Mike Tannenbaum admits Jets want to move up (1 Viewer)

[Jason Wood]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4096800

In a one-on-one interview with ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, general manager Mike Tannenbaum said the New York Jets are looking to move up in the first round from the No. 17 pick.

Tannenbaum said the Jets could be moving for any number of players.

"We are not fixated on Mark Sanchez," Tannenbaum said of the USC quarterback. But league sources say the Jets are competing with the Washington Redskins for Sanchez. The Redskins, at No. 12, are in a better position to move up to No. 4 to take Sanchez.

"Moving from 17 to four is heavy lifting for the Jets," one general manager said.

The Jets are hoping that Sanchez falls further, perhaps to No. 8. They have already discussed a possible swap with the Jaguars for their pick. The Jets are keeping an eye on other offensive talent in the first round, including Maryland wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey and Oklahoma State tight end Brandon Pettigrew. Moving up for either player is a distinct possibility for the Jets.

Sal Paolantonio is an NFL reporter for ESPN.

There's a video attached to the article, too.I never understand things like this. Why ever admit to wanting to do a specific thing in the draft? How does Tannenbaum benefit from publicly admitting this under any scenario?

 

[Michael Fox Fan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4096800

In a one-on-one interview with ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, general manager Mike Tannenbaum said the New York Jets are looking to move up in the first round from the No. 17 pick.

Tannenbaum said the Jets could be moving for any number of players.

"We are not fixated on Mark Sanchez," Tannenbaum said of the USC quarterback. But league sources say the Jets are competing with the Washington Redskins for Sanchez. The Redskins, at No. 12, are in a better position to move up to No. 4 to take Sanchez.

"Moving from 17 to four is heavy lifting for the Jets," one general manager said.

The Jets are hoping that Sanchez falls further, perhaps to No. 8. They have already discussed a possible swap with the Jaguars for their pick. The Jets are keeping an eye on other offensive talent in the first round, including Maryland wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey and Oklahoma State tight end Brandon Pettigrew. Moving up for either player is a distinct possibility for the Jets.

Sal Paolantonio is an NFL reporter for ESPN.

There's a video attached to the article, too.I never understand things like this. Why ever admit to wanting to do a specific thing in the draft? How does Tannenbaum benefit from publicly admitting this under any scenario?

smokescreen to get someone else to pony up for Sanchez?

 

[Jason Wood]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4096800

In a one-on-one interview with ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, general manager Mike Tannenbaum said the New York Jets are looking to move up in the first round from the No. 17 pick.

Tannenbaum said the Jets could be moving for any number of players.

"We are not fixated on Mark Sanchez," Tannenbaum said of the USC quarterback. But league sources say the Jets are competing with the Washington Redskins for Sanchez. The Redskins, at No. 12, are in a better position to move up to No. 4 to take Sanchez.

"Moving from 17 to four is heavy lifting for the Jets," one general manager said.

The Jets are hoping that Sanchez falls further, perhaps to No. 8. They have already discussed a possible swap with the Jaguars for their pick. The Jets are keeping an eye on other offensive talent in the first round, including Maryland wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey and Oklahoma State tight end Brandon Pettigrew. Moving up for either player is a distinct possibility for the Jets.

Sal Paolantonio is an NFL reporter for ESPN.

There's a video attached to the article, too.I never understand things like this. Why ever admit to wanting to do a specific thing in the draft? How does Tannenbaum benefit from publicly admitting this under any scenario?

smokescreen to get someone else to pony up for Sanchez?

Makes no sense. Most likely teams to make a move for Sanchez are Denver and Washington. The Skins aren't in the same conference and Denver picks well ahead of NY so there really is no point toward forcing their hand to get even higher.

 

[qazqaz11]

The night before the draft I rank anything a GM says on par with "According to Bush White House officials......."

 

[Jason Wood]

The night before the draft I rank anything a GM says on par with "According to Bush White House officials......."

Sure, misdirection is rampant. But again, there's no logic in a GM saying he wants to move up, even as a smokescreen. How does that benefit his team. Can someone articulate for me what a GM publicly saying they want to move up does?The only thing is that it might signal to Jets fans that Tannenbaum "tried" to hit the home run and then he can stay at 17 and say, "we really tried but couldn't get anyone to budge."

 

[Michael Fox Fan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4096800

In a one-on-one interview with ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, general manager Mike Tannenbaum said the New York Jets are looking to move up in the first round from the No. 17 pick.

Tannenbaum said the Jets could be moving for any number of players.

"We are not fixated on Mark Sanchez," Tannenbaum said of the USC quarterback. But league sources say the Jets are competing with the Washington Redskins for Sanchez. The Redskins, at No. 12, are in a better position to move up to No. 4 to take Sanchez.

"Moving from 17 to four is heavy lifting for the Jets," one general manager said.

The Jets are hoping that Sanchez falls further, perhaps to No. 8. They have already discussed a possible swap with the Jaguars for their pick. The Jets are keeping an eye on other offensive talent in the first round, including Maryland wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey and Oklahoma State tight end Brandon Pettigrew. Moving up for either player is a distinct possibility for the Jets.

Sal Paolantonio is an NFL reporter for ESPN.

There's a video attached to the article, too.I never understand things like this. Why ever admit to wanting to do a specific thing in the draft? How does Tannenbaum benefit from publicly admitting this under any scenario?

smokescreen to get someone else to pony up for Sanchez?

Makes no sense. Most likely teams to make a move for Sanchez are Denver and Washington. The Skins aren't in the same conference and Denver picks well ahead of NY so there really is no point toward forcing their hand to get even higher.

