Link: Top Playmakers
Leon Washington gets some love in another one of those off-season lists we all enjoy so much, as he is recognized in FOX Sports’ top ten playmakers list. And how did I find this list, you might ask? Why, it was on Leon’s agent’s twitter feed, of course.
Nice try, Alvin, but I don’t really think you can expect to establish “fair market value” based on arbitrary online offseason popularity lists. If you could, then the Jets would be overpaying nearly all of their players after the number of times they’ve been overlooked in such lists this summer.
Remember, apparently Jenkins is not a top 20 DT, Revis is not a top 5 CB, your boy Leon is not a top 10 KR and the Jets backfield is the 8th worst in the NFL. Also, if you read the top playmakers list properly, Leon isn’t even in the top ten of that, either. As I say, nice try though.
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Great point Bent. Seriously there is one hope in this Leon Washington ordeal and that is the brain of our GM Mike Tannenbaum. T is going to have to come up with specially fair and complex to keep Leon because this agent of his is not the sharpest tool in the shed to say the least. Strike 1 – being an NFL agent with a Twitter feed. Strike 2 – using Twitter to spread the word on how your client is considered the eleventh best return man in the game (and coincidently part of the 8th worst backfield in the game) when you are looking to get him signed to a new contract that will pay him “fair market value” in which you would think he would be pushing Leon as the CLASS of the market.
The count is not in your favor, Alvin.
It is worth commenting that I find lists like this in general to be pretty useless, but this one definitely has been infected by the ol’ “I don’t really want to research my article I’m writing for my B-Class website” bug. Seriously you are going to put Amobi Okoye ahead of Kris Jenkins? I find this absurd.
If I wanted to write a half arse rankings like those I’d just list off the pro bowlers first and go for some popular names/teams after that. Leon, Revis, Jenkins are all top 5 easy… Jets who????
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Leon is the best KR in the NFL
Revis is the best corner in the NFL
and Jenkins is the best NT in the NFL (when healthy)
Those other lists are absurd.