Daily Links: If we don’t look good, YOU don’t look good
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Bassett
- Sean Lahman gets all Vidal Sasson on the Jets – Dolphins game.
- Our man Tom Rock is cold in SoFla … no sympathy here pal. I’m freezing my keister and raking leaves.
- Lange is trying to reverse the spin on Pennington.
- Both teams aren’t focusing on records, job well done, fellas.
- Boo hoo … the the NE media is concerned the Pats can’t keep both Randy Moss and Asante Samuel.
- The mayor of L.A. realizes that his city has been nothing more than a bargaining chip. Good work, Sherlock.
- Could McFadden go … all … the … way (at #1)?
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Posted in the last thread, but then saw the headline here re: Moss/Samuels so wanted to put it here too…
I’m curious to see how the Samuels thing plays out.
To his credit, he has backed up his claim of being in the top 10% of CBs, I’m assuming Mangini must still love him and hasn’t lost interest in trying to get him since last off-season. Plus with Revis, he’d be grinning at the opportunity to have two legit CBs in the Jets backfield for the first time since Houston joined the league and swiped our two.
Its too early to have had a chance to look in depth at the numbers but Moss and Samuels would both have to get paid in NE in order for them to stay, and both warrant contracts in-line with the highest paid players at their respective positions. I know NE has managed the cap situation very, very well, but can they afford two franchise-caliber players in the same year. Further, doesn’t every dollar the Jets use to lure players away from a division rival have more value than dollars spent acquiring similar talent from other divisions?
Its pretty clear to me that the Jets need to make sure both of these players know that they should check in with the Jets camp at the end of the season just to see whats what. At a minimum, we should do whatever we can to drive up the price (which is probably what the attempt to sign Samuels last off-season was about, anyway.)
While neither addresses one of our three biggest needs (DL, OL, LB) working these angles should still be top priorities in the off-season.