As we do this, we don't know who the starting quarterback
for the Jets is going to be weird. What do you think on
Wednesday? Do you think that tells you? I mean that to me
would mean that I would think that means they're going to
stick with Zach Wilson
but I don't know.
I think that this is
this entire exercise,
it's an effort to both humble
and mature. I think so tells
I think you're right. Let's
let's make him spend a couple days thinking he's lost his
job. Right. Let's see how he deals with it. If he's a punk,
maybe we will set him down.
If he shows signs of accountability,
you know, you learn a lot from somebody and how they handle
adversity.
Do they blame others or do they take that as the wake up?
Up call that the Jets desperately need him
to answer. So I was on radio in Miami earlier today between our
morning show in doing this and it came up and that's when it
kind of crystallized for me.
This is a test. Yeah
of Zach will see the poker and the and let's see
if he passes it and let's see if spending a day or two
thinking about what may come and I think they're going to
get it. No matter how he reacts
they're going to give him one more chance.
We're going. They're going to give me one more chance
and if he's They're too because we're not going to throw
the guy away
based on one day and, as you've said, who the hell was open?
What was he supposed to do with the football, but this is
the shot across the bow at Zach Wilson that. If you don't grow
up quick, you are going to be on the bench. Yeah.
III think it is going to be him. Yeah, I think it is going
to be him. I agree with you. Yeah, I would think so too.
I think we had a heard the rumors if it was somebody else break
out yesterday,
you know if they decide to go with Flacco or my quite or whoever
you would have start to hear things.
Breakout on form the name, right? They've informed
the time Wilson they've been in for back, right. And then agent has
found out now and I was told Chef t or somebody. That's
where I'm with you. And I think it was really kind of a shot
across the bow to almost everybody in the offensive
side of the ball,
you know? Yeah. Zach Wilson, certainly wasn't great. We know
that there was issues, but I mean, man, that mean it was,
I mean, if we're going to hold him to that standard, then we
got to re-evaluate everybody on the offense because they were
all s*****. I mean everybody, so and you know
there's a lot of issues that's all it said.
s***. Yeah, it was all said, they could block anybody in
the Run game. They couldn't protect. They dropped passes.
They ran some wrong routes.
Yeah, so there was a lot of issues there, but Zach Wilson.
Certainly got to grow up and mature. Like you're like,
you're saying, all right? So how do you see this going? What
do you think?
I'm going to play it that just and feel just playing right
now. That's what I'm going to go. I'll give a little what
I think will happen either way, but I'm going to pick this game
as in, as in he's playing.
See, I don't think Fields is playing even though he doesn't
have a dislocated non-throwing shoulder. The fact that we
don't know anything about it, tells me that they are trying
to do the
Jedi mind trick with the Jets to make that defense, think
they're going to see Fields when they're actually going to
see Simeon. And even if they see Fields Fields has been
electric Fields, has been Dynamic field, has been
spectacular and they can't win.
They're like one in five, isn't it one in five of the last six
games and then it fine and but since he's doing good,
everybody's backed off the Bears. All the It public
attention
to that situation,
you know, I feel like the Bears hat fans were were more unhappy
earlier in the year when they were winning a football, few
football games and Justin Fields, wasn't looking good
as compared to now. We're
yeah, they're not winning. But I guess they're seeing
the future a little bit and gone. Wait, if he can do this we can
build around it. And watch what happens then and I understand
that but it's it's amazing. What using the talents of your
quarterback can do to your franchise
Even then I think the Jets win 1710 regardless of who
the quarterback is for either team. I think the Jets win
the defense is too good and the Bears have have not shown me
anything since they beat
the Patriots when they had that 11 days to realize,
let's use Justin Fields deliberately as a runner, not just when
the past play that we've called falls apart. So what's your
score for this one? Yeah, I'm 1710 jet. I'm gonna go 22:17
Jets, you know that, and that's what I'll stick by, for sure.
I will. We'll say that. If it's Trevor Simeon, I'd probably
would go
2410 Jets somewhere along those lines. But to your point,
the Jets defense,
it's too good, they're too fast. They keep eight. People
at the line of scrimmage all the time
I would have a hard time thinking. Even the healthy
Justin feels that that run game are his Run. Game is just going
to, you know, blow up or you know, be amazing. Like it has
been the last two weeks.
