Klubnik has had a strong training camp<\/a> and seems the likely choice to be Smith\u2019s backup, but there is still a chance that general manager Darren Mougey and coach Aaron Glenn seek a veteran through a trade or a waiver claim.\u00a0<\/p>\nOne thing offensive coordinator Frank Reich said he is not worried about is the lack of a veteran quarterback to help Smith along.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jets quarterback Geno Smith practices at training camp in Florham Park, N.J. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
Jets quarterback Cade Klubnik has played well this preseason. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, we\u2019ve got [QB coach] Bill Musgrave in that room, I\u2019m in that room,\u201d Reich said. \u201cSo, Geno has some seasoned quarterbacks in the room with him. <\/p>\n
\u201cCade is, you know, listen, whatever decision\u2019s going to be made will be made and that\u2019ll be made by A.G. and [Mougey], right? But Cade has done well. He\u2019s done well and it\u2019s a really good dynamic in that room. It\u2019s a really good dynamic in that room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jets quarterback Bailey Zappe throws during practice. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
Klubnik played longer against the Steelers last week. It is unclear how much he will play Friday. Reich praised his play in Pittsburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s extremely poised,\u201d Reich said. \u201cI mean, probably my favorite play for him in the game was when we were backed up and we drop back in the pocket and he\u2019s in the end zone, and we called something to the right that I thought was going to be a get it out, quick thing, and they covered it, and so he had to progress all the way back to the No. 3 guy on the backside, and man, he just looked extremely poised in the pocket. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s hard to do for a quarterback in the NFL. Standing in the end zone, No. 1\u2019s not open, No. 2\u2019s not open, \u2018OK, let me work back here to No. 3 and I\u2019m standing in the end zone.\u2019 He did it like he\u2019s been doing it for years, so that was probably, for him, my favorite play. So, he\u2019s made good progress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets will get a long look at their backup quarterbacks Friday night against the Giants.\u00a0 Starting quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":985187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[6089,5385,7,1507,519,1917,56,255,2321,2469,6,9],"class_list":["post-985186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-bailey-zappe","tag-cade-klubnik","tag-football","tag-geno-smith","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117171294295476170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985186","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=985186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}