I mean, the Jets are clearly tanking at this point. But why bother signing Siemian (who has been better than either of the Jets healthy QBs his entire career in the NFL) if you’re not going to play him?
Trevor Siemian playing from week 2 on probably has this team in playoff contention. Hell, there are a bunch of QBs, several of which were available, that were all clearly better than Boyle (and Wilson, but especially Boyle) that could’ve kept the season afloat.
Like the Jets just haven’t done anything to try to improve the offense once Rodgers went down. They didn’t go out and try to bring in new OL. They didn’t improve at QB. They just acted like the offense as-is was sufficient, despite all the mounting evidence that it wasn’t.
Unless it was an ownership directive (and even then) I really think the whole org gets canned at the end of the season.
The win week 1 staved off a lot of this criticism, and probably ultimately did a disservice to the team as a whole.
It was so predictable too - like you can’t count on getting 4 turnovers or having your running back go for 127 yard on 10 carries. The way they won was obviously unsustainable on offense.
Getting 4 turnovers and only winning by 6 tells you that your offense needs serious help.
I don’t think the Jets would want to trade capital for Brisset/Lance, and maybe not even Dobbs. But it’s absolutely malpractice to not kick the tires on Wentz
There were a multitude of options available to them, as I’ve laid out, and they opted to do nothing.
It doesn’t matter if you take issue with any given one, with barely any thought I could come up with 6 different ways to add to the QB room and potentially improve there. Two of them were fully within their control (as in, don’t require someone to be willing to trade an asset) and they just didn’t do them. It’s complete malpractice.
Siemian is not the high end backup QB you think he is- we signed him expecting him to be our backup, but he didn’t even make our practice squad out of camp. His struggles were the biggest non-Burrow story of the preseason. You could definitely have looked harder at the available options and made a deadline move, but there’s a good reason he hasn’t started a game.
Yeah there’s a reason these veteran guys are available midseason, and it’s not the entire NFL undervaluing them. If Wentz and Siemian were high end backups, they would’ve secured their backup jobs for the year a long time ago.
