Well theoretically your statement is correct, but Barkley has literally only won two games in seven years and has been out of the league on two separate occasions because he couldn't make a team. I'd like to shoot a bit higher for a different Matt like the Moore variety.
Our chances of having a real QB through the draft go way up if the team stops taking guys who are risky picks high in the draft. However if they choose to keep doing this we're not dead yet. The Jets can *choose* not to rush the guy into the starters role prematurely, stunting whatever his growth potential is in the process. It takes a series of mistakes to do what the Jets have been doing for the last thirteen years. We are on iteration 3 of the same sequential mistakes. We trade up twice for a guy we'd have been better taking if they fell to us naturally and then we could not accept that this draft had one really high potential guy in it and he was locked on the #1 pick. It's a process and we have it all wrong.
Let me summarize the past month of your posts. JD thinks Wilson will be a franchise QB and ready to play right away. You don’t. The history of the Jets has nothing to do with JDs choice being right or wrong.
I disagree with the idea that a QB has to sit at least a year. I have no issues whatsoever in starting a rookie QB on day 1. As was mentioned above regarding the Peyton Manning interception statistic, it is an entirely different league today, one where rookie QBs start often: Joe Burrow Tua Tagovaiola Justin Herbert Kyler Murray Daniel Jones Baker Mayfield Josh Allen Carson Wentz etc. etc. I do not think the issue is starting a rookie, it is starting a rookie with no help around him and choosing the wrong rookie. You can claim that we have done things wrong again, but I disagree. We have made huge strides forward in offensive talent and the offensive line for him. The question is whether Wilson was the right pick, which I believe he was.
