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Jets Top 10 Best Draft Picks Over Last 10 Years? - Call in show

April 7, 2026·1 hr 42 min·9 clips

The Jets' 2016 draft class produced not a single player still active in the NFL.

Brees becomes the pressure point fast. The conversation starts as a draft pick ranking, then turns into a very Jets argument about value, production, and the damage left by bad seasons. Garrett gets his respect. Nobody on the mic needs to sell what Garrett brings, because that part of the board feels easy. Brees is harder. The case is not just that he is talented. It is that the Jets got second round value after years of rough running back answers. The history gets ugly. The host runs through the post-Chris Ivory stretch, from Le'Veon Bell not working in 2019 to Frank Gore in a 2 and 14 season. Michael Carter gets a little grace. He showed signs, fine, but Brees gave them something dynamic again. That counts here. At his best, Brees is both runner and pass catcher, maybe the cleanest weapon for a quarterback in this offense. The pushback does not disappear. The host says he is not the biggest Brees fan and even has reasons he wants him out, then still comes back to the second round value and the plan to feature him for Gino Smith. That is the Jets part. You can question the future, want a player gone, and still admit the pick gave the team a real answer. Then Membu makes the board harder. A rookie described as all-pro level forces the room to ask where he belongs. Sam Darnold comes up too, then gets knocked down because the savior pick did not work. The standard is practical: find value, recognize starters, and stop grading every Jets pick like it came from a clean front office story.

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A Jets draft ranking that weighs value against patience.

The episode spends its time on a Jets draft ranking, but the real hook is the argument over what a pick is worth and when patience turns into waiting too long.

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If you want a Jets ranking argument from two and a half weeks before the draft.

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