Justin Fields benched

[Gregg]

Woody Johnson throws Fields under the bus. 

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46673558/jets-owner-defends-coach-glenn-blames-winless-start-qb-fields

[ryguy101]

27 minutes ago, Gregg said:

Woody Johnson throws Fields under the bus. 

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46673558/jets-owner-defends-coach-glenn-blames-winless-start-qb-fields

About time

[Gregg]

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Jets are moving towards naming Tyrod Taylor as the starting QB, per @RichCimini

The Justin Fields era has come to an end... pic.twitter.com/Wc1F1NRJAd

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 21, 2025

[Captain Hindsight]

2 hours ago, Gregg said:

Woody Johnson throws Fields under the bus. 

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46673558/jets-owner-defends-coach-glenn-blames-winless-start-qb-fields

He said the same thing about Zach Wilson once. Something to the effect of "We didnt have a backup QB this year" after Rodgers went down.

 

Its a bad way to run a team IMO. Shows a lack of respect to the players and personal people who work for you. Much more diplomatic to say "it didnt work out like we planned". Glenn picked Fields as his starter, so if Glenn was wrong on this and the owner says it publicly, he is undermining his 0-7 HC.

 

Jets gonna Jet

[Mr. WEO]

13 hours ago, Fan in Chicago said:

Glenn gets a longer rope due to his newness to the team and being saddled with a sad sack QB from. 

Giants seem to have something with Dart and Skattebo. 

That's all I have 

Giants may have something in those 2.  But their HC is a dunce.  
 

Saddled with a sad sack QB?  This is the roster Glenn chose to roll with before the season started.  Unlike the giants, his team is completely lifeless.  That’s on him.

[Mr. WEO]

12 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

New GM and coach in their 1st year want a long term QB, not someone from prior management. When a new management team comes in, you can't look at any prior years as any evidence of what their plan is.. They want their own young guy as their QB, not some guy in his 30s. There have to be better options in the draft than Cousins, especially when you consider the salary cap. Cousins is 37 years old, if they wanted to wheel out an old guy, they would have kept Rodgers.

“their own young guy”…turned out to be Justin Fields!  That alone is a fireable Offense.  He’s a huge bust and you bring him in to be your starter??

 

the old guy Rodgers threw 28 TDs on that team last year and he’s tied for 4th with 14 after 6 games on the Steelers.

 

this is how you rebuild? With Fields and Taylor as your QBs?  Now they can overdraft another QB next year to throw into that toilet?  
 

Ok

[Lfod]

I can't take the Jets seriously.  They are on perpetual rebuild until they get lucky.  They throw so much at the wall to get it to stick the building probably reeks of failure. 

 

I have been and continue to write them off to the point when they get good I will be surprised because I believe in nothing they do. 

 

They drafted QBs they couldn't develop.  They cant work with rentals. They wasting some talent as well on both sides. 

 

Its to a point if a guy like Justin Fields could mature and become better being on the Jets actually hurts that cause.  

 

Benching Fields isn't a solution because they can't develop qbs or even use backups like Tyrod and lean on the defense. 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Lfod

[Albany,n.y.]

3 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

“their own young guy”…turned out to be Justin Fields!  That alone is a fireable Offense.  He’s a huge bust and you bring him in to be your starter??

 

the old guy Rodgers threw 28 TDs on that team last year and he’s tied for 4th with 14 after 6 games on the Steelers.

 

this is how you rebuild? With Fields and Taylor as your QBs?  Now they can overdraft another QB next year to throw into that toilet?  
 

Ok

I never said they're doing the rebuild right, just that they knew they had a long leash and could try with a young veteran over an old one & if he failed, they could plan on drafting their next QB. I called them idiots in a prior post because they tied themselves to Fields for 2 years due to the contract structure & cap hits. They should have been able to get Fields on a 1-year deal with incentives-I doubt there was a lot of competition to be his 3rd team in 3 years after his market value when he was traded to Pittsburgh was a 6th round pick.  Personally, I hope they mess it up again & draft another Zach Wilson, but until a team has their guy right at QB, they're always in a rebuild to some extent.  Guys on the 1st year of a team that won 5 games the season before they arrived don't want a guy on his last legs, delaying the inevitable.  For the Jets to acquire 37-year-old Cousins at 0-7 with his contract, would be a fireable offense even worse than the fact that Field will count at least $22 million on the cap next year.  

[Captain Hindsight]

3 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

“their own young guy”…turned out to be Justin Fields!  That alone is a fireable Offense.  He’s a huge bust and you bring him in to be your starter??

 

the old guy Rodgers threw 28 TDs on that team last year and he’s tied for 4th with 14 after 6 games on the Steelers.

