00:00It is potentially his one and only year, like a one and done for Justin Fields with the Jets, his tenure here.
00:06Would that happen?
00:09Yeah, I think so.
00:10I think it feels that way now, Ryan.
00:11I get it's a big number to eat next year, but they can make a post-June 1 and split it up.
00:18It's hard for me to envision him as the guy they want as the backup for whoever they draft,
00:25and I'm assuming they draft a quarterback, just for a few reasons.
00:30I don't think he's the veteran guy you want to teach in your quarterback.
00:34He just hasn't had success in the NFL.
00:35So what does Justin Fields know?
00:38You know what I mean?
00:38I'd rather have a guy who's been around a little bit, had a little success,
00:42and he doesn't strike me as a great leader.
00:46I've covered a lot of quarterbacks getting benched over 15 years, right?
00:50You guys can go through the numbers.
00:53I can't remember ever a guy getting benched and refusing to speak to reporters the day he was benched,
00:57and that might be a little thing to people, and they might not care,
01:00but to me it's a tell that you're not really a leader.
01:05To me, you stand up, you answer the questions.
01:07We're never going to talk to him again after that if he doesn't play.
01:10We're going to leave him alone, but you've got to do it that day.
01:13Even Zach Wilson, for all the slings and arrows he took, he did it when he got benched.
01:17So that kind of stood out to me.
01:19And then the other thing is just his play style.
01:21I don't know if he's conducive to being a backup quarterback, right?
01:25Because you're probably not going to have a starter who plays like him.
01:28And now, like, do you have to change the whole offense if he has to come in?
01:32I think you'd rather just have a guy who's more of a traditional dropback quarterback as your backup.
01:38It makes sense, guys.
01:40And it's something interesting you point out,
01:42that the fact that he hasn't spoken to the media after getting benched.
01:44But I will say this, though.
01:47And we're recording this Friday morning.
01:48He might talk today.
01:49He might talk today.
01:50We have a locker room today.
01:51Yeah.
01:51But even like you said, though.
01:52I was kind of surprised he didn't talk.
01:54He was in the locker room Wednesday and just didn't want to talk to us.
01:56Yeah.
01:57I mean.
01:58And people might say, oh, well, you know, leave him alone.
02:01He got benched.
02:02But it's part of the job.
02:04It's part of the gig.
02:05You know, and you're getting a lot of money.
02:08And we're holding tape recorders, not guns.
02:11So it's not that hard.
02:12No, I agree with you, guys.
02:13But it's also been brewing.
02:14It's been brewing him to get a bench because how bad he's been this year.
02:18And ultimately, this is something we have to play Monday morning quarterback a little bit with.
02:23Like it's the move that the Jets made in the offseason to go for Justin Fields as their starting quarterback,
02:29giving him $40 million.
02:31I mean, how much critique does Glenn and Mugi deserve for choosing this as their starting quarterback option in year one?
02:41Frank, you want to take that one?
02:42Yeah, I mean, listen, it was a bad move.
02:48Was it catastrophically bad?
02:50Is it a make or break move?
02:52It's the worst passing offense in the NFL.
02:55Yeah, but Ryan, what was the upside with anybody else really?
02:59I mean, listen.
02:59Better than the worst quarterback performance in the NFL.
03:02Like, am I crazy right now?
03:04Like, this is what I'm saying, guys.
03:06Like, they chose Justin Fields, a guy who had led some of the worst passing offenses in the last couple years.
03:12And now, when the same thing repeats for your team, you should have known it was coming.
03:18And for you to choose this as your option, it's negligent.
03:22And frankly, you deserve a lot of criticism for thinking you could fix the problem.
03:27So, I have serious doubt in this leadership group to pick the right quarterback because they thought Justin Fields was the right option this year.
03:35He clearly was not the right quarterback option.
03:38You saw it in training camp.
03:39And it's just, it's, I don't care, man.
03:42Like, you were negligent this year and chose to go with that.
03:46Yeah.
03:47You know what?
03:48You're right to a degree.
03:49I think I can meet you a little bit more on your side.
03:53I knew this guy stunk from day one.
03:56We spoke about it on this show.
03:57He was never somebody that they were going to put together in offense with those, you know, weapons and that amateur staff on offense.
04:04It never made sense.
04:05My whole point back to you is my issue with what they did with the quarterback was not bringing a young kid behind him that could soak up what Tanner Engstrand was putting together.
04:15And then maybe we're having a real conversation about putting a rookie in, not a UDFA that has no right to be playing in their rookie year.
04:24That's the only, that's the only place I'm coming from, right?
04:27But you're right.
04:28It was a, it was a bad move.
04:30The money makes it look even worse.
04:32I didn't see any reason and cause maybe you could touch on this, but was the market for fields really that I know fields came here.
04:40He was told he was going to start.
04:41He was, he had the confidence in, in, in Glenn and Glenn had the confidence in him, but 30 million guaranteed 40 me.
04:49He seems like a, a two year, $15 million quarterback kind of thing.
04:54Right.
04:54I don't know.
04:56Yeah.
04:56That's where my issue is, is the money.
04:58Cause I, I actually guys like to, I always try to be, uh, don't like to reverse myself.
05:06I wrote last December that fields was the best option for them.
05:10Like when, when it, when they can know Rogers wasn't coming because I was sort of looking at, okay, who is the next Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield type of guy, that reclamation project, because I didn't see any veteran options that were really appealing.
05:23Uh, I didn't think they were going to draft a quarterback.
05:25So, you know, uh, I wrote that at the time, so I can't now say, oh, it was a terrible decision.
05:31And I think where the terrible decision was, was giving him $30 million.
05:35So I don't Frankie, the only team I know was interested was the Steelers, right?
05:38They wanted to bring them back, but they weren't going to bring them back for that money.
05:42And it feels like the jets sort of like gave them that money, promised them the job, all this stuff to try to get them here, which is that part of it's weird to me.
05:50Like, I, I think it was like, take a chance on this guy.
05:54Like the Buccaneers took a chance on Baker Mayfield, but they didn't give him $30 million.
05:57Right.
05:58Like, and I remember the Buccaneers were here, uh, when Baker first, for his first year, and he was competing with Kyle Trask for the starting job.
06:07You know, Sam Darnell wasn't handed the starting job in Minnesota.
06:10It was supposed to be JJ McCarthy.
06:11And then he got her and Sam stepped in.
06:13So I think that's, I think two mistakes were made.
06:16I think that money was way too much and guaranteeing them the job was the other part.
06:19That was the mistake.
06:20They probably, whether it was a draft pick or whether it was another veteran, they probably should have had somebody competing for the job last summer.
06:27They probably should have a little quarterback competition.
06:30It was always weird to me that Aaron Glenn, like preached, like, you got to earn your keep, right?
06:34Like he's used that phrase, you have to earn your keep.
06:36And he's, but like Justin Fields was handed the job.
06:40Uh, it never really made much sense to me, but I think it was negotiations.
06:43I think they, they promised him the job till he would come.
06:46Uh, but yeah, it's no doubt now with the results, Ryan, like it was, uh, it was obviously it was the wrong move.
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