The player you’re referring to also added 631 yards on the ground (41 first downs) and 8 touchdowns en route to a 5-6 record as a starter. This is often omitted when people try to compare any struggling rookie quarterbacks to his first season (not just Wilson).
Ok, that's fair. I just wonder if said QB was on the Jets, would there be calls for him to compete for the job in year 2. This does not absolve Zach for his rookie season. But, I believe the time to make him compete was in TC last year. Now, it's sink or swim time in year 2 for him. If there's no real progress, then there's no way he should be the unquestioned starter in 2023. That's my stance and I'm sticking to it.
I agree. The whole compete for a spot thing is mostly an illusion for highly drafted rookie quarterbacks. Teams generally tip their hand as to if that player will be starting or not based on the other quarterbacks on the roster. The Jets tipped their hand badly and handed him the spot. To go back on that and force a competition this year would be an even bigger illusion and damage the whole team if he gets outplayed and still starts. Wilson is the starter next year. Mike White should remain on the roster in case Wilson is dreadful for the first quarter of the season.
It was your exact strategy with Darnold, even after 3 years of awful play. Having said that, you're right about hope not being a strategy. But it's too early to give up on Zach. If he puts together another bad season then yeah, it may be time to pull the trigger.
In JD's this order of priority is a no brainer. He's NOT going to abandon surrounding Zach with talent..... 1) OL 2) TE 3) WR 4) SAFETY 5) CB Now, this is not to say JD won't take a defensive marquee piece especially where our first pick is at #4. But the overall plan has been fixing the OL and providing Zach with a lot of weapons. JD CANNOT neglect Zach. If he gets fired someday, he does NOT want to walk out the door knowing he didn't give Zach what he needed to develop.
This is my biggest issue with @Footballgod214 and his stance toward Wilson. It's the polar opposite of what it was with Darnold. Now you could say he learned from the Darnold experience but it comes off as butt hurt that we traded Sam. Yes, Wilson was the worst rated passer in his rookie year. Darnold was the 3rd worst. I guess that bought him 3 years and hopes for a 4th.
Darnold has never had the accuracy, poise in the pocket, or ability that Zach had his last year at BYU and showed at times this past season. At this point anyone still thinking that Darnold is a good QB and can't or won't see that Wilson has a ton of talent and still could develop, has no clue what they see when they watch football.
Douglas could draft 5 QB's and sign 5 more in free agency and it wouldn't mean we have the answer at QB, it would just mean we have 10 more QB's. Surely you don't already consider Wilson to be a lock as a franchise caliber QB, do you?
Five seasons after drafting safeties 1 and 2 in the draft... safety is at or near the top of our needs chart. 1 - TE(s) 2 - RG 3 - Safety 4 - Edge 5 - WR We should hopefully get some players at all of these positions in the offseason. I don't really mind which we prioritise or spend the big bucks/picks on - we need them all.
Learning from your mistakes is a natural process for most people. I was totally onboard with Sanchez. I was more equivocally so with Geno and Darnold. Wilson does not get the benefit of the doubt from me in any way because I saw the 3 blowouts before him and I recognize the pattern. None of this BTW is on Wilson, he's just doing what he can to survive. It's all on the Jets. That's where the fault in the process lies and it is just Wilson's misfortune to be the crux of the fault.
1) OL 2) EDGE 3) WR 4) TE 5) S Wouldn't surprise me at all if we stayed at 4 and 10 and tried to take a couple of trench guys on both sides of the ball. Either Thibodeaux at 4 then Cross/Green/Linderbaum at 10 or Neal/Ekwonu at 4 and Johnson/Karlaftis at 10.
Yeah but one year is definitely too small a sample size to pull the trigger on Wilson and move on. Most teams give highly drafted QB's three years to prove themselves. Personally I think that's a year too long, and moving on from Wilson after year two will be a very legitimate stance if he has another bad year next season.
