Jets Release Laveranues Coles
 

Per ESPN NFL Live

Haily: I have lock Fire fox one
Hailey:splash one Lavernous coles

This offseason is only going to get weirder.

Wow! Just two years ago I remember some Jets fans spouting off that Coles was one of the top receivers in the league. One fan in particular saw Coles as a future HOF. ROFL

I, for one, think he would be a great cheap FA signing. Someone to hold the fort until we get a young deep threat.

WR Bennett and QB T. Green released from the Rams too - Sign 'em pioli!!! LOL

Coles would be a darn good pickup.
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It seems like no one is safe from the wrath of the guillotine.

I agree. We could do much worse than Bowe, Coles, and Bradley

Meh...depends on whose going to throw to him. :shrug:

QB Coach
Deal is Done

As the axe falls all around the league, Pioli's free agent "board" is going to be more and more fun to speculate about.

Trent Green will not be a coach/ Claythan :rolleyes:

perhaps

Bring him in for a look. Hell, bring 'em all in for a look.

Trent Green will be on TV.

Herm Edwards - Trent Green
NFL Point - Counterpoint

I would pay $89.95 to see Herm and Trent in a boxing match.

and it begins........ :grr:

Uhh, I dont know. I heard he sprained his laverneous majorum.

Trent in a boxing match?

He gets a concussion brushing his teeth.
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Trent Green will not be a coach/milkman

True Fans rejoice, Bring him in for look or some "show him the ropes time" I am sure he has something left in the tank...

Would be like signing Patrick Surtain, but as a reciever. No Thanks.

Except for the fact that we traded a second round draft choice for Surtain and would be picking Coles up off the scrap heap. Hardly the same thing.

It was a cap move. Due to all the dumbass signing the Jets did last year they had to cut him to get under the cap. They might actually bring him back.

Homer fans are idiots.

I actually saw a Chief fan on another forum say in all seriousness last year that Donnie Edwards is a lock for the HoF.

Missing my point. Why bring on a tired old reciever that isn't going to give us half the output he used to have so he can sit and collect a paycheck to be unproductive.

I thought we were trying to break away from the stigma of the "last stop before retirement" that we developed over the last several years.

Signing Coles would be counter-productive to the goals of the team right now in my opinion.

And just because so and so was released by some other team doesn not mean that he should automaitcally warrant a contract or even necessarily a look at by the Chiefs.

If Coles comes cheap, it's not even close to being the same.

Why? He can play. Who do you suggest our potential rookie quarterback throws to? Devard ****ing Darling and Mark ****ing Bradley?

Coles is a good stop gap until we can get a young deep threat in the draft.

It wouldn't be a bad thing to sign him.

Brace yourself, because Pioli will probably try signing more than one grizzled veteran to the Chiefs.

Vet min IMO only. If Pioli could manage it like they did with the Moss arrangement, only w/o draft picks then I'd be fine for him to play opposite of Bowe and then look to next year's draft for Coles' replacement.

At some point we need to sign some players. We have so many holes, and it isn't possible to fill them all through the draft immediately. Whether it's a rookie QB or Thigpen, we will need options at WR and Coles can still play. Haley's offense is predicated on having WRs that can stretch the field, so I would say a guy like Coles makes a lot of sense for a couple years until we can find a younger option.

Like all defensive FAs will have to go through Krummie's slap test
the offensive FAs will have to through Thiggies jump/crouch test

What the hell is a grizzled veteran?

Coles can't stretch the field, the guy is more of a possession receiver. He isn't all that good at getting separation.

Exactly. Signing him wouldn't have the same cap impact that it had when we handed out stupid contracts to Kendrell Bell, Surtain, etc....I think it would be helpful. It's not like we'd be building the team around Coles.

Coles can't buy a house in Leawood
like he's got back east
there's just not that much wood and stone

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As stated above, if he came for Vet League Minimum, perhaps with some incentive bonuses attached I wouldnt see it as horrible. But chances are he will come at a much heavier price tag than that.

