The Jets insist they haven’t given up on Zach Wilson but.
This comes regardless of the No. 2 total decide within the 2021 NFL Draft being benched twice this season, together with throughout final week’s recreation in opposition to the Jaguars.
“He’s a talented football player,” Jets offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur stated. “He’s a gifted thrower.
“Like we’ve talked about, there’s things physically in the lower half that we got to get corrected, and we can start that today, we can start that last week, a month ago, we can start that last April and OTA’s, but it’s going to be all-encompassing. It’s going to be, again, the work he puts in today, but going through that whole offseason just resetting that lower half. Getting those feet in the ground, getting balanced and seeing where he can improve there.”
Mike White will begin Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Seahawks after lacking the final two weeks after he suffered fractured ribs within the Week 14 loss to the Bills. Wilson will probably be inactive as Joe Flacco will function White’s backup.
This has been a precipitous fall for Wilson because the second-year quarterback was as soon as considered the long run chief of the Jets franchise. After he was benched following his dismal efficiency in Gang Green’s 10-3 loss to the Patriots final month, Wilson was inactive for 3 video games. White, who joined the league as a fifth-round decide by the Dallas Cowboys in 2018, led the Jets to a win over the Bears after which back-to-back losses to the Vikings and Bills.
After the Jets introduced Wilson could be White’s backup for the Lions recreation on Dec. 18, medical doctors didn’t clear White to play, forcing Wilson again underneath middle.
Wilson’s efficiency in each video games — the 20-17 loss to Detroit and the embarrassing 19-3 loss to the Jaguars on Thursday Night Football — left a lot to be desired. The former BYU star constantly missed open receivers and didn’t learn defenses correctly. Now not solely is White the Jets beginning quarterback for the final two video games of the season, and possibly the postseason, however Wilson’s future with the group can also be very a lot unsure.
The Jets are anticipated to maneuver on from Wilson through the offseason, in line with FOX Sports. But Jets coach Robert Saleh says that report is all “speculation” because the group nonetheless sees Wilson as part of their future.
“I don’t think he’s looking at this and saying it’s an impossible hill to climb, I think he’s got a road to travel with regards to just tying all the things that we’ve been trying to get done here since the New England game. [I’ve] still got a lot of faith in him and his ability to work, just as a person and the amount of work that he puts in day-in and day-out and while it doesn’t look good and while it doesn’t seem like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, you just got to put your head down, just keep working. Eventually, it’ll come through,” Saleh stated.
“There’s a lot of quarterbacks in this league who have made it out of the dark tunnel and if you look throughout the league, more quarterbacks than not have started in the dungeon, if you will, and have found their way out to sunlight, so, got a lot of confidence in him because of how important this is, what kind of a man he is, and how hard he’ll work.”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com