tukafan21

He tried to run his girlfriend off the road by purposefully crashing his car into her, then ran from the cops and assaulted them. There are a lot of crimes NFL teams will look past and give a player a shot, I'd be shocked if any of them do that in this instance.

return quickly? dude is never playing another snap in the NFL again.

But you’re still ignoring my point in that post. If he’s our 3rd best WR like you think, then he’d be the 2nd best on the Jets and they decided not to give the RFA tender to him, which would have kept him there on the cheap. To me that says everything

But again, to your point, it's the Jets and they have nobody outside of Wilson at WR for next year. So if Metchie is really as good as you think he is, why wouldn't they have made the RFA tender offer to him? That to me is the bad sign, that the Jets had him there for most of last season and they didn't want to try and keep him despite their awful WR room.

No, he needs to earn his paycheck in the draft. No matter how good you are in Free Agency, you can't be a sustainable and SB contending team without drafting well, and that goes beyond the 1st round.

Only if the team doesn't think Brooks can be good. I want to give Brooks a chance, as if he's healthy, he should be the best RB on the team next year, and he won't get that chance if Kamara is here along with Chuba. But if they don't think he can be the same player we expected when drafting him anymore, then I'd be all for it, as he'd be a great receiving back to pair with Chuba.

It was the season he won the Heisman and Metchie had the best year of his career while being named 2nd team All SEC, not to mention I'm sure they still threw together quite a bit his Freshman year when he backed up Mac Jones. We're not talking about some 400 yard season, they had a real connection that year. He's been a teammate with Metchie longer than he's been with T-Mac and for the same amount of time as Coker and XL. Sure, it was a few years back, but these guys also remain friends with former college teammates, so he still could have a better relationship with Metchie than any of our current WRs due to the longevity. There is no way we're signing Metchie if not for the Bryce connection, so to dismiss it like that is the crazy thing.

What?!?! Say you think he can turn into something at some point, but this is a whole lot of praise for someone with less than 700 yards across 3 seasons of his career. If he was remotely close to being the 3rd best WR on our team right now, the Jets wouldn't have let him walk without tendering him the RFA offer.

Exactly my point And signing a WR that might be a camp fodder level of talent, but has a history of being a safety valve for Bryce, isn't going to help him out this year, it only has the potential for him to fall into old traps again. Would have been thrilled with this move 2 years ago. But 2 more seasons of Metchie not showing much, and just not a fan of it at this point with such a critical season upcoming for Bryce and the franchise.

And yet, the Jets didn't even tender him a RFA offer. Yet another reason I don't love this, if the Jets don't think he's good enough to keep around given their WR needs, then why do we think he is?

I get it, but the "trust" is my problem. Would just rather bring in a better player than someone Bryce trusts. We need a real #3 in the slot, not players who have been on 3 teams in the last 18 months and none of them wanted to keep him around. Now... if you tell me that the staff is actually 100% sold on Horn Jr being the clear cut slot starter this year, then maybe I'll feel differently. As that then pushes XL into the #4 (like I want if he's still here), Moore as the #5 (aka special teamer), and then Metchie is just someone to make Bryce comfortable with in camp and fight out Tremayne for the last possible roster spot that wouldn't get a jersey on game days. I just doubt that's the case given Horn Jr's usage late in the season, didn't scream "we think he can be our #3 next year"

Honestly, think I'd rather have brought back Curtis than sign Metchie (and Curtis' NFL career may be done anyways). At least he would be a great vet presence to have for T-Mac, Coker, and XL.

He's played 3 full seasons since then, if he's not fully recovered from the leukemia, then he shouldn't have been playing the last 3 years. I'll also be honest that I don't think I've seen any of his Jets highlights, but 256 yards in 9 games and 7 starts, doesn't scream showing flashes to me.

Which again, is why he's the wrong guy to bring in if that's the case. Bring in any one of another couple dozen players with the same abilities, not a friend of Bryce's who is either going to get unwarranted targets and/or frustrate Bryce when/if we end up cutting him. This is a make or break year for Bryce and this coaching staff. Don't bring in borderline roster guys when we only have 2 legitimate NFL WRs right now.

He's a 3 year vet with what, 5-7 decent games throughout his career? He's had more than good enough OL play the last 2 seasons to have shown better decision making than he has in that time. And he had the ROY this past season along with a breakout WR the second half of the season. Bryce's problems are Bryce's to solve, not improving the roster around him. And that's not to say we can't still improve the roster around him, but he was the #1 pick, we've given him enough to where he 100% should have shown more with it so far.