Plax watch begins...

Today is a huge day for the New York Jets. It is the day they find out what will happen regarding the legal issues surrounding Plaxico Burress. If he can avoid a jail sentence, I fully expect to see him in Green and White. Mike Tannenbaum and Rex Ryan have tried to downplay any interest, but it is painstakingly obvious that this is the player the team needs to push the offense over the top. With Laverneus Coles gone, the team needs another veteran to keep defenses honest. Regardless of who is the starting QB this year, a proven big threat receiver is a security blanket for ANY NFL QB, let alone a rookie or one with half a season's experience starting. I am a huge supporter of the current core of wideouts, but there is no denying the way that this guy changes the game. He forces defenses into double coverage. With his height and wingspan, he catches anything thrown within a ten foot area of him. He has proven to be a force on offense that will free up your tight end and running back to make more plays. There may be a surprise superstar in the making in guys like Brad Smith, Wallace Wright, Marcus Henry, Chanci Stuckey or David Clowney, but it is more likely to take another year for those guys to blossom and reach full potential. This team is built to win now and Plax will give them the best chance to win now. Many players have said that they would welcome him with open arms and I think he would even help the younger receivers develop faster with his experience. There has been talk about Anquaan Boldin, Braylon Edwards and even Brandon Marshall, but I am not confident if either of the first two can handle the NY media spotlight. I would love Marshall as he is another force and seems to have the most upside as a player, but he is an "alleged" abuser of women. Even if it's not true, to have such allegations alone speaks volumes about the character of a man. I really didn't see anything solid in his addressing the allegations to give me any faith in him being a stand up team player. He seems like more problems are lurking around the next corner, the one after that and the one after that. We already know Plax can handle the spotlight here, the question is whether or not he would cause more injury to himself in some other moronic fashion. He just needs to leave the guns in Miami where they are registered and focus more on playing football and not the clubs. I suspect that with guys like Bart Scott, Thomas Jones, Jerrico Cotchery, Kerry Rhodes, Kris Jenkins and even the rookie Mark Sanchez as teammates and also being fortunate enough to get a second chance that he would learn from his mistake and move forward in a different direction. Scott would talk too much trash and embarass him daily in practice for shooting himself in the leg in the first place, Jones would keep him working out, Cotchery would inspire him to be more humble, Jenkins would threaten to bear hug him if he did anything to jeopordize a run for the title, finally, Rhodes and Sanchez would be too busy getting him into modelling to be out clubbin like he's Tupac and Suge Knight. I can picture him pulling the NEW Marcus Henry and working out all day and then going home to be with the family. There is great talent on the team and I like the attitude of the core of receivers. The thing is, this is a team built to win it all now. They have some key cornerstone players to build a franchise around. But certain key skill players have a small window of time to get it done. There was a chemistry that the team had that was disrupted last year. Players have already gone out to say they would welcome Plax so I don't see him having a negative effect here no matter how much mainstream media tries to imply that. If they could go out and dump cerebral Chad last year for Favre, they need to go get Plax tomorrow as soon as the verdict comes out that he will get off easy (which I suspect will happen). You don't keep giving someone delays in the trial to throw the book at them here in NYC.