I just want to keep repeating, despite me going at it with the Jets fans in this thread I agree 100% with this stance. The Jets hold Trouba's fate in their hands. The deadline is looming for Trouba to cave and sign, not for the Jets to cave and deal him.
What crawls up my ass is the cockiness by some posters here. The belief that Chevy is without a doubt going to rob someone blind, or that the Jets basically don't need anything and are stacked everywhere prospect wise.
No one needs to be robbed for the Jets to be in a better position than our current predicament (minus Trouba). It's not that the Jets don't have other needs it's that if we move Trouba and don't address the short and long term value he gives to our D then we likely are making our team worse regardless of the quality the F's would give us.
The Jets have about 5 - 6 lines of Forwards on the Jets / Moose that are NHL caliber. The drop off in those players is relatively limited (i.e. filling the bottom 6 roles from within). The drop off in D depth is cavernous. A while back a poster asked what the Jets D depth chart looked like (prior to the Myers injury).
Props to the comedy of the reply but one of our fans posted.
"Morrisey Buff
Enstrom Myers
Crap Poop"
And he's not far off.
Postma, Chiarot, Melchiori, Stuart etc... are not going to (over the long term) fill in what we need. Apologies to Postma who is doing an admirable job.
Our late first rounder (LHD) from this summer Stanley was a controversial pick and may be on the slow boat to the NHL.
That means close to no real help is coming.
So in Trouba if we trade something we can't acquire and replacing from within is years down the road then I hope people can see why the Jets management is so hesitant to trade a guy.