According to Adam Schefter, former Browns safety Brodney Pool is scheduled to visit the team tomorrow.
A potential Rhodes replacement: Jets are scheduled Wednesday to visit with Cleveland free-agent S Brodney Pool, a former 2nd-round pick.
After the departure of Kerry Rhodes, I’m sure Tannenbaum will leave no stone unturned in his search for a FS. That being said, Pool seems like a very interesting fellow and being curious, I decided to dig up some information on him and this is what I found:
Positives: “A natural FS.” Pool can diagnos plays quickly and make smart decisions. He is good deep support and can provide help in zone coverage as well. He takes good positions and angles and seems to have good hands (11 INT’s with the Browns). Can be used as a CB.
Negatives: Pool isn’t always effective in the box. He isn’t a hard hitter and is long and lanky. He can fail to locate the ball sometimes. Concussions have been an issue for him so their may be some question marks there.
While Pool does seem to have a good set of skills, his injuries will certainly make New York hesitant (he is suspected to have had at least four concussions since his rookie season in 2005). I seriously doubt anything will materialize here and I have a feeling that the Jets just may wait until April to find their new safety (unless of course something changes, which it always manages to do so).
Hat tip to Dylan
I love Berry, but I don’t love the prospect of signing a top ten pick to a deal that complies with the 30% rule, so I’d rather stand pat in the draft. Who knows though, maybe that’s what they’re shedding salary for. Honestly, I hope not.
I’m not psychic, just looked at the stats and thought you couldn’t possibly mean they don’t look impressive!
SackDance,
TJ was always been a victim, thats why he is going where he can get paid. he only has another year left maybe 2. He is a young 31/32 yr old.
Bent-
LOL! Yes, I forgot: you’re Sherlock Holmes!
“It’s the rare college player who can start on day one.”
I feel most teams believe when they draft players in the first or second round- they will be either starting or be major contributors immediately.
Elebentary, my dear Watson. (Sorry, that’s terrible).
Sack – I kind of feel the same IF that report is accurate.
Bent-
Have to say that I think it’s a bit useless to speculate about TJ’s motives for signing with KC, and not resigning with us.
We don’t know, do we, if Mike T matched KC’s two-year offer of $5 million, plus another $500,000 in incentives.
And we don’t know what the behind-the-scenes dynamic has been between the FO and TJ—mostly because Jones has too much class to talk publicly about that sort of thing.
But I think it’s clear: the FO fumbled the ball on this one. Tanny wanted TJ back, and, well, he blew it.
but didnt kerry start from day one and he was a 4th rounder??
Reshad Jones he seems like a rex guy
Bent,
There has to be some truth in the report or TJ would not have signed with KC.
bilal-
You write: “I feel most teams believe when they draft players in the first or second round- they will be either starting or be major contributors immediately.”
I left out one part of the point I was making:
That should have been: it’s the rare college player who can start on day one. And play well.
Which is to say, a lot of teams may draft in the first and second round with the belief that these players will start in week one. But in a large percentage of cases, that rookie usually doesn’t play very well on day one.
And in another sizealbe percentage of cases, that rookie doesn’t play consistently well over the course of his career.
All of which is to say: very good players are rare.
you guys like fargas, I think he never got a fair shot in oakland
Ben – absolutely agree. We don’t know either way, so we can’t really bash or defend the front office at this stage and it’s probably not that productive to do either anyway. Oh well, onwards and upwards!
Rusty – yes, but he’s more like the exception that proves the rule. Erik Coleman also started, but did Smith, McGraw, Pagel, R. Washington, Maddox…?
JJets
I’m a huge college football fan, football and basketball. I’ve seen a bunch of Georgia games but not all of them. From what I watched, Jones is just a beast. The kid’s relentless and never gives up on a play.
His tackling skills are great and he’s got the size(6’2), athleticism, and aggressive attitude to take on tight ends if called upon. He did seem to over pursue at times, which would make sense to the insight CBS pointed out about veteran running backs being able to see him coming, but with rex’s tutelage, exotic blitzes and schemes I don’t see that being a problem.
Form tackling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1su79vloRNg&feature=related
Athletic ball hawking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZOYy4a40JI&feature=related
No Mercy hitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbnf_M84S8&feature=related
rusty sanchez-
I’d say Rhodes is that rare player, who played well early in his career. I think he is unusually talented.
But I think there are many more examples of players who didn’t play well in their rookie year, than the other way around.
