Tony Pauline on Mims

[JetsLife]

New York Jets

Steal: Denzel Mims was described to me as the most complete package at the receiver position. If he develops into a starter, this will be one of the finest selections by the Jets in a long, long time.

 

[Greenseed4]

Good tweet. I was going to comment on the volume of highlight plays he has on YouTube with a defender latched on, tugging at, or tackling him pre-catch. 

[TNJet]

If this guy had played in the SEC I doubt he'd have went past #15. I think its because he played at Baylor.

[Jetlife33]

2 minutes ago, TNJet said:

If this guy had played in the SEC I doubt he'd have went past #15. I think its because he played at Baylor.

At the same time Jalen Reagor went 21st overall to the Eagles also out of the big 12 (TCU)  give me Mims over Reagor all day twice a day for days 

[Losmeister]

17 minutes ago, JetsLife said:

New York Jets

Steal: Denzel Mims was described to me as the most complete package at the receiver position. If he develops into a starter, this will be one of the finest selections by the Jets in a long, long time.

 

He really is exactly the type of WR that RA got hammered for NOT being.

SOmeone else said it, I forget, Warfish? IrishJet? about him being possibly thge best since Toon. ( Thats , I guess, if you think Toon was better than Key., Which I do,)

[HawkeyeJet]

If Mims would have ended up with whoever else at the same draft slot, I'd be telling myself this is the guy in 2 years people are going to ask "how was he there at 59?"

The Jets seemingly never get that guy though, so I'm guarded.  He has all the tools and hopefully can put it all together.

[Jetlife33]

Mims is an inch shorter, as well as faster but he reminds me of AJ Green when I watch his film. 

[Beerfish]

Why did the jets trade down instead of picking him in the 2nd round.

[SomebodytoAnybody47]

Just now, Beerfish said:

Why did the jets trade down instead of picking him in the 2nd round.

Can never just be happy can you?

[British Jet]

1 minute ago, Beerfish said:

Why did the jets trade down instead of picking him in the 2nd round.

Because Joe Douglas is a ******* genius?

[Losmeister]

14 minutes ago, HawkeyeJet said:

The Jets seemingly never get that guy though, so I'm guarded

we all have PTJS

[Adoni Beast]

19 minutes ago, Losmeister said:

He really is exactly the type of WR that RA got hammered for NOT being.

SOmeone else said it, I forget, Warfish? IrishJet? about him being possibly thge best since Toon. ( Thats , I guess, if you think Toon was better than Key., Which I do,)

Tooooooooon was way better than Key.

I liked Keyshawn, he was tough, but he wasn't explosive like Tooooooooon !!!

[Jetstimeisnow]

Hopefully Mims gives all the Darnold haters an excuse to why Darnolds so greatly improved statistically next year 

[Jetsbb]

21 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Why did the jets trade down instead of picking him in the 2nd round.

I think Douglas thought Van Jefferson would be there as he was projected to be a third round pick. Douglas figured the downgrade from Mims to Jefferson was worth an extra pick. Was surprised when he got Mims regardless.

[southtown24th]

51 minutes ago, JetsLife said:

New York Jets

Steal: Denzel Mims was described to me as the most complete package at the receiver position. If he develops into a starter, this will be one of the finest selections by the Jets in a long, long time.

 

this guy has to be good.

we need to like will it in to happening.

[RobR]

4 minutes ago, Jetsbb said:

I think Douglas thought Van Jefferson would be there as he was projected to be a third round pick. Douglas figured the downgrade from Mims to Jefferson was worth an extra pick. Was surprised when he got Mims regardless.

I really hope JD wasn't thinking like this. Mims is ten times the prospect that Van Jefferson was.

[JetBlue]

42 minutes ago, Losmeister said:

He really is exactly the type of WR that RA got hammered for NOT being.

SOmeone else said it, I forget, Warfish? IrishJet? about him being possibly thge best since Toon. ( Thats , I guess, if you think Toon was better than Key., Which I do,)

That would be me.... but perhaps someone else posted that too.  Toon, was as good as Jerry Rice and faster to boot.  They were considered 1 and 1A.  If Toon hadn't gotten hurt, he might have been a shoo in for Canton.  He was that good.   Keyshawn was good but not nearly as good as Toon.  

[JetBlue]

25 minutes ago, Adoni Beast said:

Tooooooooon was way better than Key.

I liked Keyshawn, he was tough, but he wasn't explosive like Tooooooooon !!!

I agree.  Toon was a before his time.  6'4 and ran like a deer, tough as nails.  Too bad O'Brien throw so many hospital balls and ended his career prematurely.    

[Jetsbb]

14 minutes ago, RobR said:

I really hope JD wasn't thinking like this. Mims is ten times the prospect that Van Jefferson was.

Better than drafting Jefferson over Mimms when given the choice.

[JetFan20]

Rich Cimini said the scout he talked thinks Mims is slower than he timed on field and doesn’t have the requisite YAC skills

[Beerfish]

41 minutes ago, Samtorobby47 said:

Can never just be happy can you?

