Faneca to the Jets?

[steelerfan513]

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=NFL&Show=SKILL&id=641

"Word around the league" is that the Jets have already negotiated a deal for free agent Alan Faneca that would guarantee him about $20 million.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat makes it clear that this is a rumor, but the Jets are known to be after Faneca. The Jets are still trying to replace LG Pete Kendall. They probably should've bucked up and paid him last summer.

[bigrob28]

this would be a huge upgrade for my jets!!!! hopefully mcfadden drops to them as well so we can rid of jones

[mattb47]

this would be a huge upgrade for my jets!!!! hopefully mcfadden drops to them as well so we can rid of jones

If you did this....I'm not so sure you'd need to have to dish out big money for a RB. I'm sure you'd take McFadden if he fell, but I don't think he will and I think with an upgraded O-Line (and maybe more consistent passing game) that Jones and Washington could handle things pretty well. Jones struggled last year but he had been solid for many years before that...he could easily bounce back with some help on the O-Line.

Really wish we would've paid Faneca and brought him back but we've never really done that with older players and I guess it's got us pretty far looking at the broad picture...at least it keeps us from overpaying for bust players and such...

[A Fleshner Fantasy]

this would be a huge upgrade for my jets!!!! hopefully mcfadden drops to them as well so we can rid of jones

You're better off if he goes before your pick. Mcfadden is big trouble for whoever drafts him.

[Dawinner127]

This is a must sign.

[Kilroy]

I've also heard rumblings locally that Faneca has expressed interest in coming to AZ (reunite with Whisenhunt & Grimm), but unless the Cards restructure Fitz's deal no way will they have the scratch.

[flotsamnjetsam]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3271283

Faneca, Jets tentatively agree to four-year, $32M deal
ESPN.com news services


The New York Jets and guard Alan Faneca have tentatively agreed to a four-year, $32 million deal that includes roughly $23 million in guarantees, ESPN's Michael Smith reports. Faneca is expected to travel to New York this weekend, when the deal will be finalized. The Jets plan to play Faneca at left guard.


The departure of Faneca, a former LSU standout who had spent his entire 10-year career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, isn't much of a surprise. Although he was an unrestricted free agent, the seven-time Pro Bowler was clearly irked with the team heading into last season for its refusal to trade him or give him a contract extension he felt he was worth.

Guards such as Eric Steinbach, Derrick Dockery, Leonard Davis and Kris Dielman all signed new contracts last spring, either as free agents with new teams or extensions with their incumbent franchises, and all received deals worth about $7 million per year. Only Dielman, who was a Pro Bowl alternate last season, has ever appeared in a Pro Bowl game.

Faneca said last spring that the Steelers' only offer to him wouldn't have made him one of the NFL's 10 highest-paid guards. He made $4.375 million last season in the final year of a $25.6 million deal he signed in 2002, but that deal was renegotiated to help the Steelers get under the salary cap.

He said last spring he would like to be traded but was resigned with staying with Pittsburgh for a final season. He skipped the Steelers' organized team activities practices in May, but did show up on time for the team's training camp.

"I've been asking since February to trade me, to let me go," Faneca said. "I've done my piece. I've done my time. I've done everything I can for this organization. I've lived and breathed Steeler football for nine years and gave them everything I've had and helped them win a Super Bowl. In my mind, I've earned the right to be treated fairly."

Faneca's criticism was virtually unprecedented for a Steelers player so accomplished -- only a handful of players in team history have made All-Pro more than he has.

The Steelers usually re-sign their key players and, thanks greatly to player-friendly owner Dan Rooney, have long been considered the NFL's model franchise for handling players.

That these barbed remarks came from Faneca, an accessible but almost never outspoken player, made his pointed comments all the more surprising. Faneca was worried that, if he sustained a career-ending injury, he would have no contract protection beyond 2007.

"To make me go out there this year and play football with no security, just to go out there and play football, for what I've done for this organization, in my mind, it's not right," he said.

In New York, Faneca will join a talented offensive line that includes left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson and center Nick Mangold as the Jets try to boost an offense that ranked 26th in the NFL last year in yards per game (294.7) and 19th in rushing yards per game (106.3).

Information from ESPN's Michael Smith and The Associated Press was used in this report.

[killiansjmd]

This would be a great move for the Jets if we land Faneca. He would instantly upgrade our O-line and add much needed toughness to it.

Personally I hope they stick with T.Jones and Washington at RB and don't draft McFadden. We need to go defense with our 1st pick in the upcoming draft.

[Dawinner127]

This would be a great move for the Jets if we land Faneca. He would instantly upgrade our O-line and add much needed toughness to it.

Personally I hope they stick with T.Jones and Washington at RB and don't draft McFadden. We need to go defense with our 1st pick in the upcoming draft.

I really do hope McFadden is their at 6 for us, but we don't take him, but then some team trades up for our first round pick to grab McFadden or Ghoulston. That would be clutch.
I feel that we need more help on defense than 1 player could do, so might as well trade that pick

[killiansjmd]

This would be a great move for the Jets if we land Faneca. He would instantly upgrade our O-line and add much needed toughness to it.

Personally I hope they stick with T.Jones and Washington at RB and don't draft McFadden. We need to go defense with our 1st pick in the upcoming draft.

I really do hope McFadden is their at 6 for us, but we don't take him, but then some team trades up for our first round pick to grab McFadden or Ghoulston. That would be clutch.
I feel that we need more help on defense than 1 player could do, so might as well trade that pick

Well with the addition of Jenkins on D, you know Robertson is out the door next. Hopefully we can get some picks to make up for the ones we lost when we aquired Jenkins. I'm guessing Denevr is the most likely spot or maybe Cincy for Robertson.