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good stuff -
i am not a fan of the jets can’t develop qbs narrative. it’s that they have been consistent in drafting poorly, which includes qbs. sanchez was out of the league basically after the jets, he simply couldn’t play. hackenberg won’t be discussed. geno smith stunk and had to wait 7 years for seattle to become average after age 30. hack wilson simply can’t play. darnold is on his 4th team and throws a pick a game. if the team had even a modicum of decent scouting, maybe they’d find a qb at some point.
I think both can be true at the same time. I agree that the organization has continuously fallen in love with the wrong QB, but at the same time, they never have seemed to have the right infrastructure in place (like heaven forbid, a QB whisperer) to work with said QBs and develop them. So it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Fortunately most Sundays feature at least half a dozen actual relevant football games involving competent teams.
He looks washed - combo of injuries, bad team and age - cant imagine Woody bringing this back for another run at this point
I was just looking, his cap number is 23 mill next year, with 49 mill in dead money. May as well run it back
If they're smart (and i haven't seen any evidence of that) they'd trade him for a bag of balls this week.
Cant believe we are talking about next year already - but they may have no choice but to eat Rodgers contract. I highly doubt most GM/coaches that are solid would want to walk into a situation where Rodgers controls the team/owner.
There is always the possibility that Rodgers does the right thing and retires. That's probably unrealistic - and who can blame someone for not leaving money on the table - but if he continues to take a beating and keeps looking washed up, he may just say "I'm done", which would be ideal.
This will never, ever, ever happen, but I'd gut the whole team right now. Get as many picks back as you can for all of em. The Williams'. Overrated Sauce. Wilson. Breece. Adams. Reddick. Whoever. Reaccumulate as many picks as you can, and give a potential new GM hire enough ammo to entice him to come to this garbage situation and maybe save us. We hung our hats on the 'big 4' that Douglas drafted. How did that work out for us? We already missed our window to win with them while they were cheap. Too late now. Dump em and see if you can get a few 1st rounders back.
Unfortunately we know that this will not happen and the team will finish 7-10.
I'm not even sure the league rules would allow them to trade Adams but flipping him and Reddick would be great.
Just gotta win the next 8 and we're RIGHT BACK in this thing.
It's something I made comments about right away during the 1st game where they just came across as amateurs coaching and I realize they were learning on the job
Yea, this is why I can't get on board with the "If we had a real kicker we could be 4-3" logic. It doesn't work like that because there's other instances of games we would that would have lost if the team we played also had 'scenario X' as an alternative. This is a bad team and bad teams find a way to lose. Greg Zeurlein didn't allow the awful Pats O to walk right down the field and score a TD with a minute left in the game.
It might be blasphemous, but if we take longevity [yes, an odd word to use when talking about Pennington] into account, I think he's my franchise QB1....
While he was on the Jets? I 100% disagree with that.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! If we go back a little farther it doesnt get much better...I love(d) Chad Pennington but when he's the second best QB in team history that says a lot.
It's amazing that no matter what they try to do at QB over the last 25 years, it has never worked out.
Bring in a Veteran QB:
Brett Favre - this one worked out before he blew out his bicep - but he never wanted to be here and left for Minnesota asap;
Ryan Fitzpatrick - mixed results but ultimately he failed the team with the playoffs on the line and then fell apart in Year2;
Aaron Rodgers -
Use a Top 6 pick on a QB:
Mark Sanchez - early results were promising and then Rex Ryan HAD to win the Snoopy Bowl by leaving Sanchez in during the 4th Q of a preseason game
Sam Darnold - had some arm talent but poor decision making and being straddled with Adam Gase did him in
Zach Wilson - complete garbage and is now a third string QB
Take a QB in Round 2
Kellen Clemens
Geno Smith - 10 years later he's serviceable
Christian Hackenberg
Take a mid to late round flier at QB and Hope
Brooks Bollinger
Eric Ainge
Greg McElroy
Taj Boyd
Bryce Petty
James Morgan
Travis Jordan
That's a whole lot of ugly right there.
Texans are a good example of how things can turn around with a bad owner - he literally had an unqualified pastor running the team. They then picked a solid HC and QB - bingo competitive. Of course fleecing the Browns but you get the point.
