The most idiotic personnel glitch in a very long time. You can't tell me the media didn't play large role on how things went down. Fitz was a media darling till the bitter end..
When you have a culture of boring losing, which is the culture the Jets have right now coming out of the Rex era, a guy who breathes some life into the room becomes a big thing for the people who have to cover the team on a day-to-day basis and who are not covering from the "all fall down" perspective as their niche.
Crazy Legs Fitzpatrick was OK, but I so called that Buffalo crapfest. Last year, complaining that you're a fckn work of art missing from the Louvre rankled me. Bye. Personally, I think the real reason men hate him is because he has more hair than anyone on earth.
"Boring losing"....couldn't put it better myself. This is why I've been screaming for a skill guy at #6...something has got to snap this franchise out of the lifeless conservative bull headed slumber it currently rests. A corner,safety or OL isn't gonna accomplish that despite these being glaring needs.
Never understood the media's love affiar with Fitzpatrick. We always knew what he was and the Buffalo disaster was him screaming that from the proverbial rooftop.
Ok, so your a beat reporter for any of the papers in NY and you have the choice of interviewing a Harvard Grad with a sense of humor or Geno Smith... Is it really that hard to understand?
Well put, but seriously he was the starting quarterback. It's as simple as that, the starting QB is the guy every reporter wants to talk to the most. Sure, from week to week there will be guys who get into the spotlight for a while but the QB is numero uno. Unless it's all just a plot by Manish and company to undermine the team and piss off the fans just to sell newspapers.
But, what I was referring to had nothing to do with how much reporters liked chatting with Fitz. I was referring to the way they covered him, often portraying him as being a far more accomplished player than he actually was. I suppose that you are correct in implying that this does tend to happen more so with quarterbacks, due to the fact that QB is the most prominent position on the team. However, I just thought what they did was Fitz was particularly egregious.
in 2015 Fitz looked much more competent at the role of playing QB than anybody the Jets have had at the position since 2011. He looked better than he was but he also looked much better than the competition. Geno Smith has been deer in the headlights since midway through his rookie season. It doesn't take much to beat that in the eyes of the press or anybody else for that matter. The people arguing for one of the potential 1st round QB's this season should remember what Geno looked like when he was put out on the field in 2013 because none of them are better prepared to handle being Jets QB right now than he was back then.
