Well said, as much as there are people wanting a tank, these men have a limited time to make $. They will do everything they can to win games because it's what is done. Regardless of a pile of bitchy fans. Sometimes I have to catch myself on some of the ludricrous shit I've typed on this board along with a crap ton of others. Floating ridiculous conspiracies about tranking etc. Every down means something to these guys so I expect they go into 2026 now worrying one wit about some QB in a future draft. The ONLY cat in the building doing that is the GM but even he won't admit it. Geno is a legit QB who, despite the Jets best attempts to destroy his career, carved out a respectable career for himself and, let's face it, he's the best QB this team has fielded since he left sans Rodgers. The Raiders had the worst line I've seen outside some of our own throughout history. Pretty bad.
The Jets will be absolutely unwatchable with Geno Smith as QB. Again. I like Frank Reich, but he’s not going to be able to make lemonade out of these lemons. Over/Under should be about 6 wins, and I’d take the Under. This offseason has been a mess.
Guys, I know we all wanted better, but realistically Geno was the best available to us option. I know there were (possibly) better guys like Mills, Levis, even McKee, but do we really want to give up a 2nd/3d round pick for one year rentals? I also am not sure if these guys were even available. Murray is going to Minny. Cousins wants no part of the Jets. There are reports that Brissett is not available. Derek Carr does not have a labrum in his shoulder, never got a surgery, and I don't really give a fuck if he says he is healthy. Without a labrum on throwing shoulder he is damaged goods. Wentz was an option and I still want the Jets to get him, but he is injury prone and cannot be the only guy. Given all these bad options, Geno is probably the best realistic scenario for us. Yes, last year he sucked, but he was also not protected well at all. Very hard to function. The year before he threw for 4300 yards, would be a Jets record. Now, I am not saying he going to do that here, but I don't think he is washed either at 35, QBs lifespan is longer now days, and he is not one of these scrambling QBs, which drop off faster with age. We need another guy like Wentz, but Geno was as good an option as there was one for us unfortunately. As I said before, a team like the Jets are not a prime destination for free agents losing for 15 years now, so if we win an extra meaningless game by special teams to take us out of a QB in the draft, we are going to be fucked. That's why I was pretty livid when it happened, but we have to face that reality now. And that reality is that Geno is our best option right now as bad as it might be. The only thing I don't fully understand is why we had to trade for him and give him 3.3 mil and a late pick swap. Raiders had to waive him by the 3d day of League year (this Friday) to save 8 mil, and they had no choice but to do it. Now, I am not going to cry about 2 mil and a 20 spots pick swap at the end of the 6th into the 7th (with total value given up a 1 point on the Rich Hill chart), just wondering why not just wait for a few days. Geno restructured his deal to come to us, so he would have signed here anyway, just seemed unnecessary, but 2 mil and 1 point of draft capital is not big deal. Maybe Mooge was worried that in 3 days someone else could have been interested and decided not to take any chance over this little capital. But still, this was very unlikely. Maybe they think more of Geno than we do. But he was the best bad option we had.
Who knows why we traded instead of waiting, but it may be because Mougey wanted to make sure we got him without having to outbid anyone…it’s possible that some other team may have wanted him and if so, it’s then also possible he would have chosen them instead of us. This way, we locked him in. But I agree…this was an absolute shit year to be needing a QB, even with the 2nd overall pick. We should have been all in on Darnold last offseason, but our genius HC was so sure Fields was going to be his guy. So given the options, yeah, I didn’t want Cousins or Murray in any case, but I would have preferred a trade for Davis Mills or McKee over this, and I’d have been fine giving up even a 3rd rounder for either guy, but Mougey chose different. It’s fine…the draft pick swap is meaningless, the cost of the salary is fine…it is what it is. He ain’t much, but he is better than Fields. And will probably keep us in the running for a top 5 draft pick next year, which combined with our other 2 first rounders, should be good enough for Mougey to be able to get a QB in next years draft.
The rumor mill said Minnie was ready to make a strong push for Geno and they wanted to jump the gun. Not substantiated.
You know, as I think about it, the silver lining in this 1 QB draft may just be that it’s so clearly obvious that there is a huge gap between Mendoza and whomever the next QB is, that if sure feels like we won’t be tempted to use the 2nd overall on the “next QB”. I’m hoping we avoid drafting the next Zach Wilson. At least this way, we get the first shot at the best non-QB in the draft. Let’s hope Mougey nails it.
Yeah, I guess if there was any rumblings of someone else possibly stepping in, the price was so ridiculously low (it literally does not get any lower than 1 point on that trade chart plus 3 mil instead of 1 is minor too for starting QB LOL), might as well just secure it now officially. But as far as giving up a 2nd/3d for Mills/McKee, I would rather focus on getting a QB in next year's draft. And we will need the assets because we are not going 3-14 again I don't think. If only because that would get us a QB in 2027, and of course it cannot happen that we have a very high pick when the QB draft is good. Ours will probably be just out of range, and we need to hope we can trade up. So assets are very much needed.
I mean by doing it this way he doesn’t have a choice of who he can go to and we can’t be outbid so it makes sense. We ddidnt give up anything but one of the many late draft picks we have and we secured a QB that a few other teams wanted. Now take a development guy later in the draft or two and wait for 2027
