Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence hints at returning to school for his senior year

[Rhg1084]

New plan, tank for ... Fields?

[Paradis]

@Patriot Killa

[Guilhermezmc]

Yes, and Kyler was going to play baseball

[ToonforPrez]

[Spoot-Face]

Aww, he's adorable if he thinks he can escape us.

[pdxgreen]

He didn't say anything!  And being the first number one overall pick isn't something that you layover till you feel better about your pro chances.  One injury and you're done.

[ToonforPrez]

In all Honesty no way he is giving up the amount of Money that is slotted for a first Pick and the NYC Endorsement and Market money he will make.

[David Harris]

Well this is scary, right?

 

But there is still a significant chance that the Jets don’t even get the number one pick, maybe moot point.

But also any advisers I think should loom at the Jets situation objectively. The next HC if the New York Jets will be paired and in a way almost personally selected for Trevor Lawrence.  The Jets GM is committed to building an O-line.  Franchise LT is in place. Promising young wideout in MIms (maybe?), and more cap room and draft capital than any other team.  But yeah, they’re still the Jets but they can objectively make you more money than any other team, not deferring a year of salary, paying top overall money, plus the New York market.

[Icer]

We'll see what happens, too much football left for my liking anyway

[joewilly12]

Next man up.

[Paradis]

16 minutes ago, Guilhermezmc said:

Yes, and Kyler was going to play baseball

just keeping telling youself that pal

[UntouchableCrew]

“The 6-foot-6 Lawrence, considered the likely No. 1 pick in next spring's NFL draft, said he hasn't ruled out returning to Clemson for another year instead of going pro.

"My mindset has been that I'm going to move on,'' Lawrence said Tuesday. "But who knows? There's a lot of things that could happen.''
At the forefront could be which NFL team is in line to draft Lawrence. 

Right now, that's the New York Jets, who are 0-7 and the league's only winless team.”

Welp that’s not promising. Not panicked, but certainly not great news.

[Paradis]

12 minutes ago, ToonforPrez said:

In all Honesty no way he is giving up the amount of Money that is slotted for a first Pick and the NYC Endorsement and Market money he will make.

what is it about Jet fans that in the face of sound logic - they continue to tell themselves this is just another chapter of bronx tale. 

[HessStation]

The most disturbing thread of 2020

[Spoot-Face]

[Warfish]

14 minutes ago, pdxgreen said:

He didn't say anything!  And being the first number one overall pick isn't something that you layover till you feel better about your pro chances.  One injury and you're done.

As opposed to coming to the Jets and being embarrassingly done?  LOL.

I'd take my chances with injuries before I'd take my chances coming here.

He's going to try an get out of playing for us.  And he has all the leverage, we have none.  End of the day, he can always go back to school, making our #1 pick laughably worth less (till the Jets homers start claiming Fields is also "generational", lol!)

[Vudu]

Oh well

[NYJ37/12]

If this is the case, f him! We do not need another weak minded QB.

[Scott Dierking]

Man, talk about reading into a nothing statement.

[ToonforPrez]

4 minutes ago, Paradis said:

what is it about Jet fans that in the face of sound logic - they continue to tell themselves this is just another chapter of bronx tale. 

Forgive me but I'm not following are you agreeing with me ? or Letting me know I'm dead wrong haha

[BigRy56]

I ultimately don't think we get the #1 pick anyway, but here's the deal... nobody could blame him for going back to school instead of coming to NY. He's a southern kid who is about football.

Why in the world would he want to come to NY? The NY market is not about that - do you think this guy wants to be an endorsement icon? And this goes for both NY teams.

The media is an absolute disaster and just waiting to tear apart their teams, we don't have our own stadium, we don't play in our home state, the team and franchise in general has NO identity at this point in time, we claim a NYC identity where 80% of NYC is filled with people who aren't actually from NY. This is all among many other things.

Yes, the team isn't good, but neither are the Jaguars. There's so many reasons why the Jets may not be a desirable place to go and most of them have nothing to do with actual football

[munchmemory]

Forget Lawrence.  JD, make a call to Brooks Bollinger to see if he'd consider a return to the Jets.

[pdxgreen]

11 minutes ago, Warfish said:

As opposed to coming to the Jets and being embarrassingly done?  LOL.

I'd take my chances with injuries before I'd take my chances coming here.

He's going to try an get out of playing for us.  And he has all the leverage, we have none.  End of the day, he can always go back to school, making our #1 pick laughably worth less (till the Jets homers start claiming Fields is also "generational", lol!)

Disagree.  Things change in college football all the time.  Being number one is no sure thing.  Even Burrows was saying guarded things about the possibility of Cincy at one time last year.  There is nothing in life that is assured.  Now if it gets to the end of the season abd one his family members goes on record as saying that he's adverse to the Jets as an organization.  Start talking about trading the pick.  This situation we're in is laughable.  But being the highest paid rookie in the entire draft isn't.  Even if he's playing for the Jets.

