Perfect headline in the local paper. "Jets show heart lack firepower." That's all there is to it. It will take another draft or two and some FA pickups to address the latter. The first part about heart is not a given considering some of the efforts we have seen by teams this season. If it continues they will be a top club soon.
I think that to say that Petty clearly isn't the answer is ridiculous. I agree that he probably isn't the answer, but the Jets have done little to develop him. He has shown flashes, and with some playing time, I believe that he could develop into at least a solid backup if not a reliable starter.
Frankly, if you don't see any improvement in Petty, then I don't think you know what you're looking at. Petty didn't have around 72% accuracy in TC by being inaccurate. He was making good reads, good decisions, and moving the team in preseason. If you seriously expect a young QB to come in and play well against one of the top teams in the NFL when he's had one week of practice with the starters all season, and probably few, if any, reps otherwise this season, then that tells me all I need to know about your judgment and analysis ability regarding QBs.
Manish wrote an article similar to that titled, "Jets loss to Saints reveals this truth: Todd Bowles needs better players."
No, it isn't, but why over pay a JAG FA to do that when we can have our own homegrown one? We haven't had a quality backup in a long time. If the Jets could get a great QB prospect in this year's draft and have Petty as backup, we could be set at QB for the next 10-15 years (provided of course that the FQB prospect pans out). But no, let's get rid of Petty and Hack, and sign TWO JAG QBs to go along with a rookie, then we can get in cap hell too!
I' m still waiting for him to apologize to Doug. Marrone for the viscous article he wrote about him. Don't get me started on Geno Smith.
We're 10th in the NFL 2018 Draft: http://www.tankathon.com/nfl Terrible year....no playoffs, shitty draft position. Worst-of-both worlds. All we got was some platitudes from the talking heads about "playing hard." I'd rather tank, play soft, and have a Top 3 pick.
Hey, I have been a strong advocate for both Petty and Hack as anybody who has read anything I have typed since the summer but the one thing going against Petty atm is his age, he isn't a fresh out of college QB now, he is going to be 27yo in May, hell some RB's have nearly retired quicker. I think his chance for whatever reason is gone, imo he has received zero help from the coaches in three seasons, WTF do they actually do all year long btw ? Coming from a soccer background and one time coach of young kids myself, do they not actually do any coaching during the week, during the off season, is it that hard for the QB coach to focus on more than one QB at a time, again using soccer we would have all the goalkeepers coached at the same time in drills by a guy(me) who knew goalkeeping methods, they then also got to do some of the outfield activities just to keep them from getting bored with the same routine etc. So for me, Petty looks worse than last season, they shit on him in the preseason games on rep percentages and when he did play he actually looked okay (yes against 3rd stringers) and then he has done what since then ? Can somebody actually prove that they coach these young guys during the week or do they just concentrate/focus on the next weekends game ? If the later it seems very shortsighted to me but it would explain why we never seem to have any of these young kids actually learn and grow. All of this applies to Hack as well, does nobody find it odd that there has been no real improvement in them in all this time, across two sets of coaches, they may well be shit of course but surely not that shit that we can't see some improvement.
Well, since we go out of our way to draft Qbs that suck, we don't have to invest any time developing them but instead, focus on the JAG Vet Starter, the upcoming game and keep our fingers crossed that nothing happens to that starter. Economizes on snaps, reps during practice, cash spent on backup Qb salaries, its a win/win for the FO/CS.
IMHO Manish should stick to a sport in knows well maybe soccer & stay away from American FB since his knowledge of American FB is 1 step above zero
Except it's not your job. What player/coach/GM tanks if they known their future earnings are on the line? Only if it comes from the owners that they will not be blamed, would the coach even think of trying it, but the players, for the most part, are still going all out. No way a player half asses it and risks injury and future earnings so the team can get a higher draft pick.
