Zach Wilson Says The Wrong Thing
I think this is Zach Wilson’s “welcome to the NY Media” moment.
The Patriots game was a veritable disaster for the New York Jets. It was also a fairly predictable result. Both defenses are good. Both offenses are bad and are operated by a regressed 2nd year QB who is horrible under pressure. I picked the Patriots in that game because a Belichick team is normally better at planning for those problems, but the Patriots really didn’t accomplish much either. Despite performing marginally better than the Jets, the Patriots also couldn’t move the ball and won off a hilarious special teams moment. The weather played a role in the struggle, but it cannot be said just how bad the Jets, and Zach Wilson specifically, were in that game. It was awful.
The Jets had -21 pass yards in the second half. Zach Wilson, despite starting 7 games, has yet to throw as many touchdowns as Joe Flacco did in 3. In fact, Joe Flacco threw 4 of his 5 total TDs in one game. Zach has 4 total on the year. The Jets have been winning games but it has not been thanks to Wilson. Wilson looks supremely like a bust. I had a quick exchange with a friend where he said that Wilson reminded him of another spoiled rich kid QB who was drafted too high and was absolute ass and a douche. No, I’m not talking about Johnny Manziel, though the comparison works. I’m reminded heavily of Pickles himself, Jimmy Clausen. Wilson even looks like Clausen.
Anyway, a reporter gifted Wilson an easy layup in the post-game interview and Wilson sent it over the backboard. Any one of us has probably watched enough football to know how to properly answer those postgame questions. Guys did a hell of a job, but they made some plays we weren’t ready for, I’ve got to play better. The reporter asked him if he hurt the defense with his play. The obvious, tried and true answer to this, was “yes”. Take responsibility with a quick yes, spout a cliche about needing to be better, and move on. Wilson said no. After a performance like that, it was a delusional slap in the face to the defense.
Pretty much every Jets fan I saw stopped defending him after that. His play was leaving a lot of fans unhappy, but to mess up and say something like that when pretty much the reason the game was lost was your poor play is just…woof. Not just a couple weeks earlier, after losing to these exact same Jets while playing like shit, Josh Allen took responsibility like a man and said that he played like shit. He took such responsibility for it that it became a very minor news story. Zach Wilson played even worse than Allen did and basically brushed it off as not his fault. Maybe his answer wasn’t intended that way, but he didn’t elaborate and this is New York, you can’t be coy or unclear or you will get torn to shreds. Wilson has been torn to shreds. The Jets won’t even commit to him to start next week as of this writing.
Good news for Wilson and co, the Jets remaining games are against weak pass defenses. He should, theoretically, play better soon. This should be his worst performance of the year. The question is will he handle this criticism well, will he respond, and will he elevate his play enough that the team isn’t forced to consider sending him to the Panthers next year.
EDIT: LMAO HE GOT BENCHED
A quick aside before we go, looking at that same pass-defense graphic linked above…the Giants are absolutely fucked.
Don’t expect a comic on Friday, it’s Thanksgiving week! Spend time with your family arguing about how Elon Musk sucks.
Get Flacco in there. Wilson needs some humble pie after disrespecting that defense.
Start the elite white man.
Lol it actually happened
I meant that white will be starting not flacco
Get White in there
As a patriots fan, I was incredibly worried that we were gonna go to overtime and lose. But Marcus Jones pulled a miracle out of his ass and won the game. But the story for the Patriots was that they won the game because of their special teams and defense, and their offense was horrible. In my opinion, Zappe should be the starter, because when he was under center, we were clicking. Dave said it in a previous article, but Mac is just a game manager who throws 5 yards down the field every play. It is incredibly frustrating, because I know for a fact that if Marcus Jones had fair caught that ball, Mac would not have been able to do anything and would have just played for overtime. Just unbelievable as a Pats fan.
I think this is a massive overreaction and also the wrong move. I’m not going to outright say that Mac Jones was good on Sunday, but I wouldn’t blame him for the offense’s failings. They moved the ball quite well, but the story of the game was untimely mistakes in the form of penalties and missed assignments by the OL as well as some atrocious playcalling by Patricia (seriously, wtaf was that 4th and 3 call???).
Throwing Bailey Zappe out there is not going to fix those issues. He played well in his short stint, but that was against two of the worst defenses in football. Mac Jones hasn’t been great, but the Patriots have done him zero favors this season by cheaping out at the most important positions with regard to his development. Bailey Zappe won’t fair much better as long as he’s being guided by Matt Patricia and Joe Judge.
Well, that aged poorly as all of Mac’s highlights are throwing about 15 yards down the field.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand he’s benched. Who saw that one coming? Lmao
A little off topic I guess, but man do the current Jets uniforms suck! They look like an arena football team in that one scene in Starship Troopers
By this time next year Wilson will be holding a clipboard for the Texans and Chad “Jim’s Nephew” Kelly will be sucking balls as the Jest’s starting QB.
… although wouldn’t it be nice to see him on the Broncos as the QB tandem of mediocre Wilsons, Tiny and Finch.
I’m going to give Zach Wilson the benefit of the doubt and assume that had he actually elaborated, his answer would have been more along the lines of, “I don’t believe we can pin losses on any single player. We all need to step up and play better as a team rather than point the finger at one guy.”
Is that still a bad answer given the circumstances? Yeah, but at least it would still follow the usual “Win as a team, Lose as a team” rhetoric that most teams at just about every level tend to follow. Regardless, that disastrous response was basically the cherry on top of a hilarious fall from grace. Jets fans seemed to be completely done with him after that game ended (and understandably so), but that interview just sealed the deal for anyone still on the fence. This is the type of stuff that derails a season and the Jets probably made the right choice in benching him outright. On to the next QB for ’em lol.
Even the most arrogant QBs would probably take some blame. The ego he’s portraying is big enough to make Kanye and AB seem humble. My goodness
I could see Manziel doing that.