[JustInFudge]

 

[KRL]

Pure nonsense, when you have the opportunity to leave you do.  Why?  Because
for a "generational QB" (we'll see) you want to start the clock on your
career as soon as possible so you can get to your HUGE second contract

[PS17]

5 minutes ago, Scott Dierking said:

Man, talk about reading into a nothing statement.

There is zero here. But of course if Lawrence so much as farts at a press conference or interview there will be 700 different tweets breaking down what it means. 

[NYJ37/12]

8 minutes ago, Scott Dierking said:

Man, talk about reading into a nothing statement.

He said his mindset has always been to leave but now who knows? How is that reading into, its stated?

Quote: My mindset has been that I'm going to move on," Lawrence said Tuesday. "But who knows? There's a lot of things that could happen."

[jetstream23]

This has been and continues to be an epic year for fans on this message board.  Sadly, it has mirrored much of the world we live in with the pandemic, election, etc.  We've got the pro and anti-Darnold guys, the ones saying Joe Douglas is a god and others who see him swinging and missing with many decisions, etc.  A bad team with bad coaches and bad players has made it pretty miserable when there isn't much else to entertain us in the world right now.

But heaven help us if Jets fans have collectively pinned all their hopes and put all their eggs in one basket being carried by a 21 year old college student with long, lovely blonde hair.  It's almost as if we're banking on getting this guy and, even worse, it could be that the GM is also banking on getting him and trading away everything he can to ensure the tank.

With the odds of Lawrence actually becoming a Jet probably around 25% either due to him returning to college, the Jets winning a game or two, etc. I fear it will be an epically ugly time around here if it doesn't happen.  But it would also force the Jets to actually manage themselves better, not count on a silver bullet to fix 30+ years of ineptitude.  It would make the GM actually have to do things the right way and build a team rather than hope some phenom rescues him.

[LockeJET]

He has a big policy with Lloyd's of London. So if he stayed in school and got Hurt, he'd still collect over 20 Million. So the more riskier move could be coming to the Jets where there's also a possibility of your career being over. 

[TuscanyTile2]

Hopefully this is empty talk and he'll declare for the draft.  I definitely have some concerns that he's starting to listen to the people saying "don't go to the Jets". 

Assuming it's true (and, again, I hope it's not), I'd be all for JD trading down and trying to draft Sewell.  I love the idea of having 2 absolutely dominant OTs on our line.  That plus we'd acquire extra picks due to the trade down.  Ideally we'd also be able to add JaMarr Chase but that's probably not realistic.

[Warfish]

5 minutes ago, pdxgreen said:

Disagree.  Things change in college football all the time.  Being number one is no sure thing.  Even Burrows was saying guardes things about the possibility of Cincy at one time last year.  There is nothing in life that is assured.  Now if it gets to the end of the season abd one his family members goes on record as saying that he's adverse to the Jets as an organization.  Start talking about trading the pick.  This situation we're in is laughable.  But being the highest paid rookie in the entire draft isn't.  Even if he's playing for the Jets.

Generational talents don't have to worry about all that jazz.

A truly generational QB talent will be #1 this year, or #1 next year.  IF he is actually generational, of course.

What he can (and IMO will) control is which scrapheap franchise he goes to, as much as is possible.

There is, again IMO, no chance T.L. ever plays a snap as a NY Jet.  And I can't fault him if he doesn't want to.  I've loved this franchise for most of 40 years, but I wouldn't want my own son (if I had one) to come play here.  The NY Jets Franchise is a career-killer.  

So I fully expect a game of chicken to be played, to see who will blink.  I'm betting it'll be JD and Gase.

And like I said, that's when I expect our forum to explode with "Well, akshually, Fields is the real hidden gem in this draft!" threads.

[ToonforPrez]

4 minutes ago, PS17 said:

There is zero here. But of course if Lawrence so much as farts at a press conference or interview there will be 700 different tweets breaking down what it means. 

If the fart smells i can tell you the kid needs to eat better other than that the press has nothing

[Mogglez]

6 minutes ago, NYJ37/12 said:

He said his mindset has always been to leave but now who knows? How is that reading into, its stated?

He didn’t say “but now”. “But now” implies that something changed his mind and now he doesn’t know if he wants to come out.  I just read the full quote.  It’s a whole lot of nothing.

If he does stay?  Just take Fields.

[Sperm Edwards]

10 minutes ago, Scott Dierking said:

Man, talk about reading into a nothing statement.

Seriously. What's he going to say in October, at 6-0 and his team AP ranked #1? Is there any non-senior QB in history who said, in that situation or nearly in that situation, that "Yeah, I'm totally outta here after this year."

If he says this after his bowl game then you can read into it. 

[Wonderboy]

34 minutes ago, pdxgreen said:

He didn't say anything!  And being the first number one overall pick isn't something that you layover till you feel better about your pro chances.  One injury and you're done.

Jaylon Smith says he should return to school.