Day 286

Fresh Start_286: The Calvin Pryor trade
I don’t truly now how to feel about this Calvin Pryor trade that the Jets pulled off on this past Thursday. If you haven’t heard about the trade; the Jets send Calvin Pryor to the Cleveland Browns for Former-Jet Demario Davis.

Davis left the team in free agency following the 2015-16 season. Davis in one season with the Browns had 99 combined tackles, 2 sacks, and 2 total sacks. Davis is now 28-years-old and seems like he is a better linebacker than when he left New York.

Pryor who was drafted in 2014 by Rex Ryan; Pryor has never delivered on the plus side that was seen by Ryan when he was the head of gang green. Pryor has shown a small assortment of plays during his career with the potential of being one of the top safeties in the NFL.

Following Marcus Gilchrist’s torn patella which he suffered in San Francisco and that injury ended his season. He was released to free up the second safety spot for Marcus Maye. I liked both Gilchrist and Pryor, but I understand why they went the way they did with this draft.

Getting Davis back allows the Jets to help mend the hole in the Jet linebacking core has been one the Jet Achilles heals in the past decade. I am happy that Demario Davis is back in Gang Green jersey. I think the Jets will win this trade, and start to change the culture for the New York Jets.
Sources:(nfl.com, usatoday.com)

Don’t forget to like, comment, subscribe, and share on your way out! 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The 2023 Offseason is Brian Cashman's Biggest Test Yet

Image
   Now that the World Series is over five days from now the offseason begins. With that in mind, this is the biggest offseason that Brian Cashman will have in his 25-year tenure as Yankee General Manager. For the first time since 2016 the Bronx Bombers watched the postseason from their couches, and they earned that right. Amazingly, this team finished over .500, although not that far above that mark. This iteration of the Bronx Bombers finish with the same record as that 2016 team—but the feeling with this squad feels different. Following the 2016 season, there was hope of the two power bats that would usher in the “Baby Bombers,” and in that offseason, the farm system was rated in the Top 10 in all of baseball. There was almost certainty that Brian Cashman would put a championship team around Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird, and Luis Severino that would be a title contender for years to come. There was hope. And that hope almost turned into reality. Almost. But, that was then
Read more

The Question going into the Trade Deadline for the New York Yankees

  There is a crossroads in the Bronx in between River and 161 st Street right now. As New York Yankee Manager Aaron Boone likes to put it “[the season] is right in front of them.” The second half of the season is for the taking. As we move into the dog days of summer the Bronx Bombers are nine games out of the division and now a game and a half out of the AL Wild Card race following a disappointing first series in Colorado. With that, the historic starting Tampa Bay Rays have cooled off, going 3-7 before the break while showing signs of being mortal. Baltimore, who has been keeping pace with Tampa, didn’t look like a Superpower when they split against the Yankees two series before the break. The AL East is still a Spartan Training Facility with every team above .500, the Orioles holding the first Wild Card spot, and the “struggling” Boston Red Sox tied the Yankees in the Wild Card race. And unlike Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, help is not on the way. Aaron Judge’s toe is still a m
Read more

The Answer for the Mets

  As Yogi Berra would say “it’s déjà vu all over again.” Buck Showalter is an all too familiar place. The 67-year-old manager has taken a time machine back to 2012. No, he is not managing in Baltimore anymore, however that’s what it feels like the end of Showalter’s Oriole tenure in Queens right now. The Mets simply can’t get out of their own way. With Pete Alonso likely headed to the Injured List, the Mets scored 10 runs last night in Atlanta. 10 runs on the heels of back-to-back gut-wrenching losses at the hands of the team that has foiled the Mets for the better part of almost three decades, the Atlanta Braves. 10 runs with their hired ace, Justin Verlander, who was looking to put together good starts consecutively for the first time all season. The Mets looked like they were about to exercise some demons in Atlanta last night, and then, the other shoe dropped. It wasn’t good enough. Again. Last night, I wrote that the Mets season was on the line with Verlander toeing the slab. Well
Read more