I’m not advocating for either but you’re ignoring the fact that there’s very little financial risk with either Murray or Cousins beyond 2026. Most of their guaranteed money has been paid already by their incumbent franchise and there’s not much owed after 2026 if the Jets make a move for one and want to move on.
Go back and look at what Mills actually did this year dude. He was horrible against Buffalo and Denver. He played well against the hapless Titans although the offensive barely scored and to his credit had a good game against the Jaguars. He’s not worth anything more than a 5th round draft pick if that and he’s wildly overrated here.
Well I’ll defer to you on this one…I haven’t watched him specifically this year…I do remember games in the past that I’ve happened to watch and he seemed to do well, but if that’s not the case this year, I’m not gonna argue that point. Ah well…the options get slimmer and slimmer I guess…
It's not *that* much but it's also not nothing either imo. I guess maybe you could make that argument on Kyler. Cousins is going to be 38yo though, and the jets are currently (still) sitting at square 1 of a rebuild. I can't see making that commitment coming out of eyes that are going to be mostly focused in on the 2027 and beyond picture.
The more I think about it the more I feel I’d make Glenn stick with Fields. It was his hand picked choice at Quarterback. Let him live with that decision and that gives us the best chance at 1st overall. For the next coach/GM the job with the jets has to look attractive. There is no better way to stroke a high profile coach ego than to give him the keys to 1st overall and 4 picks in the top 33 next year. Kinda the way the Jags lured Mayer (even though he was a disaster) to take that job. No high profile coach is coming here unless he feels he can turn it around. The only way to do this is to dangle those picks and we need 1st overall.
Agree with this 100%. Also, in our quest for a 2026 QB solution, what would we be trying to win? 3rd place in the AFC East? I’m violently opposed to purposely tanking for draft position because it perverts the whole point of sports. BUT, if we don’t have a viable shot at the playoffs, I don’t see the point of giving up value to move from shitty to slightly less shitty. However, I wouldn’t include something like your Milroe idea in that.. 2027 should be a year where developing young talent takes priority over stacking up wins. Which is my biggest concern with AG - that wins are objectively easier to track than rookie development and his short-term goal is showing wins for job security. The embarrassment has been done. I’m angry but now looking ahead. Not that winning isn’t UNimportant. But if this time next year we can look back at the 2027 season and say - yeah, we sucked, but some of the rookies can clearly play, we have a professional HC coming in, and we’re in right in the sweet spot for a top-tier qb in what should be a deep qb draft, I’ll be content. Not happy. Just content.
Look at the Pats for example, they had a terrible coach last year but had a chance to get their core rookies some live bullets and experience. They had a great draft with their new coach and he took them to a fucking Super Bowl. In football bad teams can change quickly with excellent coaching, excellent quarterback and a team that has juice that believes in themselves.
Semi-related, big picture My ideal vision for rebuilding the Jets is working small to big. Build a team specifically tailored to go toe-to-toe with the Bills and Patriots. Sounds obvious, I know. Duh It’s not, though. That’s not the typical HC or front office approach. But, it’s how Jim Harbaugh won a national title at Michigan. He coached nine years at Michigan and we forget that for half that time he was nowhere near the Golden Boy he was by Year Nine. He actually had to take a pay cut around Year Five to keep his job. It wasn’t until he put everything into one game - beating Ohio State - that things turned around. Everywhere around the locker room and campus, all year long, were reminders about the importance of that one game. There’s a thread somewhere on this board about that - before Michigan turned into a contender. Turns out, focusing on that one game made everything else fall into place. Small to big. Oddly enough, I think both Ryan and Mangini tried to do something like this. We get shat on for the embarrassing gap between Jets playoff appearances. I won’t repost the graphic that really rubs it in. As much as it galls me to give Jets management any excuse at all, there’s a reason for that playoff drought that’s unique to the Jets. And, I guess, the Dolphins. The playoff window is slim for teams that don’t win their division; and the Jets had Brady and Allen back-to-back - two league MVPs and HOF QBs - making that window even slimmer. No other division has been locked up like that. It’s a reason, not an excuse. Josh Allen still has a lot of tread on his tires, but he plays a tougher game than Brady did. Drake Maye looks like the real deal, but I don’t think he’s a World Beater. Where I hope Jets’ go in player acquisition and development is building a team that can do battle annually with those two teams. Building a championship starts there.
