Chapter 1: What are the implications of the Jets' quarterback situation?
this is going to be a game of chess now for Darren Muji when he comes to not only free agency, but when it comes to the draft. I mean, that's really going to be, it's going to be a telltale sign how he moves around and what he does and whether they decide they think there's a young quarterback that they think that they can develop.
I'm not so sure that there is one there, but I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up using some of this draft capital to at least add some quarterback to the mix.
Yeah, and also the rumors about guys that have connections to the organization and connections to the coaching staff emerged over the last couple of days, as I mentioned. Carson Wentz and Frank something that we had talked about a lot, and Carson Wentz coming off a tough injury with the Minnesota Vikings last year, but I give him a ton of credit.
I mean, he tried to play through absolutely everything last year until it was just too much. So if he is healthy, he didn't play all that bad last year, quite frankly.
He hurt his left shoulder, not his right shoulder, and he did have surgery on that shoulder. He could be one of the guys in the mix. We've talked about 10 different guys. Fans are talking about, I want this guy, I want that guy. I know what I think that they may do, but I could be totally off. They could also be thinking about somebody we're not even talking about. Sure.
There could be some other connection out there, but I know that... You know, teams want, at that position, at least somebody that can communicate the language of the offense. They don't want to stick somebody in there that has never done this before, especially under the current set of Jets circumstances. They want somebody that's proficient in the offensive language.
So that's why I keep saying, you know, is it somebody that he has had in the past? And yes, Jacoby Brissett would fit that. Carson Wentz certainly would fit that. You know, Kirk Cousins doesn't fit that, but Kirk Cousins is older, smarter, and has been through a number of different systems that he would be able to pick it up relatively easily.
So there's got to be somebody that is able to get in the huddle on day one and be able to call play. They're not, you know, they don't have time. They have to win some games.
Oh, of course. I mean, I am fully... I know that a lot of fans will say, oh, you get the number one pick next year, and then who the hell knows? Are you talking about a richer quarterback draft? No. That's not the way that Woody Johnson's looking at it. It's not the way that Aaron Glenn's looking at it. That's not the way Darren Moochie's looking at it.
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Chapter 2: How might Carson Wentz fit into the Jets' plans?
You can't say that. You're trying to put me on the spot.
You can't say that and then not say anything. All I'm saying is that, so I moved to four different times in my career. And all four times that I moved into my career before I moved to that place, the question was, are you proficient in this offense?
And for those guys, listen up, dropping crumbs here. This is a crumb drop. This is a boomer crumb drop.
I mean, stop. You got to stop making stuff.
I'm not making stuff up. This is a crumb drop. This is what you do when you're not going to say something. You're just dropping crumbs and leaning us to a place. So go ahead.
No, no. I'm just saying that in all four times that I moved, I spoke with the offensive coordinator. Now, twice I knew the offensive coordinator really, really well. So he knew that I was able to handle his offense and everything that he likes to do. And then the other two times, same kind of situation. Where I knew the offensive coordinator, and I knew what he wanted to do.
Now, when I moved to Arizona, it was Jim Fossil. And Jim Fossil ran the same offense that I had ran in Cincinnati for 13 years, and then I ran with the Jets here. And when he... presented the game plans to me, all he did was switch the numbers around, meaning that the higher numbers were the running plays and the lower numbers were the pass protections. So I could learn it relatively quickly.
You know what I'm saying? So all I'm trying to say is that if they do go with ā and look, I see all the stuff on ā
on social media i want this guy don't get that guy this guy sucks this guy stinks i mean this is where the jets are this is where you're not no nobody's going to be happy or not everybody's going to be happy i should say they're going to be they're going to be detractors no matter who they sign because that's just exactly what the world they're in right now
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Chapter 3: What factors are influencing the Jets' quarterback decisions?
Let's put it that way. And they just need somebody that, like I said, could get in that huddle They need two guys. I believe two veteran quarterbacks, the giant model. Okay, that's what I'm calling the giant model. Giant model of last year. Yeah, that's what they need, and then they can draft one. Wherever they feel there's a guy that potentially has something that they could develop.
