New York Jets and the Future of Zach Wilson as Starting QB
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00:00 And despite winning their opening game of the season against a divisional foe in a team that has the second best price to win the AFC still at this juncture, the New York Jets are now 31 to 1 to win the AFC and they have fallen back in a big way in the AFC East.
00:23 Now plus 5.50 despite being the only team in this division with a divisional victory here in 2023.
00:33 DRS, where do you fall? Where do you reset expectation for gangrene with Zach Wilson as their starting quarterback the rest of this season?
00:42 Yeah, here's the way I look at it by the way too.
00:44 If you are a Jets fan, this is the season that you probably would want Zach Wilson to play the remaining parts of the schedule.
00:50 Don, are you crazy? What are you talking about? We saw enough out of Zach Wilson.
00:53 Well, ask me this. We're going to bring in Matt Ryan, Phillip Rivers, make a phone call to Tom Brady who doesn't want to play football anymore.
01:01 Like where are your better options coming?
01:03 Wilson has been in the building for a couple years now. He should have the offensive playbook down.
01:08 Now hear me out. Even if Zach Wilson plays well this year, he's not going to play as well as Aaron Rodgers' expectations were.
01:13 So maybe they can make a run to the playoffs, maybe not.
01:16 But you know what you get? Closure on Zach Wilson. Either he's an NFL player or he's not an NFL player.
01:21 And if you feel inside the Jets organization, you have to make a move for Nick Foles to come in and be your quarterback.
01:27 I ask them this. Why is Zach Wilson even on your roster at this point?
01:31 You should just cut bait with them and say, look, it didn't work out. We're not going to get anything for you.
01:34 We already paid you a large portion of that signing bonus. You know, good luck.
01:38 We're not going to use you as a third string quarterback.
01:40 So it's either sink or swim for him this year. But closure is good.
01:43 We don't know the future of Aaron Rodgers. Look, this isn't a 26-year-old that tore his Achilles.
01:47 This is a guy into his 40s that's going to be tearing an Achilles and trying to come back for next season.
01:52 And also the motivation of Aaron Rodgers. We don't know if he actually wants to come back from this injury and still have that fire to play football.
01:58 Again, we're not talking about a younger player with nothing left to prove.
02:01 He's got all the money in the world and maybe he just wants to step away here and do podcasts or go into the television booth at this point.
02:07 But for me, if I'm a Jets fan, I'm just letting it ride with Zach Wilson because come on now.
02:12 You say, oh, let's go get Jamie Swinson or get this guy. That's not going to work out anyway for a playoff run or a Super Bowl run.
02:18 Get closure on Zach Wilson. Either the kid can play, Ben, or he can't play. But you'll know by the end of the season.
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