It takes a special older QB to succeed in mentoring. I will say McCown was helping Sam improve in year 1, and then we got rid of him.
If you don't plan on using the guy to play football you don't use a roster spot for him to be a coach.
Clearly it's bad out there. I mean, flippin' Indianapolis just brought Phillip Rivers out of retirement at the ripe age of 44! CLEARLY there is a backup QB problem and the Jets better HOPE that Taylor keeps going for another year. Next thing you know they'll be pulling Jeff Garcia out of retirement to ride shotgun. Crazy insane! lol
It's the timing at this point. Trade deadline is passed and all QBs have been signed. Right now you can only get someone off the couch or practice squad. Let's see how bad Tyrod's injury is, but if he can only last 2-3 games a year, I am not sure we need him at all.
No way. He wasn't ready to play for the Jets this season. One good half of football is all the Jets got from him. There's really no reason for him to stay here after this season.
Why do mentors generally always suck when they're in the position themselves? I have pondered this question many times staring at the ceiling on a sleepless night. "Let me teach you how to drive," when the person has been arrested ten times for reckless driving. I guess that could come in handy if I'm ever involved in a high speed chase evading the police?
When it comes to QB, I think the great ones are too wrapped up in building their own legend and winning and competing to care about mentoring anyone. Plus they usually play to the end of their career and I don't think most of them have the ability or desire to help someone else get better. I think the odds of backup QBs becoming mentors and QB coaches is better because they spend most of their career seeing the game from the sideline like coaches and seeing what players are doing wrong and hearing the coaches talk about it when it happens.
When you are really good at something, sometimes it’s difficult to empathize with those that aren’t so good. I have a lot of experience with this phenomenon.
Yeah, I get it, but there are definitely instances in life where you don't walk, you run, from where the "expert" advice is coming from. "Take it from me! Buy xyz, it's a great investment!" How about take my check, it'll bounce? I guess I also have the parallel of jackasses like Fatcesa rattling in my head. There he sits, with his stat books, bloviating how much his opinion about sports matters, his athletic insight into the mind of the athlete and all that, when the guy has probably never jogged around the block in his life. I mean, say what you want about Herm Edwards Club Med and all, but he was a former football player dealing with athletes who he kept himself fit and wasn't a slob. What was this about again? I forgot.
