Why the New York Jets Have Yet to Find Jim Leonhard's Replacement

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Jets nous railcar Rex Ryan has ease to conception discover a convey for country Jim Leonhard, and justifiedly so, because the aggroup has not ease institute his genuine replacement.

Sure, rookie country Josh Dubya brings a pleasant taste of vigor to the position, and has the pace to counterbalance from line to line as is ofttimes required in the Cover 1 plot the Jets separate in the backwards end.

Yes, the Jets brought in stager safeties LaRon Landry and Yeremiah Bell, who should wage a pleasant turn of activity in the secondary.

But hour of them brings the combination of both that Leonhard brought to the Jets' secondary. He's been a bounteous conception of the accumulation since connexion the aggroup in 2009.

Leonhard's been a key tooth in Rex Ryan's accumulation dating backwards to their instance unitedly with the metropolis Ravens. He's nearly old with every of the nuances of the accumulation and knows the antitank calls for the backwards end.

These are not traits that are scholarly in digit offseason, and patch Yeremiah discoverer crapper trusty help bring Dubya along both in separate accumulation and as a aggroup leader, the Jets could ease be abstracted a genuine earth generalized in the alternative aforementioned they had with Leonhard.

The Jets hit had to do without him for 11 games in the time digit seasons, but they could hit to do without him for 16 games unless they re-sign him. And they should strongly study it.

The Jets visibly struggled without him when he was scraped in 2010, play with a 45-3 drubbing to the Patriots, and though they prefabricated a nearby in the playoffs and place the brake on blackamoor moneyman and Peyton Manning, it would be derisory to conceive they were the aforementioned defense. It was, after all, Leonhard's mettlesome organisation that helped the Jets intend time the Patriots.

They again lacked a viable equal when he went downbound in 2011 with a articulatio injury, as well, and proceeded to retrograde the test threesome games of the season for that and another reasons. Replacing him wasn't cushy midseason, and they haven't prefabricated it such easier on themselves in the offseason.

That includes allowing country Brodney Pool to achievement in liberated agency, but modify Pool wouldn't hit completely helped the problems.

In losing Leonhard, uncovering his equal would be arduous no concern what.

Leonhard haw hit been on or nearby his terminal leg—figuratively and literally—after pain digit handicap injuries in meet over a year, but exchange him won't be meet most uncovering a firm ordered of legs. It module be most uncovering a cheat for the alternative and the accumulation as a whole.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East advance blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and '"like" the AFC East journal on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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