The sad thing is this was Zach's best game of his career. He threw for 245 yards with 2 TD's and a game changing fumble. The offense scored 18 points. He did nothing in the first and fourth quarters. And outside the first drive of the 3rd quarter he did nothing. Zach has been so bad in his career that this is his best game of his career. At best he earned one more start. To me, it just gave Coach Rah Rah another reason to say Zach gives us the best chance to win. Sorry, but didn't the Jets still lose in the best game of his career. IMO, Zach gives the Jets the best chance at the highest draft pick.
The sad thing is my son said essentially the same thing. "The worst part of all of this is Saleh will use this as a reason to keep playing Zach"
I mean clearly the bar has been lowered (down to the ground). It's not like he lit the place up, yet everyone is championing like "he has arrived!". I watched Herbert yesterday and man the kid is tough and can ball! He injures himself trying to stop a runback on an INT (he should have stayed out of it LOL), goes to the sideline has his finger in a splint/taped up, boy throws on a glove and goes out and balls some more!
He had a bad game, yet never once did I feel like "he doesn't get it! He's out of his league! Man do they need to pull him". Dude even when making mistakes still looked like a winner out there, and helped his team get the win!
I don't see any of that when watching Zach. Even when he completes a good play, it always looks simple, it always looks like the first read, it always looks like "thank god he didn't mess that up"! I also see a player that is constantly being coddled, constantly getting reinforcement, constantly being shielded (shit he looked like he was going to cry on the sideline with everyone giving him an "attaboy" to keep his spirits up. This is a grown ass man! He isn't a leader, he is an immature child that needs everyone around him to help him carry the burden.
This is just not what you want to see in a professional athlete (regardless of what position they play).