{"id":1828,"date":"2013-03-15T15:38:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2017-09-08T20:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:55:52","slug":"free-agency-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/03\/15\/free-agency-follies\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Agency Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agency has opened in the NFL, but someone forgot to tell my New York teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have resigned Aaron Ross, a cornerback they drafted a few years back, then lost in last year&#8217;s free agency.  Otherwise they seem to be asleep.  They just lost Kenny Phillips, their starting safety.  Phillips has been hurt a lot, and last year his replacement Stevie Brown outplayed him, but when he was healthy he was staunch against the run.  The G-Men have also have Osi on the free agent market, though so far no one has signed him, so maybe he will be back.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets&#8230; don&#8217;t get me started about the Jets.  So far they have lost their starting RB, their best TE, a solid part of the defensive line rotation, both starting safeties.  And rumors persist that they are about to trade Darrelle Revis, their best player.  The Jets finished 6-10 last year, fired their GM, and brought in a new one.  They kept Rex Ryan, which I think was good&#8230; Rex has only had one bad season in his four with Gang Green, and has proved himself to be a good coach&#8230; but this new GM seems to be setting him up to fail.  The Jets were 6-10 last year, but instead of improving, it appears they are aiming for the number one overall draft choice in 2014.  You can&#8217;t win games without players.  If the Jets crash and burn next year, Rex will get the blame, but Vince Lombardi could return from the dead and he still wouldn&#8217;t win a game with the roster the new management is handing Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Pfui, I say.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the Patriots&#8230; what a vile thing is Evil Little Bill.  The way he treated Wes Welker is disgraceful.  Man has absolutely no loyalty to anyone.  Watch and see, when Tom Brady&#8217;s talents start to fade &#8212; and they will, it happens to all of them &#8212; Evil Little Bill will ship him out as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agency has opened in the NFL, but someone forgot to tell my New York teams. The Giants have resigned Aaron Ross, a cornerback they drafted a few years back, then lost in last year&#8217;s free agency. Otherwise they seem to be asleep. They just lost Kenny Phillips, their starting safety. Phillips has been hurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}