Comments on: What Do You Think The Jets Plan Was/Is For Christian Hackenberg? http://www.footballperspective.com/what-do-you-think-the-jets-plan-wasis-for-christian-hackenberg/ NFL History and Stats Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Deacon Drake http://www.footballperspective.com/what-do-you-think-the-jets-plan-wasis-for-christian-hackenberg/#comment-322866 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:42:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=32117#comment-322866 In reply to sacramento gold miners.

He did not have the option of staying in school. He was Bill OB’s guy and Franklin hated him, and vice versa. He was good as a freshman, but need a QB whisperer… instead got dysfunction.

Honestly, no idea what the Jets were doing. They need to go into camp with him as the primary backup… who the starter is, nobody knows.

]]> By: Jason Fitzgerald http://www.footballperspective.com/what-do-you-think-the-jets-plan-wasis-for-christian-hackenberg/#comment-322857 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:07:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=32117#comment-322857 Id lean towards 3A though given the Jets recent draft success particularly in the 2nd round I cant completely discount option 5 no matter how crazy it sounds and call it organizational failure at the top. If you look at the Jets push on Fitzpatrick all along they were basically looking for a 2 or 3 year deal. The way it was rumored to be structured sounded very much like he would start in 2016 with some flexibility to make him a backup in 2017 if needed and 2018 just being a funny money year. While there was some desperation at play they didnt come off that 2nd year until they drafted Hackenberg. So I would venture to guess that by that point they knew Fitz was going to the bench in 2017 barring a spectacular season in 2016 since they knew Hackenberg would be their guy. I think it went downhill in the summer when they realized that there was no way they could even consider him emergency playing this year and my guess is even further as the year went on. Gailey being brushed aside means the team could not have been happy with the development of the rookie at all or he would be the guy.

Still its hard to explain the 2nd round pick on him. I have to think this was an inexperienced front office getting duped by agent speak or gamesmanship by other executives(either the Pats or Browns being the likely teams considered since Cleveland had an early 3 and NE had 2 lates 2s). Im sure there is some fear in making a QB mistake which is why they carried 4 guys and in part raised their salary offer to Fitz which made them justify taking the risk a round early.

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