slammed his chips on the table<\/a> for Ty Simpson.<\/p>\n\u201cI absolutely think they should take Ty Simpson at 16, if he\u2019s there,\u201d Tannenbaum stated. \u201cLook, they\u2019re not going to take him at No. 2; that\u2019s well documented.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Mikey T. said next is when he committed the great sin. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey have four shots on goal: No. 16 (this year) and three (first-round picks) next year,\u201d Tannenbaum added. \u201cWhen you have a productive, high-character quarterback, as you do with Ty Simpson, you absolutely need to take him if you\u2019re the Jets. The verb is scour; you have to keep going until you find one.\u201d<\/p>\n
That, my friends, is precisely the anti-intelligent way to think about today\u2019s NFL. This is no longer the league where a John Elway-type quarterback is required to win a Super Bowl. <\/p>\n
Team, scheme, and coaching<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll ask it again: Of all the so-called \u201cfranchise quarterbacks\u201d in today\u2019s league, which ones are bona fide studs who perform on an annual, consistent basis? How many are there? <\/p>\n
Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes? Sure. Does the oft-injured Joe Burrow still count? I suppose. Does Lamar Jackson still qualify, despite his down season? We can include him. <\/p>\n
Who else? Other than those who\u2019d like to squeeze Super Bowl champion Jalen Hurts into the equation, there aren\u2019t any other names who qualify. <\/p>\n
Caleb Williams is surely on his way, and perhaps Jayden Daniels, and maybe Justin Herbert can one day get there. But the list of stone-cold, consistent franchise quarterbacks who perform on a guaranteed elite level simply does not exist. <\/p>\n
The reality of today\u2019s brand of football makes \u201cteam, scheme, and coaching\u201d the things that matter most at the quarterback position. <\/p>\n
Greg Cosell, one of the few remaining legitimate prospect evaluators in the media, often cites this idea when discussing quarterbacks. And he\u2019s 100% correct. When evaluating NFL draft quarterbacks, it usually boils down to team, scheme, and coaching. <\/p>\n
Quarterback is critical, but it\u2019s not \u2018everything\u2019<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why, when New York Jets fans scream, \u201cNothing matters until my team finds a quarterback,\u201d the shortsightedness feels baffling. <\/p>\n
How in the world does the individual who believes that explain Sam Darnold? Is Darnold, a kid the Jets drafted third overall in 2018, one of those bonafide elite players at the position, who lifted the Seattle Seahawks to greatness? Or was he simply the right quarterback for Klint Kubiak and that Seahawks team? <\/p>\n
The same can be said for the previously mentioned Jalen Hurts, or even Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy. Why would Trevor Lawrence, considered a generational talent, struggle so mightily before Liam Coen showed up in Jacksonville? <\/p>\n
For this Frank Reich-led offense, the question of Simpson at No. 16 or not boils down to the Jets\u2019 evaluation of the player and how he fits their plans. It\u2019s that simple, and anybody attempting to cloud that idea is doing too much. <\/p>\n
If Darren Mougey and the New York Jets love Ty Simpson as a quarterback, they should take him at No. 16. If they only love him enough to trade back into the first round, they should take that tack.<\/p>\n
However, if they\u2019re on the fence in any form or fashion, playing the \u201cshots on goal\u201d game is the worst kind of self-harm. The New York Jets roster is anything but primetime, and today\u2019s National Football League is rapidly morphing into a place where many levels of quarterback play can win a Super Bowl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harken back to Heath Ledger\u2019s Joker battling Batman up in the sky. You remember the scene: The Joker\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,1469,198,3619,7,3228,1507,226,13638,23106,1917,255,2321,2097,6,15,4403,6531,4404,7823,3231,3916,62652,3234,20708],"class_list":["post-837954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-darren-mougey","tag-featured","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-football","tag-free-content","tag-geno-smith","tag-jets","tag-joe-namath","tag-mike-tannenbaum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-ny-jets-coaches","tag-ny-jets-column","tag-ny-jets-executives","tag-ny-jets-image","tag-ny-jets-news","tag-ny-jets-players","tag-richard-todd","tag-standard","tag-ty-simpson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116303875511467715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}