Jets Make HUGE Trade...

The Jets just traded a safety to the Lions for a sixth-round pick, and I think it might be the smartest move that the team has made all season long. And not because the pick is big. It isn't. It's because of what they're sitting on and because of who they just got rid of. As ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Monday afternoon, Andre Cisco goes to Detroit, and a 2028 6th round pick comes back to New York. The deadline is a Tuesday, 4 p.m. Eastern Time. So, the question is simple. Did the Jets just win this trade? Well, stick around, because the answer is not what the pick says. It's what the Jets do now, and between the next 24 hours as well. Let's start with the player, because Andre Cisco isn't a nobody. He's 26, he's in his 6th NFL season, and was a 3rd round pick by Jacksonville in 2021. In his career, he's played 80 games, 59 starts, 8 interceptions, and 293 tackles across the Jaguars and the Jets. So, the Lions aren't taking a flyer on some stranger. They're getting a real NFL safety here, which makes you ask, why would the Jets give him away? Well, here's why. His snaps under Aaron Glenn went from 98% in his first Jets season to 32% in this season, according to Sports Illustrated. He lost the starting job to Dane Belton in the preseason, and on Sunday, in the 35-12 loss against the Chiefs, he did not play. Zach Rosenblatt posted that the writing was on the wall when Cisco was benched for Alakai Moore, and Brian Cos posted that Moore took over as the third safety. And it wasn't just the depth chart either. Our desk has him at 1.4 tackles a game over his last five, against 5.3 before that. So when you hear the Jets gave away a starter, remember what the film and the numbers already said. The starter was already gone, the trade just made it official. 98% to 32%. When a player shrinks that fast and his deal runs out in a few months, the Jets are not trading a starter. They're trading a decision they'd already made for a free draft pick. And quick one before we go on, we're at 8,184 subscribers at the time of recording this video. We're trying to get to 9K before the year ends. If you want coverage on all the New York Jets news and the highest quality Jets YouTube videos out there, make sure to hit subscribe. So let's get into the money on all this, because Cisco's on an expiring contract. He's a free agent next offseason, and his 2026 cap hit was $2,240,880. The Jets are 2-7. They've lost four in a row. Nothing Cisco does over the next eight games changes their season. In the AFC East, they sit third, only ahead of the Dolphins, who are 1-7. That is the neighborhood that we're talking about right here. So the options were either keep a backup on an expiring deal or turn him into a pick. They turned him into a pick. It was the right move. Yahoo reports that Jets General Manager Joe Douglas made the call to move on and it says only one of his first moves that he'll make multiple of at the Jets trade deadline. Multiple moves. Remember that phrase because we are coming back to it. The Jets are not going to be winning games this season. This is not a winning season. Right now, they have a 55% chance on Cal. She'd win five or more games this season and a 32% chance on Cal. To win six or more. So obviously this is a season that's going to be another losing season. And if you think the Jets are going to surprise people and win some more games this year, Kalshi is the perfect place for you. And I do want to thank them for sponsoring this video. On Kalshi, you're trading directly against other users, not the house like traditional sportsbooks. You're buying yes or no contracts on the outcomes of events across sports, politics, and even the weather. 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There's been evidence of us playing really good defense throughout this season. I would never say never. I'm not looking at everything, or I'm looking at everything, as he said, when he was asked about giving up play calling. Read between those lines. If the defense is passable and the team is two and seven, the problem is somewhere else. So trading a safety who'd fallen behind Malachi Moore doesn't hurt the one unit that's still holding up. And that's the difference between a fire sale and a cleanup. A fire sale hurts what works. A cleanup removes what doesn't. This is a cleanup move. And here's why this matters more than a sixth round pick. Let's look at what the Jets hold in 2027. They have three first round picks. Their own. They're one from either Dallas or Green Bay, whoever plays worse and has a better draft pick, and one from Indianapolis. Plus a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, and two sixth-rounders. Nine picks in total. Dallas' pick came in the Quinn and Williams trade. Indianapolis' pick came in