Don;t be utterly stupid.  If you look at my reaction I was elated we got mims when we did but it is like heaping praise on mccagnan for trading up to #3 and getting lucky to get darnold.

We traded down when he was on the board 2 WRs were taken between the time we traded down and when we got mims.

Douglas was lucky on this one.

The day the Jets have a perfect draft is the day i will heap praise on them for a whole draft.

[Drums]

44 minutes ago, Samtorobby47 said:

Can never just be happy can you?

Time to change that username

[Beerfish]

44 minutes ago, British Jet said:

Because Joe Douglas is a ******* genius?

Much like mcgagnan was a genius for getting darnold by trade up to #3 even though he could have been stuck with any of about 4 QBs.

Hey i said this very thing at the time, Douglas is a genius but he would have been a gnius with two or three other Wrs he could have had at that point in the draft.

[32EBoozer]

54 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Why did the jets trade down instead of picking him in the 2nd round.

JD is PSYCHIC

 

[Lupz27]

I really hope Gase doesn’t **** him up, all it takes is for Gase to not like a face Mims makes in a meeting boom Mims dead to Gase.  4 years later Mims becomes a good contributor for another team.

[Philc1]

Still can’t believe he fell to 59

[JTJet]

It HAS to be brought up for the sake of debate. 

If Mims is as good as suggested, why was he passed over twice by essentially every team and the 13th receiver taken? 

I'm not bashing the player at all, and I love that we got him. But we have to take that into account when reading every single "pro Mims" article out there. 

[Jetsfan4life90]

1 minute ago, JTJet said:

It HAS to be brought up for the sake of debate. 

If Mims is as good as suggested, why was he passed over twice by essentially every team and the 13th receiver taken? 

I'm not bashing the player at all, and I love that we got him. But we have to take that into account when reading every single "pro Mims" article out there. 

I agree, but at the same time, players that turned out good did drop in the draft for seemingly unknown or vague reasons.

[JTJet]

9 minutes ago, Jetsfan4life90 said:

I agree, but at the same time, players that turned out good did drop in the draft for seemingly unknown or vague reasons.

For sure. I guess the angle I'm more curious about is why the other teams all passed on him twice instead of us being so lucky we got him. 

[JoJoTownsell1]

1 hour ago, Beerfish said:

Why did the jets trade down instead of picking him in the 2nd round.

That's actually a very fair question. 

They probably liked guys like Jefferson/Claypool/Mims equally and figured 1 would drop. 

They could have also liked a bunch of the later round guys and would have taken 2 in the later rounds if Mims hadn't fallen to them.

Douglas appears to be a guy that plays the draft like a game of chess as opposed to mac who played it like checkers (whoever is the best rated player that falls into your lap, you take.)

[RobR]

12 minutes ago, JTJet said:

It HAS to be brought up for the sake of debate. 

If Mims is as good as suggested, why was he passed over twice by essentially every team and the 13th receiver taken? 

I'm not bashing the player at all, and I love that we got him. But we have to take that into account when reading every single "pro Mims" article out there. 

It happens all of the time. Why did Antonio Brown go in the fifth?......Why did Michael Thomas make it into the second? I could do these why was someone drafted later then they were supposed to all day. 

[TNJet]

1 hour ago, Jetsbb said:

I think Douglas thought Van Jefferson would be there as he was projected to be a third round pick. Douglas figured the downgrade from Mims to Jefferson was worth an extra pick. Was surprised when he got Mims regardless.

This would also explain his love for Florida Players...

[JTJet]

Just now, RobR said:

It happens all of the time. Why did Antonio Brown go in the fifth?......Why did Michael Thomas make it into the second? I could do these why was someone drafted later then they were supposed to all day. 

I could be wrong, so forgive me here, but neither of them were projected 1st rounders from what I remember. There is a bit of difference in this argument. 

I'm really fascinated with how a majority of fans seem to dismiss any alternative theories as to why we ended up with him, other than JD is a genius. 

@Beerfish mentioned it earlier, during the trade down, he got lucky Mims didnt get taken, and we dont even really know if Mims was the actual target there. 

[TNJet]

7 minutes ago, JTJet said:

For sure. I guess the angle I'm more curious about is why the other teams all passed on him twice instead of us being so lucky we got him. 

Sometimes the board just falls that way. I think its more because of the depth at the position.

[RobR]

Just now, JTJet said:

I could be wrong, so forgive me here, but neither of them were projected 1st rounders from what I remember. There is a bit of difference in this argument. 

I'm really fascinated with how a majority of fans seem to dismiss any alternative theories as to why we ended up with him, other than JD is a genius. 

@Beerfish mentioned it earlier, during the trade down, he got lucky Mims didnt get taken, and we dont even really know if Mims was the actual target there. 

He was considered a late first-second round pick. He went in the middle of the second round. I'm not sure what you're getting at.