Chapter 1: What are the current challenges facing the New York Jets?
Justin Fields no longer with the New York Jets. Darren Muji, of course, and Aaron Glenn getting that one horribly wrong, but hopefully they don't run it back with a horribly wrong decision at quarterback with Geno Smith. I know it's tough.
These are two relatively—one is a new regime with the Giants, obviously, but this is the second year of Muji and Glenn, and there's a lot of things that I like. What both teams are doing. And I don't feel like it's me getting lulled into that false sense of security with these organizations.
I actually think that all of these moves have been beneficial ones from both general managers up until or head coaches up until this point. Darren Mooji has set themselves up in a great spot. The hardest thing is to come, though, which is picking the right players.
But with the one-year deals, with the accumulation of draft picks, with the cap space that they have, I mean, and I know that they're going to try to win this year and they're trying to get to six or seven wins, but their future and what they have is – Darren Moody did a great job turning this thing around.
I think in the last week they picked up three more draft picks, two compensatory picks, and then another one for Justin Fields. Right, and what I mean turning it around is turning around the situation where you've got more picks, you've got more cap space, you're tearing it down, and now you're ready to build it back up.
You've kind of poured the foundation, if you're looking for more horrible analogies, but you're sort of pouring the foundation and hoping that the next couple of moves you start building upward again. But, I mean, this could be another horrendous year. It's either going to be a team that wins...
You know, maybe seven games and this regime comes back or a team that bottoms out again, you know, two or three wins and then everybody gets wiped out and then they start over with what would be a, you know, at that point it might be an attractive job because of all the picks and who knows who they select this year.
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Chapter 2: How is Darren Mougey reshaping the Giants for success?
And by the way, you know, like I was saying yesterday to Jerry that Pete Carroll came out and said, you know, he blamed himself for Gino's decline last year with the Raiders. They hired Chip Kelly. They fired Chip Kelly in the middle of the season. It was not a good fit. There weren't a lot of good players around him.
I think they'll – the one thing he will know, and I've told you this about Frank, they'll be more buttoned up. They'll be more organized. They'll be better communication. So the quarterback will benefit from that.
Plus, they've added a number of veterans on this team, and I think the reason that they're doing that is they're trying to get as competitive as they possibly can within the building itself, first and foremost, and then have the right leadership on the field when you're practicing, when you're preparing, when you're watching tape.
You want to make sure that you have guys like Minkup to Patrick, to Mario Davis. You want to have a veteran quarterback that we were talking about, a presence at quarterback that has pretty much seen everything. And that is Geno, and he's back here for his third time. He's been with the Jets. He's been with the Giants. He's back here now. He's going to have an opportunity to start this year.
I'm sure there's going to be some incentives in this contract. But the Jets are removing a mistake they made last year, barely paying Geno that much money, and they're going to have to sign another veteran. There's going to be another veteran in the mix here.
Not to compete for the starting job, but would be told that, look, you're going to be the backup, and they're probably going to draft somebody. I don't know if they keep Brady Cook. I'm not sure if they think that he has anything of substance to move forward with. That would be up for Frank and Darren Muji to decide whether or not that's going to be workable.
But I do think that there has to be yet another veteran that's going to be added to this. Now, I said yesterday, and I'll say it again today – Would I be surprised if it's Carson Wentz? I would not. And I know that's not going to excite people. But it's not going to start. By the way, this is not about exciting people anymore at the quarterback position until they draft one very high.
Now, if they draft, let's say, Ty Simpson with one of their first-round picks or they trade back into the first round to go get him, then maybe you have your future quarterback if, in fact, they feel like he can be that guy. If not, then you're going to be waiting until next year or later in this draft for Carson Beck or somebody like that that you can bring in and hopefully develop.
And then next year with all those draft picks and with all that money that they're going to be able to spend in free agency.
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Chapter 3: What strategies are being implemented to build a competitive team?
I'm like, this is where Darren Moochie is winning me over. He's cleaning this whole cap thing up. And next year with all these one-year contracts, they're going to have such a clean slate. But as we sit here, This time next year, is this coaching staff still here? I think the GM's going to be here, depending on how he does in this year's draft.
He did well last year, and I think most people like the free agents that they've signed, but he's got all this draft capital now. Let's see how he uses it. Let's see what he does to fortify this team and put it on what you'd hope is going to be a bright future with younger players.
We always talk about shots on goal with the quarterbacks and drafting quarterbacks, and the Jets are in the perfect position to do that. I mean, they could draft someone out of the first round this year and then still be in a great position to draft a quarterback next year if they don't believe that the guy that they drafted this year is going to be someone that's going to be in their future.
So, I mean, that's what's great about having so many picks and so many high picks is You could afford the opportunity to bring in a quarterback that maybe you don't feel 100% about in the second, third, fourth round just to give it a shot because next year you've got two first-round picks. And then flip into the Giants real quickly, just thinking about what they're doing.
First of all, like I said, it starts with a coach. So the coach brings instant credibility. There's going to be competition on the practice field, in the meeting rooms. There's going to be a feel like they are going to be competitive immediately out of the gate.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Jets' draft picks for the upcoming season?
And I know they're going to have a tough schedule like they did last year. The quarterbacks could be a lot better. They've added fullback to the offense, which I love, especially in the Northeast. I love the I formation. I know that it's a little bit antiquated, but there are a lot of teams that still use it. And a lot of those teams, like San Francisco, are still very successful offenses.
When you have that guy that's multidimensional back there, Patrick Ricard is one of those guys, and so is Cam Scadaboo. Yeah, I mean, they're going to have some bruisers in that backfield. And it just makes your team tougher. It makes who you are more difficult to defend.
And, you know, that's exactly what the Seattle Seahawks were with Kenneth Walker III and Charbonnet as their two running backs. Charbonnet obviously got hurt towards the end of the year, and then Kenneth Walker took over. And, you know, I just think it's the perfect situation, and I also think it's the perfect situation for Patrick Mahomes now to have Kenneth Walker in the backfield. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that was a shrewd move. It was something that made lots of sense. Where Jeremiah Love goes in the draft now is even more interesting with the Chiefs going to Kenneth Walker. So, yeah, that's going to be the storyline outside. Do you think somebody has already decided that they've got to have Jeremiah Love?
Do you think there's a team out there that sees him as such a can't-miss player, much like Gettleman saw Saquon Barkley? And I'm like, with Saquon doing what he did in Philadelphia, I mean, it kind of validates some of the things that Dave Gediman was saying about him. Yeah, but they were bringing Saquon in to try to save the last couple years of Eli's career. That's what that was all about.
And it just didn't work. He was done, Eli, and... You know, we know the rest is history. So it really has to be. That's why they drafted a running back second overall is because they thought that they weren't far away from winning. So if, you know, it's certainly not going to be the Jets. We know Mendoza's going one. I mean, what team is ready to use a top ten pick on a running back?
This kid is basically Le'Veon Bell. reincarnated in a sense that he can do everything on the football field. Yeah. Remember the whole argument in Pittsburgh with Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown, who was more important, and Antonio got paid more because he was a wide receiver, but who touched the ball more? Yeah, Le'Veon Bell. Le'Veon Bell touched the ball everywhere. Yeah.
I think he had like 85 catches and 480 touches or something one year. Yeah, Kuyper. I know you love Mel Kuyper. His latest mock draft has Jeremiah Love going to the Titans at four. That would make sense with all the money that they have spent. Yeah. Didn't they just redo Calvin Ridley's deal too? Yeah, I saved them like $11 million in the cap with that.
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