I'd be a little worried of these Spread Offense QB's. A lot of them have not panned out in the NFL. Not saying the Jets shouldn't take him, but he's not a sure thing. Then again, nobody is.
While it normally always hurts us this year it could help that head to head match ups don't matter. @BrianCoz: Raiders win should move the Jets up to 4 in the draft order. Depends on strength of schedule. Raiders had harder schedule entering this week If the Titans beat us and then lose to the Jags we will be 1 Tampa Bay victory away from the #1 pick.
In all likelihood the Raiders have a new HC and GM next year, doesn't really matter what the current administration thinks of Carr.
I think people are forgetting that it does matter if Jax and Oak are ahead of us. Even if Oakland does plan on sticking with Carr if they are ahead of us they can trade down.
This. Literally makes no difference if we pick 3 if Oakland and Jax are ahead of us. Neither team is taking Mariota. We can eliminate one threat next week, and then pray that Tampa has a miracle game and wins a 3rd game.
If Rex is still around, I won't care who they take, because my days as a Jets fan will be over until Woody sells the team. If Woody fires Idzik and keeps Rex, then the guys taking up money for the fire Idzik billboard, ought to take up more money and put a contract out on Woody.
Derek Carr showed he has a future. Stellar performance against a defense that is still elite despite all its losses
So Rex is supposed to be a defensive genius, and the jets have used nearly every 1st round pick under Rex for a defensive player including their last SIX number 1 picks. If you really think that is just a coincidence, then Rex and Idzik have a job for you. Just a coincidence, right?
It makes sense that a GM drafts to the coach's strengths. Let's give a top defensive mind top defensive talent. Our secondary blows due to lack of depth and injuries. Yet we aren't far off from average yards per pass against. If McDougle and Milliner were healthy, our defense would be ridiculous. Well, before Sanchez, there was Pennington in 2000, Ken O'Brien in 1983, Richard Todd in 1976, and Namath in 1965. Clearly we've wasted a ton of firsts on QBs.
He left out Geno and Clemens, who were also top 50 picks viewed as potential starters when they were drafted. All of these drafted QBs prove that we can't develop a franchise QB. It'll never happen. We take Winston or Mariota and they will bust because we can't develop a franchise QB in this environment. So why waste the pick? Just sign a veteran instead.
Except we will likely have an entire new coaching team, etc. If our next HC is offensive minded with experience developing QBs, why should we expect the same result?
