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New Jersey – It’s now pretty apparent what is going on this year. That was made pretty apparent by Marty Mornhinweg today . . .
“We need to develop Geno,” Marty Morhinweg said today.
There you go.
I thought that was what last year was about, but clearly it’s also what this year is about.
“Sometimes you have to go through some bad stuff to become great,” Mornhinweg said. “We’re right in the middle of that process and that learning curve.”
So this is about Geno’s learning curve.
I’m kind of surprised to hear this.
I thought this year was about the Jets getting back to the playoffs, after missing the second-season three straight years.
But while they’d obviously like to win, that clearly isn’t the only goal.
“Look we are right in the middle of developing a young quarterback now,” Morhinweg said. “And, we did that last year, we did that last year for a half, we’re over that now, we’re moving. So we are right in the middle of developing a young quarterback. We discuss this, we are going to go through some ups and downs now. When you go through a little bit, you have to motor through it. You have to be pretty tough mentally, and we all have to do that together.”
Oh, I see. This isn’t just Rex and Marty, but David Harris, Calvin Pace, Nick Mangold, D’Brickashaw Ferguson, Willie Colon and so forth, they have to “motor through it.”
This is about “developing a young quarterback.”
“We need to develop Geno,” said Morhinweg. “Listen, Geno is going to be just fine. We are going to go through some ups and downs. We have to motor through the dips.”
First of all, you could make an argument that is unfair to the fans who pay $100 a ticket plus PSL fees.
Are you paying to see a team strive to get to Arizona at the end of the season, or to watch the growing pains of the GM’s hand-picked quarterback?
This isn’t the NBADL.
And here the thing, and I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, they have no idea whether, “Geno is going to be just fine.”
Or that he’s now going through “some bad stuff to become great,”
Nobody knows whether he’s going to be “fine” or he’s going through this stuff right now to become “great.”
No idea.
This is just wishful thinking.
The NFL wayside is loaded with young quarterbacks, given two or three years to develop, and the team had nothing to show for it but a lot of losses. Time doesn’t guarantee anything.
Hey, this could turn out well, but the Jets decision-makers don’t know that.
John Idzik is clearly trying to have his cake and eat it to – win and also develop his quarterback.
Considering how difficult the Jets schedule is, especially early on, can this be accomplished?
It’s going to be very tough.
But I appreciate Mornhinweg providing the type of clarity that we haven’t been given up until this point.
So much of what they are doing at One Jets Drive this year is about developing Smith.
September 25, 2014
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