Next year's offseason will surely bring changes to our QB situation, but I see us keeping the status quo until this time next year. Geno is a backup QB bargain under his current deal. Chad Fricken' Henne just signed a 2 year/$8 million deal to be the Jags backup! Keeping Geno frees up $ to be used elsewhere. Sorry Geno Haters, but you've got him for one more year. Petty is still a developmental QB, and keeping Geno around for another year effectively gives Petty another year to develop and another year for the CS and FO to evaluate him ahead of next year's draft. Of course, there is always a chance that Petty overtakes Geno and even Fitz on the depth chart. To me, that's the best case scenario, but I'm not counting on it. Let's let this play out.
Everyone seems to be discounting the elephant in the room, we give Fitz a nice deal and then Geno completely out plays him in camp as seemingly he did last year. Geno is anointed starter and this place breaks the internet
The difference this year will be that Fitz will becoming into camp as the anointed starter, fresh off a new contract.
By this logic you should choose to root for another team Jets owner is a downer who embarrassed our team multiple times and is a reminder of all the awuful things blah blab blah Every team has fuck ups and if you wanna get rid of a backup just because he sucked as starter, it is emotional.
Yeah, the roles are reversed this year. And not likely any of Fitz' team mates are gonna be breaking his jaw.
This was covered earlier, on this thread in fact. The answer depends on just how much truth there is to the FO seeing Petty, already, as an adequate backup. If that is true, then they already have their No. 2, and the one you would really replace Smith with would in the best case scenario be a Qb picked high in the draft. Another scenario, if they are not confident in Petty, is to get a decent vet Qb in FA.
Ideally the Jets find somebody willing to give up a late pick for Geno before/during the draft or this summer. Cutting him seems like a waste of a potential asset. I'll admit I can't see him doing much for the Jets at this point but I hate the idea of getting nothing back for him.
What has been put into Smith as an investment is a sunk cost. It's already gone. It ain't coming back.
Option 1: Petty - why cut Geno before Petty beats him? Why anoint Petty rather than make him earn it in camp? Option 2: Decent FA vet - If you can't give me a name and projected cap cost then you really haven't thought this out rationally. You just want it to happen and reality doesn't work that way. FA's cost money. QB is a premium position that costs a premium price. We have enough holes to fill without needlessly creating another one. If I'm wrong I'll eat my humble pie - but unless Petty beats out Geno - be prepared for another season of Geno carrying the clipboard.
My problem with Geno is that if we were to lose our starting QB I do not trust him to lead this team. Given the choice between the two I would rather roll the dice with Petty. Cutting the cord with Geno gives us someone who can be a competent backup or a young guy we can develop. Cousins was a fourth round pick and was supposed to back up RGIII. Good thing the Skins didn't pass him up to keep an experienced scrub on their bench.
What the fuck are you talking about? Geno didn't throw any INTs in 7 on 7's in shells while Fitz was still rehabbing his broken leg. Big deal. That is "seemingly" to you? Fitz was and is the superior QB and leader of this team. _
I don't normally agree with you, and I'm certainly not a Geno fan but this is spot on. Very well said 'ho
And those guys probably all make 4-5x what Geno makes, and we don't have the cap space for that. Be real.
I'm glad that a couple of you are a voice of calm and reason in the sea of anxiety and rampant emotion.
Mettenberger probably makes 1/2 of what Geno makes but he won't be available for less than a 2nd round pick at a minimum. _
It's so embarassing that he was essentially gifted the starting job at the beginning of the camp and managed to not turn the ball over to maintain the job only to ruin it by being a complete asshat in the locker room. Keeping Geno around keeps pressure off Petty. If Petty out plays him in camp then we can cut Geno with a smile and watch him find his way out of the league in a year or two. There's no way he's as nice of a guy as Charlie Whitehurst either to warrant keeping around the locker room as a shitty backup for a decade.
