Yeah..all I keep thinking is what are we going to do now. Really sinking in and it stinks OTOH what will the Dallas game look like ..a shutout like NYG or something competitive
Even if we keep them to 20pts which I believe we can. Can we SCORE 20? Not so sure. Hopefully we can keep running the ball down teams throats to the point that it makes things easy for Zach to make some throws.
There's a guy on the Raiders roster that might be a perfect candidate if the Jets were looking for a QB of the future. His name is Aidan O'Connell and had a very impressive preseason. He's currently the no. 3 QB, so I think a trade is doable and shouldn't cost too much. From what I saw, he could easily beat out ZW for no. 1 here, and potentially be our next FQB.
We've had QB's fail across multiple regimes and they all had the same thing in common, they just weren't the right QB. I don't think the fact that none of the QBs we've drafted in the 1st or 2nd round over the last few decades should dissuade us from drafting another one early. The Buffalo Bills couldn't draft and develop QBs, until they did. The Cincinnati Bengals also couldn't draft and develop QBs, until they did. Our ceiling until we get a top tier QB is a fringe playoff team, if you really want to get rid of the SOJ moniker once and for all, draft the right QB that develops into the next Mahomes, Burrow, Allen, etc.
I like O'Connell as a backup option but I'm not so sure I see the ceiling you do. We'll see if he can prove me wrong at some point!
To me, he looked like a seasoned vet, a classic pocket passer in his ability to move the chains. That's what the Jets need right now, someone who can distribute the ball with consistency. I hate to bring it up because I know it's a touchy subject but the Jets need a Mike White type, albeit with better stamina.
same here...i literally spat out my drink at the bar...i was like NO FUCKING WAY this is happening. i had lumps in throat, tearing up. i couldn't handle and left the bar soon after. this is worse than lose game to the bills to miss the playoffs or the afc champion game losses. why the heck is it always us?!
It is really surprising me, but this isn't hitting me anywhere near as hard as I thought it would. In the immediate aftermath I felt a little numb but not surprised in the least. After a little while I just thought, well, we are now the same team we were last year, with a few really nice additions actually. I hadn't bonded with Rodgers - there was no chance to. If he had played a handful of games or half the season, this would have hurt more, but right now, it is like Aaron Rodgers was just a dream, and never actually part of this team. I think Wilson has a very slim chance or ever becoming a decent quarterback, let alone a good one... but he still looks more like a Jet to me than Rodgers did in those four plays on Monday night. So that's where I stand. We didn't lose anything (except a ton of cap space) because we never had him. He was never here. It was never real.
This one hurt… and I swore as I got older I was immune to it, or over letting them get to me. At this point, I’m ready to ride with zack(hopefully rodgers is there , and will be for every game, I think that could be a huge difference). Zack isn’t a backup, as far as we were being told, he was still the future. Sign a vet to backup zack. hopefully rodgers commits to a comeback next year. this team can still do great things this year, and I’m not ready to fold the tents , and I’m typically a “darksider”. That’s me , That’s what I’m hoping for. Winning Monday night after what happened, against Buffalo was no small deal.
Honestly , I felt this way the whole first half. I was basically numb and thinking of just turning it off, but the defense looked so good, I had to see it through. There are a few WOW moments that got me excited and helped me root again, like the GW catch, the Gipson return, the picks by Whitehead, the big hit by Clemons, 5 sacks, 9 QB hits, 4 turnovers. With Rodgers, that's a 20+ point blowout. It does really sting, though. I just feel numb this week.
jets just seem to have zero luck when it comes to the QB position - never bad enough to grab THE guy or when they do have a chance to they blow it (like with Lawrence) - it's just nuts how they've spent 3 top 5 picks in recent times on QBs and have nothing to show for it. I think the reasons I don't feel worse is at this point are: - I fully expected something like this to happen only not so soon - it's not like I ever felt like he was "our guy" as he wasn't drafted by the Jets or been part of the team for years so I wasn't so invested in him as a player Still massively sucks of course as I did start to think it was going to be an interesting season with the chance of doing a Rams/Stafford
I never thought I would leave a jets game early but my emotions got the best of me. I don't think I've ever been so affected by a moment in sports before.
I've made comments in the past about this. The Jets have NEVER been able to develop a QB. Ever. They've either come to us ready to go (Pennington) or we crap the bed (Sanchez, Darnold, Wilson). ALL of our meager success has come at the hands of much OLDER QB's (Testaverde). Sad that I can only throw out Vinny T. I put Sanchez in here because we never developed him. We surrounded him with a top 5 defense his first two years and then let him go to waste for what was left of his career. He HAD the potential but, as I stated, the NYJ simply can't seem to develop a QB. I did a ton of research and reading at the beginning of this past FA period and it kind of blew me away at what I found. For example, did any of you know that Derek Carr, statistically every year, has had better years than every single Jets QB in HISTORY? Including Joe Willy which (I'm going to get flamed here) is only in the Hall of Fame based of one damn guarantee? No guarantee no Hall. Our QB history is SO BAD that Derek freakin' Carr is statistically superior to anything we've trotted out...ever!! How does that HAPPEN?? With some of the defenses this team has fielded over the years, had we had even borderline Pro Bowl play from even ONE QB we, arguably, could have more SB trophies in the case? Obviously this is subjective and you never know from season to season but that's a statistic that doesn't poke you in the eye...it takes your whole head off. I don't know if it's the fan base, with ZERO patience, that scream and yell so loudly (or put up billboards) to have something change or lack of the right management in place. I don't know. I'd say it was Woody's fault but nothing happened under Hess either. How can some teams go from QB to QB to QB and we can't seem to draft ONE?!? Green Bay has gone from Favre to Rodgers and Love looked pretty good on Sunday although the jury is still out til' he plays a couple years. But still. Love looked better than Wilson EVER has. KY Jet mentioned above about the Bengals and Bills. Seriously? The Bengals have drafted two (Boomer and Burrows), three if you count Andy Dalton who was better than average for a while. Can't believe the Bills were mentioned (Jim Kelly and now Allen). As I think back even the Lions with Stafford! Not the NY Jets. Maybe Joe Willy really did sell something for that SB III win.
To me, as awful as it was what happened to AR, it would be worse if they were rolling into the playoffs in mid-December with Rodgers already hitting the clause escalator for draft compensation. This way, there's no more wonder what ZW can be, this is it - he either figures it out enough to not be a complete net-negative or he's gone. He gets it done or he's finished here, whether AR comes back or not...
I'm with you guys--It's affecting my entire mood. And seeing that IG pic with him running out with the flag almost brings me to tears.
oh no dont tell me you were THERE and missed the overtime win? Talk about adding insult to injury, LITERALLY.
Very classy and true. Good for you. Some of the shit fest by a handful of so called fans here against Zach in this time of enormous trouble after AR went down, after a team courageous win is simply pathetic. Blaming the kid after the conditions he was thrown under, not remotely ready, is some bottom of the barrel trash not worth reading, never mind responding to.
