Do you invest in a good backup (Is there one out there out there that can actually win a playoff game against Allen, Mahomes, Burrow, etc.?) or does going all in mean banking on Rodgers staying healthy & spending every last penny you can on the supporting cast? If the mantra is SuperBowl or bust, go with the latter approach. If it's just make sure we break the playoff drought, invest in a good backup.
I think the Jets had to let him go. You are all in with Rodgers. You couldn't drop Zach without a 20 Mill dead cap hit and I doubt anybody would have traded for Zach. So the only option you really had was Rodgers and Zach as backup. Mike became a victim of numbers for the Jets. For us: we needed a better backup than we had the last couple years. We are all in with Tua and we all hope that he will survive the season. And if he doesn't the hope is that Mike will give us better backup play than we had the last couple years.
You're going to like White against a subpar defense a *lot*. If you can protect him well he's still going to be good against an average defense. Against a good defense he will get pressured a lot and then he will make throws he shouldn't into coverage. He's also very injury-prone. I'd have signed him to a cheap deal as the starter and then drafted somebody behind him in the 2nd to 4th round to sit and learn and probably wind up on the field at some point after watching White do the leadership thing for awhile. White does that well, he just doesn't have the arm to make all the throws and if you can't protect him he's like an egg back there. Tough dude but he breaks.
The Jets aren't fixing the Oline overnight so they need QBs with mobility. That also rules out any high profile QB who doesn't want to end up like Rodgers.
