zilby wrote:The only thing this reaffirms is that I have no clue why they put $15M into Teddy and McCown in the first place. I don't mind McCown coming back to be a mentor, but that's all he should be, and we overpaid given nobody else was in play for him. I also can't figure out what the plan is this year with the Trumaine Johnson signing, but are we rebuilding or what?
PS - is the Jets board totally not a thing anymore? Hadn't figured out where we stand on that mainly because I'm not here ever.
McCown was paid to be the good soldier once again. He's the mentor and the continuity in the locker room. Teddy was brought in to be the starter this year, reestablishing his value and quite possibly now a trade bait piece at the deadline or if a team loses a QB this year. I don't believe the McCown is the starter rhetoric.
In football, you can turn around a team in just one offseason, so adding Johnson gives us a number one CB that we needed, allows us to have a defense that could actually steal a game possibly. Our secondary all of a sudden is now one of the better ones, provided we actually allow Johnson to be a press corner.
Look at the Eagles. When they traded up for Wentz, no one would've predicted a Superbowl in just two years. It just goes to show how fast things can turn around in the NFL with one right pick. Please note, I'm not comparing the Jets to the Eagles.