Geno is our starting QB and having a solid veteran behind him to step in should something happen IS the way you build a team.
Good points. You're only going to seek out someone to play backup Qb if you are set at the starter. Perhaps Smith's mom want no competition for him, but I am not sure why anyone else should want none. And the Sanchez analogy is too much for me. Exactly - why let Smith coast when we saw how problematic that approach was with Muck?
I agree with this. If we start the season 5-2 and Geno then goes into a tailspin and we lose 3 in a row. We want to have a guy that can step in and play and salvage the season.
I think sometimes people have a tendency to give to much credit to one particular player. Andre Johnson is a great receiver, but i'm not giving him all the credit for Schaub's success. I went back and looked at just basic stats through game logs on Pro Football Reference and Schaub still put together some very solid games when Andre Johnson wasn't on the field. If we bring Schaub in and give some talent to work with on offense, I feel pretty confident that if he became our starting QB he could at the very least a decent job for us.
i would love this move personally. Geno is our #1 and a good vet back up that can step in is huge. Not to mention he has been to multiple pro bowls. I wouldn't trade for him but if he's cut (probable) i would be all over it.
While the second sentence here may take us off on a tangent, how can anyone have a problem with the rest of this statement?
idk... maybe its just the idea of rooting for matt schaub if he beats out Geno in a QB comp or a Geno injury just doesnt sit well with me. Im not a fan of him always felt he and the texans offense was overrated.. I'd like Jason Campbell if he's available
You're right. Schaub isn't Vinny. I let my disgust for Vinny color my response. I said it because that one great year earned Vinny a number of more years as a starter, and he always shot the Jets in the foot with his stupid play. In the mean time, following the 2000 draft he kept a better QB (Chad on the bench). Chad still may have gotten injured, or maybe he would have stayed healthy and the Jets won, but I was ready for anyone at QB other than Vinny. I couldn't stand the sight of him. He took a couple of years of Chad's or another QB's career away. At any rate, as long as they don't have to trade for Schaub (aside from Sanchez and no picks), I have no problem with their bringing him in.
I totally disagree with the second sentence. We got 4 years bad QB play because I think the Jets took the wrong player, had the worst QB Coach in the NFL, one of the worst OCs, and an idiotic rookie HC who had no clue about offense or how to handle a QB, and who made it all worse by predicting a SB. I was never a fan of Sanchez. He only started one year. In spite of that he did play pretty well on occasion and made me reconsider my opposition to him. Maybe with a HC who had a clue what he was doing, and who would have hired a quality QB Coach and OC who knew how to develop young QBs, Sanchez could have developed. At that time almost no underclass QB had ever succeed in becoming a quality starter in the NFL. I remember reading an article at the time that spelled out the statistics and named names. In addition, all the "experts" said that Sanchez needed to sit for at least a year if not two. THOSE are the reasons the Jets got horrible QB play for 4 years, not that Sanchez didn't have any competition.
So what exactly happens when Sanchez agrees to stay for cheap and then beats out both Geno and Schaub for the starting job?
Gotta agree. Seems people write first and think. Either that or they have impossibly high standards for the roster. We aren't gonna snag Aaron Rodgers and get Payton to back him up, plus sign a bunch of free agents. Ya gotta work with what ya got. That means limited choices, money, talents, etc. And anyway, I don't see how Schaub is any worse than what we have been living with. Either he will push Geno to greatness or he will push him out. I don't see how either scenario is bad.
