Yeah, that was weird. Flacco must be in the doghouse again. The little bit he played this year he was actually ok. This team could have made the playoffs with Flacco at QB all year (assuming he'd stayed healthy, which he wouldn't have ...)
Correct. But I think comparison is to the Marrone/EJ Manuel years. Championship caliber defense, overdrafted a QB prospect who was really just a project, can go 9-7 (now 9-8) with a Kyle Orton or maybe Mike White, but that's their ceiling until they find an actual good QB.
I'm not so obsessive that I'll actually do this, but someone really ought to count how many times this sentiment was expressed in the course of the last 3 hours ... (including by me)
Lawrence and Justin Fields (just not this weekend please) are making that leap right now. I think the difference is Lawrence has found his coach. Fields will have to wait.
Right. Actually for years I've been saying that NFL teams could do much worse at QB than simply poaching the best QBs in the CFL. I think tonight finally proves my point.
Just occurred to me - Zach Wilson is not really Ryan Leaf or JaMarcus Russell or some other epic bust.
He's just an ordinary bust so far ... he's ... JP Losman.
He's just a wreck now. He showed some signs of getting it earlier this year (mostly vs. the Bills), but now he's like a rookie in Game 1. I still think he has the talent, but it's looking likely that if he ever puts it together it won't be with the Jets.
Is Flacco available? Jets are fighting (on defense at least) for a playoff spot. It's about to slip away. I know they don't want to kill Zach's confidence (and he weirdly still seems to have too much self esteem), but really ... if not now, when?
Well, not worse than Ryan Leaf. We forget how awful he was. 4-17 as a starter, 50.0 QB rating. Ouch.
JaMarcus: 7-18, 65.2
Zach: 8-13, 71.8 coming into this game. Ryan Leaf is still the Gold Standard.