Florham Park – Jets owner Woody Johnson caused a stir at an NFL meeting in Manhattan on Tuesday when he said about the team’s QB Justin Fields – “If you look at any HC with a QB like that, you’re gonna see similar results.”
Johnson added, “The defense is pretty good. If we can just complete a pass, it would look good.”
So Johnson is playing the long game, throwing all his support behind his head coach, Aaron Glenn, whom he just gave a lucrative five-year deal to, and blaming his team’s short-term struggles on the QB.
And you could certainly make the argument that the team has not been getting the best QB play during their 0-7 start.
However, wasn’t Glenn one of the people who spearheaded the signing of Fields, who had a 14-30 record over his first four years in the league?
Look, teams miss on QB draft picks and signings all the time. This isn’t anything new.
However, to cut Aaron Rodgers, who has 14 TDs for the 4-2 Steelers, and decide to go with Fields, who was somewhat inconsistent over his first four years in the league, couldn’t you argue that being 0-7 is a tad self-inflicted?
Glenn will likely hit the reset button at QB next year, perhaps picking somebody like Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza V or Alabama’s Ty Simpson in the first round.
But you could argue that making the coach a victim now, because his hand-picked QB isn’t playing well under the guidance of his hand-picked first-time NFL offensive coordinator, is an eclectic argument. Doesn’t the coach have some culpability in that?
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