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East Rutherford – Crazy stuff at MetLife Stadium. The Jets won the Snoopy Trophy awarded to the winner of the Jets-Giants preseason game, but they left the stadium with a lot of questions . . .
Geno Smith isn’t ready.
I find it hard to believe that guys who really know the position, like Marty Mornhinweg and David Lee, needed this game, to determine whether Smith was ready to be the starter.
I’m sorry, that is ridiculous.
You get the sense they were getting marching orders from above them to keep this competition going.
I watched every second of every practice from the beginning of Cortland to this week in Florham Park. If I knew that Smith wasn’t anywhere near ready, how could Mornhinweg and Lee not know?
I have too much respect for Marty and David to think they didn’t know.
Smith is a major project, who came from a gimmicky college project, who I think needs a few years of development. He’s got a rocket arm, but needs a ton of work in so many areas.
“You don’t hand him the keys immediately,” as Mike Mayock said.
Geno had another safety tonight. Remember, he had two in the “Pinstripe Bowl” in Yankee Stadium. He’s not a quick processor yet.
He doesn’t read defenses well enough yet.
The West Virginia offense is remedial math. The NFL is calculus.
And I’ve said it over and over again – Greg McElroy is the perfect hold-the-fort quarterback until Geno Smith is ready.
McElroy had a good summer, even though the media downplayed it.
McElroy is dealing with some kind of leg injury suffered in Detroit, but he looked much better physically in practice this past week, than the week before.
While no information has come out yet about Mark Sanchez’s shoulder injury, he certainly doesn’t look like a guy who will be ready for the opener, reading the tea leaves around the scene here at the stadium.
So if Sanchez is out of the loop for a while with the shoulder issue, and Smith is light years from being ready, McElroy is the best option.
McElroy is a good fit for the West Coast offense, which calls for a lot of quick decisions and quick throws, like slants. Of all the Jets quarterbacks, he reads defenses the best, and can process what he is seeing fastest.
The greatest West Coast offense quarterback in history was Joe Montana, and he didn’t have a great arm.
I’m not comparing McElroy to Montana. That would be crazy. I’m just saying, you don’t need a howitzer arm to succeed in the WC offense – it’s more about quick decision-making and accuracy.
In this system, not only do you throw a lot of quick slants, but also throw to the backs quite a bit.
Considering the QB train wreck we witnessed tonight, first with Geno’s performance, and then Sanchez’s injury in the fourth quarter playing
behind the backup offensive line, for the Jets to have a third QB like McElroy to turn to, things could be a lot worse than that.
August 25, 2013
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