The Frankish Reich

Herbie is actually right. Streveler is a bargain basement Taysom Hill.

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.

Probably. But he could also be Josh Rosen 2.0. Poor performance + attitude problems = no career at all.

I'm actually enjoying that.

He has the air of that other non-Mormon BYU QB, Jim McMahon.

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.

He WILL throw a pick. But still: amazing how simply not being scared out there (Streveler vs. Wilson) makes a huge difference to the whole offense.

Michaels now reading the Wiki page on Streveler at the exact same time as me.

It has been stated 20x already. But that's o.k. I've muttered it to myself at least 50x.

But do we have a guy who'll thrown punches at Sauce Gardner while still running with the ball on a live play?

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.

Eerie silence in the Meadowlands causes Jags to jump the count.

A thoroughbred horse. Secretariat.

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.

Ouch.

Agreed, but I'd put the Chargers right there too. For them it's mostly a matter of getting/staying healthy.

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.

You beat me to it. 🤣

Michaels: "He (Zach) took a shot right at the end of the half too." Me: no he didn't. Guy pulled up. Jags are well coached. Pederson: "whatever you do, make sure you keep Zach Wilson in the game."

Jags have a 69% chance of making the playoffs if they win tonight (538 playoff machine). And I believe they could do some damage in the playoffs too. I will officially place them in that second tier of AFC competitors after the last few weeks. Tier 1: Bills, Chiefs, Bengals. Tier 2: Jags, Ravens (if Lamar returns healthy), Chargers, Dolphins. Really, I don't see anything separating any of those teams from any of the others. (I also don't see much separation between the Tier 1 teams. We don't like to admit it, but it's more luck (injury and otherwise, than anything else at this point)

Its a paradox. Titans dump them, their line gets worse. We get them, our line gets worse.

Right - with the line the way it is, Josh has got to get rid of the ball fast or run around praying for someone to come open. I prefer the former.

Shanahan coaching tree having a good weekend ...

All right. Crap punt gets things started here.