NFL Free Agency: New York Jets, Oakland Raiders Get Crazy

There's an old Nat King Cole song that goes.."You call it madness, but I call it love..." So insanity has existed long before the NFL began allowing players to become free agents. That being said, it always seems to be the same teams that that keep repeating the same mistakes. The New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders. The Jets traded Jonathan Vilma, who I thought was the future of their defense for years to come, for a couple of draft picks. Then they traded for Carolina's Kris Jenkins. The third jewel in the crown was giving Alan Faneca the biggest contract ever given to an offensive lineman. This sounds like the Jets are off to a pretty good off season, doesn't it? They are, but they should not have had to make any of these moves had they made better ones over the years. Vilma suddenly fell out favor with the Jets. How this happened in one season is a mystery to me. I understand that Mike Tannenbaum and Eric Mangenius invented football and I should just accept every move they make ... (link)