C Mart Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Rich Cimini @RichCimini Source confirms that LT Ben Ijalana is returning to the Jets on a one-year deal (as @RapSheet said). Excellent insurance for the #Jets. Can play LT and RT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 The 2016 Jets confronting the 2017 Jets: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetstream23 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Good move. The Jets declined to exercise an option for 2018 allowing Ben to test the FA market. He came back to the Jets presumably at a lower cost. Sounds good for both sides. A good, not great offensive tackle. Trustworthy and he can backup both the left and right side. The offensive line, on paper at least seems decent without any further additions. I would prefer better than decent though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warfish Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 A lot of one year deals. We punting on the rebuild till 2019? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bla bla bla Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I'm fine with this move. Always good to have some OL depth. I think we definitely target a C in the 2nd or 3rd rounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleedin Green Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 7 minutes ago, Warfish said: A lot of one year deals. We punting on the rebuild till 2019? The hope is that this is going by the philosophy of avoiding holes on the roster going into the draft, so you're not forced to reach for need. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to come back with an upgrade and send a few of those one-year guys packing. Not like there'd be any reason to be happy with multi-year deals for the likes of Ijalana, or someone of his similar talent level from another team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetstream23 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I like that we’re filling out the depth chart prior to the Draft so that we can opportunistically look at upgrades. My understanding is that this really isn’t a great draft for OLinemen outside of Nelson and a couple of late 1st / early 2nd round Centers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varjet Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 54 minutes ago, Warfish said: A lot of one year deals. We punting on the rebuild till 2019? I think Mac has concluded that it is not effective to build a team through FA, but he is just trying to plug enough holes to not be a dumpster fire. Many of the various Jet pundits viewed the Ijalana signing in 2017 to be a tremendous waste of money. Hopefully they did not do that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerfish Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 This guy better be getting near vet minimum, We paid him 4 and a quarter million last year for something like 28 snaps. He was innactive at times last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pcola Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 4 hours ago, jetstream23 said: Good move. The Jets declined to exercise an option for 2018 allowing Ben to test the FA market. He came back to the Jets presumably at a lower cost. Sounds good for both sides. A good, not great offensive tackle. Trustworthy and he can backup both the left and right side. The offensive line, on paper at least seems decent without any further additions. I would prefer better than decent though. Carpenter is not a good fit for the zone blocking scheme that Bates is going to implement this year. And Beachum’s and Winter’s contracts make them both possible cap cuts next year. So we might be able to get by, there is still a ton of work to do. I still think we need to draft a guard or center early (team with Long to cover left guard and center) and at least a LT prospect that could replace Beachum next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pcola Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 3 hours ago, varjet said: I think Mac has concluded that it is not effective to build a team through FA, but he is just trying to plug enough holes to not be a dumpster fire. Many of the various Jet pundits viewed the Ijalana signing in 2017 to be a tremendous waste of money. Hopefully they did not do that again. The obvious problem building an offense through free agency is just a Jets problem. Chicago was selling Nagy, Trubisky, and a no huddle offense to attract Allen Robinson and Trey Burton. SF has Garappolo and Kyle Shanahan. We have Todd Bowles firing our OC because we threw the ball too much and Richie Anderson giving Twitter and Instagram lessons on Ebonics and not much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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