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Slauson is the Jets version of Dan Connolly. He's a guy who can start and do a serviceable job, but he's also a guy who you are always trying to upgrade. That's who he is. Do you disagree?
As to Woody, the Jets have a problem there. They just paid Wayne Hunter OVER $3MM/year. That alone tells you the Jets aren't counting on Ducasse for ANOTHER year.
Finally I disagree with AJ with the common wisdom that ANYONE can sign ANYONE and make it work cap wise by essentially cooking the books. I acknowledge that the Jets can significantly lower Sanchez's contract by restructuring. However from what I understand Revis' contract is much more difficult for them to do anything with, UNLESS they are prepared to extend him. Also understand that when these guys "restructure" NONE of them are taking LESS money.
Other Jet cap notes. They did massively luck out with the dead money going away, but they ARE going to have to pay the heafty work out bonuses including D'Brick's $750,000. Thats going to be over a Million in cap space gone. They are, by necessity going to have to play with over half their roster playing for the minimum
Here's the test again. the Jets will AGAIN have a lot more "stars" on their team than the Pats, but the Pats will be more talented and deeper in the bottom half of the roster than the Jets. 2 entirely different outlooks to building a roster. Not saying which way is best. Only time will tell.
I know there are lots of reasons that the Jets running game diminished between 09 and 10. Both sides made reasonable points, IMHO. However as BB has often said. Each year is ALWAYs completely different. If you are basing your assessments on what happened the year before, then you most likely will be wrong. As fans we do it all the time, including myself. Fortunately BB doesn't. Each year you end up with 20% of your roster different, and that by definition changes the chemistry of every team and makes each year unique
Will the Pats rushing game be better this year? will the Jets running game be worse? You can't answer those questions now. You won't know until next Jan. The point I'm trying to make is that we ALL have the right to SPECULATE on what might be. But we SHOULD at least acknowledge that all it IS, is speculation. In too many posts that speculation comes off as sounding as fact.
Or in Doggin and AJ's discussion, even using the same stats both parties came up with different conclusions. That should tell us something about stats.
