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Originally Posted by LoneWolf
They had 4 of the first 36 picks in the draft. Even you, with all your head up your ass football takes, couldn’t **** up that draft. The Jets will continue to miss the playoffs and the 7 players claimed on waivers will be out of the league in a few years.
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That's absolutely right, far as their draft position was concerned. The biggest reason they killed the draft was because of all the high picks.
It's legit weird, much as we love to hate on the Jets (and/or me), that teams across the league saw six of their castoffs as must-have snags to pad the bottom of their rosters.
I think it's weird because you usually associate so many players getting claimed from one team as evidence that this team has a loaded roster. Spoiler alert: the Jets do not have a loaded roster.
So it really means that the Jets cut a lot of enticing guys with desirable traits from their garbage roster.
I don't follow the Jets close enough to know the story there: are they coached purely incompetently?
Saleh's been there a year; maybe he was ready to move on from a bunch of otherwise really promising players who he simply didn't like for one reason or another. Couldn't he have flipped them for picks?
Six players being claimed, despite on paper being some kind of insane bragging rights for the Jets, seems to be kind of a stain.