Not so fast.
Nobody can deny that the Jets have had an nice off-season considering how they were hamstrung by the "final four" rule in free agency this year. I do agree they have gotten better, but how much better have they really gotten?
-Adding a potential shutdown corner (Antonio Cromartie) opposite Darrelle Revis is still far and away the best move the Jets made this off-season. Having a guy used to covering another team's #1 receiver now having to cover their secondary receivers could be huge if he pans out.
-Getting LaDainian Tomlinson would have excited me five or six years ago. At this point Thomas Jones is better than Tomlinson. Money shouldn't have been an issue since we're going in to an uncapped year and the Jets are opening a new stadium. I can understand it a little if you tell me that everyone in the locker room respected Thomas Jones and it could never truely be Shonn Greene's team while Jones was still there. But don't think that the Jets got better at running back by adding LT2.
-I'm not going to complain about giving up a 5th rounder for Santonio Holmes but I really found this to be unnessesary. There is something about him that doesn't do it for me. The Jets actually had enough weapons for a running team. I just think with getting Edwards last year, Cromartie and now Holmes this year the Jets are starting a bad trend with getting some bad character guys on their roster.
-And one move that is being highly overlooked right now is letting Jay Feely go to Arizona and signing Nick Folk. The Jets better have something else planned for the kicker position because Folk should not even have a job after that year. 18 for 28 is a college kicker type of percentage.
I'm reading too many things right now about the Jets surpassing the Patriots in the AFC East. The gap may be a little closer than it has been but championships aren't won in April. After all those words it still simply boils down to Tom Brady > Mark Sanchez.
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