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New Jersey – In today’s edition of “Behind the Jets,” we look at John Idzik’s decision to stick with Geno Smith along with other items . . .
Antonio Allen, who is a really nice guy, told a reporter to get away from him today.
He’s clearly ticked off at Rex Ryan and John Idzik deciding to bench him in favor of Ed Reed a few weeks ago, and move that clearly hasn’t worked out that well.
But they aren’t going to bench a legend like Reed.
There just not going to do it.
But you all can certainly understand why Allen is in a bad mood these days.
He was a player on the rise, who had the plug pulled on him, for an aging player, on the decline, brought in mid-season . . .
Rex Ryan keeps talking about protection issues hurting Geno Smith.
Well if that is the case, then why isn’t he making some line-up changes?
I asked him today if the struggling Brian Winters was going to start at left guard this week, and he laughed.
I wasn’t cracking a joke. I was asking a legitimate question.
How are you going to improve the supposed protection issues, if you don’t try some new people?
That doesn’t make a lot of sense . . .
Idzik has decided to stick with Smith at quarterback.
Yes, I said Idzik.
He’s clearly deciding who is going to play, and Rex is going along because he’s trying to save his job.
When Rex said today in his press conference that Smith gives us his team “the best chance to win,” I almost choked on my iced tea.
How can he say that with a straight face?
This isn’t about “best chance to win.”
It’s clear, at this stage of the game, that developing Idzik’s draft class is priority #1 in Florham Park.
When Ryan made the announcement at the beginning of his presser that he’s sticking with Smith, a reporter noticed, listening back at the tape, that he said, “we” decided, and then corrected himself to say “I” decided real quick.
This is all about Idzik.
Rex is in survival mode.
I was told by a league source, that Idzik intends on making a lot more changes to the football operation after the season, so you have a lot people doing what they can to keep their jobs – trying to stay in good stead with the Jets’ football czar – Idzik . . .
Ed Reed saw the media in the locker room, and turned back around and left saying, “Bleep no,” to talking.
Reed’s decision to sign with the Jets, what a bad one for him, and the team.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense, any way you slice it . . .
Why on earth would the Jets announce their starting quarterback today? Why not wait until Wednesday and make Oakland prepare for two quarterbacks, which takes up a lot of extra time, with all the extra film study?
Clearly this came from Idzik also.
Smith is his guy, so why even create the storyline that there is any question he’s going to start? . . .
What a humiliation to David Garrard – buried on the depth chart behind two inexperienced, struggling quarterbacks, and he’s not even in the conversation.
That has to stick in his craw.
He claims he’s healthy and ready to roll – I have asked him about his health and conditioning four times in the last week. But clearly Idzik has him pigeonholed in strictly a mentor role.
How’s the mentoring thing working out?
I’m not blaming Garrard, but Smith has been pretty bad since David was brought in to replace Brady Quinn as the mentor.
This mentor stuff is so overrated.
Garrard can talk to Smith until the cow’s come home, but he can’t go out there and be his eyes, read defenses for him, be accurate for him, and so forth.
Just like Mark Brunell couldn’t do that for Mark Sanchez . . .
December 2, 2013
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