New York Jets salary cap analysis @SMWW graduate: Salary Cap & Negotiation
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The last time the Jets had a quarterback with the skill set exhibited by C.J. Carr, they had a first-time defensive-minded HC, won the AFC East, and went to the playoffs twice in three years. I have no hidden agenda for sharing this information. 😉
I have updated my Jets cap spreadsheet.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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I really don't understand why fans of bad teams expect NFL teams not to raise ticket/parking prices, just because the team is bad. Team expenses are going to go up next year. So, why do you expect them not to raise the cost of going?
What are we at now?
I can’t keep count …
16 seasons no playoffs
At least we have HOPE
3 top first round draft pix 2027
2027 draft our franchise QB
2026-7 hire a top HC
2027 Draft / revamp defense
Hire top OC/DC QB coach
Don’t raise ticket / parking $
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This is a very telling stat, on the surface. However, according the @pfref Advanced Passing, Geno Smith is also getting pressured on 23.5% of his dropbacks. So, looking at both stats together is even more telling.
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Woody Johnson fired Robert Saleh during the season, which is something he’d never done before. Now, he needs to do something else he’s never done, and ironically, it comes 30 seasons after the last time it was done.
Johnson needs to bring in a head coach with full personnel control and a scouting person to run the day-to-day operations like Parcells and Haley in 1997. (Although, Haley was already there. So it’s not exactly apples-to-apples, but close enough.)
I always get pushback on this idea. I don’t think it will be done, but I think it SHOULD BE.
Just so we’re clear…
…the Jets reportedly rejected substantial trade offers for multiple players due — at least in part! — to the fact that they still think Aaron Glenn can save his job.
Never mind that one of those players doesn’t want to be here and is barely playing, while the other is actively making part of your team worse.
*IF TRUE* this is complete organizational malpractice and it makes you wonder what power (if any?) Darren Mougey actually has on 1 Jets Drive.
If he can’t overrule Glenn at THIS stage, he’s as much of a lame duck as his HC. If not even more of one!
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the Jets’ organizational structure is an absolute mess and it likely just cost them valuable future draft capital.
Good stuff fellas, well done. 👍
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Now, the Jets are likely to get a high pick on their own when, at the time, we hoped they wouldn’t, but I thought “good organizations find a way to avoid a bottom out, especially when they don’t own their top pick”. 🤔
Before the season so many Jets fans insisted they’d need to tank and fire Glenn to get a top pick on their own, but the Colts are on a fire sale.
The Cowboys COULD also give the Jets a top-10 pick.
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This is what’s called a counterfactual fallacy. It’s taking one perceived positive change and simply assuming it results in a net positive.
There are too many variables with the coaching change to even construct a reasonable thought of how things would be with John Harbaugh as HC.
The record could be the same, but just achieved differently. The Jets could also be worse, or they could be any varying range of better.
It’s not even conceivable to make a good hypothesis.
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I don’t get the ridiculous notion that with a 24-team playoff FBS football, early games won’t mean as much. Whether or not you want to believe it, with a 12-game season, early wins and losses WILL dictate the landscape of the playoff teams. For some, it’ll be seeding, and others, they will determine getting in or not. Every single game will still be just as important.
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New cap update
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
#Jets with a couple of moves:
✍️LB Troy Reeder to the active roster. He was elevated from the PS the past 2 games after being on the active roster earlier this season.
✍️LB Mykal Walker to the PS. He played in 14 games last season and re-signed in the offseason, but hurt a calf in training camp and reached an injury settlement with the team in September.
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The Andre Cisco trade saves the Jets $1,015,000 in cap space, some of which will be taken by a new player on the roster.
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Teams didn't always have special teams coaches. So, for a realistic starting point, let's start in 1976. Since then, nine coaches who began their careers on special teams (some later transitioned to another phase) have become head coaches. Those nine coaches have a combined record of 1314-980-2 (.585, including Week 9 2026), and coaches who began on offense or defense have a combined record of 9953-10,471-48 (.487). 🤔
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Based on the current draft order table from @Jason_OTC, and where the Jets are currently selecting, by the time the second training camp roles around for the 2027 first-round picks, they likely will have made a total of $100,423,456 combined.
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The Jets would save $14,583,351 in cash and cap over the rest of 2026 and all of 2027 if they were to trade Will McDonald IV.
Only five rookies since sacks became official have 10+ sacks with 5+ forced fumbles. The best of those statistical seasons was close (depending on which you weight more)
Jevon Kearse had 14.5 sacks and 7 forced fumbles in 1999, and Dwight Freeney have 12 sacks and 9 forced fumbles in 2002.
No rookie has reached double digits in both categories, and only one player (Osi Umenyiora) has ever achieved that in any season.
I know this is a sad season but do yall know how insane FIVE forced fumbles just over halfway through the season is???
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Sean McDermott has experience in turning a franchise’s bad fortune around. Brian Daboll and Ken Dorsey have experience (together) in developing a young quarterback.
Anyone with logical thoughts would know Josh Allen wouldn’t be the quarterback he is today without the group he had coaching him in Buffalo during his development.
There’s no reason to dismiss the idea of bringing them to East Rutherford. It’s not that there’s no reason not to hire them at all. It’s that completely dismissing the idea is ludicrous.