The NY Jets have become a laughing stock of the NFL. They benched their #1 draft pick after, yet again, turning it over multiple times, missing wide open receivers, , and just not showing a high pro QB IQ.
Vick is slated to start next week, but he seems to be hit or miss. Matt Simms showed great promise in the pre-season (insert pre-season comments here).
But, what have they got to lose at this point?
I say give the kid a shot.
Thoughts?
He's not black enough for Percy Harvin.
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I agree. He does show some promise. Why not.
Life-long suffering Jets fan here. You're 100% correct, Simms needs to start. He has shown promise in the pre-season, and is probably the best pure quarterback on the Jets roster.
The problem w/ the Jets quarterback situation is a problem that is NFL wide. Once a team locks money into a guy, he's "the guy" until it's 1000% sure he's not the guy.
Unfortunately, someone like Simms gets labeled a "backup" early in his career and then is stuck with it for life. There's almost no way of getting a fair shot.
I still firmly believe that if it wasn't for Bledsoe's injury, Brady would have remained an anonymous backup for another 5 years, probably jumping from team to team a couple times, sitting behind a starter that is "the guy". If this were the case, the Patriots would maybe still be bad or mediocre, and I would be a happy man.
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Life-long suffering Jets fan here. You're 100% correct, Simms needs to start. He has shown promise in the pre-season, and is probably the best pure quarterback on the Jets roster.
The problem w/ the Jets quarterback situation is a problem that is NFL wide. Once a team locks money into a guy, he's "the guy" until it's 1000% sure he's not the guy.
Unfortunately, someone like Simms gets labeled a "backup" early in his career and then is stuck with it for life. There's almost no way of getting a fair shot.
I still firmly believe that if it wasn't for Bledsoe's injury, Brady would have remained an anonymous backup for another 5 years, probably jumping from team to team a couple times, sitting behind a starter that is "the guy". If this were the case, the Patriots would maybe still be bad or mediocre, and I would be a happy man.
Your post makes alot of sense. I never thought of the Bledsoe situation since I'm really not a Jets fan. I just live in the area, and hear the stuff said on WFan, and man oh man. They talk as if Simms doesn't even exist. I mean they say Vick, or Smith or " we gotta find a quarterback who can play!!"
How does that make Matt feel?
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