just mind boggling sometimes LOL

SeanBruschi54 · 09-01-2008, 01:42 PM

If the Jets are only 1.5 million or so under the cap how can they sign him considering we signed him at around that price?

Having a cap that low would make it nearly impossible to sign replacements in case of injuries during the season.

How would this work?

Sicilian · 09-01-2008, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SeanBruschi54

If the Jets are only 1.5 million or so under the cap how can they sign him considering we signed him at around that price?

Having a cap that low would make it nearly impossible to sign replacements in case of injuries during the season.

How would this work?

With any luck, it won't, and the Jets will be scrambling cap wise with an under .500 teams