Jets Match Browns' Offer to S Abram Elam

by Chris Pokorny on Mar 18, 2009 10:18 AM EDT in General News

According to the Associated Press, the New York Jets matched the Cleveland Browns offer sheet to DB Abram Elam. The Browns had offered him $1.5 million, which the Jets had seven days to match.

Elam represents one of the few Jets that Eric Mangini couldn't bring with him to Cleveland. The Jets preferred to keep Elam for his versatility at the safety position. Had Elam come to Cleveland, he may have been given the opportunity to compete for the vacant starting safety role.

Currently, Mike Adams, known as a backup, would have to fill that role unless somebody else is brought in.

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Mangini will now try to lure away the Jets ball-boy, Timmie McCracken. Timmie missed most of the 2008 season with mono, but those who know him describe him as ‘incredibly adequate’. Soon we will have the entire team in Cleveland. It’s only a matter of time…

by Cato on Mar 18, 2009 4:54 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

+1

Awesome. I laughed out loud when I read this.

by BAL_Hawk on Mar 18, 2009 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions

This is a good thing

Why sign somebody that is similar to the guy on the roster? Shouldn’t we at least sign sombody with upside? Or get a drafted kid with upside?

Think positively, $1.5 mil towards our draft signees.

by blockersave93 on Mar 19, 2009 12:41 PM EDT reply actions

ANNOYING

Yes, that is in caps on purpose…Other than Barton I honestly haven’t really heard of a single one of these former Jets, at least positively. This is so ridiculous to me. Very mediocre players from a mediocre team. I am left scratching my head.

by bellar on Mar 19, 2009 10:52 PM EDT reply actions

Let’s see how the season goes. We’ve been the free agency champs in the past, and had not made the playoffs under Savage

by Roger Dorn on Mar 19, 2009 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Who was out there that you really wanted? I didn’t want to win the Haynesworth 100 million dollar sweepstakes. Not worth it.

Bart Scott would have been nice, but not worth the money he got at his age, now not playing next to Ray Lewis. Jason Brown, maybe. A returning Sean Jones would have been good, but its not like he is Polamalu, Reed, Sanders, or Adrian Wilson. Brian Dawkins is past his prime. TJ is old, too. We already have TO junior on the roster, we don’t need the original. Canty got way more than he should have. Everyone else who was really good was franchised or resigned.

Holt or Harrison would be nice, and Pace might be worth a shot, but all three of those are still out there. Who did you want that badly?

by rufio on Mar 20, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Not to mention, it takes two to sign a contract. I can assume there are players out there that have no interest in signing with the Browns. For this reason, I find it very unlikely the Browns sign Holt, he has been quoted as saying he wants to play for a winner

by Roger Dorn on Mar 20, 2009 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Remember, Kokinis came from the Ravens who are known for finding good players from other team’s rosters who aren’t big names. We don’t need to be the Redskins and throw big money at all the big-name free agents every year. That’s not how you build a team. Just because you haven’t heard of a guy doesn’t mean that he’s not a good player.

And for all the talk about the Jets being a “mediocre” team, remember that after they beat Tennessee everybody was picking them to win the AFC. They looked pretty good all year until they broke down at the end. I didn’t follow the team enough to know all the reasons, but it’s pretty clear that they had some good players on that team. It’s not like we’re picking scraps from the Lions or Bengals.

You win by drafting a few players who turn in to “stars” (or signing/trading for them, but that doesn’t happen often) and supplementing them with solid players you found in free agency and later rounds of the draft. Every guy the Browns sign doesn’t need to be a “name” player. Look at the big contracts Savage gave out which haven’t worked out so well (Stallworth, Bentley).

by Buckeye Brad on Mar 20, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions