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[BleedGreen314]

The 09-10 jets probably win a super bowl with a good QB.

Easy to say. Exactly who was that QB going to be?

[BleedGreen314]

As long as you bring it up, if the Jets lost that last game to KC in week 17 of 2007, the 2008 draft pick wouldn't have been Gholston or McFadden. It would have been Matt Ryan, since we would have been drafting at #2 instead of #6. We also wouldn't have given up a 3rd rounder and $12M for 1 year of Brett Favre. It also means we would have had our first and second round draft picks to use in 2009 instead of blowing them both on Sanchez.

So just so I get this right, you would choose a 4-12 record in 2007 and:

• Vernon Gholston
• 1 year of Brett Favre
• Half a decade of Mark Sanchez

instead of a 3-13 record in 2007 and:

• Matt Ryan
• 2009 first round pick
• 2009 second round pick
• 2009 third round pick
• $12M in cap room not used on Favre.
• 3 players already under contract (Kenyon Coleman, Abram Elam, Brett Ratliff)

With those extra picks, then we might have taken a WR in rounds 1-3 in 2009 (Harvin? Nicks? Wallace?) which means we may not have traded 3rd and 5th rounders in 2010 (and another $10M in cap space) for less than 2 seasons of Braylon Edwards. Or maybe, since we still would have a hole at OLB due to not drafting Gholston, we might have taken Clay Matthews.

Looks to me like it was a damn tragedy for the Jets to win that last game in 2007 when we were already eliminated.

Now what say you?

I say.....

"Everyone said if Marino was going to be around at that time, they'd pick Marino. Obviously the Jets know something that the people up here don't."

*New York Jets First Round choice: Jeff Lageman, Linebacker, Virginia* "It's obvious to me right now that the New York Jets just don't understand what the draft's all about."

*We want Sapp! We want Sapp!* *Sapp wipes sweat from forehead* "The New York Jets select tight end, Penn State, Kyle Brady."

Or, in other words, you're thinking wishfully.

Edited by BleedGreen314, 22 December 2012 - 11:18 PM.

[Bugg]

As long as you bring it up, if the Jets lost that last game to KC in week 17 of 2007, the 2008 draft pick wouldn't have been Gholston or McFadden. It would have been Matt Ryan, since we would have been drafting at #2 instead of #6. We also wouldn't have given up a 3rd rounder and $12M for 1 year of Brett Favre. It also means we would have had our first and second round draft picks to use in 2009 instead of blowing them both on Sanchez.

So just so I get this right, you would choose a 4-12 record in 2007 and:

• Vernon Gholston
• 1 year of Brett Favre
• Half a decade of Mark Sanchez

instead of a 3-13 record in 2007 and:

• Matt Ryan
• 2009 first round pick
• 2009 second round pick
• 2009 third round pick
• $12M in cap room not used on Favre.
• 3 players already under contract (Kenyon Coleman, Abram Elam, Brett Ratliff)

With those extra picks, then we might have taken a WR in rounds 1-3 in 2009 (Harvin? Nicks? Wallace?) which means we may not have traded 3rd and 5th rounders in 2010 (and another $10M in cap space) for less than 2 seasons of Braylon Edwards. Or maybe, since we still would have a hole at OLB due to not drafting Gholston, we might have taken Clay Matthews.

Looks to me like it was a damn tragedy for the Jets to win that last game in 2007 when we were already eliminated.

Now what say you?

POTWN

And heartbreaking.

[wildthing2022000]

Update: Lions loss bumps the Jets from getting the #4 pick. Giants, Redskins, and Cowboys get a win(Atlanta) in SOS while Chicago and Minnesota take two losses(Detroit).

[JFtoLong]

I like Ryan a lot too, but I am not so sure if we had gotten him, that he would be anywhere near the player we are watching right now.

He has a tremendous set of skill players around him, and a very creative OC.

He would be much better than Sanchez most likely, but nothing even close to what he is in Atlanta.

The Falcons at least did it right, they drafted a QB high, and put a tremendous offense around him to help him succeed.

Sanchez is awful, but the Jets did exactly what u don't do when drafting a QB high