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With too many good DB’s to keep on their roster, the Jets have sent promising young cornerback/return man Brandon Codrington to the Buffalo Bills.  The deal will be for a swap of sixth-round picks according to NFL insider Adam Schefter.

Codrington won over plenty of Gang Green fans in just a few preseason games after showing flashes of being a dynamic return man who also did a solid job in coverage when targeted.

 

 

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1 hour ago, JetNation said:

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With too many good DB’s to keep on their roster, the Jets have sent promising young cornerback/return man Brandon Codrington to the Buffalo Bills.  The deal will be for a swap of sixth-round picks according to NFL insider Adam Schefter.

Codrington won over plenty of Gang Green fans in just a few preseason games after showing flashes of being a dynamic return man who also did a solid job in coverage when targeted.

 

 

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What happens is we pick higher in the 6th round than Buffalo?

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5 minutes ago, mrcoops said:

Maybe Buffalo's was the only offer.

He got an upgraded pick for a player he was going to cut anyway, and whom the Bills could have claimed off Waivers for free.

He made a sensible trade, getting something for a player who wasn't going to stick with the Jets.

We are screwed if Xavier Gipson is our KR/PR.  
5 fumbles last year

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3 minutes ago, Fantasy Island said:

We are screwed if Xavier Gipson is our KR/PR.  
5 fumbles last year

I liked Codrington as a returner, but he was useless as a CB. The Jets clearly didn't think he was worth a roster spot as solely a KR/PR.

Gipson, for all his fumbling issues, at least has some value as a WR. I expect a combination of Gipson, Davis and Corley on returns this year.

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40 minutes ago, Gaffneycatch81 said:

It’s Buffalo’s 6th for our 7th.

If the Jets suck and the Bills win the Super Bowl, it would mean moving up one (or a few) spots, and worth virtually nothing. On the other hand, if the Jets go deep in the playoffs and the Bills suck, moving from a low 7th to a high 6th is worth a mid 6th round pick — so it could be as high as that. Two drafts from now, that’s still not a big haul — but it’s something (rather than the nothing they would have gotten when they cut him and he was claimed off waivers). So, I’m good with it.

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense than the OP’s original pre edited post saying it was a swap of 6th round picks.

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6 minutes ago, mrcoops said:

I liked Codrington as a returner, but he was useless as a CB. The Jets clearly didn't think he was worth a roster spot as solely a KR/PR.

Gipson, for all his fumbling issues, at least has some value as a WR. I expect a combination of Gipson, Davis and Corley on returns this year.

Corley doing a Cotchery.  No game changers but also no fumbles

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48 minutes ago, mrcoops said:

I liked Codrington as a returner, but he was useless as a CB. The Jets clearly didn't think he was worth a roster spot as solely a KR/PR.

Gipson, for all his fumbling issues, at least has some value as a WR. I expect a combination of Gipson, Davis and Corley on returns this year.

So how stupid is Buffalo to trade for a useless cornerback?  Explains all their lack of success as a franchise.

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24 minutes ago, Sperm Edwards said:

Being not even a straight pick, but rather a swap of picks, and at that a swap of late picks, two years from now, and taking it? Means the alternative wasn’t trading him to someone else. The alternative was simply releasing him and getting nothing back.

This is something instead of nothing. If he turns into a player the issue is dumping him in the first place, not that it was trading him to Buffalo.

Another way of looking at it is this: he sucks and we just got a division rival to weaken themselves a little bit, albeit in the future, by giving us some of their draft capital — for nothing; a guy who doesn’t even have a 50/50 chance of remaining on their roster by November.

Yep. Only relevant question is "who would you have cut to keep him on the team"? None of the other CBs, obviously - he's not as good as JBC or Stiggers, who are the bottom 2 CBs on the roster. Brownlee? Abanikanda? 

 

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8 hours ago, addage said:

So how stupid is Buffalo to trade for a useless cornerback?  Explains all their lack of success as a franchise.

Pretty sure the Bills know what they are getting.

They needed a return guy, and were happy to make a low-cost trade for one and allocate a roster spot for him. They probably have no belief that he will contribute anything from corner.

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10 hours ago, Fantasy Island said:

JD is so f#%^ing stupid.  At least trade him out of our division.

It is honestly dumb. You traded a potential excellent return guy with the new spl tms  rules to your main division rival and you gave up two assets for 1

 

Buffalo gets 

Codrington and a 7th

 

Jets get a 6th. 

 

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11 hours ago, CanadaSteve said:

Must be a slow bitching day if this is what is upsetting the masses.

Just wait till the masses pick up on which ex-Jet and ex-Dolphin QB Buffalo have signed. :D 

(Admittedly only the practice squad, but still ...)

 

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Codrington wasn't even just an UDFA signing.  He was a tryout player that did not even join the team until May.  That means through the draft and UDFA periods every team had a shot to research and sign him and did not find him worthy of a spot on a 90 man roster.  The board often complains that teams are not a meritocracy and cut these guys for veterans, but the Jets just kept 3 UDFA on a stacked D line rotation.  They start former UDFA at slot and safety, have 2 other former UDFA WR.  

Maybe Codrington will turn out to be a stud returner, but even if he does this was the correct move.  How much was Braxton Berrios worth?  The Jets got him from the Pats for nothing.  Yes, the Bills are not high on the waiver order, but remember that bad teams sometimes claim guys to trade them to teams in need.  The Jets faced that when they had to get Kevin O'Connell from the Pats through the Lions.  Do you think that the Pats slept better knowing that the Lions had that draft pick instead of them? 

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4 hours ago, Testaverde9819 said:

It is honestly dumb. You traded a potential excellent return guy with the new spl tms  rules to your main division rival and you gave up two assets for 1

Buffalo gets 

Codrington and a 7th

Jets get a 6th.

Well, you could have cut him, not improved a draft spot, and he just would have signed with the Bills anyway.

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