I think all the young QB's should now have eight games behind a shitty line and a lost season. If they cannot win at least 4, then draft another QB immediatly and cut the bastard.
Again Folks, Most of you people who are so willing to call Clemens a bust I believe are not seeing the whole picture. Something that has yet to be talked about in this whole debate is how and why he was chosen in the first place. Also of who was picked in that 2006 draft by the Jets. Brick, 4th pick in the first round, a lot of folks on this board have said that for where he was picked and his play the first year, after that year was thru, he was a bust..... Reaility, he needed time to develop and he got it by playing every snap since he got here. Today, solid third season after a shakey second playing next to a LG he was forced to help do to that LG's lack of talent. Third season next to a vet pro bowl guard and you get the LT he was projected to be.. Nick Mangold, 29 pick in the first round, from Denver via Atlanta Solid as a rock coming out of college, a rare player who made the transistion to the pro's look easy, we know it was not. Able to improve his skill level by starting every game since being drafted. Again, a shakey second year due to the lack of overall talent along the Jets offensive line that year. Third year elected to the 2009 Pro Bowl because of the improvments made by the Jets thru free agency. Kellen Clemens 49 overall pick 17 pick in the second round and first QB slected in the second round. Fourth QB taken up to that point behind V.Young, Matt Leinard, and Jay Cutler. Well we all now know that Vince Young may have been a reach, Matt Leinart is still a question, and Jay Cutler is a budding star. The only guy out of this QB class who really has not been given a fair shot is Clemens and to a lesser extent Leinart. Now if you take into consideration the broken leg Clemens suffered as a Sr. and the stats he had before that, the odds are he would have been gone long before the Jets had a shot at him. Matter of fact he may have been the second QB taken in the first round behind Young. None of these other QB's had to start under the stressful conditions and poor offensive line play that Clemens was force in to. He was taking over a 1 & 7 team that a fomer MVP and comeback player of the year could get nothing going with. Playing in the biggest NFL market with a press and fan base that was going to put him under a microscope. An what did he do, he proceeded to take that same team that the seasoned vet could do nothing with and get 3 wins. If you factor in a few passes that were dropped, passes that were delivered right on the money, it should have been 5 wins. Then bring into play the game against NE where he was leveled on the first series and knocked out of the game by that same shit offensive line. A hit mind you, that would have ended many a QB seasons and maybe a few careers, which he took and played the following week, what do you have. You have a rookie starter who by all rights and better support by his WR's should have gotten to 5-1-1 and had a winning % for his first time under center as a pro. This is the same QB all you folks want to discard and call a bust and throw out with the camp fodder. This kid was screened, poked, inspected, tested, check, looked at, surveyed, and double checked. This by the same group of talent evauluators who from that draft chose Brick, Mangold, Clemens, B.Smith, E. Smith, A. Schlegel, L. Washington, J. Pociask, D. Coleman, T. Adams. Now expect for Schlegel who was just a very poor pick in the third round, Adams & Posiask who were cut all of these players made the active roster. Two of these players Washington and Mangold made the Pro Bowl this year. Yet, the common thread for all these players on the active roster is they all have more game time experience then Clemens and a few don't even come near him in talent B.Smith, E. Smith, D. Coleman. We have seen these three extensively and can judge fairly where they fit or don't fit in the overall picture for the NY Jets. No friends I say we must find out what we have in Clemens before he becomes our Steve Young and we loss him to Free Agency next year and he comes back and bites us in the ass for years to come. I tell you, if you look at the first two picks of Brick & Nick then you must see the odds are in favor of Clemens being just what he was projected to be all along, a very good starter for the Jets for years to come...
You could be right but why could he not beat out Chad in camp ? which is what the media was saying the coach wanted.
Chad is a good QB and has been to God knows how many training camps. Barring something completely unnatural though I think Favre would have been brought in either way.
