IDK, my opinion is the opposite. Usually I buy into the Grant-Cohn-bad group think, but I think the Kinlaw episode was a Cohn W.
Kinlaw acted like a dumbass trying to pull up physically on Cohn, then went onto the show and spoke further confirming he is a dumbass, talked a good game about how his play would back up his words, then proceeded to suck. And it isn't just my opinion, the team clearly saw no value so they declined a relatively cheap 5th year rookie option , allowing the former first round pick to just walk, and now he is racking up penalties and bad plays for the Jets. Including more trash talk, this time to the refs
I could see if there was any good play to back up the trash talk and behavior, but this is a 1st round DT with a stat line of 30 tackles, 0 forced fumbles, 0 fumble recoveries, 1 INT, and 5 sacks in 4 years netting 41 games played. Stats aren't everything but a 1st round DLineman who you can't rely on to rack up even 1 tackle per game, barely 1+ sack per season? And even in the intangibles it isn't like he generated a ton of QB pressure or pushed the opposing Oline to shut down run plays. He was Solomon Thomas all over again, talented dude in college without the physical abilities or X factor to make it in the NFL, but at least Thomas had the good taste and class not to act like a punk 5th grader about the situation.
Weirdly enough they had similar trajectories and they're now teammates again on the NYJ.
