In March, the Jets inexplicably signed Josh McCown to a 1-year, $10M contract.

A few days later, the Jets sent three 2nd round picks along with the 6th pick in the 2018 Draft to Indianapolis to move up to the 3rd spot. That made the McCown signing even more odd in retrospect:

The Jets have mucked up the quarterback position for as long as anyone can remember, and you can add giving McCown $10M to Mike Maccagnan’s tab next to “trading up for Bryce Petty,” “using a second round pick on Christian Hackenberg”, and “sending a fortune to get a top-3 quarterback prospect”, and “getting into a stalemate with a journeyman quarterback and then giving him $12M.”

On Sunday, McCown was the worst quarterback in football. Paying $10M to a quarterback coach is not justifiable, and paying $10M to a quarterback mentor — whose mentees include Hackenberg, Petty, Johnny Manziel, and Mike Glennon — only works if he can be a great backup quarterback on a team in need of a great backup quarterback.

The full week 10 passing stats below:

This was another remarkable week for NFL passers, who completed 630 of 925 passes (68.1%) for 7,144 yards, with 50 TDs and just 18 INTs. That translates to a 100.9 passer rating, and there were 19 quarterbacks who had a passer rating of over 100 and threw 20+ passes. This came despite there being just 28 teams active in week 10! The quarterbacks took 69 sacks for 509 yards, and finished with a 6.87 ANY/A average. It was yet another remarkable passing week in the best passing season of all time.

Finally, let’s look at the full season passing stats: you have Philip Rivers at #4, and in front of him is a rival quarterback from his own division, a rival quarterback from his own city, and his former teammate. And the bottom three are all rookies, in a narrative twist from the “why are rookies all of the sudden good” trend we had seen in recent years:

What stands out to you?