And, you know, by the way, all of this stuff could be on a short-term basis.
Oh, yeah.
That's the thing. That's the thing about it. And that's why if they ā let's just say they go with Carson Wentz as one of those players.
Chapter 4: How important is offensive communication for the Jets' new QB?
The reason they're doing that is ā I don't care what any Jet fan says about Carson Wentz. He sucks. Don't bring him in. He's always hurt, this, that, and the other thing. You know, when he was with Frank in Indianapolis, he actually played really well until he got COVID the last two weeks.
Yeah, long COVID.
Right. And then last year, as you said, he went out there and he played with basically a busted-up shoulder that he needed surgery on. And he played reasonably well for the Vikings.
He did. I got a lot of respect for what he did last year.
Absolutely. But again, it's not going to be good enough for some Jet fans. I'm sorry, there's not that much out there.
There just isn't. No, of course not. But basically what they need is someone who has experience, who can settle things down, who is sort of the... quarterback version of what Frank Reich is at the offensive coordinator position. Someone who's got experience, someone who's been there before, someone who's competent, you know, you can trust, you don't have to worry about any nonsense going on.
And that's why even though Frank and Kirk Cousins haven't worked together before, and I understand it's a big thing and you don't want to have to learn another offense, and Kirk Cousins has learned like a million offenses in the last five years, but he could do it. He's got experience in doing it. That to me is the best option out there if he wants to come and play here.
So with all this draft capital that the Jets have, they do have money available in free agency right now. They're going to have more money available in free agency next year. You have to wonder, and I know they're all collaborating and I know they're all working together, but if there is a guy that has separated himself at the moment, you would say that Darren Moochie has done that.
Now, depending on what he does here and how well he does in free agency and how well he does in the draft, Is he looking next year to this quarterback class of next year? And in order to be involved in that quarterback class of next year, you obviously have the draft capital maybe to hold on to to see what happens next year. But... You know, maybe you go a cheaper way at quarterback. Who knows?
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Chapter 5: What are the potential options for the Jets at quarterback?
That's Carson Wentz and Jacoby Brissett. And Wentz we know can, and Brissett we're not sure. But if you think of some of these other guys... A lot of retired guys, like Nick Foles, Phillip Rivers, Matt Ryan, Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning. There's a lot of retired guys. And then you have Sam Ellinger, who just signed, again, to be a third-string quarterback out in Denver.
Bryce Young, they're not getting rid of Bryce Young. So Brian Hoyer, who's got to be 100 years old now in NFL years.
But again, there are also those wild cards, like the Deshaun Watson wild card. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's also the Tanner McGee from Philadelphia. He knows Nick Sirianni really well. Frank does. I mean, there's so much talking going on back and forth. And, you know, just trying to figure out who are the right guys.
Now, I could tell you that I think that they're going to ā I don't think they're swinging for the fences, but I think they're going to take a couple shots here and there and see if something shakes loose. But I know what they want. I know what they're looking for. It's just a question on which one of these guys is, number one, going to want to come here. Yep.
Yep.
And number two is, look, whoever it is, Jet fans out there, half of you are going to hate it and half of you are just going to go, okay, it is what it is. Unless they do some sort of trade that I doubt is going to happen, but... You never know. You just never know. Darren Moochie's got a lot of cards up his sleeve right now, and he's actually played a pretty good game thus far.
Yeah, unless it's Deshaun Watson where I think initially most people will be negative about it. Not so much about the stuff that has passed off the field or the fact that he hasn't played and he's been hurt a million times and all those things. Are you really going to resurrect this guy's career? We haven't seen him play. We don't trust him. I don't know anything about him anymore.
Speaking of coming back from injury like Deshaun Watson's trying to come back from, Jason Tatum is playing 10 months after Achilles injuries, and he had his Achilles surgery that next morning. He did. And that surgery takes about an hour. No speed bridge, none of that crap. Right back at it. And he's out there 10 months after surgery, which is nothing short of a miracle.
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