By Tom Rock
The Jets moved Matt Chatham from the Active PUP list (which is a contradiction in terms we into which we will not delve at this moment) to Reserve PUP. The move means that Chatham is not eligible to practice with the team until a three-week window that begins after Week 6. But you remember all of that from the Curtis Martin Vigil last year.
The move also means that at least two of the Jets captains from last year are unlikely to reprise their roles. Pete Kendall was an offensive captain, and Chatham was a special teams captain. Looking for a replacement for Chatham? Is do-it-all guy Brad Smith ready for that role? How about Mike Nugent, who was a captain at The Ohio State University? Or maybe ... just maybe ... a guy like Justin McCareins gets the nod. I guess we'll see soon enough.
Comments (5)
No, not Chatham! What are we going to do now?
Maybe they can off him on the Redskins.
I'd go with Nugent. Don't let the fact that I'm sitting in my dining room less than a mile-and-a-half from Ohio Stadium make you think I'm biased, or anything.
Besides, I said Schlegel was a mistake from day one.
Speaking of Schlegel... let's get more depressed and think about which players we missed out on who were all taken after him...
ILB Freddie Keiaho by the Colts...
ILB Gerris Wilkinson by the G-men
Guard Max Jean-Gilles
and RB Jerious Norwood (who would be fantastic trade bait right now)...
oh well... you live and learn... Schlegel is the one bad apple in an otherwise fantastic draft.
Ah, Jordan, that's a well-worn path in this house. Heck, there were other Buckeyes I'd have taken, even if they too would have been reaches.
I'd better stop or I'll break into my explanation of why Clarke could still be the choice at LG.
Bender is from a small program but you have to like the kid. He went from not being good enough to be given a schloarship from HS to a Divsion I school to being drafted into the NFL. He looked better than last week. He will be tested in week 1. But if he learns and improves each week that's the start of a Jet O line that could play together 10 years. Of course until one of them makes the Pro-Bowl then hold out for more money.