WhitewalkerInPhilly

I'm still curious to see what they do to make cap space. I suppose the easiest is to pay Revis most of his fully guaranteed season salary as a signing bonus, but that makes an aging CB very hard to cut.

A little. The knock was the he didn't have phenomenal pocket presence and he wasn't a running QB like Mariota for Chip's perfect offense QB. Which made it mystifying that he went for Bradford, who is a statue. It seems like a moot point though. Jets have Fitz, and Vic is saying it's not likely in Buffalo. Of course with Vic's "sources" I sometimes predict opposite.

This is where I'm curious. When you factor in the 1.2M more that will get slapped on when the 53 man roster comes into effect, plus the fact that you want to keep some cash around to sign players for when injuries happen, how to the Jets get $7M or so? The only way I see it is cutting some veteran players or rolling new cintact which overload them even more nextensive year. Which suits me just fine

The thing is, what Foles is good at is directly opposite what Fitz does and Chan likes. Fitz gunslings it over the middle and Chan likes his empty backfield sets. Foles throws deep. I don't think it's a good fit for the Jets.

Look, I've been in the camp which has said that cutting EJ makes no sense to cut because it gives them nothing. Well, it's a little, and that dead money does roll over. Foles may be a system QB, but where he thrived was with the deep pass down the sideline (like Tyrod), with McCoy opening up things on the ground (like Tyrod) but struggled over the middle (Tyrod is getting better, but not at the start). He is a better fit for the offense as it is now than EJ. I don't hate EJ. But EJ never had a run like Foles did.

Last offseason, before the Eagles traded him, I was banging down the door that we might be able to get him this offseason. I despaired when the Rams signed him long term. The difference a year makes. Not to say I wouldn't take a sniff. I watched him a bit in Andy Reid's last year in Philly and liked what I saw. He had a nice deep sideline pass (like Tyrod) and had some wheels to get out of trouble. When he had DeSean Jackson to throw to down the sideline and Shady to help on the ground and Chip's ideas were still fresh he tore it up. The next year, teams had enough film on Chip that they could see some tendencies. Jackson was cut for...reasons, and Maclin wasn't quite the same. Foles struggled a bit, but they were still 6-2 and only lost to the Cardinals (11-5 playoff team) and the Niners (NFC Championship game). Then, he gets a broken collarbone, and somehow incurs the wrath of The Visor, and gets shipped off to St. Louis, with an owner looking to tear the place down in what had been the 28th ranked offense the year before. If anything, it's a bargaining chip for keeping Tyrod. But I bet he goes to Denver.

And I live there! Bwahaha, I let the corruption run through me! It's Fox, what do you expect, accuracy in journalism?

A very, very good day!

To be fair, the NFLPA is right that it's a broken system. But it's one they agreed too. Screw Brady!

Of similar vein, I would like defensive holding to no longer be an instant 1st down. I can't remember how many times I saw teams on third and long spread it out and just air it in the hopes that the backup CB tugs a bit at the 5.1 yard mark for an instant third down.

Well, there are LA: http://nypost.com/2015/10/13/mets-fan-victim-of-bloody-dodger-stadium-beatdown/ St. Louis, where their own fans have shot each other and beat down cubs fans. Jets fans, where their most famous fan Fireman Ed is beloved for being a violent trash talker. I've been to a lot of Philly sports events and there are plenty of chuckle heads, but I've seen just as bad with Bills and Sabres fans. But no the Santa Snowball incident, 20 years before I was born, still gets brought up.

Look, Philly fans get a bad rap IMHO. But seriously, an event like this pretty much shuts down that city. The papal visit erupted into so much of a sh*t show that people were driving out to NJ, parking their cars and taking the train back in.

I doubt that Manny will be cut now. A) Even optimistic projections have Manny missing a week or two and B) Even if Johnson has the stuff, it usually wise to have a veteran backup and C) Manny's contract really isn't that bad

Mid-Season form already!

Now he gets to return and fail to make this team. Rough, but seriously, even coming in now he's a long shot. His training was for the Olympics, and there is only this year left on his deal. If he and Listenbee are even close to even, you have to go with the younger guy you have the rights for 3 years down the road.

Hey Rob, big fan of your work. Could you possibly do one on Kevon Seymour in the future? He wasn't a big name circulating around at draft time, but it seems Rex has been very happy with his progress and is allegedly turning heads.

Yeah...Schwartz has a nice front 7 to work with, but man that secondary is looking bad.

I think it was more with what Tyrod is good at, but I think that was definitely part of the strategy. It does synergies well.

So...any actual updates, or is this still noise on bickering raging for months.

I hadnt, but the writeup Rob Quinn did mentioned that Ragland is a fit for what Bart Scott did. Scott was a Will, but because of the way that Ryan bunched his linebackers it was closer to 3-4 MLB.

Dez Lewis is sounding like a pleasant surprise. We all knew he was going to be a project at best, but early signs are that he's turning a corner. He's had all the measurables, just not great competition. It would nice if we struck a diamond in the rough on a 7th rounder

Yeah. Offer 3 years they could soften the blow, but they are pinched for cap space right now and will need as much as they can for Wilkerson. They'd need to free up $9 million in cap space. No way they do that without some veteran cuts or major restructures.

Yeah, they either let Fitz walk or cut the people who let him function. Or pay Wilkerson Suh type money.

They seem to really like Seymour. It would be great to find a solid player so can step in. I like Robey, but I do not want him on the outside.

I don't know how they afford Fitz even at a cap hit of $12 M. Even of they balance some of that with a signing bonus, I don't see it less than $8 M and they have $3.1 now. With the guaranteed money they have, they either restructure Wilkerson to almost no salary this year and just a signing bonus or you cut your starting center, RT or Decker.