Maybe they covet a player at 17, and they are trying to throw off teams in the 12-16 range? Or stop another team from moving up in front of them? I'm grasping for straws here dude.

 

[Sweet Love]

The night before the draft I rank anything a GM says on par with "According to Bush White House officials......."

Sure, misdirection is rampant. But again, there's no logic in a GM saying he wants to move up, even as a smokescreen. How does that benefit his team. Can someone articulate for me what a GM publicly saying they want to move up does?

The only thing is that it might signal to Jets fans that Tannenbaum "tried" to hit the home run and then he can stay at 17 and say, "we really tried but couldn't get anyone to budge."

Now you have an inkling of what it feels like to be a Jets fan.

 

[Jason Wood]

Well I guess we know that Mike T was, in fact, "fixating" on Sanchez. Hard to believe they made such a blockbuster move with the guy they ran out of town just a few months ago. That's what makes the NFL fascinating.

 

[Bri]

lol at Jason's efforts to ridicule Tannenbaum's actions and how it played out. "makes no sense" lmao

 

[Jason Wood]

lol at Jason's efforts to ridicule Tannenbaum's actions and how it played out. "makes no sense" lmao

I bumped this myself, not sure what angle you're going for. I still stand by the question, what did Mike T have to gain by signaling he wanted to move higher? Many believe he had to go to 5 and give up a country mile b/c teams were ready to move to 8 for Sanchez. Just because he got his guy doesn't mean it was logical to tell the press he wanted to go higher.

 

[Chase Stuart]

Well I guess we know that Mike T was, in fact, "fixating" on Sanchez. Hard to believe they made such a blockbuster move with the guy they ran out of town just a few months ago. That's what makes the NFL fascinating.

I'm not sure the Jets move up to get Sanchez if it wasn't for Mangini having the #5 pick. No one else would value Elam, Ratliff and Coleman besides him.

 

[Bri]

lol at Jason's efforts to ridicule Tannenbaum's actions and how it played out. "makes no sense" lmao

I bumped this myself, not sure what angle you're going for. I still stand by the question, what did Mike T have to gain by signaling he wanted to move higher? Many believe he had to go to 5 and give up a country mile b/c teams were ready to move to 8 for Sanchez. Just because he got his guy doesn't mean it was logical to tell the press he wanted to go higher.

sorry not more clear, lol at your experience so similar to probably most everyone's today.NFL draft is sooo unlike fantasy football with trades and all. We FFers always work up these predictions and this is how it turns out. I totally agree with your point and no FFer would have "showed his hand" but it worked just fine for Tannenbaum. Also ANY ffer would have drafted better than the Raiders, difference between NFL and FF or not.

 

[LBH]

if a few teams that are in the range that the Jets want to move to and they want to trade down then I don't see it as a tactical error to announce that they are interested in dealing to move up. It worked out pretty well as far as not paying too much to go from 17 to 5. Of course nobody can say how good or bad the selection was until we see if Sanchez can live up to the hype

 

[corpcow]

if a few teams that are in the range that the Jets want to move to and they want to trade down then I don't see it as a tactical error to announce that they are interested in dealing to move up. It worked out pretty well as far as not paying too much to go from 17 to 5. Of course nobody can say how good or bad the selection was until we see if Sanchez can live up to the hype

Exactly, but all in all I don't think we gave up too much to move up. I'm still not 100% sold on Sanchez, but I can get behind him. More than anything, I'm glad they had clarity and went up and got the guy they wanted... means something to me.

 

[ForbiddenDoughnut]

Well I guess we know that Mike T was, in fact, "fixating" on Sanchez. Hard to believe they made such a blockbuster move with the guy they ran out of town just a few months ago. That's what makes the NFL fascinating.

I'm not sure the Jets move up to get Sanchez if it wasn't for Mangini having the #5 pick. No one else would value Elam, Ratliff and Coleman besides him.

What if we take the opposite view? Rather than driving his own price up by 'tipping his hand' perhaps the Jets GM created competition for a trade that drove the price down. With this pre-draft statement, Tannenbaum let every team in the Top 10 know that he was interested in trading up. With all the talk about bloated salaries in the Top 10, the lack of a true difference in talent between 10 and 25, and multiple teams looking to trade down, each team wanting to make a move now knew of a potential partner, one who would play their offers off of each other. Also saves him the trouble of contacting all the teams he thought would like to trade down. Perhaps they would come to him. As a matter of fact, I wonder if the trade talk wasn't initiated by Cleveland rather than the Jets. While it seems like the Jets gave up a huge amount, I don't know that the price they paid was truly that steep. And I agree with Chase in that what they paid in terms of players held value only for the Browns. They essentially gave up a mid-second round pick and three bottom of the roster guys for the right to move up 12 spots in the first round. I'm not a Jets fan, but I recall Coleman and Elam as Cowboys castoffs. Coleman was serviceable as part of a rotation. I'm guessing Elam has improved since his time in Dallas. Otherwise, if you were so bad at Free Safety that you were cut from the Cowboys... Ouch. Mangini wanted 'his guys' and there's value in that. But not value any other team would have been interested in. Perhaps Cleveland wasn't going into the weekend looking to trade, but after the pronouncement by Tannenbaum, saw an oppportunity to get Mangini some of his former players, add some value, and save the team some money. Worked out well for both parties. Not sure if this was the reasoning or how it went down, but throwing out a possibility.EDITED TO ADD: Just saw that LBH made the exact same point two posts ago. Yup. What he said. He was far more succinct than I.