 

this is how you rebuild? With Fields and Taylor as your QBs?  Now they can overdraft another QB next year to throw into that toilet?  
 

Ok

They gave Fields 30 million GTD and he starts 6 games for them. Their owner then publicly states that Fields "Can't complete a pass". Good luck getting the team to rally behind Fields should Taylor get hurt.

 

The Jets are a trainwreck right now. Ownership on down looks clueless and incompetent right now

[The Frankish Reich]

5 hours ago, Gregg said:

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Jets are moving towards naming Tyrod Taylor as the starting QB, per @RichCimini

The Justin Fields era has come to an end... pic.twitter.com/Wc1F1NRJAd

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 21, 2025

Jets are just plain weird.

I mean, I got the Rodgers thing. They thought they could win right away with him, and that wasn't ridiculous given the talent the team had and the atrocious quarterbacking they'd had the last few years. He just needed to be decent, like he suddenly is this year. And healthy.

But the move to Fields this year was obviously one that could blow up. If they got lucky, he'd be like he was at the start of last year for the Steelers. If they got it wrong, he'd be like the guy who was run out of Chicago. And if wrong, there was no salvaging the season.

Tyrod as a backup is the "salvage the season if your (good) starter is out a few games" guy.

So now they have no young backup to hand the keys to, hoping that maybe they'll find a Brock Purdy. They have Tyrod, who is likely (if healthy) to steal a few wins, which of course is the worst thing they could do right now. Their practice squad QB is some kind named Brady (good start) Cook. Hand it over to him and take your 1-16 and the first overall pick.

[Gregg]

1 minute ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Jets are just plain weird.

I mean, I got the Rodgers thing. They thought they could win right away with him, and that wasn't ridiculous given the talent the team had and the atrocious quarterbacking they'd had the last few years. He just needed to be decent, like he suddenly is this year. And healthy.

But the move to Fields this year was obviously one that could blow up. If they got lucky, he'd be like he was at the start of last year for the Steelers. If they got it wrong, he'd be like the guy who was run out of Chicago. And if wrong, there was no salvaging the season.

Tyrod as a backup is the "salvage the season if your (good) starter is out a few games" guy.

So now they have no young backup to hand the keys to, hoping that maybe they'll find a Brock Purdy. They have Tyrod, who is likely (if healthy) to steal a few wins, which of course is the worst thing they could do right now. Their practice squad QB is some kind named Brady (good start) Cook. Hand it over to him and take your 1-16 and the first overall pick.

 

At this point they should play Cook. Tyrod isn't saving the season so see what Cook has. What do they have to lose at this point.

[The Frankish Reich]

Just now, Gregg said:

 

At this point they should play Cook. Tyrod isn't saving the season so see what Cook has. What do they have to lose at this point.

Exactly. 

I see Cook was undrafted out of Missouri, but his raw athleticism looks o.k. What do you have to lose? If gets shutout the rest of the season it gives Aaron Glenn an excuse. And the first overall.

[RobbRiddick]

6 hours ago, Gregg said:

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Jets are moving towards naming Tyrod Taylor as the starting QB, per @RichCimini

The Justin Fields era has come to an end... pic.twitter.com/Wc1F1NRJAd

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 21, 2025

That was one hell of an era. Lasted just a bit longer than my breakfast era this morning

[Mr. WEO]

2 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

I never said they're doing the rebuild right, just that they knew they had a long leash and could try with a young veteran over an old one & if he failed, they could plan on drafting their next QB. I called them idiots in a prior post because they tied themselves to Fields for 2 years due to the contract structure & cap hits. They should have been able to get Fields on a 1-year deal with incentives-I doubt there was a lot of competition to be his 3rd team in 3 years after his market value when he was traded to Pittsburgh was a 6th round pick.  Personally, I hope they mess it up again & draft another Zach Wilson, but until a team has their guy right at QB, they're always in a rebuild to some extent.  Guys on the 1st year of a team that won 5 games the season before they arrived don't want a guy on his last legs, delaying the inevitable.  For the Jets to acquire 37-year-old Cousins at 0-7 with his contract, would be a fireable offense even worse than the fact that Field will count at least $22 million on the cap next year.  

 

Cousins's contract could be creatively restructured by a clever GM.  The Jets don't have one.  They go a guy who was "assistant GM" in Denver for 2 whole years.

 

Woody has the cash to pay his guaranteed money out of pocket on the back end.

2 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:

They gave Fields 30 million GTD and he starts 6 games for them. Their owner then publicly states that Fields "Can't complete a pass". Good luck getting the team to rally behind Fields should Taylor get hurt.

 

The Jets are a trainwreck right now. Ownership on down looks clueless and incompetent right now

 

The ownerships for both NJ teams are catastrophically stupid--for years now.