I think this will be a tough dish would be a tougher test
for that to work. And the Bears defense as we know, it's
nothing special, it's not and that would be one reason, you
know, one, hey you're 5 and 2 is Zach Wilson in the
two losses being against the same team. That's dominated you
for the last two decades. All right, but this is a game
where, for a Young quarterback you might have the opportunity
to gain some confidence and get something going here.
You know, we're talking about a team that's in the playoffs
with a quarterback. That's five and two
and a bad game up in New England. Who's made what how
many quarterbacks look bad over the last? Years and the fan
base wants the bench, the quarterback. And I know it
hasn't been pretty
but it's a style of football. They're opting to play as well.
Like, we talked about yesterday the Jets are opting to play,
2013, Seattle, Seahawks football. That's what they're
doing.
So it's never gonna look that pretty.
But I'll go with the, just the win this no matter what.
And look, this is the one to help Jack Wilson, build some
confidence because next week they go to Minnesota so it
makes sense
to try to get him back on the right track here.
Get him to show some maturity
get him to properly connect with his teammates in
the locker room and then move forward. They continue to be 6
and 4 and very much in the playoff Chase. Now we have to
go back
and we have to fix some of our work
because Chris Zach Wilson has been benched. Wow her shift.
Wow, the team has been informed. I don't know. It's
impressive. They held it. Until today,
the team has been informed. That Zach Wilson is being benched
no word on who's starting. I assume it's my quite, but who
the hell knows at this point. So I'm assuming that folks will
paste together for the individual, you know, game
previews.
What we're saying now, with, what we said earlier,
how does this change? This is one of the rare instances
where, even though the hand is off the checkered, we can put
the the hand back on the Checker and move it, if we are
so inclined, are you inclined to change your pick?
Now that we know the exact Wilson's not playing, I don't
think I am. I don't, you know, again, they're not a team that
plays through the quarterback. Anyways, you know, they want to
run the ball. They want to play defense, they want
the quarterback to make
three or four throws within the for
the football game. To get them over the hump.
That's why I'm a little surprised that Wilson had been
doing that and I know, but yeah, it also takes your point
and what you've said all along and I agree with you. It seems
like it's more of an almost, an attitude leadership thing
involved in this conversation as well.
But having said, all of that, I'd probably I'm still going to
go Jets, 20 bear, 17. I'm not going to change it.
I'm going to stick with mine as well. I see the name straggler
is trending on Twitter right now. There are fans calling for
the Jets to go with him. The former Grey Cup with the Jets
are always trust their Jets. Fans are always rooting for.
The
guy, that's not good to where they can stay loserville.
They like loserville, they want chaos.
They want chaos.
And here's my theory. Here's my theory. Since it didn't come
out until today.
I think that
your theory of what you've explained early life,
I think that That he did not react. Well
to the news that he may be losing his job, that maybe got
a little pissy
with somebody. Maybe, you know, slammed a door acted, like
a punk and they said fine, you just you just wrote your own
ticket to the bench. I really think that because this is
something that should have come out yesterday if he was getting
benched
they would have told somebody yesterday. What a come out
yesterday. I think they wanted to see how he dealt with it
and they decided, you know what
it's time because it
There you go. When is this happened? That
a top to pick gets benched in his second season. When he's
five and two this year as you've said. So I think there's
more to it. And I think this is about maturity or lack thereof,
accountability or lack thereof and proper reaction to
adversity
or lack thereof. But I'm still sticking with 1710. This is
the kind of thing. You can pull the team together. There's enough
guys in that locker room. Yeah, that that were upset with how
he acted
they come together and they were
Rally around whoever, whether it's my quite Joe Flacco, Chris
traveler, a John Joe Namath? I don't care or John Namath is
the case. Maybe there's probably someone out there
named John Namath and maybe he's available.
So anyway, I'll stick with 1710. Who did that? They say
stick with said, we heard who they're going to go with here.
I haven't seen who. Wow, that's interesting. Which is make
which, which is an,
which is another, we need to go to break, but that's another
little block that supports. The idea that this is more about
anti Zach Wilson, get him out. We'll worry about
We're going to go from here, but they got practice today
in advance of. Yeah, it's on these games. Whoever it's going
to be presumably. My quite well, we'll find out soon
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