DMN: The Jets need a wide receiver

" If he goes to the Jets, and that’s a big if, Bowe would bring a little baggage. He struggles to get away from press coverage, doesn’t have instant separation speed, doesn’t catch the ball with consistency and doesn’t have down-the-field speed."

Wow ! What would you consider overpaying for a receiver with those stellar qualities . Is " the show " even worth a bucket of chicken . Gees . You basically said he is a slow receiver with bad hands & an attitude problem .

Andrews is unreliable. I wish the Eagles would just bring back Runyan. He may be old and coming off surgery but that guy is a warrior and determined to play. Maybe if Andrews had a guy like Runyan, who never misses a game, trying to take his job at RT then maybe his back would miraculously heal.

Michael, agree with your take on Favre. I have nothing against the guy and respect his decision to keep playing if there is a team that will pay him. But, a 40 year-old QB with shoulder problems who plays a gun-slinger style rather than a disciplined game manager style doesn't excite me.

I really think the media, especially the ESPN franchise have really overblown this story. I expect Favre to have a season much like last year with the Jets, start out strong, wear down, throw a lot of picks and either miss the playoffs or limp in to be one and done.

As a Giants fan I agree with the Tipper about Bradshaw. But, I still think the Giants are a #1 wr short of being a real Super Bowl contender. I know Reese says they have faith in the guys they've got and it is a conservative franchise that rarely trades, but do you see any possiblity that they bring in a #1 guy at this late date? Is there anyone out there and possible available?

Thank you Michael for being one of the few to be honest about the Favre situation. It may be a fun story to rubberneck about, but its ultimately not a move conducive to post season success.

Dear NFP,
Please consider adding a link to the bottom of each article which goes to the author's previous article.
I am a big fan, but would like it even more if I could easily read the articles I've missed -- generally I don't have time to check the site more than a couple of times a week.
I appreciate the various links, article titles, headlines, etc. but still think that a simple "previous article" link would be good.
Thanks for the unparalleled insight into the NFL.

Mike,
I hear ya on Favre, he won't last the season and it'll be fun to watch the train wreck.... and is Brad Childress a piece of work or what?

As for Rex "the mouth that roared" Ryan, he ought to spend all his time and energy on fixing the Jets instead of poking the lion with a stick or worrying what Baltimore does with their jersey numbers. Is it any wonder Baltimore passed on this guy when Billick got canned?

What's interesting to view is the role of specific media and their reaction to Favre.

ESPN gets ratings from millions of sports fans, but when something like Favre Signs with Vikings breaks, they get Joe Casual to come in and they hype Brett up and try to make the story bigger than it is because even if the diehard sports fan is sick of Favre, Sportscenter no doubt got much higher ratings yesterday because of him. In that regard, it's advantageous for their network to get excited about him and try to keep some casual fans coming back to continue to see how he's doing.

Here at NFP, the audience are diehard football fans. So it's nice to be treated as one and read Lombardi's take on Favre.

Rosenfels looked good in the preseason, which doesn't mean much, but if they don't win the SB this year, they're only pushing their chance further back because they'll have to develop a young guy. Just doesn't make any sense on any level.

Andrews is one of those 'indoor' kids who was drafted into football at a young age based upon his sheer magnitude. In his case, he's actually still physically special enough that he can pull the Walter Jones maneuver through camp. The problem is that he has not got heart, so he pulls these sorts of stunts every year to get out of camp. Last year he was depressed. Maybe it'll be some exotic tropical disease next year, I can't wait to see. In a city that so loudly declares its love of players with heart, I don't see how he has not been run out of town.

The Jets ought to wait on the wide out.

Everything can't be done immediately and rushing into a trade for a veteran with issues would be, in the long run, a negative.

Who wants to drop a bundle of bucks and picks for other peoples problems like Braylon Edwards, Marshall, or Bowe.

Build the D, fine tune the offensive line, develop the QB and RB, and wait till next years draft or free agency to grab a guy.

Perhaps they catch a player on the waiver wire they like on the final cuts...

Maybe they get Michael Crabtree in the second round next year...

Brett Favre is trash, Shawn Andrews is a mental trainwreck, and the Jets better hope Chansi Stuckey can be a reliable receiver. As always, Lombardi, good job!

Mr. Lombardi
You had made mention of the "Hard Knocks" episode from last week... I was hoping you could comment on the way they handled the cut of their longshot fullback. At the risk of sounding like a bleeding heart, I thought the way they handled it was over-the-top. There must be a better way than to be woken up at 5:30 in the morning and being told to leave the premises. To be told you are being cut because of ability (meaning lack of) by a an old man hiding an innertube around his waist is on camera qualifies as humiliation.

I understand that football is a cut-throat business, but please tell me that other franchises are more enlightened than this...

I disagree with the Hard Knocks comment. First of all, in this day and age of everyone suing at the drop of a hat, you have to be very clear about any sort of job situation to make sure you don't end up hearing from a lawyer about wrongful termination. But more to the point, what's more helpful to a fringe player trying to catch on to an NFL team? Being coddled and told it wasn't his performance, just keep up exactly the way you're going and you'll catch on, or the cold slap of a coach telling you that you have to get better or you'll never play in the NFL? I think the latter. As for being told to beat it, I believe the team would be liable for a portion of a league minimum salary if he were to be injured at the facility, so they need him out of there as soon as they decide he's not in their plans.

Brandon Marshall is a wildly overrated player who is not worth anything near what the Broncos would be asking for. Dwayne Bowe doesn't make much sense either, though he'd be better. What the Jets actually need is a guy with speed who can play flanker and open up space for Dustin Keller. Jordy Nelson would be my ideal, but Kevin Curtis seems like an excellent fit and a guy who can be had for a reasonable price. (Hell, he might not make Philly's final roster.)

Wow, with 2000 yards in his first two seasons, I thought Dwayne Bowe was actually pretty good. Thank goodness Michael Lombardi came along to tell us how much Bowe sucks at everything he does.

I guess his stats were just the result of playing in a Herm Edwards offense. We know how much Herm likes the flashy passing game.

Brandon Marshall is a wildly overrated player who is not worth anything near what the Broncos would be asking for. Dwayne Bowe doesn't make much sense either, though he'd be better. What the Jets actually need is a guy with speed who can play flanker and open up space for Dustin Keller. Jordy Nelson would be my ideal, but Kevin Curtis seems like an excellent fit and a guy who can be had for a reasonable price. (Hell, he might not make Philly's final roster.)

Bowe's stats were because his team was forced into passing every down because they got behind early every game of his career. He isn't terrible, he isn't even bad. He's just slow and needs a number one burner to play with.

Yo Lombardi!

Would you please take a column, and a page from Bill Simmons for that matter, and do some mock trades for Marshall? The article is interesting, but with your experience it would be way more interesting to see if you were GM of the Jets (or another team you think that might be interested) and actually name the players and the deal you would propose. Marshal has such huge risk and reward I would be really curious to see just what kind of package people would be willing to give for him, and I think your perspective would especially interesting.

Quick question for the writer: Speaking of Jets receivers, would you happen to know how David Clowney has been doing in camp? He was a Packers fifth-round pick a couple of years ago, but we were too deep at receiver to keep him and the Jets grabbed him off the practice squad. I remember him having blazing speed, but that was about it. Has he refined his game enough in the past couple years to compete for a spot in the rotation in NY? Thanks.