Either drafting someone, signing a player, a coach, an in game decision what was the move that today you find to be the worst in the past 10 years. Not allowed to say Vernon Gholston because it is still too early. he still has potential to breakout. My choice is herm edwards decision to be conservative in the final minutes of regulation in the steeler/jet 2004 divisional playoff game
Obviously as of now I would figure Gholston would be up there. Never a fan of Mangini and his dictator ways so even though he was able to produce 2 successful seasons I never boarded his bandwagon.
Drafting Gholston has to be #1. Botching the #6 pick, with the money that comes with it is huge. Candidates for 2nd place though could include Mike Nugent, Bryan Thomas over Ed Reed which is a major one, Dewayne Robertson..
Since I've been a fan since 2002 I'll go with that time frame. I'd have to say that the worst decision (for me at least) was trading Jonathan Vilma away for a leftover pizza and some loose change.
It has to be Gholston, because a lot of the other bad decisions have leveled off in one way or another. Even the Mangini era led us to Rex Ryan, so I can't even really pick that one.
The thing about drafting VG 6th overall is that a lot of those players picked early in the 2008 NFL draft look like potential busts so it's not like we picked the one shitty player. If we could "redo" that pick, I would go with McKelvin but that would have been really unlikely back in '08 because we had just drafted Revis the year before. The best thing we can do to "make up" for that pick is by getting his contract off the books because he's never going to justify being picked 6th overall.
Taking a kicker with a 2nd round pick. The entire front office should have immediately been fired after that.
Gholston, moving up to get Robertson, getting rid of Lamont Jordan when he was on the verge of becoming a top back.
I don't see how Gholston can be on this list. Sometimes you draft a turd. It happens. It's not like we traded up for the privilege of drafting Gholston, or passed over Matt Ryan or Jake Long to draft him. The Mike Nugent trade and the trade up for Robertson have to be the top mistakes. I think jtrain was onto something regarding the Steelers game playcalling. The best Jet in franchise history said he felt "betrayed" after that debacle; that's a mistake. Also, Releasing Kareem MacKenzie and replacing him with Anthony Clement set the franchise back a couple of years, IMO.
Herm running Curtis into the ground instead of using LaMont more to keep him fresh was a real killer. Shortened Curtis's career and hurt our team in the short team because a fresh LaMont could have been deadly.. he could have been Shonn Greene-like late in the season against tired defenses.
Yeah I agree the Nugent and Robertson picks blows away the Gholston pick, at least with Gholston we could hide him on the bench, the Robertson era was terrible as every single game our dline was practically swiss cheese, and Nugent flat out sucked
