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Regardless if Favre Returns or Not, Jets are Screwed
Published by MoonDog on January 6, 2009
The New York Jets have a lot of problems these days. First, they dropped four of their last five games to finish 9-7 and failed to make the playoffs.
The final regular season loss to the Miami Dolphins was particularly painful because Chad Pennington, the quarterback the Jets sent packing in favor of Brett Fave, guided Miami to a win that propelled them to the AFC East title.
After the loss to the Dolphins, New York fired head coach Eric Mangini and the Jets are now in the process of searching for someone to take over a mediocre team.
As if that wasn’t enough to worry about, the Jets are about to be introduced to what has become the annual Favre mini-drama, “Should I Stay or Should I Go.”
Here’s the really bad news: regardless if Favre returns next season or not, the Jets are screwed.
If Favre does decide to return, the Jets are faced with having a 39-year old quarterback who’s skills are diminishing. If Favre decides to retire – which he should – then New York will have to choose among three QBs on the roster that haven’t done anything worth mentioning.
The Jets have Kellen Clemens, Brett Ratliff and Eric Ainge to potentially place their hopes upon in 2009. Among the three, they have a combined four years of NFL experience.
Of course, the Jets could make a run for Matt Cassel and hope the experience he gained in New England this past season prepared him for better things in the future.
But with the Patriots’ Tom Brady still recovering from a torn ACL and MCL, New England is going to use the franchise tag on Cassel to serve as insurance.
New England Will Use The Franchise Tag on QB Matt Cassell
If Brady doesn’t recover in time when play begins next season, the Patriots would be in a pretty desperate situation if Cassel wasn’t on their roster.
Thus, by utilizing the franchise tag, New England has guaranteed one of two options: trade Cassel if all goes well with Brady’s rehabilitation or keep him if Brady hasn’t fully recovered.
If Brady does recover in time for the start of the 2009 season, New York and every other team in need of quarterback help will have to offer New England a combination of draft picks – a No. 1 pick being a certainty – and perhaps a player or two.
That’s a huge price to pay for a quarterback that still has something to prove.
With the ability to land Cassel looking unlikely, the Jets could potentially trade for another starting quarterback or trade way up in this year’s draft.
The problem New York faces in either scenario is having to mortgage the future in an effort to land a dependable quarterback.
Trading up in the draft to land a rookie quarterback doesn’t make much sense when the Jets already have three young, inexperienced quarterbacks on the roster.
Looking at the available free agent quarterbacks doesn’t give anyone pause for excitement either.
Outside of Cassel, the remaining free agents are Kurt Warner, Rex Grossman, Jeff Garcia, Kyle Boller, Charlie Batch, Kerry Collins, J.P. Losman and Patrick Ramsey.
As I said, the Jets are screwed.
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Matt on Tue, 6th Jan 2009 04:46
Nice post. Yeah they’re in a tough spot. Even if they were willing to give up that much for Cassel, would the Pats want to trade him within the division? I can’t see it happening. And the FA options that you listed are crap. It’s incredible how bad things are for them now after thinking Super Bowl just weeks ago.
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