Whispers – Harvin and more . . .

Premium – Never a dull moment with the Jets, even at 1-6. They always keep things interesting, as they did today with the Percy Harvin trade.

Obviously Seattle wanted him the heck out of there. They didn’t like his attitude or price-tag. He’s also very injury-prone.

The first word that came into my head when I heard about this trade was “pandering.”

We keep hearing from fans and reporters that the Jets lack of weapons is hurting their offense, and their young quarterback.

As you know, I don’t subscribe tho that theory – quarterbacks make receivers, receivers don’t make quarterbacks.

Brian Hoyer who is on fire in Cleveland, is throwing to the likes of Ryan Benjamin, Taylor Gabriel and Andrew Hawkins.

Weapons don’t make quarterbacks read defenses better, or improve their accuracy and pocket presence.

The “weapons lobby,” as I call it, is misguided if they think Harvin is going to transform Smith’s game.

He might help a little, but weapons can’t wave a magic wand over a quarterback, and make weaknesses magically go away . . .

Clearly the Jets don’t have much of a chance to make the playoffs.

That is obvious.

But I’d be absolutely shocked if the Jets lost to the Bills a week from Sunday.

Shocked.

First of all the Bills aren’t that good.

After starting out the season running the ball well, that part of their team has gone south in recent weeks. In fact, they haven’t rushed for over 100 yards in the last four games.

The Jets have to be pretty bitter that the Bills are 3-3, and they are 1-6. The Bills aren’t better than the Jets.

Look at it this way. The Patriots blew out the Bills on the road in Buffalo, and the Jets came close to beating New England in Foxboro.

I know it’s little consolation, but it would be shocking if the Jets don’t beat the Bills to break their losing streak . . .

Here is the obvious bottom line about the 2014 Jets.

With their current quarterback, who is learning on the job, and is pretty inconsistent, they can compete and/or beat the Oakland’s, Buffalo’s, Kansas City’s, Minnesota’s of the league – the teams without top-shelf quarterbacks.

But when their developing quarterback has to go toe-to-toe with big-time quarterbacks, they are behind the eight ball.

It’s hard for Geno to keep up the Jones right now.

So this six game stretch they just finished, losing six games in a row to six good quarterbacks, was something their maturing, raw quarterback wasn’t ready to deal with.

So while the Jets are a major, major long-shot for the playoffs, expect them to make a lot of hay over the second half of the season, facing a coterie of teams with average quarterbacks.

But the biggest concern Jets fans should have, is that the brass will perhaps overrate what they do against beatable teams, and think their quarterback, or their team overall, is better than it is, entering the off-season, which seemed to be the case after their “run” last December.

And this will lead to the wrong mindset entering the off-season.

October 17, 2014

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