He was wrong for what he said, but his other point . . .

He said something really stupid,

but he also said something that might have been a salient point.

NBC Sports analyst Rodney Harrison called Zach Wilson “garbage” in a question to KC Chiefs star defender Chris Jones.

That was way out of line. Word selection is important. You can criticize without getting personal. Calling another human being “garbage” is never acceptable.

But something else Harrison said, might be something we need to consider.

“Zach Wilson is special, man. You just gotta give the guy time, you know what I mean?” Jones said.

“Wait, did you say Zach Wilson is ‘special?’ I think he had a special night, but I don’t think he’s ‘special,’” Harrison responded.

He is correct, it’s a “special night.” It’s not a trend until he does it a few games in a row.

In a society driven by social media, you have Mensa candidates all over the place talking like Wilson has never figured it out, based on one game where a lot of first-reads were open, but there is no way to discern if the lightbulb has come on after one game.

And while Wilson did some really good things, leading the Jets’ comeback to knot the game at 20 in the third quarter, the Jets didn’t score for the rest of the game after that early third quarter TD drive.

Wilson’s longest pass of the game was a 39-yard strike to WR Allen Lazard down the right sideline. He rolled right and threw it up for the 6-5 Lazard to grab it in a crowd and he did it. Nice play, but it involved no reading of defenses whatsoever. It’s a streetyard play, and turned out to be a damn good one, but this kind of play doesn’t show us anything about whether Wilson has improved going through his progressive scans.

So this idea that anybody who criticized his games against Dallas and New England, now needs to eat crow, is short-sighted. Those games happened, and consider how bad the Patriots looked last week in a blowout loss to the Cowboys, the Jets wasted a chance to be 2-2 right now.

Did you know that New England was without three corners against the Jets – Jack Jones, Marcus Jones and Jonathan Jones, and the Jets, with myriad weapons in the passing game, managed just 10 points.

So let’s see moving forward if Wilson has turned the corner. That New England game was just a week and half ago.

Now there is a decent chance Wilson has a second good game in a row, because Denver’s defense is historically bad, so the kind of first read throws, that were consistently open against Kansas City, could be there again at Empower Field at Mile High.

Jets OC Nathaniel Hackett called a brilliant game against Kansas City, consistenly dialing up throws were the first read for was open.

Wilson, like a lot of young quarterbacks in the NFL, and almost all college quarterbacks, is most confortable when the first read is open.

And you know darn well that Hackett is going to be driven this week to design the mother of all game plans, after Broncos coach Sean Payton dissed him in August with his comments about the job the Jets OC did as Denver’s head coach last year.

But as we sit here right now, it was “a special night” as Harrison said. It’s too early to say “special player.”