Should the Jets pull the plug on Justin Fields for Tyrod Taylor?

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00:00Jets fans have hit the point of no return.

00:03They don't want Justin Fields to take the field as the team's QB1 anymore.

00:07Is it Tyrod Taylor time?

00:09So let's talk to Matt O'Leary from the Just Jets podcast

00:12on who he and the fan base wants as a starter for the rest of the season.

00:17Matt, man, I wish I could be coming to you on a little bit more happier terms here.

00:22I appreciate you hopping on with me, my man, but I'm going to get straight into it.

00:26Where do you and the fan base point most of the blame when it comes to the Jets offense

00:31being so bland and so nonproductive?

00:34Offense coordinator Tanner Inkstrand, or are you going with Justin Fields on this one?

00:39I honestly think it's a little bit of both.

00:42I think when you have a young play caller, this is the first time being an NFL play caller,

00:47there's going to be some growing pains.

00:49I think we saw that this past week against the Denver Broncos.

00:52But overall, I think he's done an okay job for Justin Fields.

00:56It just felt like he was second guessing himself in this game.

01:01Took nine sacks is just didn't like what he was seeing out there.

01:05Never really took off and ran either.

01:07And just seemed like on the throws that he was willing to make was late on a lot of those.

01:12So I think it's a combination of the play calling and the quarterback play.

01:15Although from this most recent game against Denver, I think the line held up okay.

01:20But the sack numbers don't look great because Fields was holding on to the ball for nearly four seconds,

01:25which is far too long in the NFL.

01:27I know you've already watched the All-22.

01:29If you go back and watch the last play at the end when he gets sacked, I can't see.

01:35I can't make out who exactly it is.

01:37But one of the offensive linemen are having a fit.

01:41I think it's Membu.

01:42I mean, he's just throwing his arms around.

01:44He looks like he's upset whether it could be because they lost

01:48or it could be because they felt like they held up against that cover zero blitz

01:52and that ball should have been delivered.

01:54So you've got the entire fan base.

01:56You've got people on ESPN, all the talking heads wanting to go to Tyrod Taylor.

02:04Does it make sense to replace Fields with T2 with Garrett Wilson being out for a couple of weeks?

02:10It's like, why do you people think that Tyrod could just come in, wave a magic wand,

02:14and then the offense just poof gets going?

02:18Yeah, you know, this week in particular, I don't think it's going to matter much

02:21if it was Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor with having Garrett Wilson out.

02:25Although I will say in the game against Denver,

02:28I thought maybe they should have made a quarterback change, right?

02:31And that doesn't mean that you can't go back to Justin Fields the following week.

02:35But in the second half, it just felt like he was so gun-shy to try to throw the ball.

02:40And, you know, we talked about the fourth and eighth sack that he took on the play before,

02:44you know, had Garrett Wilson open on a speed route and just gave a late ball.

02:48And unfortunately, it was an incomplete pass.

02:50At least with Tyrod, I feel like he has a more willingness to push the ball down the field

02:55and might take a little bit, you know, make some more mistakes, but isn't afraid to let it rip.

03:00So I thought, you know, maybe coming out of the half, you go to Tyrod Taylor for the fourth quarter

03:05when it was obvious that they weren't moving the ball with Justin Fields,

03:08but not to the point where you're starting Tyrod Taylor for the rest of the season.

03:13I don't think it would make that much of a difference, especially with Garrett Wilson out.

03:16But the way this season's going, it's looking like the Jets are going to be able to pick

03:21the top quarterback or just top player in this draft class coming up.

03:25Let's say it is a quarterback.

03:26The Jets can go up and get one.

03:28I mean, do you and the fan base trust Darren Mouji and Aaron Glenn to draft a quarterback

03:33in the first round next offseason?

03:36I think the jury's still out on it, to be honest with you.

03:39I need to see how the next 11 games go with this coaching staff and regime.

03:44You know, if the draft was today, I think you say no, just based on what we've seen

03:48through the first six weeks of the year, but still a long way to go in this season.

03:53You know, they, at least to their credit, seem to have hit on their first round pick

03:57from a year ago in Armand Membu.

03:59But drafting a quarterback is really hard.

04:01The Jets haven't had much luck trying to find their franchise quarterback over the last few

04:05years.

04:06You know, whether it's Zach Wilson in 2021 or, you know, Sam Donald, who's playing much

04:10better football now, but didn't play well for the Jets when he was drafted in 2018 in

04:15the years that he was here.

04:16So it's not an easy thing to do.

04:18And if they finish this season winless, which right now they're 0-6, it's going to be hard

04:24to justify bringing them back and giving them that option, I think.

04:27You mentioned Zach Wilson and Sam Donald, two quarterbacks that they drafted.

04:31If you throw in Aaron Rodgers and Justin Fields, two guys that they got a free agency, those

04:36guys are kind of struggling.

04:38Two of those guys on that list, like you've mentioned, have gone on to play 50 times better

04:45than what they did while they were wearing green.

04:47So in your opinion, like, why is playing quarterback for the Jets a death trap?

04:54Yeah, I think it's a combination of two things.

04:56One, the coaching, and two, the state of the roster.

04:59I think, you know, with Zach Wilson, they were in a better spot with some of their weapons

05:03after that 2022 draft class.

05:06And some guys just don't have it either.

05:08Like, that's a part of it.

05:09But for Sam, I don't think he had the coaching staff in place, even when, you know, they went

05:15and hired Adam Gase after his rookie season.

05:17And their offensive line was terrible, and they had no playmakers.

05:21So I think that was a big part of the reason for Sam in particular with his struggles.

05:26But for a young quarterback, you want to give him almost a perfect scenario.

05:29You want to have a strong offensive line, some wide receivers that you trust,

05:33a strong running game, and put these guys in a situation for them to have success.

05:38I think the Jets have kind of just thought the last few times that, you know,

05:42we'll find the quarterback and everything else will fall into place.

05:44It doesn't always work out that way.

05:46All right, Matt.

05:46Thanks for hanging out with me, man.

05:48Better days are coming.

05:49I can't promise that, but I hope that.

05:52I hope so, too.

05:53Thank you so much.

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