Media: Punky can't recover from being booed and then benched.
Bim: We haven't seen the last of him!
Bim is handling this the worst way possible. If he benched Punky for Honkey, he should have stayed benched! Now you've introduced another variable, this no-name practice squad guy, and he played better than Punky! You watched him in practice and couldn't figure out who was the better QB? Guess whose name the fans will be screaming for again? Why not, you've already shown you'll respond to them. As the saying goes, if you do what the people in the stands want, you'll soon be joining them. Add to that the brief appearances of Flucko. Bim is showing the world he really can't evaluate talent and he can't coach up players.
Makes one wonder on what basis he put Punky back in. It's not like Punky miraculously got his act together since we last saw him. The answer should be obvious: The GM made him do it! His job depends on it!
From the NYP article:
Because the Jets have to understand, have to realize, that there is a very real possibility that they had the No. 3 and No. 2 picks in the draft within three years of each other — earned, on merit, thanks to some of the most atrocious football in a franchise history that isn’t exactly unfamiliar with atrocious football — and twice took quarterbacks.
And they got it wrong — abjectly wrong — both times.
This isn’t just a devastating possibility; it’s the kind of thing that can be decimating to an entire organization. And a rapidly escalating and sobering truth is that this isn’t just a possibility, but a probability. Zach Wilson doesn’t just look overmatched. He looks over.
Well, duh! Stuff I've been writing for months now.
Also from NYP:
And you realize: The Jets, as an operation, so desperately need Wilson to succeed. They understand the optics of whiffing so glaringly twice in four years. Joe Douglas has made a lot of smart moves rebuilding the Jets, but if Wilson is truly as bad as he looks right now — and how do you argue differently? — that one decision alone could destroy his tenure here.
Well, double duh!
Da Jete went for the big splash on using the #2 pick on a "project" QB from a small school. Well, it turns out the pick was #2, the kind that you flush down the toilet. While it seems the owner would be pressuring everyone to make a big splash, he didn't expect it to be the splash of a giant turd landing in the toilet!
Consider an alternate world: Da Jete had to realize their biggest weakness was offensive line. So, take that #2 pick and trade down and get two or more bites at the apple! Either get two OL and start some "replacement level" FA QB like Honkey till you sort out your OL, or draft one OL and one QB. What you don't do is draft a "project" QB from a small school and expect him to thrive behind a crap OL in the big city. The dude got happy feet, and now we see why: if he had stood his ground he would have gotten cracked ribs just like Honkey did.
The GM probably would have survived with a good D and an average O with a good OL. He could have let this year play out, then at the end said we're on the right track and now's the time to look for a better QB, either through the draft or FA. But he swung for the fences and now he's stuck defending his selection of Punky. That mistake alone is enough to get him fired.
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