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Oh, I don't know - the Jets have done some pretty head-scratching things lately.

 

Jeremiah would likely be an upgrade...

I said it on the podcast predraft - The dumbest move made by any team this offseason was the hiring of Adam Gase.

 

Now they have topped hiring him as coach by sticking their heads up Their ass and making him GM.

 

Jets owner explains decision to fire Mike Maccagnan...

Five hours after announcing the firing of general manager Mike Maccagnan, New York Jets owner Christopher Johnson went on a 13-minute conference call with select local reporters to try to explain the decision-making behind Maccagnan's abrupt axing.

Johnson said the decision to fire Maccagnan on Wednesday, which took place less than five months after jettisoning then-coach Todd Bowles and three weeks after the 2019 NFL Draft, was "a decision that evolved and took a while." The owner added that as he "understood more fully" Maccagnan's role in the building, his evaluation of the GM's job status changed.
"The more I looked, the more I realized that I wanted to move on," Johnson told reporters. "It was only through diving deep into the organization, it was only through going through this particular offseason deeply that I understood how this organization was lacking in certain ways.

"This isn't a decision that I could've made at the end of the season. I could with Todd. I could not with Mike."

It was strange at the time, when the Jets fired Bowles immediately following the end of the 2018 season, that New York kept Maccagnan on as general manager. But after Maccagnan oversaw the hiring of new coach Adam Gase, spent over $120 million in free agency on big-ticket players like Le'Veon Bell and C.J. Mosley and led the Jets' draft room as they selected Quinnen Williams at No. 3 overall, it appeared that New York was diving confidently headfirst into a Maccagnan-Gase union.

However, behind the scenes, Johnson told reporters, the "synergy" between Maccagnan and his new coach "was not everything I was hoping for."

Specifically, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported earlier Wednesday that Gase disagreed with Maccagnan on paying Bell (four years, $52.5M) and Mosely (five years, $85M) so heavily.

Johnson did not confirm that account -- "I'm not going to get into a lot of specifics about why we're moving on from Mike" -- but did add that the Jets, under Maccagnan's supervision, did a "great job" this offseason.

The Jets owner, who took control of the team in 2017 after his brother, Woody, was appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom, went out of his way to say that Maccagnan's departure was not the result of a power struggle between the GM and his new coach. Both Maccagnan and Gase had denied reports of a rift between the two, as recently as Friday.

"This is more than Mike. It's more than Adam. This is about the team moving forward," Johnson said.

Johnson added that, going forward, the power structure will not change, meaning Gase and the GM-to-be-named-later will both report to the owner. Johnson also confirmed that Gase will "assist" in New York's GM search.

In terms of the type of candidate Johnson is looking for, the owner said the GM must be more than a "talent evaluation guy" and should be a "strategic thinker."

"I think this is going to be a really attractive job," Johnson said. "I don't think we're going to find any trouble finding a good GM here. I think this is an excellent spot." - NFL.com

 

Not for nothing, but YOU'D probably be an upgrade.

 

He kinda looks like he's thinking....

 

Or taking a dump.

 

That's when I have my best thoughts.

 

he's thinking he just shit his pants.

 

He looks like Irwin R. Fletcher at a doctor's appointment -

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...er-year-on-new-contract-expected-this-summer/

CARSON WENTZ CLOSING IN ON 5 YR/ $150 M DEAL...

 

Teams are just stupid. Wentz hasn’t proven he’s a 30 million a year QB. Just throw your money at any QB and hope that they can do something.

 

That's a lot of money sitting on IR . . . again.

 

It's a bit more than "hope" with Wentz - he's shown he can play at an exceptionally high level. His issue isn't ability - it's injuries.

 

The $30M mark on a contract is just speculation right now anyway. I like how Axe put it, Wentz can play and QB's make crazy cash, but can he stay healthy? Wentz, in my opinion, will get a long term deal, but they better be real careful how they contract him and maybe add incentives towards 'IF' he stays healthy.

 

Are changes upcoming for PI penalty challenges?...

When NFL owners meet next week, they will be asked to consider a change to overtime and to the possibility of tweaking the new rule to allow challenges of pass interference penalties.

