What a fatso!
The Jets have evidently traded 3rd and 5th round draft picks to the Panthers for Kris Jenkins. I approve of this deal. Here are the reasons:
- In general, I am okay with trading mid- and late round picks for proven NFL commodities. It does upset me, because it reminds me that the Patriots were able to steal Randy Moss for a 4th rounder last year. By comparison to that heist, no other trades are a good value.
- Dewayne Robertson is a fat waste of space, and a waste of the 4th pick in the 2003 draft. As a point of reference, the Number 9 pick in that draft was Kevin Williams, who plays the same position and has made a Pro Bowl. Numerous other pro bowlers were drafted after him as well. Getting Jenkins lets us rid of him. Getting rid of him just to save me the emotional anguish is a good enough reason to make this deal.
- Sure Jenkins is an overweight slob, but at one time he was good. And really, most of the D-tackles in the NFL have issues of some sort, weight or otherwise. Haynesworth and Shaun Rogers are 2 quick examples. Jenkins has been to 3 Pro Bowls, and was a key cog of the ferocious Carolina line that featured Martin Rucker and Julius Peppers. Sure they had some problems last year, but its still an improvement over Dewayne.
- The Jets, stupidly, play a 3-4 defense even though it makes Jonathan Vilma, who was arguably their best player for a few years, obsolete. Sure David Harris can get the job done, but it still is sad to see us waste such a talent. Anyway, it helps to have a huge fat man in the middle of a 3-4, to eat up blockers. Maybe Jenkins can pull that off, or maybe I'm just grasping at straws here, because the Jets were so bad last year.
Update: The Bengals just got Shaun Rogers for the same price. He has the same problems as Jenkins, but with a bit more attitude. He also did this...
So would I rather have had him? Probably. Of course he's a Bengal now, so he'll probably get arrested. Oh well.
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