Phoenix – Geno Smith is going to be the Jets’ starting QB this season, Aaron Glenn announced at the NFL Owners’ meeting in Phoenix on Sunday.
“No doubt about it,” Glenn told NFL Network. “He’s our guy.”
One year ago, at the NFL’s owner meeting in Palm Beach, Darren Mougey announced that Justin Fields would be the Jets’ starting QB.
What led Glenn to the decision to anoint Smith the starter in March?
“Listen, he’s done it, you know, a couple of years. I mean, those years in Seattle, when he was, I think, Comeback Player of the Year. Man, he was up for MVP early in the season,” Glenn said.
But he wasn’t the MVP when the season ended.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we brought a competent starter here on this team,” Glenn said.
Time will tell. During his three years as Seattle’s full-time starter from 2022-24, he was 27-22.
Last year in Las Vegas, he was 2-13, leading the Raiders to trade him to the Jets this offseason.
Some might have argued the Jets should have brought in another veteran QB to compete with Smith for the starting job.
But Glenn isn’t going to do that.
No QB competition last year.
No QB competition this year.
Perhaps Glenn wants to avoid doing that and creating a three-ring circus, with things like foolish comparative QB practice stats being published every day.
Glenn’s the boss, and he can handle this QB thing anyway he’d like, and for the second year in a row, he made his QB decision in March.
And that is his right.
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