I really don't want to argue whether giving Perriman, Herndon, and washed Gore as top weapons with no OL to Sam is BS coachspeak or not. But before we even go down that rabbit hole, if it is the Jets thing as you say, which teams make a habit of drafting back to back 1st round QBs every year to compete with the one they just drafted? If you can't find many examples, why do you think that is?
If we draft Reese at #2, and can get a blue chiper like Bain with a reasonable trade or direct with #16, it's a no brainer. Unless someone like Tate is also there, run to the podium and get Bain too. And both are there, run even faster . But to get two blue chip players like that in round 1 would be slam dunk.
Why would I care what other teams have done? I care about the Jets and nothing they have tried has worked. It's time to try something different. What are you suggesting that is different than the failed policies of decades?
I think after around 20 there’s a drop off in talent so to have 2 in the top 16 is good for us: so don’t blow it on reaching for Simpson
I just don't think it is wise to ignore what other successful teams do. I doubt there are some major breakthrough innovators here on this board that can come up with something every team in NFL thinks does not make sense and make that work for the Jets. I see QBs succeeding when they have talent themselves and they have good support system around them. Jets never really had the combination of both. Other teams did. We need to find right QB talent and surround him with good protection, weapons, and coaching to the greatest extent possible. There is no other magic bullet. Spending a 1st round pick on QB every year is not practical, and that's why no one is doing it. It's not because no NFL teams could come up with this disruptive innovation that some folks on this board just did.
I see you have chosen not to answer the question about what you would do differently at the New York Jets, instead you want to continue to talk about what other teams don't do. "We need to find right QB talent..." More unproductive trite coachspeak. Most of us don't need to ask a statistician if you have a better chance of winning a lottery if you buy one ticket or multiple tickets. Spending occasional picks on failures has proven to be a bigger waste of their value than taking more chances. It's like running the ball into the line with two minutes left in the game when you're down by twenty. It's like the Jets have been down by thirty for thirty years and keep running the ball.
