Gas2No99 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 At least we'll have a solid within the NFL offices. I hope MacCags learned Graves' excellent FA & player contract structures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Jets fan Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 This is very bad. Graves was a big part of what has been going on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 This is very bad. Graves was a big part of what has been going on here. ? He was John Idzik's mentor. My ******* hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Jets fan Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 ? He was John Idzik's mentor. My ******* hero. Guess ol John did not listen well but Graves was doing all the contract stuff for the Jets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Guess ol John did not listen well but Graves was doing all the contract stuff for the Jets. You have no reason to believe that is true. Literally everything they said he was doing was also being done by Davidson. Most reports were that Maccagnan was getting rid of him from the start. We were all surprised he stuck around. They probably kept him around as a courtesy so he had a job while he interviewed and to provide some continuity until after the draft which is when the real housecleaning is usually done. In an interview with the Jets' website, Maccagnan explained what Graves is doing as free agency and the draft approach. Maccagnan said Graves and Jacqueline Davidson, the manager of football administration, are handling the salary cap. Graves and Davidson comprise the Jets' football administration department, according to the team's official staff directory. Davidson also retained her old title. She has been with the Jets since 2007, when Idzik's predecessor, Mike Tannenbaum, was the GM. There is always the possibility Maccagnan could make more front office changes after the draft. But at this point, Graves and Davidson remain with the Jets. Graves had interviewed for Washington's GM job this offseason, but didn't get it. After Johnson fired Idzik, the owner put Graves in charge of running football operations until a new GM came on-board. While detailing the salary cap issues Graves and Davidson are working on, Maccagnan said, "More or less taking all the players we've targeted in free agency and trying to almost set parameters on what we're going to sort of target (with) salary ranges for the players, with all our salary cap space -- to see who we can afford, who we're going to target, where will we even start the negotiations off, and then sort of a higher-end range of where we would feel would be beyond what would be a fair compensation for the player." http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2015/02/jets_mike_maccagnan_has_retained_john_idziks_pal_r.html How will we survive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 You have no reason to believe that is true. Literally everything they said he was doing was also being done by Davidson. Most reports were that Maccagnan was getting rid of him from the start. We were all surprised he stuck around. They probably kept him around as a courtesy so he had a job while he interviewed and to provide some continuity until after the draft which is when the real housecleaning is usually done. How will we survive? I won't miss him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snell41 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Thank you for putting a "c" on the topic heading that had me scratching my screen thinking I had something stuck to it lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Thank you for putting a "c" on the topic heading that had me scratching my screen thinking I had something stuck to it lol. lol, I just scrolled up and down to see what was going on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Nut Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 This is very bad. Graves was a big part of what has been going on here. Big part. Huge part We're screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brown Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Ummm I find it so fascinating that folks think contracts and their planning is soooo difficult. IMO if that was your career and you were going to be paid say 450K to do it I believe 90% on this board would do it and do it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Ummm I find it so fascinating that folks think contracts and their planning is soooo difficult. IMO if that was your career and you were going to be paid say 450K to do it I believe 90% on this board would do it and do it well. I am not worried about losing Graves, but this is a pretty simplified view. You want to constantly be jobbing the system so that you can stuff as much as you can under a limited cap. You also have to consider that it is an adversarial system where you are competing with other teams AND trying to give the player and their agent as little as possible. 90% of this board can't even string a sentence together and has no rational grasp of football. Something tells me they would get their asses handed to them trying to handle NFL contracts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Nut Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I thought Goodell was a Jets minion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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