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Jets sign Stevan Ridley
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Albert Breer @AlbertBreer · 6m6 minutes agoWorth mentioning on Ridley -- he tore an ACL at LSU during spring practice one year, was back for start of fall camp. Been thru it before.
Albert Breer @AlbertBreer · 28m28 minutes agoGood gamble by New York. RT @RapSheet: Former #Patriots RB Stevan Ridley is signing with the #Jets, source said.
Jeff Howe @jeffphowe · 12m12 minutes agoRidley is one of the best people I've met in the business. He'll be missed in the locker room.
Kimberley A. Martin @KMart_LI · 4m4 minutes ago.@StevanRidley's knee is "looking great and will be ready to go," according to agent @andysimms #jets
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Well it seems to me either bowles and Mac are helluva salesman or all the people that say they like playing for rex so much was just lip service. It looks like people really want to play for bowles.
This has nothing to do with Rex. If we offered the same deal to Ridley with Rex here, he would have came.
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I was referring to the people that came for visits and left without a contract didn't come back and I doubt it is because they got offered more money elsewhere we could have matched any contract in fa last year.
Love this signing. Ridley can play. Once his knee is 100%, Jet fans will be surprised at his ability. This is an under the radar move that does some positive things:
1) Adds depth to a position that has a high injury rate
2) Removes the need to have to use a draft pick on the position
3) Creates more competition on the roster which is always a good thing
4) Adds a strong locker room presence
I'm impressed with these one year "depth" signings. Creating competition and roster depth will help upgrade a roster that was woefully thin on talent last year. Some of these won't pan out, but if the Jets hit on half of these signings, the team will be vastly improved.
1) Adds depth to a position that has a high injury rate
2) Removes the need to have to use a draft pick on the position
3) Creates more competition on the roster which is always a good thing
4) Adds a strong locker room presence
I'm impressed with these one year "depth" signings. Creating competition and roster depth will help upgrade a roster that was woefully thin on talent last year. Some of these won't pan out, but if the Jets hit on half of these signings, the team will be vastly improved.
This is another shrewd addition for depth, a starting caliber veteran on a cheap one year deal. This also doesn't preclude us from drafting a RB because we still only have three; Ivory, Ridley and Powell, you can easily carry a forth.
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Daryl Richardson is still in the team and under contract
True, but he's not guaranteed of a roster spot. If we draft a RB high, he's toast.
He said he signed to play for Chan Gailey .... lets see what our coaching staff has in mind for him.
Erin Henderson, Stevan Ridley, Leger Douzable...
Wow. Macc isn't messing around. FA just keeps on turning. A lot of good depth moves. We'll be safeguarded if the injuries start stacking up. Incredible depth in most areas.
Wow. Macc isn't messing around. FA just keeps on turning. A lot of good depth moves. We'll be safeguarded if the injuries start stacking up. Incredible depth in most areas.
Bullseye!
Quality depth, the operative word being "quality", is absolutely essential in this league, cause at some point you need just about everyone on your roster to contribute. Guys will go down just as sure as the sun rises at dawn, and if you don't have people who can step in and produce at a fairly high level, thats usually the difference between making the playoffs or not making the playoffs, assuming you had a playoff caliber team to begin with.
But its not only that, this game is so taxing and this league is so physically demanding that best case scenario allows you to rotate players without missing a beat, so everyone stays fresh, which can only be done if you have quality depth and you are not taking a big dip in talent when you rotate players in and out.
Over the past few years our depth has gotten worse and worse, to the point where we had a bunch of backups throughout the roster who were not even NFL players in my view. At best they belonged on somebodies practice squad, and we were one injury away from these guys getting significant playing time, and when they came in to give the veterans a blow, the drop-off was as steep as a canyon.
This was totally lost on Idzik, but Mac gets it and he is stacking this roster with quality depth. He added some impact players like Revis and Marshall, some quality starters, but almost as important he has stacked this roster with quality veterans on one year deals, guys who can give you a fairly high level of production in backup roles or start in a pinch if someone goes down without turning a strength into a weakness. These are some shrewd one year deals that will pay dividends over the course of a 16+ game NFL grind.
I look at the depth chart right now, position by position, and I see a team that is light years ahead of what we had last year or the year before that. Now I see a roster than can sustain the war of attrition that is an NFL season.
PS. Don't sleep on the Bowen addition too, if he's healthy that dude can play.