Effectively, at the very least the Jets don’t have a quarterback controversy to cope with this week.
So, they’ve bought that going for them.
The Jets solely want they'd such a problem to navigate as a result of that will have meant they didn’t drop a sloppy 27-12 choice to the Bengals Sunday at MetLife Stadium to fall to 1-2.
Veteran backup Joe Flacco and the offense enjoying clear, environment friendly, successful soccer on Sunday would have dropped an excellent dilemma on the desk of head coach Robert Saleh Monday morning.
Beginning quarterback Zach Wilson, the Jets’ second-year quarterback who was the second-overall decide within the 2021 draft, wears No. 2 on his uniform and has been rehabbing from his second vital harm, is predicted to be cleared by docs to play subsequent week’s sport towards the Steelers in Pittsburgh.
Had Flacco and the offense performed effectively sufficient to beat the determined Bengals, who entered the sport with an 0-2 file dogged by whispers of a hangover from their Tremendous Bowl runner-up, a powerful argument may have been made for Saleh to stay with Flacco and provides Wilson one other week to strengthen his left knee.
One other week or extra.
You recognize, the don’t-mess-with-a-good-thing, stick-with-the-hot-hand factor.
However that’s not a problem after Flacco didn't get the Jets into the tip zone whereas finishing 28 of 52 passes for 285 yards, a efficiency lowlighted by two interceptions and two misplaced fumbles.
Sunday was hardly all of the fault of Flacco, who was below siege from the Cincinnati go rush for an excessive amount of of the sport. However Flacco wasn’t adequate, both. He wasn’t adequate to beat the errors round him nor did he elevate the gamers round him.
Subsequently, enter Wilson.
The excellent news — if there's any — is that the Jets can now get on with what this season was speculated to be about within the first place: discovering out how good Wilson may be with the elevated skill-position expertise round him after a rookie season bereft of appropriate playmakers.
So, starting with Sunday in Pittsburgh, we resume common programming for the Jets and Wilson, whom was among the many worst quarterbacks within the league as a rookie — statistically talking.
“We’ll consider all of it tomorrow,’’ Saleh mentioned after the sport when requested particularly if Wilson has been medically cleared to play. “[We’re] anticipating [he will be], however till the docs say so … ’’
Requested to judge Flacco’s efficiency, Saleh mentioned, “He didn't get a lot safety. It’s not a lot totally different from Baltimore (the season-opening loss). I’m certain there are lots of performs he needs again. I’m certain he’ll say himself [that] it wasn’t adequate.’’
Final Sunday, Flacco was basking within the euphoria of the Jets’ surprising, last-minute comeback victory over the Browns in Cleveland, the place he engineered an inconceivable rally within the closing 90 seconds. Flacco carried the sport ball with him out of the customer’s locker room and absolutely hoped there can be extra wonderful moments like this to return for him.
Flacco didn’t need to go there on Sunday inside the house shedding locker room, when requested by The Put up if he allowed himself to consider the troublesome choice he may need given to Saleh with a win over the Bengals.
It’s solely human nature for him to suppose that manner, significantly for a participant who cherishes enjoying as a lot as he does at age 37 and for a participant who simply seven days earlier than had such a scrumptious style of victory.
“Truthfully, it’s week to week,’’ Flacco mentioned. “You’re so centered on the week and the duty at hand, it turns into fairly simple to not take into consideration these issues since you’re so centered on what’s occurring.’’
Requested if he’s resigned to Wilson returning because the starter this week, Flacco mentioned, “I haven’t heard something but. I simply preserve my head down and preserve working arduous, and no matter position that's … I’ve understood what it's from the start. That’s the NFL, man; it’s week to week, and it’s 17 weeks. We've extra alternatives.’’
What number of extra alternatives Flacco has isn’t as much as him, and he is aware of that.
For the sake of the Jets and significantly basic supervisor Joe Douglas, the person who caught out his neck, popularity and presumably his future because the workforce’s GM when he selected Wilson with that second-overall draft decide, Flacco made his closing begin as a Jet on Sunday.
That, after all, would imply Wilson not solely stays wholesome the remainder of the season however performs just like the second-overall decide within the draft is meant to play.
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