Might have been a problem

Would he have been a good fit here?

I don’t think so, but other people think he’d be fine here.

I’m talking Josh Rosen in New York.

If Sam Darnold didn’t slip to three, Rosen might have been pick.

“I think Josh Rosen is the guy that they’re going to zero in on,” Jay Glazer tweeted before the draft started.

Glazer is basically never wrong, and I’m not being sarcastic. He gets great info.

And this tweet wasn’t necessarily wrong if you thought Cleveland would pick Darnold.

I asked a longtime Arizona writer how Josh Rosen would have worked out in the New York media market and he said, “He would handle you guys fine.”

Look, nobody knows how exactly how it would have worked out, and we won’t find out now that Darnold is a Jet, and Rosen is a Cardinal, but I personally don’t think Rosen coming here wouldn’t have been ideal.

I made it clear to the writer, that when I said I thought Arizona was a better market for the outspoken Rosen, it wasn’t a slight on the reporters in Phoenix. I didn’t want to make to make it seem like we are tougher or better here.

But it’s not just New York, it’s the media landscape around here now – it’s the wild, wild west.

The verbose Rosen said after he slipped to Arizona, “Nine mistakes were made ahead of me. And I will make sure over the next decade or so that they will know that they made a mistake.”

How would that quote have worked out here?

Or the “F Trump” hat Rosen wore at a Trump golf course?

Here is the deal with this media scene – people are going to stir things up without player or coaches contributing, so adding a guy who feeds the monster isn’t the best idea.

Sam Darnold is boring as heck with the media. He says nothing, and he doesn’t “go for the cheese” as players like to say.

In other words, he doesn’t fall into media traps, trick questions.

Darnold with the media is like watching paint dry, and that is a good thing.

So far, he hasn’t fallen into any traps.

I don’t know where Darnold got his media training, but for a 21-year-old, he’s sharp as heck.

I’m not saying Rosen isn’t sharp. He is. He’s a smart kid, but he’s more apt to “go for the cheese” especially since he kind of shoots from the hip.

In Arizona, Rosen’s approach won’t create many shockwaves. They have a very small media core – I believe there are three beat writers – Arizona Republic, AP and ESPN NFL Nation. And AP doesn’t travel on the road.

The Jets have 10. And not just a lot of people here, but a few guys being pushed by sports editors to provide clickbait daily – one paper in New York and one in New Jersey come to mind. Not sure the Arizona beat writers have that mission-statement.

I think Rosen and the Jets was a bad idea.

Aside from the three-ring circus media scene, he might be one concussion away from having to make a football career-decision.

Also, I think Rosen, who can be hard to coach, and Jeremy Bates, who was volatile in the past (perhaps this changed during his four-year hiatus away from the NFL), could have turned into a steel-cage match.

Look, Rosen has tremendous talent, but I think Darnold is the better fit in Florham Park.

Because with the media, and off-the-field, he’s boring (and that is meant in a positive way).

July 2, 2018

Premium will return by 9:30 pm on Tuesday.