I like Shaun Ellis, good guy and good player, but I can't lie, I believe when you draft a player # 12 overall he has to be a perennial pro bowl caliber player. That doesn't mean he wasn't a good Jet, but I don't think we maximized the pick.
I forgot about that, that makes it even worse. Tuna was a great coach, but a lousy GM, and he knows it too, later admitted that "shopping for the groceries" is too much on one mans plate, thats its difficult to be a coach and GM at the same time, and if he had it to do over again he wouldn't lobby to do both. In other words George Young was right when he told Parcells to BUT OUT of the draft process and just coach the players I give you.Ellis cost a 1st and a 2nd rd pick the Tuna gave up a 2nd to move up to 12 in the first..
The one thing I have to say on his behalf is he did step up his game verses the Patriots, sort of the way Ken O'Brien always saved his best games for Miami.I loved Ellis. He wasn't a great player, but he was solid. I have no regrets about that pick.
Wilkerson is a better player than Ellis, I don't think that is a debate. Ellis was a solid player