in the hunt column in the AFC and they've got a short week
against the resurgent Jaguars here, Zack Wilson after
the game yesterday on whether or not he believes he deserves
a second. Start
this week.
You think you played well enough to deserve another
start? No I think
that's not up to me.
All right.
And for me I think it comes back to How can I
I watch this film, how can I improve
and
can I keep trying to put our offense in the best situation
to win? You know, and I didn't do that today.
Everyone now he's learned he's learned about what to say and
what not to say to press conference because it was his
Defiance a few weeks back that I think greased the skids for
him to be benched. Here's the reality. I said this last night
on football Night In America still true this morning
unlikely that Mike White's going to be able to play,
broken rib, that needs to calcify.
It needs to get sticky. I remember hearing
And reference Donovan McNabb 15 years or so ago. And he had
a broken rib when that rib is fractured. And it tells you how
bad the fracture was, you don't want it to become displaced.
The rib has to hold the process. The natural human
process of bone. Healing needs to happen.
Sufficiently. So that the rib doesn't come loose
and puncture your lung.
That's why he couldn't get clearance to play.
He wanted to play
he would have signed all the paperwork
went to 10 different doctors
and they also Said you can't play. It is funny. I mean
second opinion, third opinion, fourth opinion, fifth opinion
keeps going looking for any doctor,
waiting for the one, Nick Riviera
that's going to say
you can play and nobody would say it. He was yet George
Carlin used to say, there is the worst doctor in America.
And someone has an appointment with him or her tomorrow. So
he couldn't find my quite, couldn't find the guy that
would let him play and
and I don't think he's going to find it by Thursday night. My
understanding is It's not happening by Thursday night,
I don't know that it happened by Sunday, but he's week to week,
and this week coming up Thursday night Jaguars game
unlikely. So it's not whether he deserved it or not Zach
Wilson for a second. Start. It's whether or not my quite,
it's going to be able to play. I mean, it's not, I
don't think Zach Wilson played so poorly. They're going to try
out Joe Flacco. I think it's going to be Wilson, right?
Yeah, it look was that that Wilson made some plays and it
just makes you just kind of giving me the heebie-jeebies
with all
that Rim, talk. I think I'm focused enough to say what
I was going to say now. I mean it, That third, nineteen throw
that he had toward the end of the game. If you want, hope
with Zach Wilson, there's your hope right? I mean he was
able to stand there, find the open man and deliver
an accurate pass, that hit him in-stride. You get the first
down you keep it moving the fourth down, throw that set up
the long field goal attempt.
I mean it's stuffy at 4th and 18. Here it is you know he
rolls to his right avoids the defender and he finds somebody
in the middle of the field. Allah kind of Patrick Mahomes,
right? I mean this is one of those.
You just got to have it, you got to be able to do it, if you
can do it throws and he was able to do it. So I think that
there was some progress from Zach Wells but you still are
also seeing some of the things where
he's taken sacks and probably shouldn't take.
You know, he's not getting rid of the ball quick enough, he's
not seeing the offense is not playing within the Rhythm and
the timing of the offense as we seem like white do.
So there is hope for Zach. Wilson sighs, just
he's not at the level I think. Right now that makes the Jets
particularly dangerous when it comes to their offense on
a consistent down, two down bases.
Well and look, he had the interception
earlier in the game
right now is bad right at the start of the second half, where
it's like, well that's why,
that's why he got benched. You can't have these moments
where you just kind of throw it up for it, like
you completely misread the coverage.
Yes, you, you throw a little
floater that someone's going to have time? To come get like you
don't you don't throw a pass like that, unless you're damn
sure. There's no one that's going to come
over with a shot at it. So
that was just one of those. Yeah. Okay.
Now we know why he's not playing, but but you're writing
did redeem himself light, put them in a position. It says
it's about doors, MetLife, Stadium, 58 yards. I know that
that zuerlein has made some long kicks in his career but
that's a lot that's a lot to ask for
and it used to be used to be 40 was a long kick then.
50 became a long kick, 50, starting to feel automatic. Now
to the point where like a 58 yarder is no longer wing and
a prayer like, well, let's see, let's see if he on, let's see
if he can get it online. I mean, they all have the leg to
do it and he just wasn't able to
get it online and the Jets lose. And
it's it's it's not an easy Road. The rest of the way for
them either.
They need my quite back. They need to hope that they can beat
the Jaguar that that the Jaguars are kind of. Like,
and we've seen this a few times this year. We're a team has one
of those emotional wins and they can't reset
quickly enough. That happened to the Vikings after the Bills
game. 42, 3, they lost to the Cowboys. You just have to hope
the Jaguars
don't come back down to earth, and that the Jets can can grind
something out because the Jets need this one more
I believe. Then the Jaguars, the Jaguars are more alive
right now than the Jets, not that that's dispositive. But
in a short week that mindset,
maybe makes a little bit of a difference will find out
in only three days
we will. Yeah, and I think you're kind of right. I mean,
just based on the way things have gone with the Titans, you
know, and the fact that the Titans offense of personnel is
an absolute mess right now. And there are plenty of reasons for
that. But you
know, when you see AJ Brown
doing what he's doing in Philadelphia, you're like huh,
I guess he I used to play for the Titans and you know,
the Jaguars are surging, the Jets the kind of floundering
a little bit. We'll see what happens on Thursday night, but
it is a big game
for both teams and I know, look the players say, they don't
peek ahead on the schedule, but the reality is the Titans play
this week, they've got the Texans, they should be able to
win, although the Texans had become
in a couple of straight losses, a much better team than we had
thought they were, but then, it's a Thursday night game for
the Titans, against the Dallas Cowboys, who are
who knows who the data. The Dallas Cowboys may feel
Patiently locked into the five seed by then that
they may not, they may not even
put their best foot forward. They may try to rest some of
their guys if we're getting to a weird point in the year
where, you know, used to be
teams that had the 1 seed
and the 2 seed, back when the two-seat had a by attached to
it, they would, they would call off the dogs and take it easy
and rest rest starters. And I still got a few more to use,
but
now you're starting to see like teams get to a spot where we
really can improve our position. Mission on this
playoff tree. We're kind of
locked into this spot,
so maybe we rest our starters
now. So, it's just some weird Dynamics coming up the past few
weeks that could influence some of these other Playoff races,
but we shall see,
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