Jets Go Into Spin Mode Following Trade of Mason to Texans at LinesMaker

Jets Go Into Spin Mode Following Trade of Mason to Texans

Drama has come to define the New York Jets, who were in full spin mode on Wednes­day after trad­ing mouthy vet­eran Der­rick Mason to the Hous­ton Tex­ans for an undis­closed draft pick.

Both coach Rex Ryan and gen­eral man­ager Mike Tan­nen­baum insist deal­ing Mason and pro­mot­ing rookie wide­out Jeremy Ker­ley was strictly a foot­ball deci­sion. If you believe the com­pany line, Mason’s recent crit­i­cal com­ments had no bear­ing on the team’s decision-making process.

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“Things didn’t work out on the field with Der­rick,” said Tan­nen­baum, who con­tended it was the Tex­ans who ini­tially approached him about a trade. “With that said, we were com­mit­ted to try­ing to make it work and get him to play bet­ter on the field at a level that he was accus­tomed to and what we were expecting.”

We’re sure Mason dis­agrees his play war­ranted a move, and the argu­ment can cer­tainly be made that the wide­out was made the scape­goat for the three-game los­ing streak that has put the Jets’ sea­son in peril.

“When we looked at all the fac­tors, as far as what was best for us,” Tan­nen­baum said, “that’s the deci­sion we arrived at.”

Plaxico Bur­ress — who, along with Mason and San­to­nio Holmes, report­edly approached Ryan about the offen­sive game­plan run by Brian Schot­ten­heimer — donned his finest politician’s cap when asked if he was sur­prised to learn of the Mason deal.

“I wouldn’t say sur­prised. He’s going to a beau­ti­ful sit­u­a­tion,” Bur­ress said. “The sit­u­a­tion he’s going into he can’t really be too upset going there. He’s going to a place where they’re going to fea­ture him. He’s going to get the ball and he’s going to do very well.”

Not all play­ers were as effu­sive in their praise of Mason, who was signed to replace Jer­ri­cho Cotch­ery, a respected team leader.

“Any­body can be cut,” Dar­relle Revis said matter-of-factly, accord­ing to the New York Daily News.

The Jets will sur­vive with­out Mason, who at 37 and in a role as No. 3 receiver, would’ve done him­self a ser­vice just to keep his mouth shut. But that doesn’t mean he was wrong when he said the Jets had “cracks” that needed to be fixed.

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