the Sauce Gardner trade, both on November 4th of 2025. Now Cisco goes out on November 9th of 2026. And... One of you wrote this under our November 6th video, quoting, Because Sauce played his best the first two years, now he seems to be in a decline. Great move last year, trading him. That's BrianJustOC6675, and plenty of you guys, myself included, do agree here. And, Whatever you think of those deals, the pattern is clear. The Jets keep turning veterans into draft picks. Cisco is just the smallest move on that front, and it doesn't stop in 2027. In 2028, the Jets hold their own picks from the first round through the sixth, plus Seattle's seventh. Now they had Detroit's sixth on top of that. That's two sixth-rounders once again in back-to-back years. Is a sixth-round pick going to change the franchise? Almost certainly not, no. But the trade value of a veteran who's out of a lineup and out of a contract is close to nothing. A sixth is a fair price, and the Jets got it before the deadline made it worth even less. And here's the difference. The Jets don't need to rush. They own the picks. A 20-28 sixth for a player who is playing 32% of the snaps isn't a rescue. It's housekeeping in the best form. And we look at the Lions, and Detroit is last in the NFL against the pass, allowing 260.9 passing yards a game. Safety Kirby Joseph is on the physically unable to perform list in the injury. Thomas Harper's on the injured reserve and Brian Branch only came back in week seven. from a torn Achilles. Cisco's role there is insurance and a rotational spot behind Chuck Clark, also a former Jet who never really played with him because of an injury. Not a savior, but depth. And Sports Illustrated graded it a Lions at a B minus and the Jets at an A minus. And think about it from the Lions side. If you're Detroit, you don't need a pro bowler. You need a body who has started 59 games in the league and can line up without a crash course. A sixth is cheap for that. And the Lions know it. And the Jets understand that too. They didn't ask for a first. They didn't ask for a third. They asked for what the market would give, which is a 6th round pick, and Detroit paid a 6th round pick for a safety they needed. The Jets collected a 6th round pick after they stopped using a player entirely. Both sides got what they asked for, but one of them is 2-7, and we know which one that is. And let's get back to that phrase of multiple moves. The deadline is Tuesday at 4pm Eastern, which is tomorrow in around 24 hours from now. A little less than that, in fact. Remember... The Jets are 2-7, and Glenn told reporters on Monday he's looking at everything. When a head coach says that, the front office is listening. Tuesday's the last day anyone gets to act on it. And one name that everyone wants to ask about is Garrett Wilson. Adam Schefter reports the Jets have told teams there's no way they trade him for the deadline, and Wilson says he has no plans to ask out. So... What does a smart front office at 2-7 with three firsts in 2027 do? It does what it just did. It sells what's already gone. And it keeps building what it's building with. And there are three ways that Tuesday goes. Scenario one, the Jets stay quiet and Cisco is the only move. Scenario two, they sell a few more veterans like him for more draft pick. Scenario three, they do surprise everyone. Yahoo's line points to scenario two. And honestly, a 2-7 with a pile of 2027 picks already in hand, I would lean that way too. The risk is real though, if the Jets turn every veteran pick and the picks don't turn into players, then that's just 9 more picks in a 2-7 season. Overall, did the Jets win the Cisco trade? On paper, yes. A sixth-round pick for a safety they weren't using on an expiring deal in a season that's already gone. The real test isn't the pick. It's whether Mugie does something with that 2027 pile, whether he moves up, and whether the picks stop being picks or become higher picks. And think about how this trade looks in a year. If Cisco's rotational safety in Detroit and that sixth turns into a special teams player in New York, nobody remembers this. If the Jets keep stacking picks and finally hit on them or make a trade to move up and get someone huge, Then this is a footnote on the way there. Will they break the playoff drought in 2027, 2028? Kalashie says it's a 29% chance as of today. And the comment of the day goes to FernandoSandoval4711 on our Aaron Glenn video on November 7th, noting, AG can only win against weak teams with no QB. And honestly, it's hard to deny that, so you might as well trade off defensive pieces who aren't even being used. So guys, did the Jets win the trade? Comment win or lose below. Tell me why. Like this video, subscribe, turn on post notifications. 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