The one-day meeting in Miami is likely to produce fewer surprises than the annual meeting in March, at which owners approved a rule that represented a seismic philosophical shift -- allowing coaches to challenge pass interference calls and non-calls. Now they will be asked to allow a change to a rule before it's even been used.

The rule approved in March allowed coaches to challenge pass interference throughout the game, except for the final two minutes of each half. In the final two minutes, as is the case with other replay reviews, officials in the booth would be the only ones allowed to stop the game to review whether pass interference was correctly called or should have been called. After meetings between game officials and each team's coaches -- a regular part of every offseason -- there is a sentiment that it might be better to allow coaches to challenge pass interference throughout the game. That would allow for more uniformity in the standard for review because the same person -- the coach -- would have to decide if a play should be reviewed, rather than replay officials potentially having a different standard for stopping the game for a review in the final two minutes.

There is also concern that if replay officials control the reviews in the final two minutes, it could lead to many more stoppages of play, as officials in the booth stop the game to determine whether a play should be reviewed at the officiating headquarters in New York. That could be especially problematic during the early Sunday afternoon game window, when many games are played at the same time, potentially slowing down the review in New York. There was so much concern about how often a game might be stopped in the final two minutes that one high-ranking league official speculated several weeks ago that the new rule to allow challenges of pass interference might last only one season, because nobody would be happy with constant stoppages at the ends of games.

Owners will not be asked to change the rule in Miami. Rather, they will be asked to vote to allow the Competition Committee to change the rule without another vote of the full ownership if they think it is necessary after meetings with teams are complete. The unusual arrangement is likely the outgrowth of what the NFL went through last year, when it created the new helmet rule and then struggled with how it was officiated in the early weeks. There was no mechanism in place to allow the league to tweak the rule to clarify it.

Less likely to receive approval is the Kansas City Chiefs' proposal to change overtime. The Chiefs, who lost to the Patriots in overtime of the AFC Championship Game without Patrick Mahomes ever touching the ball, proposed a rule in March that would guarantee each team a possession in overtime of regular and postseason games. But the proposal had little support at the annual meeting and it was tabled. Now it is back, although it has not been amended. Owners could change it on the floor of their meeting, but one high-ranking NFL official said Thursday night he thinks it is more likely the proposal will be tabled again.

The league is also expected to make a player safety recommendation to teams to eliminate certain drills -- like the Oklahoma drill -- frequently used by linemen during training camps. The recommendation springs from a recent meeting of coaches, games officials and league executives that was focused on how to reduce risk to linemen and drive down the number of concussions during the first weeks of training camp, whether the concussion rate has remained stubbornly steady even while the number of concussions suffered during the rest of the season dropped markedly last season.

Also at the meeting, the NFL is expected to award at least one, and possibly more, future drafts. Las Vegas hosts the draft next year. (NFL.com)
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Why are things so obvious, but yet so hard to get done. Doing the right thing in todays technology filled world seems like a no-brainer.

 

Tom Brady Is Pumped Up About Jamie Collins’ Reported Return To Patriots...

Tom Brady already has reunited with two former teammates this offseason, and it appears another is on deck.

Less than a week after the Patriots swayed Benjamin Watson out of retirement, news broke that New England is in talks with Jamie Collins and is “likely” to sign the veteran linebacker. Collins, a second-round pick in 2013, played the first three-plus seasons of his NFL career with the Patriots.

It didn’t take Patriots players very long to express their excitement over the reported Collins signing. Dont’a Hightower took to Twitter to react to the news, and Brady followed suit on Instagram.



Collins’ role — should he be signed and crack the 53-man roster — with the Patriots’ remains to be seen. New England likely would look for the 29-year-old to provide depth at inside linebacker as well as aid the pass rush. Collins almost certainly wouldn’t be an every-down player in his return to Foxboro, but his familiarity with New England’s system should allow him to make a legitimate impact.

 

Lol. His lack of familiarity with their system was what got his arse shipped to Cleveland in the first place. He only got 250k guaranteed. He’s here to make sure Bentley doesn’t get complacent and probably won’t even make the team unless he shows marked reduction in his penchant for freelancing.