Fuck all this trading back shit. Draft good players and get some studs in FA. Rebuilds don't take this long. Imagine your house being destroyed in a fire or tornado, but every year the contractor just says I traded your new countertops for the chance to get some better countertops and then drops those countertops. At the rate JD is going its going to take 10 years to rebuild. As a fan I'm sick of it. Saying you are going to build through the draft gives him a built in excuse. 5 fuckin' wins in 2 years. Thats not rebuilding. No other shitty Jets GM has been that bad in their first 2 years. The OL that was so important is still terrible with only one true stud. I get it all GM's miss, but JD shouldn't get that leeway. Winning matters.
imagine your home being destroyed in a fire or tornado, and instead of getting granite countertops as the first order of business ( QB, Lockdown CB, Elite DE, #1 WR, and what should be the final piece a Bell Cow RB; these should be 1st's and high 2nd's), you start the re-build with the foundation of the home (LB's, Center, Right Side of the OLine, DT's, TE's, and Safety's...on SB Contenders these are 2nds and 3rds) with the cost of granite countertops spread to areas where you can purchase great to elite materials at the appropriate prices...and you do it all at once so you can put on the granite countertops onto a strong and durable foundation.
a.) totally agree on the OLine Rebuild...that could & should have been completed by now. But he is replacing one spot with high picks one position at a time. Our line, after last year's draft could be Becton-LT...Trey Smith- LG...Josh Myers-C...Wyatt Davis- RG...Chris Darrisaw- RT, all starters (Davis is hurt) and we'd still have #8, #32, and #30. Granted no AVT.
b.) my suggestion gets the foundation at foundational costs, and some of the granite all in one draft with money left over for shiny new fixtures (Free Agents).
WADR, picking up one elite talent for one position in each draft is the very thing that will take 10 years to complete.
Duly noted that a trade like that would never happen again, but the 1990's Cowboys weren't built only on the firsts they received for Walker, but the bounty of foundational players and 2nd and 3rds.
Lastly, we're talking 2nds and 3rds for positions that they come in...no need for stock piling diamonds in the rough nobody else saw in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th.