And again, so could P. Surtain and Ty Law when the Chiefs picked them up. Or at least eveyone thought. Surtain at best was serviceable here and there, but never worth what was traded for and paid to him. And well, Ty Law was a joke and a half.

And I'm not arguing that the Chiefs could use a few good recievers. Bowe has the skills, unless the ball is thrown right into the numbers on his chest, and the others, well, we have other recievers on the team?

I just think Coles is not the player he used to be. He isn't going to stretch the field, and I don't really think he is an over the middle kind of guy. I really just believe it will be like watching the Surtain experiment all over again, just on he opposite side of the ball.

That's pretty much what he's always been. He had some speed earlier in his career, but he was never used primarily in deep patterns.

And the Surtain comparison is pretty ****ing weak. We wouldn't be trading away a draft pick or giving Coles a big contract to come here.

according to you, Darling is awesome

He had 70 catches and 7 TDs last year.

Good luck getting that from any other receiver on the Chiefs right now.

Coles lives in Jax. They need a WR more than anybody...

The Jags will keep trying to win a SB with David ****ing Garrard!

I've already explained that point. It's not about the behind the curtains BS, the draft pics and the money. It's about the player on the field, and I think Coles will not be the same player.

So can he or can he not stretch the field anymore? That's about the only question that matters, and there are conflicting views on this in this thread.

He had some long-ass catches last year, three games in a row with a catch over 40 yards.

Because of YAC, or...?

I distinctly remember Coles toasting DBs deep. He can still do it.

Basically. Coles is a tough guy who can make some difficult catches and the occasional big play or two. But he's not a deep receiver.

He's also one concussion away from retirement.

LC not a burner
 

I know LC well as a JETS fan.
1. LC is a tough, physical WR.
2. He is not fast as he used to be. Therefore he is not a burner. He is a very good possession receiver.
3. He had several injury issues, last two years: concussion and ankle.
4. While he is tough, he is also known as a "whiner."

The overall Jets fans' response to his release? Good riddance.

This release is interesting. JETS do not need to pay his guaranteed 6 million.

Per NY Daily News:

"Okay, here's the deal on the Laveranues Coles situation. Technically, they didn't release him, but they restructured the final year of his contract, allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent on Friday.

In other words, they voided the final year. And, from what I'm told, his $6 million salary (guaranteed) will come off the Jets' salary cap.

It's hard to believe that Coles would've surrendered that much in guaranteed money for his freedom - he could've had his freedom and the guarantee - but he apparently reached a good-faith compromise with the team."

I don't know who it will be, but I fully expect Haley to bring in a WR. Whether it be Harrison, Coles, Galloway, or Booker... I think he adds someone and then maybe a younger guy like Moore to go with Bowe, Bradley, and Franklin.

If this is true than Coles is a gambler.

ON FURTHER REVIEW, COLES WALKED AWAY FROM HIS $6 MILLION

Posted by Mike Florio on February 25, 2009, 5:55 p.m.

OK, now this is getting weird.

Despite a report in the New York Daily News that the guaranteed $6 million in base salary that receiver Laveranues Coles is due to earn from the Jets will be reduced by whatever he earns elsewhere, Dave Hutchinson of the Newark Star-Ledger has clarified for us that Coles has walked away from the guaranteed payment.

So, in other words, Coles gave up $6 million guaranteed in search of even more.

So, in other words, the Jets owe him nothing.

There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity. As to where Coles falls on this specific issue, we’ll all have to wait and see.

"Laveranues?"

No way!

If he's released, I'd rather go after Torry Holt than Coles.

I think it'll be interesting if Haley is interested in Bryant Johnson and I also wouldn't be disappointed if they went after Michael Clayton.

get him

Coles may have walked away from $6M... but, he's still a good weapon and he'll make that back with another team.

I can think of better ways of spending $6 mil per year on a player besides Coles. Maybe Snyder will want him the most.