The smarter move would be to keep him, a minimum of for the next two weeks and six days.
While the Jets cant send him home with pay, theyre not obliged to trigger him, and theyre not needed to give him practice representatives that would risk an injury. Even if theyve had enough of Bell, patience could do for them the very same thing it provided for the Bengals in 2011, when a damaged collarbone for Jason Campbell in the last video game before the deadline unlocked for a Carson Palmer trade to the Raiders.
The Jets will be paying Bell whether hes on the team or not. While he may not like it, particularly since its financially better for him to be cut and to have a chance to double-dip with a new team (the balance of his salary could be gathered as termination pay), Bell would need to live with it, if the Jets tell him thats the method its going to be.
From the point of view of coach Adam Gase, it makes more sense to clean out a headache than to hope that the Jets will be able to get some sort of late-round compensation for a gamer former G.M. Mike Maccagnan never ever ought to have signed.
The Jets announced last night that they will release LeVeon Bell. Which implies, contrary to numerous accounts of the circumstance, that they havent launched him.
The Jets presently have no trade market for Bell, that might alter in an instant. Running backs get injured all the time. If a starter with a contender suffers a multi-week or season-ending injury in Week Six, Week Seven, or Week Eight, a market for Bell quickly might emerge.
The reality that the Jets have announced an objective to cut Bell now reveals that the relationship has actually weakened to the point at which the group does not appreciate the possibility of trading Bell in between now and November 3. With the groups bye now moved from Week 11 to Week 10, the Jets have 4 more opportunities (at Dolphins, Bills, at Chiefs, Patriots) to avoid taking a winless record into the prime area for shooting a coach during the season.
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