D-Rob: Greedy or gimpy?
Remember that almost trade between the Jets and the Bengals last week? Well, according to today's Cincinnati Enquirer, the reason the deal fell through was not because of a failure to reach an agreement on a new contract for Dewayne Robertson. Rather, the article says, D-Rob and the Bengals agreed on a 5-year, $28 million contract. The reason the deal didn't go through was because of the Bengals' concerns about Robertson's knee.
That'ss a different reason than the one Robertson's agent reportedly provided when the trade collapsed. And, to be fair, the knee can't be in all that bad condition since the article goes on to suggest that the Bengals could pick Robertson up if/when the Jets cut him, which some people think in an inevitability.
He's been playing with a bone-on-bone condition in his knee for several years now. For a defensive lineman, that's probably not as big a deal as for, say, a running back who wears No. 28 and is the fourth all-time leading rusher in NFL history. But it was still enough to apprently scare the Bengals off from the trade.
The Jets have shown that they are willing to part ways with Robertson, and they'll have even more incentive to cut him before his June 1 roster bonus if they can't trade him by then. But I'm still not convinced that the Jets can't use him, even with Kris Jenkins now taking up most of the picture. He'd have to redo his contract, but from what I saw the times he lined up there I think Robertson can make a decent defensive end in a 3-4 scheme.
The Jets are still likely trying to figure out a way to pass him along to another team in exchange for some kind of value, but if they can rework the financials I'm not so sure they'll be ready to simply cut ties with him before June 1.
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If they could rework his contract, that would be the only way, for us to get any value for DRob, at this point
I've been wanting them to move him to RDE, for a while now, so to me, unless we can really get some value in a trade, I'd go that way.
But, it's a big IF... would DRob be willing to renegotiate?
I sense that if he were willing, it would've been done by now.
If that's the case, I vote Greedy ;)
Earlier articles said DR passed his physical. The quote I found interesting mentioned that TWO trades for the same position had fallen apart for what were called "variables" but not explained further. If the two teams had agreed on the trade, if DR had agreed to terms, if he had passed his physical, what other VARIABLE would explain the failure of BOTH trades?
I defenitelt think the Jets should keep big Dewayne and let him wreak havoc on the outside. He was miscast as a nose tackle at the NFL level to begin with, but I believe he'd be productive with Jenkins clogging the middle.