Ben,
Are you saying there is still hope for ghost
dang broncos building a d signed jarvis green and jamal williams
If I’m not mistaken, Brodney Pool was the guy that Adrian Peterson basically took with one hand and threw out of bounds on that ridiculous TD run in Week 1…
JJets-
Not exactly. There are some very good players who don’t play well in their rookie season, but they at least show some sign of their potential—they have flashes of brilliance, a brilliant game, or even several good games.
Have to say that I haven’t seen anything like that from the Ghost. . .
And this isn’t his rookie season anymore.
He’s also the guy who got away with a pushout on that last minute one handed catch by Baker a few years ago.
Bent,
We got to get IRA to post on this
PRIDE kills…
choosing KC over the JETS who will be playoff bound again this year…well that just stupid…and if we do end up winning a SB in the coming years…well then TJ will regret not coming back to the jets…WELL AT LEAST HE CAN BE GRATEFUL TO HIS PRIDE….bad choice…just my thoughts…
Taylor Mays isnt that gooood.. he just looks for hits and has a hardtime finding the ball. Eric Berry is hands down the best safety available but hel be a high pick which we will need to trade up for.. I like leonhard,, he has one of the best plays of the year for us with his pick against the chargers, a hard hitter.. just a lil undersized.
JJets – IRA from Staten Island has posted here occasionally, but I think he already left his thoughts on Cimini’s blog if you want to see them.
yeah got them, I respect him alot
dakar-
As I said above, we it’s a bit useless to speculate about TJ’s motives for signing with KC, and not resigning with us. We’re creating this whole pride story, when we have absolutely no evidence that it is at all true.
We don’t know, for instance, if Mike T matched KC’s two-year offer of $5 million, plus another $500,000 in incentives.
And we don’t know what the behind-the-scenes dynamic has been between the FO and TJ—mostly because Jones has too much class to talk publicly about that sort of thing.
So, as Bent said above: We don’t know either way, so we can’t really bash or defend the FO or TJ, simply because we don’t know what happened behind the scenes.
Pool is the type of guy when I said that the Jets would bring in a “competent player”
Honestly, I think he would be used in certain situations, kind of like how Rhodes was when he was “benched”
E Smith played the safety spot in the “base” D
But Rhodes played the traditional deep safety role in all the other packages
I guess against more traditional running offenses E Smith would play more, against teams that throw a lot like the Pats, Pool would play more.
I would like the move because we know Pool has started before and is a competent NFL player
I totally take back what I said about trading Rhodes being a bad move. After hearing that interview, I am glad he is gone. All he did was make excuses and blame his teamates and coaches for everything that happened. We don’t need players like that on the Jets!
I live in maryland, and get a lot of exposure to both the ravens and the ‘skins down here. i for a second wouldn’t hesitate for the j’s to give rock cartwright a shout-out for running back. plays extremely hard, would be a good complement to greene. also, a ‘rock’ on special teams. sorry, couldn’t resist.
is any one else starting to get pissed off at this offseason… we have lost TJ, Kerry, murrell, going to lose douglas, miught lose leon its like come on we made it to the afc championship, shouldnt we be adding a piece or 2 to put us over the top
SMH!!!!!
not to mention tanny didnt sound so confident in bringing back t rich
Dylan
Good point. He really just comes off like a whiny little biotch
Kerry didnt own s#it that he did wrong here.
Remember Jimmy Leonhard screaming at him (while he was thinking about his next modeling gig) in the Jacksonville game, and M Lewis caught that deep seam route that put the Jags in gimme FG range…
Yea Kerry, that why you are gone…own it
Kerry is gone,and Im not sad one bit. He is a primadonna and always will be. We have seen his best, and those days are long behind him. He is now officially a diva, and Rex and myself have no time for a diva. We r n the business of winning Superbowls and to do that, EVERYONE must be onboard.
TJ -i will miss you,, but if you got to go,, u gotto go! Old 31, young 32 , i dont care, but you rather get rid of a guy before he falls apart. And if he did sign that contract to shove it in our face, have fun losing the next 2 years while we are challenging for the promise land.
Dawan Landry from BMore… He’s the best saftey left, and he’s a Rex guy!! All The others are bums!! Fingers Crossed….
trust tanny and rex, they know what they are doing. don’t forget its a long offseason boys, lots of moves left to make. clearing salary to resign harris, mangold, revis, crime time, its all will make sense in the end
i would love to see golden tate sanchez need a wr he can grow up with
i would love to see golden tate as a jet sanchez needs a wr he could grow up with possible the next montana rice combo >>>>>>just wishful thinking
Well, I may say that he is really an interesting guy. I hope he’s okay now and hoping also that this year will be great for him.