If the top 3 go like that I'd try very hard to trade the #4 down while staying in the top 10. However I'd be fairly likely to target the best QB prospect after that and let him and Zach fight it out in camp for the job. I'd keep that competition going into the season until one of them clearly won the job. Coddling Zach by handing him the job again next season is very unlikely to produce the results we want.
London isn't a "go up and get it" one trick pony though. He had 460 YAC in 2021 in only 8 games; an average of 57.5 YAC per game, both of which are way ahead of what Deebo put up YAC wise in college. Obviously I'm not comparing London to Deebo by any means but to say London is a one trick pony is just false. When London runs a 4'5 40 he's going to solidify himself above Wilson and it's going to be Burks/London 1a/1b.
I'm not doubting how good he is - just like I don't doubt how good Hamilton is as a Safety - but I think you can find that level of production, or very close to it, later in the draft. The Jets need elite players at WR, Edge, OL, TE, so these have to be the targets with the #4 and $10 picks. If they trade back that changes things, but for right now we don't know if they'll trade back, and how far.
IDK if London is without a doubt the WR to get. I still prefer Burks slightly more, but if they pass on Burks to take an Edge or OL, grabbing London would be a nice "consolation prize".
Because the Jets are clueless. Arizona could have rocked Josh Rosen until the wheels fell off. They're not clueless.
Your obsession with replacing Zach is bordering on a mental illness. There is NO way they're going to do anything to derail Wilson's development like subjecting him to a "QB competition". If they didn't do it Year 1, they're not going to do it this year. Now, if he falls on his face like you predict, maybe they do it in 2023, but doubt even that...it would totally dependent on the circumstances surrounding that failure. Up to a point I can understand you're not liking taking Wilson. I didn't like having to take Darnold after they passed on Mahomes, but once he was the pick, I got behind him and hoped for the best because I knew he wasn't going anywhere for at least 3 years. Sadly, the Jets failed him, and he didn't help his own cause either. Move on.
If Zach Wilson is derailed by a real QB competition there is literally no way he is going to develop into an NFL QB. Why do you think his teammates were chanting "Mike White!" in the locker room. Think about it.
They had a new HC coming in, the top pick, a clear top prospect. The Jags have the top pick for the second straight year, but I bet they're not even thinking about having Lawrence compete for his job in 2022.
Kyler Murray was not #1 pick material unless the entire franchise reset around his skill set. That's what made the situation so interesting. They brought in Kliff and drafted Murray as a pair and profited as a result. One of the many problems that the Jets have right now is that the QB and the offensive system are a mismatch. The reality is that Zach Wilson vs Mike Lafleur is a competition on who is going to sink who first. If the Jets were serious about developing Zach Wilson they would put him in a more vertical passing game than the one Lafleur wants to run. That would at least give Wilson a fighting chance of making it as an NFL starting QB. As it is he is completely mismatched with an offense that much prefers a rhythmic distributor as both Mike White and Josh Johnson showed us last year. The Jets are organizationally dysfunctional to the point that one of their QB or OC is going to have to fail out before they recognize the glaringly obvious mismatch. Note that after the injury Zach was a bad rhythmic distributor. He was no longer going deep and throwing picks late in the count but he also wasn't doing the thing the Jets wanted him to do particularly well - which is why the numbers were so bad. When Mike White faced the Bills he threw 44 passes for 251 yards and 4 picks. He was a bad rhythmic distributor in that game but he was completing passes and distributing, critically to the other team at times. When Zach Wilson faced that defense he went 7 for 20 for 87 yards. He couldn't manage distributing the ball in the face of an aggressive pass defense and he just held it or threw it away. In either case the passing game wasn't going to work but one of the guys facing that Kobayashi Maru chose to act like a QB and try to get it done and the other guy just surrendered without a fight.
I don't need to think about it at all. Have you ever played any sport on a team? When a former "scrub" steps up and does something amazing it fires up the entire team and chanting his name is among the things teams do. White has been with the team for 3 years as a scrub, never even seeing the field before this year. What he did was amazing, and obviously caught Cincinnati by surprise. He did what he was signed to do: step in try to win, but his talent is nowhere near the level of Wilson's, as proven by his performances after that. And I chose the word 'derailed' purposefully: it does not mean "defeated", it means his former progress in a direct path has been interrupted - by a great or small amount doesn't matter. The Jets are not going to engage in that and why would they, because the famous Br4d from TheGangGreen forum doesn't believe Zach is their guy? Unless Zach shits the bed this next season - which you can hope for, but is unlikely to happen - he's the QB for at least 2 more years.
I was thinking more along the lines of whatever the latest 1st round pick or earliest 2nd rounder the Jets have in this draft. If the Jets trade the #4 down (because Neal and the 2 Edges are gone) they're likely to wind up with a couple of 1st rounders and maybe a 2nd as the return. Eagles 15 or 16 + 19 + 2nd rounder as an example. Taking one of the QB's on the 19 or on the 35 still leaves a lot of draft value to support the pick or Wilson, whoever happens to be best. I'm supporting getting an equal opportunity competitor for Zach because he didn't show well last year before the injury when he was playing the way he wanted or after when he was doing what the Jets wanted. This suggests that he is just not a good fit for what the Jets want to do on offense. If he wins an honest competition in camp next year it certainly will boost his chances of proving out. If he is just handed the job, well odds are pretty good we get maybe a slightly better version of either Zach 1 or Zach 2 next season and neither of those is going to be worth much.
It isn’t even worth your time responding to this guy anymore. Over the last two years he has become one of the worst posters on this board. Starting to think he’s just a troll.
That’s literally my analysis of Pittman… back shoulder, fade receiver that is lean. He will get snapped in half coming across the middle one day watch. Drake London is the same player… For me he’s got huge bust potential. Burks, Wilson and Williams all better prospects.
Anybody posting positively about 6-27 and how we got there and what we have on the field now has some nerve calling anybody else a troll. This team missed the playoffs 9 years in a row and *then* they went 6-27. It's a total disaster and it isn't going to get better as long as we keep doing the stupid shit we've been doing the last couple of seasons. There's a reason we just had the worst two defenses in franchise history.
London is really good after the catch and elite at winning jump balls. Burks to me is a bit of a tweener. Not big enough to beat DB's purely with size and not quick enough to consistently get separation. He has good top end speed though.
Man, you're smarter than this. You're citing Wilson's stats vs. the Bills when he was missing 4 starting OL and 3 starting WR's the entire game. Come on. I'm not saying Wilson played well this year, he was awful. But it really does just seem like there's an axe to grind if citing the Bills game.
Fire Br4d billboards would be up by the next morning and you would probably get a fair share of death threats.
