Lamb drops to 17 and they do not have a need to spend a 1st on a WR but he does for some bragging rights about getting a steal. That positional pick was at the bottom of needs.
In rankings, the 3rd best edge rusher, 3rd best DT and the best LB all fall to 24 and the fact that Jermaine Johnson is there is the shocker of the 1st round and the Jets are beyond giddy to cap off one of the best 1st rounds in recent history.
They went for need on all 3 picks and that's not necessarily a bad thing but it proves they really do not have a draft strategy.
We won't know the truth about where they had Smith ranked or if they would have taken him if Green, Johnson, Burks or Penning would have been there.
The guy saying he was their 16th and ahead of the other higher ranked OL by every service in the game lied about the last 1st round pick and was countered by his son telling the truth that it was always the 2 CB's.
These 3 players are not bad players and they may work out but they have "need" all over them and the first pick has "reach" and it seems the owner did a number on us by switching his risk pick from the 2nd round to the 1st round.
I really do not have a problem with the pick, he's rough and I don't know how ready he is but he's got attitude and size and I like him already better than I ever did the pick for the Willams "project".
However, do we really have to deal with this clown insulting us with his ego based lies all of the time? "The other guys were gone and we took the highest rated OL on our board" or "Once Horn and Surtain were gone, the choice was easy for Parsons and we were lucky he was there".
Does this man think he is going to fool us into thinking this is all by design, part of the master plan? It's one thing to ignore the fans; it's something else to insult them.
What makes this so sad is that those were needs created by the FO by letting some of our better players at these positions walk. Ok, you trade away Cooper and free up salary... but why did we let La'el walk? Williams is understandable because he's a penalty machine and constantly getting tossed back. We let Wilson go as well, so that coupled with Cooper's departure, creates a hole at WR.
The FO literally forced themselves to have a 'needs' draft and did nothing with all of that cap space freed up... to make things worse, we literally drafted the same kind of players that had issues that made the players we let walk had.
Smith is stronger than Williams, but one of Williams biggest issues is being a penalty machine, so we draft one of the most penalized linemen in college football. Gregory's big issue is availability... Williams could very well be unavailable if he is getting in trouble off the field.
Most people aren't bagging on the Tolbert pick because that was actually a solid value pick... guy who has talent on tape and no off the field issues we know about.
Those 'needs drafts' almost always prove to be disappointing, but we'll see.
