Locked On Jets - Daily Podcast On The New York Jets

Last week, a few of our podcasts focused on Drafting philosophies on display across the NFL. Today we look at what Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan does when he is on the clock. In three years, a few patterns have emerged. Maccagnan has also been willing to share them with the media at various points, which gives us a good idea of what he is looking for.

Three such strategies stand out. Maccagnan had put an emphasis on drafting players at a pair of important positions, quarterback and outside linebacker. He puts less of an emphasis on the offensive line with a stated view that good teams find and develop linemen in the middle and later rounds of the Draft.

While the execution of these strategies has left something to be desired, one could argue these are valid team building strategies. On today's show we examine them deeper.

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Assessing where the Jets are at wide receiver with 17 players on the roster.

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It is Thursday, which makes it podcast mailbag day. Thanks once again to everybody who submitted questions to be answered. The mailbag show wouldn't work if there were no mailbag questions.

Today we look at whether it is possible the Jets will receive any compensatory picks as a result of what happened in free agency, whether the team actually needs 17 wide receivers on the roster at this point in time, the greatest individual season in franchise history, whether the Jets should make a big trade offer to land an edge rusher, when the rookie quarterback will enter the starting lineup, and how much pressure Mike Maccagnan's job might come under if the rookie does not produce out of the gate.

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We continue our look at Draft philosophies.

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The Jets announced late Friday afternoon that they retained a pair of backup offensive linemen.

After a few brief thoughts on that, today's podcast focuses on Draft strategy. One specific strategy is the focus, trading down. I firmly believe that teams should look to trade down.

This might seem like an odd topic for a show about the Jets considering the team recently made the biggest move of NFL Draft season when it traded up. I take no issue with that right now. There is a time and a place to trade up.

The focus today is more general. While teams should not be afraid to trade up when it makes sense, the teams that move down more frequently than they move up tend to win more games. There are reasons for that. In fact, trading down can even make it to find the right time to trade up.

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It takes three years at a bare minimum to fully evaluate an NFL Draft class, but preliminary evaluations begin the second the players hit the field as rookies. The Jets' class of 2016 now has two seasons of NFL experience under its belt.

I think by any measure it would have to be considered a disappointing class so far. Despite a solid day two pick and an undrafted free agent homerun, this class has not provided the quality, the depth, or the impact needed to help accelerate the rebuild.

But time remains to turn things around. Again, two years is not enough time to give a class a final grade. The players the Jets selected can still improve. That is the focus of today's podcast. What is the ceiling each player has? How much can they improve? Do the disappointing players  have the ability to be quality starters, or is a depth piece the best the Jets can hope to get?

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The NFL Draft is coming, and today we have a mailbag.

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The major impact portion of free agency has now been over for a while. The Jets made a number of moves in the first few days of the league year hoping to upgrade weak spots on their roster.

The team continues to make signings of veteran free agents. These signings are for small name players. The team is buying low on these guys. Some of them have talent. Some of them have upside. They all come with flaws, which is why they are available at a cheap rate.

Today we look at some of the recent signings the Jets have made looking for diamonds in the rough.

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Plenty of people enter the NFL season with pressure on them. That pressure can manifest itself in many different ways. 

On today's podcast, we take a look at four people in the Jets' organization who will enter the season with some sort of pressure on them. The pressure isn't the same for everybody. One is trying to reestablish himself. Another is trying to elevate his game to the next level. Still another is simply trying to show he belongs after the Jets took a chance on him. How these guys respond to the pressure will have an impact on the success of the 2018 New York Jets, and it will have an impact on their careers.

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Draft season is a time where teams focus on their needs. When we take stock of needs, we tend to focus only on positional needs. That certainly is an important part of the process. There are needs that go beyond positions, though. Sometimes these get lost in the mix.

Some needs are based on roles. A team might need a player who fills a role, and that role could be filled by players at multiple positions. Back in 2015 the Jets had a comedic lack of production from their tight end position, but Brandon Marshall, Eric Decker, and Quincy Enunwa gave the Jets a large amount of the productivity a team usually gets from its tight end.

On today's podcast we take a look at some of the roles the Jets need to fill. There is a possibility some could be filled internally by players improving. Others might need to be filled externally.

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