One former NFL GM feels if you have “any sense of football intelligence” you can’t keep playing him.
While most of Zach Wilson’s struggles aren’t his fault, for myriad reasons like being rushed into action before he was ready, more than once, one long-time NFL executive feels the Jets have to make a QB change right now.
“There is no way you can keep playing him, there is just no way,” said former NFL GM Mike Lombardi on VSIN. “If you have any sense of intelligence when it comes to football and you watch the tape, there is no way you can keep playing him.”
After breaking down the tape of Wilson’s performance in the Jets’ 15-10 loss to New England on Sunday, Lombardi said, “Wilson held the ball, he was unsure, he really didn’t know what to do with the football, he took sacks that he shouldn’t have taken and when he did throw the ball, he wasn’t accurate.”
And Lombardi thinks it’s hard to sell Wilson to the Jets’ locker room anymore.
“It’s not a comfortable situation for anybody in that locker room.,” Lombardi said. “They can’t sell it to their locker room. [The players] know. Those guys know.”
While recently signed journeyman QB Trevor Siemian isn’t a star, Lombardi feels the Jets need to get him in the lineup ASAP.
“[Siemian] gives them at least somebody who can be accurate and make a quicker decision,” Lombardi said.
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