Did these guys think Wilson had adamantium bones or some shit? We could’ve signed a scrub vet at the low low cost of 0 draft picks over the offseason. Why this FO didn’t think a backup with years of experience was a need for a team with a rookie QB is beyond all logic.
This feels a lot like Idzik trading for Percy Harvin midseason after everyone in the fan base and media said they needed more playmakers and neglected the position.
Of course it's a panic move. You always have to plan for the fact that any of the backups on the roster might have to play at some point. The odds are stacked in favor of that happening at some point during the season. Granted, you don't want it to be for extended periods of time, but you have to plan for that. They were comfortable going into the season with Mike White as the backup QB. Until yesterday, now they're not. They're panicking by making this move. It's another crack in the cheap veneer of competence that this front office and coaching staff have been presenting to us since they got here. I don't have anything against Flacco, but I think I'd rather they just go ahead with their original plan and go with Mike White and Josh Johnson at QB the rest of the way.
The funny thing is Mike White actually looked “OK” and not overwhelmed which makes this move even more puzzling. What a nightmare of a team man I swear
Makes no sense. JD is smart and I bet he wanted to sign a vet QB months ago but the Johnsons were cheap and said no. Only if Wilson goes down. Well, he went down.
Here's the panic move part. Going into the season the Jets were all, "we are happy with our QB room". QB1 goes down. QB2 looks about the same as QB1, but after 3 quarters of him they trade for a new QB1. It says a lot about our entire QB room. The thing about Flacco. I'm pretty sure if the pass protection isn't solid the pick sixes to defensive ends are going to fly again.
I had been hesitant to say anything in support of Mike White, since I mercifully fell asleep on the couch watching the game during the second half and didn't see the bulk of his work yesterday, but I was fairly impressed by what I did see. In his first ever action, against Bill Belichick, he was competent. He didn't wow us or anything, but he was competent. Surely he did enough to earn the right to keep going for another week.
It’s not a panic move. They basically don’t trust Josh Johnson to come run this team if push came to shove. You get a veteran who can come in and hopefully get this offense going especially if he shows well in practice. He likely starts against whoever we play after the Bengals and has 2-3 games to do what he does before Zach comes back within a month’s time. Flacco isn’t moving the needle to make it a panic move. Trading a decent pick like a 4th or something for a QB this late would have signified panic to me. This is a 6th rounder we’re looking at here.
They should have already had this in place. They rolled the dice by not paying the QB room more than the bare minimum, with the hope of never needing Mike White and Josh Johnson, and now that's come back to bite them. Now they have to part with a draft pick for a guy they could have just resigned.
LOL. But he was able to give Mims some development! Come on guys. You wanted a vet back-up, and you got one with SB experience. I am sorry, but Tom Brady, Mahomes, and Rogers were not available. If you think there should be a vet, Flacco is pretty much as good as it gets for a sub without breaking a bank.
I wonder if they'll keep Mims on the bench even now that Flacco is here. They're probably thinking "Flacco will make Mims look good and then we'll look worse than we already do.".
I agree with the first part as I’m sure JD had a plan to get one, but betting Saleh (JD’s operational partner in building the roster) was the one, through discussion with JD, that thought he’d be ok with a non vet…again, I think the wheels have come off so badly and so quickly that Saleh is panicked and this leading to JD making this panic riddled trade…and let me be clear, I don’t hate Flacco, I hate what this trade signals: bad original plan - disastrous season start - no understanding of how to fix disastrous start - help me I’m drowning - hurry and get someone to help win 1 game so I’d don’t have to fire my best friend’s brother
